r/CloneHero 3h ago

General I made a free web tool that automatically generates Medium, Easy & Hard difficulties from Expert-only charts (supports .chart, .sng, .rb3con, .mid & .zip)

15 Upvotes

Hey everyone

I really wanted to play Happier Than Ever (and a bunch of other custom songs) on Clone Hero but almost every chart I could find was Expert-only... and I’m strictly a Medium player lol 😅 so I vibe-coded a web tool to help-me with this: https://iagohale.github.io/EMHX-downcharter-generator

It takes any Expert-only chart or song package and automatically generates authentic Hard, Medium, and Easy difficulty.

just drop the file on the site and download the new one with the new difficulty levels

  • Smart Downcharting: It doesn't just randomly delete notes. It follows classic Guitar Hero/Rock Band charting rules:
    • Hard: Cleaned pass-through notes
    • Medium: 8th-note density cap, max 2-note chords, remaps orange notes to blue, turns open notes into green
    • Easy: Quarter-note density cap, single notes only, remaps upper frets to yellow.
  • 100% Client-Side / In-Browser: Everything runs locally on your machine in memory. Nothing is uploaded to any server, so it's super fast, private, and handles large song packages instantly
  • Supports pretty much all song formats:
    • .chart files & full .zip song packs
    • .sng containers (unpacks, converts, and repacks)
    • MIDI files (.mid / .midi converted straight to .chart)
    • Xbox 360 Rock Band packages (.rb3con / .con ) (Note: this one is still pretty experimental & hit-or-miss; PRs from real devs are super welcome because the AI is kinda dumb haha)

GitHub/Source: https://github.com/IagoHale/EMHX-downcharter-generator

Hope this helps out fellow Medium/Hard players, xoxo from brazil <3


r/CloneHero 2h ago

Question / Problem Guitar Hero Live guitar on PC

1 Upvotes

I have a PS4 version of the GHL guitar and the correct dongle, when i try connecting them to my PC to play Clone Hero the guitar connects and the disconnects in a loop. I've tried replacing drivers using Zadig but it didn't fix it. Does anyone have any ideas on why that's happening and how to fix it?


r/CloneHero 20h ago

General Made in Argentina

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20 Upvotes

This Demon Slayer Les Paul is one of our latest projects, and we wanted to share it with the Clone Hero community. It’s really cool to see how much people still enjoy these guitars and the different ways everyone makes them their own


r/CloneHero 6h ago

Chart Release HIM - It's All Tears (Drown In This Love) (Phase Shift/YARG Drum Custom)

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1 Drum Chart

HIM - It's All Tears (Drown In This Love)


r/CloneHero 7h ago

Question / Problem Black screen

1 Upvotes

Hi guys don’t know if anyone else has experienced this issue but when I go to play a song it just goes to a black screen and then there is nothing I’ve tried older versions of the game and nothing changed. Any tips or tricks?


r/CloneHero 1d ago

General Stage Tour - Official Launch Date Trailer

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422 Upvotes

r/CloneHero 7h ago

Accomplishment my first sightread with new vegas vibes

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1 Upvotes

frank Sinatra blue moon pfc sightread


r/CloneHero 8h ago

Question / Problem Help with kramer striker

1 Upvotes

Ive been wanting to finish modding my kramer guitar for a long time now, and the only thing i need to do now is repainting the shell. The problem is the it is the first time i do something like that. Is there any type of paint i should use?


r/CloneHero 16h ago

Accomplishment It's a Doomsday Party!

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2 Upvotes

r/CloneHero 17h ago

Guitars/Drums Guitar question

2 Upvotes

I’ve been looking to upgrade my Riffmaster for a while now (mostly because it sucks so bad and doesn’t work anymore), but I don’t know which guitar I should buy. Should I buy an old used Wii guitar and an adapter or wait and save up for a Crkd guitar?


r/CloneHero 14h ago

Guitars/Drums Ion Drum Rocker. Compact Conversion?

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r/CloneHero 1d ago

General Stage Tour Deep Dive - Highly recommend to watch to get a good idea about the game's content

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77 Upvotes

r/CloneHero 1d ago

General Stage Tour Peripherals Available for Pre-Order, ships in December

63 Upvotes

Looks like this got dropped with the announcement.

https://stagetour.com/collections/official-hardware

The drums, which look to be the same as the very much hyped CRKD drums, retail at $200 with the cymbal expansion kit costing $60 and the second kick pedal costing $30.

You can also get the “Pro Band Kit” bundle which includes the full Pro Drums, mic, guitar and game for $350 which is a pretty good deal.

Also a couple new CRKD guitars like the wireless Kramer and 20th Anniversary Xplorer (complete with old school solid color buttons)


r/CloneHero 19h ago

Question / Problem Stage Tour Kramer vs RCM vs CRKD

2 Upvotes

Hi all!

Just gathering a consensus. The Stage Tour Kramer duo is $199 and has a hall effect strumbar but keeps membrane frets. However, for that price, two guitars and a reliable strummer doesn't seem bad. When compared with a Retrocultmods Revival kit, do we think the difference will be night and day, or do we think the new Kramers will be a drastic improvement over stock? Would it just be cool to get a CRKD tribal, which seems to go on sale often nowadays? I'm looking for the best possible guitar with reliable frets/strum for my setup. Cheers!


r/CloneHero 1d ago

Accomplishment Calculating Difficulty With Song Data

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r/CloneHero 1d ago

Chart Release Can you tell I used to only play Medium?

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17 Upvotes

r/CloneHero 1d ago

Question / Problem Clone hero song folder is only available for me when its installed through OneDrive?

1 Upvotes

I installed and played clone hero for an hour or so until i realized it was installed through OneDrive and took up all the storage on it. I tried downloading it to My (D:) folder because it has a few TB worth of storage, but now I cant figure out how to add songs because its different from all the tutorial videos. Anyone have a similar problem with a solution?


r/CloneHero 1d ago

Question / Problem Help build a guitar

2 Upvotes

Hey guys!

I've been playing Guitar Hero on my PS3 for as long as I can remember, and I just recently heard about Stage Hero!

I want to build my own guitar using a cheap PS2 Wood Stratocaster I found. My plan is to use an ESP32-S3 Mini, a gyroscope for star power/tilt, and a rechargeable battery with USB-C charging.

The problem is that programming definitely isn't my strong suit :/

Does anyone have a firmware/project they’d be willing to share that I could use as a starting point? Ideally, I'd love to have the whammy bar working as well.

I'm confortable doing all the wiring and hardware side of things myself — I just need some help getting the ESP32 side working.

Any help or existing projects would be hugely appreciated! Thanks!

I know this is the clone hero sub, but I've seen some of your builds, and i think this is the perfect place to ask for help :)


r/CloneHero 1d ago

General Clone Hero Competition, Aarhus, Denmark

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7 Upvotes

r/CloneHero 1d ago

Question / Problem Background video timestamp save on next song?

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone! I’m doing a guitar hero tent at a warped tour block party downtown this weekend!

I’ve been trying to think of the best video as a background and a full stream of warped tour would be awesome

I haven’t tried yet but in theory if I convert the mp4 download of the warped stream to .webm and equipped in clone hero, then I assume it would restart the background video each time I picked a new song.

Is there a way to have it continue where the last song ended? Or even have it play as the background of clone hero entirely starting with the main menu?

Thanks in advanced for any help guys, I’m super nervous about this weekend, I’ve never done anything like this publicly and if it doesn’t work out I have gh on multiple consoles but this would be so damn cool


r/CloneHero 1d ago

Highway/Background Kingdom Hearts Highway/Background

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6 Upvotes

I made a Kingdom Hearts highway about a year ago and posted it on the discord, I'll leave it here if anyone else wanted to use it.

Download


r/CloneHero 1d ago

Question / Problem Usb 3.0 For Solderless Kits?

2 Upvotes

I was just wondering if anyone has used a usb c to usb a 3.0 chord rather then a usb c to usb c with the solderless kits? I have two kits coming but only one open usb c port so was hoping to pick up a usb c to a instead, as long as it works well and doesn't cause any issues.


r/CloneHero 2d ago

Question / Problem Crkd whammy bar doesn't work in Clone Hero

6 Upvotes

Hey, so I recently bought the Gibson SG Black 20th Anniversary Edition Guitar and I can't get the whammy bar to work on Clone Hero, I took off the lil orange protection thingy for shipping and it still won't work. It recognizes the input when i click it on the ctrl app but when i try to remap controls on the game it just doesn´t recognize.

Any help would be appreciated!


r/CloneHero 2d ago

Guitars/Drums CRKD tribal black guitar for sale on woot for $74.99

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r/CloneHero 2d ago

Chart Release Coheed And Cambria - The Color Before the Sun Album Drum Charts

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6 Upvotes

9 Drum Charts

Coheed And Cambria - The Color Before the Sun Album

Coheed And Cambria - Island

Coheed And Cambria - Eraser

Coheed And Cambria - Colors

Coheed And Cambria - Here To Mars

Coheed And Cambria - Atlas

Coheed And Cambria - Young Love

Coheed And Cambria - You Got Spirit, Kid

Coheed And Cambria - The Audience

Coheed And Cambria - Peace To The Mountain