How to make 4 player co-op

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How to make 4 player co-op

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Ok, here is how to make four player co-op.

You need:
-Isolence
-Dothalo
-Entity
-The Recently released "Mystery" application.
-Yelo trainer (this mod will freeze your xbox unless you use the "Ai in
MP" cheat.)
-Xored Trainer Launcher
-Any hex editor
-Menu menu menu (or whatever it's called; its in the utilities forum)

Step 1:
Open up a single player map with mystery.
Null out only the cinematics.
Hit convert.
You are done with mystery.

Step 2:
Open up Dothalo and rename the filename of the only mulg tag found in the

single player map you just converted. It can be any name you like, just

rename it to not the original filename. Save your meta manually with the

save button. note the fact that the meta is 0 bytes for educational

reasons. ;)

Step 3:
Open both the single player map and a random multiplayer map in isolence

at the same time, click the mulg tag in the multiplayer map so it says

edit next to it. Then drag it the single player map. It will take

forever, but it will be added eventually after the "movebox" window

disapears. When finally done, close both maps and close isolence.

Step 4:
Go back into Dothalo and open up your single player map. Go to the matg

tag and change it's only mulg dependency to your added mulg tag. Save the

dependency. Close Dothalo.

Step 5:
Open up entity and open your single player map. Switch to meta editing

mode. Go to the bipeds tag class. Change ALL allies (as in marines while

you're the master cheif and covenant when you're the arbiter.) to the

player team. Or else they will think you are an enemy and kill you. Sign

map and close entity.

Step 6: Go into a hex editor and open your single player map. Go to the

top where it shows the original microsoft filename and the scenario

filename. Change the filename in the hex to a new name, and do the same

with the scenario filename in the scenario path after the last '/' .

Make sure they are the same name just in case it screws something up.


Save your map, record the new scenario path from the hex to ascii text,

and close your hex editor. Now rename your single player map's filename

to the name you chose in the hex editor.

Step 7:
Open menu menu menu and open your main menu map. check multiplayer on

the 2 options to the top-right of the window. Scroll to the bottom in the

browser to the right until you reach a zanzibar icon that has no name.

Directly after it, click an empty icon. Relink the bitmap by right-

clicking the big gray square thingy. Relink it to a bitmap that fits your

needs, I always choose the unknown map bitmap. Under both the filename

and internal filename enter the filename of the singleplayer map, and

make up some descriptions, click the button "generate values" near the

bottom, and enter where it wants a scenario filepath, the one you got

from the hex editor. Click the "save changes" button, then click

"resign."

Step 8:
Transfer your modded main menu and your single player map to the xbox

hard drive under halo 2's maps folder. Now transfer xored trainer

launcher to E:/apps/<the folder xored trainer launcher is in> . Now put

yelo trainer under the trainers folder under the xored folder. Reboot

your xbox and launcher xored trainer launcher. Pick halo 2, then pick the

yelo trainer, then highlight "ai in mp" and press 'A' to enable it. Now

press start. Halo 2 will now start. Now go to split screen instead of

campaign, and change the map to, *gasp*, your single player map!

If everything went correctly, it will load without any freezing.


Drawbacks!!!!!:

-If you die, you start over again at beginning of map.

-Sometimes you play as another biped. If this happens, you won't see your first person arms and legs.

-You start without a weapon.

-Others maybe I haven't seen.

-You can only play as a spartan.

Happy modding!
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few errors in this tut...

1. nulling cinematics doesn't work...(and isnt nessesary for 4 player splitscreen only lan)
2. changing the internal name in hex isn't required
3. theres no need to use dothalo...just use entity :?

4....
Sometimes you play as another biped. If this happens, you won't see your first person arms and legs.
if your profile is mc there is no problem, only when its an elite does arm/leg lose occur....(unless its an arbitar level in which case both mc an elite are arm/leg-less)
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Post by NotZachary82 »

i can point out maybe 4 things wrong with this ...

oh ... didnt see xzodias post xD. why dont you make your own tut, xzodia?
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wrong? it worked with me :?
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Post by NotZachary82 »

well, theoretically, this would work. there are 4 things unnecessary
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well, i posted a lot of unneeded stuff, but what do you expect? I'm bored. lol
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adolif wrote:well, i posted a lot of unneeded stuff, but what do you expect? I'm bored. lol
Well, (without sounding like a asshole) If you are so bored. Rewrite this and use a few pointers...

1. Pictures are always very helpful.
2. Create sections of this tutorial so it's easier to follow and understand.
3. Color coordination never hurts.
4. Linking the used programs to their respective downloads are a great help and only do well to help the user do exactly what you've done.

These things could greatly aid the reader in getting the desired product. Also, if those steps pointed out by xzodia aren't needed or wrong, please go back and delete them or fix them. Hopefully this will help you if you redo this, and also any in the future.
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NotZachary82 wrote:why dont you make your own tut, xzodia?
will do once we know everything that needs to be done in order to make it work properly
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Post by Shock120 »

waah :cry:
I thought this was real until I saw who posted it. :evil:
Makes me mad seeing someone make a tut on something
they do not fully understand
Its xzodia's job to do this :twisted:

+ Since when does Hex editing help anyone ? :shock:

sorry adolif, I didn't know. (will you forgive me & stay modding)
BTW does it really work?

lets say I do High Charity - will it work?
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kibito87 wrote:
adolif wrote:well, i posted a lot of unneeded stuff, but what do you expect? I'm bored. lol
Well, (without sounding like a ****) If you are so bored. Rewrite this and use a few pointers...

1. Pictures are always very helpful.
2. Create sections of this tutorial so it's easier to follow and understand.
3. Color coordination never hurts.
4. Linking the used programs to their respective downloads are a great help and only do well to help the user do exactly what you've done.

These things could greatly aid the reader in getting the desired product. Also, if those steps pointed out by xzodia aren't needed or wrong, please go back and delete them or fix them. Hopefully this will help you if you redo this, and also any in the future.

im really sorry. ill try to remake the tutorial in vid format. ill do it and upload it to youtube. I wasn't trying to sound like whatever curse word you were saying, i was just bored, and its not a bad thing to at least try to help people, is it? oh well. :(
waah
I thought this was real until I saw who posted it.
Makes me mad seeing someone make a tut on something
they do not fully understand
Its xzodia's job to do this

+ Since when does Hex editing help anyone ?

wtf, what a heck of a flame. first of all, ive been halo 2 modding for a long time so i do understand what im talking about, second of all, what does "until I saw who posted it." supposed to mean? people like you are making me thinking about quitting halomods and are destroying whatever left of self-esteem i have left in me. go rot.
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Post by preston566 »

I found it helpful. And HexEditing has pulled me through more times then you can imagine. I appreciate Xzodias program, but buttons were not
yet active, and really I couldn't do anything with it :(
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Re: How to make 4 player co-op

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adolif wrote:
-Sometimes you play as another biped. If this happens, you won't see your first person arms and legs.
Whats this supposed to mean? (that I get to play as a hunter/elite/Grunt/Marine on Old Mombasa)

Oops, sorry for double posting, thought I was editing the above. :cry:
Thanks mods
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