Adding Halo 2 Maps to the Mainmenu

Yes you need Halo 2 on your harddrive. Also I was at my dad's house and he doesn't have AIM on his computer, nor does he want it there. But that was for Christmas and I should be on AIM.

 

yeah, so i followed the tutorial perfectly, renamed all the updates, and now my maps always come up as "you failed to load the map"

good news though, they show up on the main menu.

i just can't load them.

anything i can do?

 

New Maps you need to resign.
Old maps you need to fix their encryption.

 

thank you so much! i love ya man! hehe.

 

yeah, 1 prob.
not working

i need some help.

 

Well what is happening. Unfortunately I can't read minds.

 

I'm having the same problem. All of the maps show up on the main menu but they will not load. Tried resigning and fixing the encryption but i still get a 'failed to load map' message.

 

Well I don't know if I have said this before but there are certain things in a map that causes them to become corrupt and even if resigned or the map's signature encrypted will still fail to load. When trying to find a 'Value' and 'Next Value?' and you use one that won't work, when you go to start the game, the countdown will go all the way to 1 and then it will look like it's going to load and then the mainmenu appears again. If that happens you have to mess around with the 'Value' and 'Next Value?' until you get working ones.

 

I'm trying to add the mappack maps and one modded map to the main menu. The modded map will start to countdown before failing, so I'm guessing that has to do with the values then? The mappack maps, and for some reason lockout now, fail automatically before I even start the countdown though.

 

Well I have told you the only three reasons that I know of, of why they won't load:

1. Maps are corrupted
2. Need some different values
3. You need to resign or fix the encryption of the maps

But you need to make sure when hex editing your map that you do it correctly and exactly like I do in the tutorial. That is also another reason that troubled me when I was first doing it.

 

Just a few questions...

1. If I get a map off the internet do I have to resign them or encrypt them? Or will it already be resigned/encrypted?

2.Im just asking questions, havnt even done this yet. But anyway does resign mean to change the map? Or is there a seperate program to change the map?

3. Any good race track maps anywere?

4. If I have played Halo 2, will it be copied to the hard drive or will you have to do it myself with xxteakxx tut?

5. Were would I create a game folder to if I have to create one? Also how will I know if I have to create one?

6. On the last picture on your tutorial, (it says "Then you are going to need to locate the E:/TDATA/4d530064/$u folder and rename all three of the items like so") What do I rename the folders, just so I dont mess up with the names.

7. The Value and Next Value thing. When I randomly pick a number, how will I no that it works or if the Value is used by a map already on Halo 2?

8. Will I be able to play Campaign after all this? Or will it mess up my Xbox?

Thanks If you can answer all these questions!

 

O yeah also...

How do you assign PPF and SPPF patches to a map? I want to know this before I mess up the map and everything.

O and Thanks again if you can help!

 

Sorry for all these post but do I even have to assign a SPPF patch or a PPF patch if I want to add them to the main menu?

Thank Again! (For the 3rd time)

 

1. They will usually be resigned/encrypted, but you should do it just in case they didn't.

2. Resigning means to change the map's signature back to normal, it will not change the map. It will only make it load.

3. I would probably google for those.

4. I have to admit, after the long period of time that my tutorial was posted, most of my pictures have become disabled, but you will have to follow a tutorial to do that.

5. Create one in your E drive if there is not one there.

7. You can rename them anything you want to. You could just put a 2 in front of each name if you want. As long as you change the name somehow.

8. You can still play campaign off your disc not off your hard drive.

 

For answer 4:
Do I need the Dvd2Xbox thing?

For Answer 7:
I think this may be an answer to question 6.

For answer 8:
How do play it off the disk?

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And about that other question wuth the PPF and SPPF

Do i need to apply SPPF/PPF patches to games I want to put on the main menu?

Thanks for the help xxteakxx

 

You could use DVD2xbox, you could manually copy using your halo 2 disc and your modded dashboard, or you can ftp copy.

My best bet would just be to check the values of the other maps just to be sure you didn't pick the same one.

I'm saying that you can still play campaign off your halo 2 game, but you can't play it off your HD.

You should only apply those patches if you want the map modded.

 

So if I found a racetrack mod, I need to add a SPPF patch to it? And if I do how do I do this?

 

what type of file is it? (.ppf, .sppf, .serenity)

 

The person I got the racetrack from says you need an SPPF patch...I think. But just in case can you tell me how to apply an SPPF Patch? Thanks xxteakxx

 

You would have to find a program called superppf (google it) then put the patch file in the patch slot and a non-modded copy of the map you're patching in the source map slot. You would then click apply patch. You need to resign the map after you're done patching.