SingStar PS2 Toolbox

A Custom Disc Creator for SingStar. Create custom SingStar discs with your own songs!

Every external tool used by SingStar Creator v3 has been entirely rewritten in VB.Net.

Main Features

• Import & convert Performous/UltraStar songs (txt)
• Convert audio & video to proprietary SingStar format (IPU + MIB)
• Export songs from other SingStar discs to use in your own
• Build an ISO compatible with emulators & real hardware (PS2/PS3)

QoL Features

• No external tools (apart from ffmpeg)
• M2V to IPU converter (no SDK needed)
• Audio normalization for consistent volume
• Entirely rewritten TXT to XML converter
• Support for regular, duet, rap songs
• Fix text encoding automatically

Setup & Requirements

• Download the latest version of ffmpeg.exe (direct link for Win10) and place it in the same folder as Singstar Toolbox.

• .NET 8.0 Desktop Runtime

Roadmap

Note: Building a PS3 version disc is 70% done. PS2 ISOs can run on PS3 too.

In progress

• GLOBAL: Drag & Drop songs (TXT & SST2)
• GLOBAL: Extract audio from video (for .TXTs with video only)
• GLOBAL: Divide BPM & notes when BPM is too high
• GLOBAL: yt-dlp support (for .TXTs with external videos)
• PS2: Medley Editor
• PS2: Edit boot logos (TGA support)
• PS2: Support NTSC (IAV+IND)
• PS3: Export/Build PS3 Data

Completed (v1.2)

• GLOBAL: Edit videos to include time gap
• ISO: ISO Rebuilding
• PS3: Global PS3 support (XML, video, audio, structure)
• PS3: Video/audio encoding (with ReplayGain)
• PS2: PAK file Unpacking/Repacking
• PS2: M2V to IPU conversion
• PS2: IPU swizzling
• PS2: 99% codec compatibility
• PS2: Audio Encode to ADPCM
• PS2: MIB + MIH export
• PS2: BMP to TX2 + TX2 to BMP
• PS2: Import songs from other discs
• PS2: Edit/disable menu music
• PS2: Multiple Language support (English, French, German, Italian)

Credits

• ffmpeg
• DiscUtils.Iso9660
• NAudio
• Ude.NetStandard
• nQuant
• ss_cover.cc (TX2 to BMP conversion)
• Holger Kuhn (hawkear@gmx.de) for his work on SingStar overall
• Special thanks to @locastan for his help

Notes

It is possible to add more than 100 songs to a single disc, however it might cause unexpected behaviour in-game.