1.) Turn on your softmodded xbox, you MUST have a softmodded dashboard installed. For this tutorial, i'm going to be using my favorite dashboard, XBMC.

~Reference tutorials:

• Dashboard Downloads
• Xbox Softmod Tutorials

2.) Now, acquire your modded map. You can either do this in the form of download a .ppf, .sppf, or .serenity patch and applying it, or by making your own.

~Reference tutorials:

• Download Halo 2 Modded Map Patches
• Halo 2 Mod Programs
• How to use a PPF
  

3.) Once you have your softmodded dashboard, you need to FTP files to it. The first thing you need to FTP is Halo 2 to E:\Games\Halo 2. If the folder is not already there, create it.

Remember that you need to transfer all files except the single player maps, and the .bik videos.

Once you have those transfered, you need to transfer your modded map. DON'T FORGET TO RESIGN!

For old maps: Simply FTP transfer the modded map to E:\Games\Halo 2\maps. If the FTP client asks you to overwrite the file, MAKE SURE YOU SAY YES. Otherwise the file will not transfer.

For new maps: Sadly, you cannot use new maps the way they were designed, in order to take pictures, as you will have disable the code needed to recognize the new maps. So, what you need to do is take the new map (for ex., containment.map), and rename it to the name of one of the old maps (such as lockout.map, ascension.map, etc.). Then, FTP transfer this renamed map to E:\Games\Halo 2\maps. If it asks you to overwrite the file, MAKE SURE YOU SAY YES.

~Reference tutorials:

• How to FTP to your xbox
• Adding Halo 2 to your HDD

4.) Now you'll need to do some downloading and tweaking.

First thing you need to do, is download the Yelo v1.5 trainer. This is what is going to be used to take pictures.

Download (with mirror):Now, download the Xored Launcher Application. This is used to launch Yelo.

Download (with mirror): First thing you want to do is de-compress both of these archives. Now, go into the Xored Launcher archive that you just unzipped. Picture time ^_^

It should look somewhat like this:


Now, open up the "Xored" (configuration settings) file in notepad. You'll notice two lines of code that should read:
Change them so that they read:Now, save the file (DON'T CHANGE THE NAME OR THE .INI EXTENSION).

~Reference downloads:

• WinRAR

5.) Yay! More FTPing! Well, not really yay, i hear you groaning. Yeah yeah, i know. But sorry, too bad.

First things first, Xored. Open up your FTP client, and FTP the entire folder (if you didn't change it it's named "Xored_Mini_Launcher_v2.2") to the location E:\Apps (the application folder for most dashboards). If you don't have this folder, make it.

Now Yelo isn't *quite* as easy. But it's still easy. In the Yelo folder on your computer, you'll notice a file that is named "Yelo15.etm". That's what is called a Trainer. I won't go into detail about trainers, you can google it if you want. The point is that it allows you to use easy modifications to the game engine. In this case, Halo 2's camera.

FTP the "Yelo15.etm" file to "E:\Trainers". If you remember, this is the name that we edited the Xored.ini file with earlier.

Now, in order to make it work (and not be totally ****ed up), you need to do these 2 things:

1.) In the Yelo folder there should be 2 files named "config v1.5". One is "config v1.5.txt", and one is "config v1.5.inc". You need to FTP the .INC file. Make sure you don't mix these up. FTP this file to "E:/TDATA/4D530064/".

2.) In the same folder (E:/TDATA/4D530064/), there should be two folders. $u, and $C. Rename both of these. It doesn't matter what you rename them to, as long as they're different then the original names (this is so that Halo 2 doesn't recognize that you have the new maps installed). I used "($u)" and "($C)".

That's the last FTPing that you will have to do. Yay!!!

6.) Easiest part of the tutorial. Disconnect your FTP from your xbox, and restart it.

7.) (optional): Go into the "Games" part of your softmodded menu (it varies between dashboards) and click on halo 2. Load the game, and see if you can play it. If so proceed to step 8, if not go back to step 3.

8.) Time to start taking pictures! Once your xbox is loaded, go to the "Applications" section of your dashboard. In XBMC (THIS IS NOT AN XBOX 360 PICTURE, IT'S A SKIN) on the mc360 skin, this section is in the "Games" slice.




Once your dashboard has loaded the menu, you should see at least one item there, the Xored Trainer Launcher. Select it and press "A" (or start, it's different depending on the dashboard) to launch it.



9.) Ignore the cheesy music, it's just filler.

Once the trainer loads, you should see all the games currently on your xbox. If at any time you need help with Xored, press down on the left thumbstick to bring up a help menu.




Select "Halo 2", and press "A" on your controller to advance. If the yelo15.etm trainer file was detected, then it will advance to the next screen.

Bear with me, the background makes it hard to see this. The text is the command to load the game with the Yelo trainer on. Now we're cooking! ^_^




On the screen after that, you will have a list of options that the trainer is able to do. Feel free with messing around with these later...... Right now the settings that you should have to take the best pictures are these (green is on, red is off. Use A to toggle and the Dpad to go between them):
Should look something like this when you're done:



Once you have everything selected properly, press the "Start" button, and it will launch the game!

10.) If everything went well, you should be in Halo 2. Everything looks like it used to, right? Now go into a Split Screen game, choose the modded map that you FTP'd over (from step 3, if it's a new map load the map with the name of what you renamed your map) and start a new game. In rules don't matter. You can do whatever you want in order to get the pictures you need. I'm doing Fiesta CTF cuz it's cool


11.) Started the game? Well everything LOOKS normal. Or, at least the way it would normally look. Now, this is what you do. Hold down the white button, and press the back button. Congrats, you just took your first Yelo picture! How does it feel? Dumb? Yeah, probably.



So how do those people get such great pictures? They use some of the tweaking commands in order to move around the camera and do different effects. A list of commands is found in the Yelo trainer folder and in the FAQ's in the bottom of the page.

The following pictures were done with the Yelo trainer, by me using some of the other commands and camera tricks (not hard, and no photoshops).












12.) Okay, so once you've done taking pictures, you can just shut off your xbox. Easy, eh?

13.) Turn your xbox back on. You should still have the same IP address since you FTP'd.

Now, it's time to get the pictures off of your xbox. Still easy though ^_^. And as you can see, I've already done it.

Download the UberScreenshot tool, as this is what we need to use to accomplish this.

Download:Now unpack the archive, and double click on the icon to start the program.

It should look something like this:


Now, go to Edit, and then click on "Manage Connections". A box like this should pop up:




Now, click on "Add New". Fill out the boxes with your corresponding information.

Host Address = The IP of your Xbox
Username = "xbox" by default
Password = "xbox" by default
Games = Make sure the checkbox for "Halo 2" is checked, because that's the game you're taking pictures for.

Mine looks like this when completed:




Press "OK" when you're done.

14.) Now in UberScreenshot tool, go to the File menu, go to "Connect to", and choose the only connection that is there (which is based off of the data you just put in).



If the data you put in is good and your xbox is still set up for FTP, give the tool a minute and it will update the list with your pictures. Otherwise, if it fails (you'll see a message in the lower left corner), re-check your info.

Now it should look somewhat like this:




15.) Select the pictures that you want to save. Make sure the ones that you want have the check next to them.

Now, go to File-> Save Checked As. Pick a folder, type in a name (i usually pick "1", so the files show up 1-1, 1-2, etc.) and press "Save". All of your pictures will be saved there.



16.) Upload them and post your pictures on the forum. Or, due whatever. Either way,