HALO 2 MODDING tutorial - NO EMAIL addresses or instant banning

Ok, as far as screwing up your xbox goes, Its quite a hard thing to do with Unleash X, so you should be safe enough there. The correct place to save maps in your xbox is E:/games/halo 2/maps/ Create that directory if it isnt already there. Rip your halo 2 disk with xbox ripper, dvd2xbox, or a similar product so all the game files are saved on your computer (this should take about 5gig) and then take all the files except the campaign maps (you can play those from your disk. make an exception here if you want to mod them, but you will not be able to fit the whole game on your xbox HDD, so choose what you want. you can always take those files off and FTP new ones on later. You can also leave out the media folder, if you can really live without cinematics.)and save them to E:/games/halo 2. this way if you go into the games tab on Unleash X, it will come up as Halo 2. you can then play it from your xbox, so go nuts with modding. If you have everything saved to your xbox, but Halo 2 wont play when you click on it, make sure you have all the .xbe files that are in the main halo 2 file when you take it off the halo 2 disk, I always forget them. As far as maps you need to have, for the game to work, you can get rid of every map that has a number in the name (eg 04_deltaapproach, or something to that effect) but make sure you have mainmenu, single_player_shared, and shared.

If you follow that, you should end up with all important files for halot to run on your xbox, and be able to play any modded maps you make, provided you mod them correctly. Any more questions just ask.

NOTE: You have to have all the halo2 files saved to your xbox, its no good to just have the maps you want to mod/play saved, because you will always need the mainmenu, single_player_shard, and shared maps, which the game will read off the disk always. Its easier to do it my way. Forum regulars tell me if I have left anything out.

 

hey listen im sorry but i got confused reading that.

do you have aim or some IM that we can communicate with?

Edit: Also i thought there was a way to do it using just FTP. by taking the .map files from my xbox to my comp modding them then putting them back on my xbox replacing the old map.

 

i realy need help could some one who has mods on halo 2 please help me????

 

Sure I can help, what are you having problems with?

 

ok i got FlshFXP on my cumputer and whenever i try to connect yo my xbox it always says Connection faild(connection lost). what do i do??

 

what if you dont use modded or copyed games, but your xbox is softmoded, will you get banned from live?

 

if you have a softmodded xbox and you try to sighn into xbox live it wont let you. but if you have no modded games or anything you can get rid of the softmod by going into Sid 4 and click "uninstall softmod" and you will be able to sighn into xbox live.

 

To: madmodz
Try these things to get your ftp working
1. Make sure you are not in a game and you are in the modded dashboard while you ftp

2. In the system settings on your xbox go to ftp and make sure it says enable, remember to select save changes if needed.

3. Make sure your xbox and computer are connected through a router or something like that.

4. Make sure you have the right IP address for your xbox, you should be able to find this in your xbox's system settings.

I hope this helps!

 

ya that did help thanck you so much and i have one other question. i used FlashFXP and i put a modded map onto my xbox that i downloaded from the internet, how do i open that in halo 2 so i can play as a multiplayer map?

 

To: madmodz
you should be able to sign that map and replace it with the original map on the xbox, there is a way to add it to the list using dothalo and the mainmenu.map file but I have not got that to work for me yet. If the map you downloaded is a patch file let me know and I can tell you how to work that.
I hope it works!
Also, what mod is it? I havn't seen many good mods for download.

 

the mod that i downloaded was http://halo2.filefront.com/file/H2BloodGulch_Version_2;50818

 

hay i am haveing truble making modded maps with dothalo
is there an easer program to use or can some one get me a tutorial on how to mod a map?

 

ok i just put this mod onto my xbox http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=1095 and i still cant figure out how to open it in the game?

 

To: Anyone
Can anyone help me? I replaced certain weapons projectiles for things like plasma grenades, oversheild powerups etc. What I was planning to do is make the plasma rifle shoot plasma grenades, it works but it doesn’t actually "shoot" the grenade forward, it just spawns it in front of the gun, how can I fix this?

Also how do you make a weapon like carbine rapid fire?

How do you make it so that weapons like plasma rifle and sentinel beam have no overheat and possibly unlimited ammo?

Thanks in advance for any help.

To: Shadow84
I use:
ADI for usual modding
CH2r for signing and doing miscellaneous modding
Insolence for putting campaign objects into multiplayer maps
I also know that serenity is good but I have not used it yet.
I recommend using ADI if you’re having problems with dot halo.

To: madmodz
Did you rename the map coagulation.map, sign the map, ftp to your xbox, delete the old coagulation (saving it on your computer first of course), and then replace it with the modded map?

 

how do you sighn into FTP on your xbox?

 

Take your downloaded map (coagulation) and name it coagulation.map, then go into one of your map signing programs (I use CH2r) and sign the map. Then ftp to your xbox and find the map you are going to replace. If it is on your computer then delete the map from your xbox, if it isn't then make sure you copy it to your computer before deleting it. Now copy the modded map from your computer to your xbox. Now start up Halo 2 from the hard drive and go select map and click on Coagulation.

Does this help?

 

ya except i dont know what "map signing" is and if i didnt want to deleat coagulation could i delete like back wash and put it there?

 

No you need to put replace it with coagulation, i could tell you how to add it to the list without deleting it but i cannot do that yet, if you want to play normal Coagulation just play it from your Halo 2 disc.

Go here to download CH2r, once you have done that you must rename the map coagulation and then open it through CH2r, then click on the map and on the left will be a button that says resign map, click that and when it is done close the map and do the ftp stuff.

Hope this helps.

 

but how do i get the old maps onto the computer and to do this hole proces do i need to have halo 2 copied to my xbox?

 

now i deleted the map and put the new one in but wen i start the game it says i faild to load the map