PSP Homebrew – Rock Station

Xsjado7 has tipped us about the release of his very own homebrew game, Rock Station. It’s a drums and guitar simulation game, which even allows you to compose your own music. Check out the things you need to know about this release in the full article. There’s quite a lot of them, so start reading so you can move on quick to rocking.

Download: Rock Station
Discuss: QJ.NET’s PSP Develoment Forums

 

Xsjado7 has tipped us about the release of his very own homebrew game, Rock Station. It’s a drums and guitar simulation game, which even allows you to compose your own music.

Check out the things you need to know about this release. There’s quite a lot of them, so start reading so you can move on quick to rocking:

  

Drum Simulator

• The Drum Simulator gives you all the buttons on the PSP to use to your disposal to smash and crash on a virtual kit. Once you’ve had enough making up your own beats you can access the music player and load music out of your ms0:/MUSIC directory so you can bang along to your favourite tunes.

Guitar Simulator

• By using the analog stick to strum and ^/X/O/[] to cycle through chords you can play the chords like you would on a real guitar.

Composer

• Those who have trouble keeping in time can use the composer to create their own music. The composer gives you two bars two mess around with, adding notes in quater, eighth and sixteenth note positions and supports drums and guitar.

Notable Features
General

• Drums, composer and guitar times displayed in main menu. See how much time you’ve wasted playing 😛

Composer

• Saving and loading.
• Support for more than the standard acoustic and synth kit setups when using the drum composer. Rock Station will automatically read the contents of Sounds/Drums/ and list the folders in the composer menu. Make sure the folder contains EVERY sound needed or it the program will crash.

Drum Simulator

• Music playback while you play. Browser can be accessed by pressing select while playing.
• Multiple kit setups like in the Composer.

Guitar Simulator

• Strum as you would on a real guitar.

Controls
Menu

• Up – Navigate Up
• Down – Navigate Down
• Left – Change Option
• Right – Change Option
• Cross – Select Option

Drum Simulator

• Square/Left – Snare
• Triangle/Up – Tom 1
• Circle/Right – Floortom
• Cross/Down – Bass
• R – Hihat/Ride
• L -Crash/Splash
• Start – Pull Up Menu
• Select – Pull up the music browser
• Analog Stick Left – Change to Hats
• Analog Stick Right – Change to Ride
• Analog stick Up – Open Hats/Ride Bell
• Analog Stick Down – Close Hats/Ride

Guitar Simulator

• Analog Stick Up/Down or D-Pad Up/Down – Strum
• Cross/Circle/Square/Triangle – Swap between set chords
• Select – Bring up chord config menu
• Start – Exit to main menu

Music Composer

• While Composing
• Square – Fill the current line with notes
• Triangle – Clear the current line of notes
• Left/Right – Move between Beats
• Up/Down – Move between Notes
• Select – Begin Playback
• Start – Return to main menu
• Analog Stick Left – Change to Hats
• Analog Stick Right – Change to Ride
• Analog stick Up – Open Hats/Ride Bell
• Analog Stick Down – Close Hats/Ride
• L/R Trigger while using guitar composer – Swap note between sharp and natural
• During Playback
• L/R – Skip to beginning of current/next bar

Known bugs

• This will most likely will crash on PSP-1000’s. I’m not sure of the cause but I will
• look into it when I have time.

Download: Rock Station
Discuss: QJ.NET’s PSP Develoment Forums