Halo 2: LAN Party Edition! Beta v0.2.3.6

llama_juice · Post by **llama_juice** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:09 am

right click the torrent file in your torrent browser (this is how it works for bitcomet anyhow) right click the torrent and hit "Manual Hash Check" it'll then check to see how much of the file you have... if you have it all it'll start seeding

1337_Lee · Post by **1337_Lee** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:22 pm

i dnt have the compresssed version anymore so it doenst recognze it as the same thing

llama_juice · Post by **llama_juice** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:18 pm

well someone was uploading it to me rather nicely for a while and now I'm up to 90%

I just need the last 10% and then I can dedicate my connection to uploading for like a week or so (80 KB/s upload)

will someone help me out please...

1337_Lee · Post by **1337_Lee** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:50 pm

well... that might have been seedign u for a while.... and i had 99.7 % of the downlaod done but no one would seed so 99.7% for like 5 hours..!!!

llama_juice · Post by **llama_juice** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:50 pm

I have the whole package now... seeding at 70KB/s

handsomedan · Post by **handsomedan** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:54 pm

I've got it all, now I just can't get it to work. It says "Loading, Please Wait" it's been saying that for over half an hour, now what?

llama_juice · Post by **llama_juice** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:31 pm

Its giving me the "Not microsoft verified windows XP" error... I had it going and it went to check the MD5 or whatever... then an error popped up and failed it horribly haha

EDIT:

After toying with it for a long time.... I got it to make the disk image... i didnt tell it not to burn... but it doesnt seem like it burned it.. although... now my DVD drive wont open

Anyhow... what I did was.....

Extracted the Compile Halo 2 LPE.exe from the RAR and ran the program
closed out of the shell.exe that popped up (black box that says "Loading")
Extracted the new Shell.exe (page 3 in this thread) and placed it in the config folder.
made a text document (right click... new.... text document) and named it debug
opened that document and put NOMD5 and DEBUG each on their own lines.
ran the shell.exe from the config folder and let it do its thing

Thats what I did and I have an image ready to burn... if my DVD drive will ever open again that is... I'm gunna reboot my PC and hopefully that will fix it....

EDIT2: I'll give a full list of what works and what doesnt as a result from what I did. My DVD drive opened when I rebooted (thank god) and I burned the ISO.... I'll test it tonight and see what happens.... so far I like what I see though... I like it A LOT

1337_Lee · Post by **1337_Lee** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:46 pm

hey llama_juice... if u have aim or msn can u help me a little... i am confused toexactly were ui put some files... in the input folers should it be like..... Halo>Place your unmodded copy of Halo 1 here>then the Halo folder or tight there all the maps folders and xbe

llama_juice · Post by **llama_juice** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:22 pm

open up the input>Halo1 folder and open up a copy of Halo 1 in your favorite FTP program.... you want those folders to look alike... which means in the input>Halo1 folder you want to put
maps
default.xbe

same goes for the other two folders... but with the respective games...

anyhow... I've gone through three of the map packs so far and just looked for maps that wont load. (went through and tried every map)

Halo 2: Allied Map Pack
Coagulation
Backwash (It loaded fine.... but the fog was really really strange for a little while)
Better Red than Dead
The Abandon Station
Zanzibar Ice
Zentitation
Pharo's Reign
New Zanzibar
The Frozen Zone (It loaded up fine... but while playing it randomly locked up... I think its more a glitch with that mod rather than your installer)
Atlantis
Canzibar
Canabis Island
Deserted Bunker

none of the Ascension mods would load, nor would the Zanzibar ones... but both loaded up fine as stock maps. I did get the error saying that Zanzibar wasnt clean.... but I pulled everything straight off of the disks and so it is clean.

Halo: Combat Evolved
Prisoner

Halo: Conversions map pack
The Maw (putput.map I belive)

Both the Halo1 map pack errors were that the disk was dirty blah blah blah press A to continue.

That's all I looked through so far... its 2:22 AM right now and I have to work tomorrow... so I'll look into the rest later.

handsomedan · Post by **handsomedan** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:01 am

You can just re-open the original torrent file again, and it will start seeding.

I'm still seeding for folks, as promised.

In the meantime, I am having the same technical difficulties as everyone else. I got the new shell.exe, but it says it can't find go.exe which is in the same folder, so I'm really confused there, I read on a bit to discover I need the map pack DISC version, so I am obtaining that, once I've got it I will be working more on this, in the meantime, has anyone else had problems with the new shell.exe?

Also, the disc backups, they are supposed to be the files, not in .iso format... I think, but I'd rather know if I'm wrong. Right now I've got the files from the disc, but if I need them in isos I can change that right now.

Any help is appreciated, again, I'm still seeding this file for everyone. I may turn my computer off for about thirty minutes today, but once it's back on, I will seed again.

llama_juice · Post by **llama_juice** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:12 am

look a few posts up (my post) on how to use the new shell.exe

and of course there are problems... this is a version to try to figure out what all the problems are and to fix them.

1337_Lee · Post by **1337_Lee** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:11 am

the new shell.ee also said cannot find GO.exe and it said something also like cannot find xcdmedia>ambint>ambien.wma when it is in there

llama_juice · Post by **llama_juice** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 6:05 am

did you put the new shell.exe in the config folder?...

okay delete EVERYTHING that this program has created (config folder and all the files in the LPE folder) LEAVE THE ORRIGINAL PROGRAM THERE (Compile Halo 2 LPE.exe)

Okay so now you should have a folder that has an input folder with all those folders filled... and a program named Compile Halo 2 LPE.exe in the "root" folder.

Run Compile Halo 2 LPE.exe when it is complete it will open up a Command prompt using the OLD Shell.exe X out of that command prompt and open up the config folder (It might be a hidden folder... to view hidden folders go to tools.. folder options... click on the VIEW tab at the top and then in that list you will see a spot that say "Hidden files and folders" with 2 options below that... choose the bottom option "Show hidden files and folders" and then click OK at the bottom of the window.) In the Config folder you will see a whole bunch of folders in there that contain all the patches that the program will use. You will also see Shell.exe. You want to replace that shell with the one on page 3 in this thread.

Then you want to create a txt document (right click>New>Text Document) name it debug. Open it up and write NOMD5 on the first line, DEBUG on the 2nd line (and if you dont want it to burn to a DVD write NOBURN on the 3rd line)

Run Shell.exe from the config folder and let it go.

Two boxes will pop up a black box and a blue box. The black box is saying what is going on with the program... the Blue one is an overall status report saying what is completed and what hasnt started yet. (Screenshot of the blue one on the first page)

Now, I need somebody to verify that the levels that I said dont work, actually do not work. My Xbox is being goofy and I just tried playing the Killtrocity map pack on it and it said that Areal failed to load... when I played that mapfile off that disk before on another Xbox.

handsomedan · Post by **handsomedan** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:06 pm

Thank you llama_juice, I'm burning the image now with dvddecrypt. It looks as though I finally have all this working. I'm sure in the future this compiler will reach a much more solid state, but until then, I'm glad to have a disc all set. So, thank you for the much needed assist. As I said earlier, I am STILL seeding this file for people.

jlddodger · Post by **jlddodger** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:37 am

llama_juice wrote:open up the input>Halo1 folder and open up a copy of Halo 1 in your favorite FTP program.... you want those folders to look alike... which means in the input>Halo1 folder you want to put
maps
default.xbe

same goes for the other two folders... but with the respective games...

anyhow... I've gone through three of the map packs so far and just looked for maps that wont load. (went through and tried every map)

Halo 2: Allied Map Pack
Coagulation
Backwash (It loaded fine.... but the fog was really really strange for a little while)
Better Red than Dead
The Abandon Station
Zanzibar Ice
Zentitation
Pharo's Reign
New Zanzibar
The Frozen Zone (It loaded up fine... but while playing it randomly locked up... I think its more a glitch with that mod rather than your installer)
Atlantis
Canzibar
Canabis Island
Deserted Bunker

none of the Ascension mods would load, nor would the Zanzibar ones... but both loaded up fine as stock maps. I did get the error saying that Zanzibar wasnt clean.... but I pulled everything straight off of the disks and so it is clean.

Halo: Combat Evolved
Prisoner

Halo: Conversions map pack
The Maw (putput.map I belive)

Both the Halo1 map pack errors were that the disk was dirty blah blah blah press A to continue.

That's all I looked through so far... its 2:22 AM right now and I have to work tomorrow... so I'll look into the rest later.

Okay, the debug mode reports that Zanzibar has failed verification, but this is the map of the Halo 2 disk. It can't be wrong.

Okay I disabled MD5 and compiled. But the ascension and zanzibar mods still fail as before. And Deserted Bunker. And Elongation. Same stuff as before.

And yes Zanzibar and Ascension are right of the Halo 2 disk.

Okay, did you try to fix any of the map problems. Halo CXE and NMP still don't work at all.

I appreciate the error checking, but I would rather the Maps worked.

I agree with the putput.map and Prisoner problems, too.

volcom248 · Post by **volcom248** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:00 am

i downloaded shell.exe and put it in the same foulder as go.exe i ran shell.exe and it says could not find go.exe and it says windows cannot find go.exe.make sure you typed the name correctly,and try again.to search for a file,click the start buttom,and than click search.

in the black box it says loading, please wait
'CMDOW' is not a reconized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

WTF should i do

1337_Lee · Post by **1337_Lee** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:19 pm

ok i jst got back to my pc and im going totry this again...we should keep this foum goingand does anyone know when the next version is comming oit

jlddodger · Post by **jlddodger** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:44 pm

I don't know Killzer hasn't posted in a while.

1337_Lee · Post by **1337_Lee** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:53 pm

ok.... i go tto the blue screen and it is verifyng input files...
after like 5 minutes it say "Verification Failed on File:

"Input\Halo 2\maps\zanzibar.map"
Please Replace with Original File and try Again.

Exiting Setup."

i replaced zanzibar with the one straight off the disc and tried again and the same thing happened.....

jlddodger · Post by **jlddodger** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:40 pm

I had to disable MD5. Something like nomd5 in debug.txt. But keep in mind that half of the maps don't work yet. I would just wait.