Adding Maps To MainMenu.map(pics)

[UndeadGhoul]

Before we start what you need is.

1.Modded Xbox with Halo 2 on the harddrive

2.Some kind of hex editor.(Get one Here)

3.Dothalo(Get it Here)

4.MainMenu.map

5.A map you want to add to the MainMenu.map file.(im going to be adding Terminal with the NewYork Mod on it.)

Now once you have all of this stuff we can start the tutorial.

1.Open DotHalo and open the MainMenu.map.



2.Now go to the Tag window and click Matg(Globals) and click globals/globals and a window like this should come up.



3.Now click on the drop down bar in the tag editor and select 12 which would be the first open slot.



4.Now see all the slots input this into them leave the scenario tag alone for now.(replace it with what you want it to say but leave values alone)



5.Now minmize dothalo for the moment and open the map you want to add to the mainmenu in the hex editor.



6.Now go to search/find and type in scenarios or hex 444 either one will work.



7.Now you should see scenarios\multi\mapname\mapname take that and copy and paste it into dothalo where you saw the scenarios space earlier.





8.Now make sure everything is correct and click save changes on tag editor.



9.Now click fix encryption for mainmenu.map then click close.



10.Now just fix the encryption for the map that you where adding to mainmenu.map and ftp both of them to the right folder preferably E:/games/halo 2/maps for me.

11.Now run halo 2 and enjoy your new modded map that was added to your mainmenu.

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[UndeadGhoul]

just thought id add something before people are like omg it doesn't work you must go to the u$ folder and rename those files those are the updates.

[AzzidReign]

Nice! Watch...all these tuts that we have here...we will find them ripped off! We need to start doing tuts the way we talked about!

[foamydood]

i dont rip tutorials

and its not considered ripping them if you give the person full credit, and a link to the original site right?

[Ca$h]

If u ask permision no... U don't know how many tuts r riped from this site. Espically Azzids moding tutorial

[CRXSI90]

is there a reason there isnt any pics

[Masterelite1001]

What do i rename the updates or do u have them for me

[UndeadGhoul]

well if you have played halo 2 on the xbox you mod with online you have files in that folder just rename them to like Filename-1 so you remember the bname of the file.

[Masterelite1001]

I did it wron Lol!! when I start the game and load the new map after 3 seconds ot says failed to load the map and it can't load lockout and nonw of the new maps r there so I think I renamed the files wrong I named them filename-1 filename-2 and filename-3 so tell me what I did wrong I did everything that the tut told me to do

[UndeadGhoul]

you know when i said filename i meant leave it the name it is and just add 1 to the end right?

[Masterelite1001]

Whoops... Lol

Ok so I go to /E/TDATA/4d530064/$u/and rename tose files or do i go to /E/Games/halo2/ and rename those updates

[shizn1zzle]

i would like to have pics is there a way to put them on plz tell me

[shizn1zzle]

o i have another question i have the ascension with the egypt patch on it
and i called it Egypt and it worked but my original ascension also gets modded is there any way to leave just the original ascension unmodded and the mainmenu.map i make modded

plz help

[CommonSenseless]

hey man thanks a lot i've been looking for how to do exactly this for a while now. well i thought i had a good idea, i was going to put a campaign map into multiplayer to have like 4player co-op but it loaded this really weird fog and nothing happened, but it didn't say "failed to load the map". anyway thanks a lot.

[arkoow]

thank's for the tut. but you forgot to mension that you have to give eache map another value and next value, else they willl all have the same name and are all the same map...

[Nomad]

I was wondering, if I do this here "3.Now click on the drop down bar in the tag editor and select 12 which would be the first open slot." Why would 12 be my first open slot? I have all the original maps and some mimesis maps.

Then you say "5.Now minmize dothalo for the moment and open the map you want to add to the mainmenu in the hex editor." I couldn't figure out how to do this at all. I never saw anything in the hex aditor that would let me do this. Please realize I am an Ultra n00b. Just ask Azzid

Thanks for any help.

[Tidal]

well, your open slots should have a -1 if there open as far as the hex editor, you should just minimise dot halo, the go to ur hex edtior (seperate program)-open map-then do the search. ex, im adding lockout. Id minimise main menu.map in dothalo, then go to Xvi32, open, l0ckout,(the renaimed version), then get to were it said .../.../.../.../, then go back to dothalo and put that under scenario.

Also, when you reaname a map, that is done so you can have a modded map and a clean map. If you rename, it has to be the same number of letters.

[Thorax]

it seems like there's supposed to b pics like it says in the title but where r they? also what r u supposed to do for step 4 its like its refering to a pic that isnt there? som1 help please.

[R0BBER]

Thorax is right, there soposed to be pics, so stop ignoring people and post them!

[acestu]

Yeh not been in the country for a few weeks but a post about to come up


Cheers
Acestu

Ok fellas about 2 weeks ago i had a mainmenu with all my regular maps on it which i called stock Ascension, stock Zanzibar and so on , then my modded maps all i did was add them to a slot in dot halo and just entering the name of the modded map (without changing the Hex map scenario name) eg Zentation.map , i resigned them all in dot halo then changed the name of my $U folder files and Hey Presto they were all playable from my main menu every 1 loading ok, I then tried adding a pic to the menu map but came accross a problem ie when i inserted the ARGB pic into the first map slot , it applied my pic to about ten other maps for some reason (not sussed out why yet) however i have been playing system link with another xbox whith exactly the same maps on it for about 2 weeks with no trouble, then last night the last thing i did was try and play campaign mode , forgetting that there were no campaign maps on the hard drive, well the video started loading and then it said having trouble reading disk, so when i came to play tonight all of my maps fail to load, and i have just tried replacing maps, xbe files but with no luck, does anybody know what might of happened coz i am baffled, would be nice to hear from somebody.................

Cheers
Acestu