Help with maps pleeease!!?!?!

Black-_-Death · Post by **Black-_-Death** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:21 am

I'm new to the whole thing and I'm just wondering if you download maps from the site does it replace any default maps or does it add them as if there are 5 maps after u add the modded map you have 6.....

Squid Lord · Post by **Squid Lord** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:40 am

Well, you can FTP the maps to the xbox, but they won't appear in the game. and they won't get rid of your maps, aslong as you make backups when the mod requires a patch to be applied. It's a long and grueling process to add them, because you get to manually add them to the "maninmenu.map" and you also have to "resign" the map you're adding and the "mainmenu.map". Just look around on the forum, you'll find it very fast, it only took me like half an hour to find it.

EDIT: here's the link to the thread http://files.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=31955

The thing that i learned, is that all u need to do is the last parts with DotHalo, and signing the maps, the HexEditor is really not needed, cause Halo picks up the map name, as the scenario name, so u just need to change the name of the map to fit the scenario name, then resign both the mainmenu.map and the maps that your adding, and they should appear in the map selection list. But they won't run, unless u disable the autoupdate.

To disable the auto update go to this location on ur xbox: "E:\TDATA\4d530064\Su" and there should be a file titled "default.xbe", u can either do it the hard way with a HexEditor, or you can just rename it to something else (i just made mine "defaultish.xbe" and it works perfectly).

Just post back if you need any more help

Black-_-Death · Post by **Black-_-Death** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 10:51 am

well i was looking around some stuff and i saw something called the killtrocity map pack now what i read was it had like alot of maps so you have to go and add every single one of those maps through the "grueling" process?

Squid Lord · Post by **Squid Lord** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:13 pm

ya.....kinda...i've been doing that for the last few days, add 4 maps, play them, and continue the process, that's wut i'm doing.....but u can only have 49 maps in a single "Full Game"........so u'll have to create multiples....u can get a tool to rename the halo (so it's not confusing) here: http://www.cxboxtool.xbox-hq.com/