**ECW**

D3V0N · Post by **D3V0N** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:47 am

They are all hitting puberty what can you expect.

kaptainkommie · Post by **kaptainkommie** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:16 am

I deleted those topics. That type of discussion is definately not welcome here on our forums.

Flying Poo · Post by **Flying Poo** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:25 am

Elite Civil War is here!!! I'tll be comming in parts

Map set:
This is all the MP maps patch to play elites. These patches dont implemnt the new build so if someone just wants to patch a cache file from HCE on the xbox to play it for a while. EXCEPT SIDEWINDER

If you want to turn this into its own game you will have to edit ALL (except SW I think) the patched cache files in a hex editor to change the build number. Its like the 4th line down, looks like this.
Ex.
"01 10 12 2276"
change the "6" in ASCII to a "3" so it should read... "01 10 12 2273"

do this with EVERY map before compressing.

Heres a map list for compression (use SparkEdit)
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Battle Creek |beavercreek.map
Blood Gulch |bloodgulch.map
Boarding Action |boardingaction.map
Derelict |carousel.map
Chill Out |chillout.map
Damnation |damnation.map
Hang 'em High |hangemhigh.map
Longest |longest.map
Prisoner |prisoner.map
Chiron TL34 |putput.map
Rat Race |ratrace.map
Sidewinder |sidewinder.map
Wizard |wizard.map
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All compressed maps go in /ecw

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UI:
ECW_UI.ppf - This is the decked out UI made for the MP games... there are also Easter Eggs... can you find them all? No need to change build.

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XBE patch:
Heres what makes it all work. Patch the retail .xbe off the game disk and then rename it to "haloecw.xbe"

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Now your xbox should look like this under you Halo Dir on the Xbox:
/Halo/
/maps <-retail maps
/ecw <- ECW maps
default.xbe <- retail xbe
haloecw.xbe <- ECW xbe
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OPTIONAL: NMPtoECW.ppf
If you want to run this in the chain with Halo NMP, patch the CACHE version of the NMP 1.1 UI to add "HaloECW" to the bottom of NMP...compress... DONT change Build... and transfer bak to you NMP dir.

Now your xbox should look like this under you Halo Dir on the Xbox if running NMP:
/Halo/
/ecw <- ECW maps
/maps <-retail maps
/nmp <- NMP maps
default.xbe <- retail xbe
haloecw.xbe <- ECW xbe
halonmp.xbe <- NMP xbe
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Have fun... any Q's? write to the Flying Poo @ flyingpoo86@hotmail.com

Credit to...
UltraMagnus for using his UI as a base
thinkreddie for starting the project and major help!!!

Flying Poo · Post by **Flying Poo** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:31 am

more maps

Flying Poo · Post by **Flying Poo** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:32 am

even more maps... yay

Flying Poo · Post by **Flying Poo** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:35 am

Now for the stuff... UI, retail xbe patch and NMP patch for a cycle of 3

mrhyperpenguin · Post by **mrhyperpenguin** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:39 am

that is a real pain in the ass to download all of those, rar em together and host em at halomaps (hxbdev is out of space) and maybe you should get it to work with HMPi?

edit

okay i just glanced at the HMPi directory and i think i already know how it works, take out NMP and CXE ppfs directorys and ini's

all of your ppfs have to have example ecwbloodgulch(bg)(wz).ppf
the map the ppf goes over and the map its renamed as

and the haloecw.xbe.ini is easy

DisplayedName=Halo eCW
MapDir=ecw
BuildVersion=01.10.12.2273
DemosPath=haloecw.xbe

and you put the ppf of the changed ui of the orginal halo in maps

Martijn Gelissen · Post by **Martijn Gelissen** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:41 am

COOL, just a few questions: are there any other changes besides playin as an elite? and is the animtions for throwing grenades fixed?

Well its a cool mappack will DL when I get home

Martijn

Flying Poo · Post by **Flying Poo** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:49 am

well sorry, still lag in grenade throwing... banshee in BG... no wraith in SW

i'll look into halomaps... and what is HMPi?

Martijn Gelissen · Post by **Martijn Gelissen** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:52 am

HMPi is a Halo Map Pack Installer.

If you DL NMP 2/CXE (which you havent because you dont know what HMPi is) is will auto install the mappacks.
First it FTP's to your xbox and download the .map files, UI and the default.xbe to your pc. Next it auto starts to make the new maps, compreess them and changes the buildnumbers, then it will FTP the whole mappack back to your xbox and your doone.

All fully automatic, you should check it out!
Great app, and it will be released so that people can make their own mappacks

martijn

mrhyperpenguin · Post by **mrhyperpenguin** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:55 am

okay dude, i'll do it

your welcome

Flying Poo · Post by **Flying Poo** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:04 am

i checked it out... not a bad proggie! your more than welcome to do it and post to Halo Maps for me if ya want... just give credit.... anywho the NMP2 interface kills mine... looks nice!.... and i'll prolly get kicked off HALO MODS for using up so much space.... i'll be working on a single player ECW story line... "rebel elite" now i gata get bak to my C programing class so i know what shes talking about.

SEHF · Post by **SEHF** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:40 am

Damn! My 80 gigabyte HD died, so I have to play Halo off the disc!

I'll try to try this as soon as as possible!

TfAv1228 · Post by **TfAv1228** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:22 pm

u left out wizard good maps

mrhyperpenguin · Post by **mrhyperpenguin** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:24 pm

okay everything is done!

delete everything in the ~input folder expect for make-dir.bat
paste the contents of Elite_Civil_War.rar in and it should work
you can get to orginal halo from ECW but not the other way around
and wizard doesnt work, becuase there was no ppf supplied

if there is one released then add it to the ECW folder as wizard(WZ)(WZ).ppf

download link

thinkreddie · Post by **thinkreddie** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:31 pm

...can I use this this w/nmp2?

mrhyperpenguin · Post by **mrhyperpenguin** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:58 pm

wow i figured out to get this working in a few min,

depends what you may with work with NMP 2 CXE
if you want it to link in a chain to one another then you have to edit some stuff, if you want it in the same directory then yeah i'll work

TfAv1228 · Post by **TfAv1228** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:50 pm

has anyone noticed that the build is actually .2274 and that prisoner doesnt have elites and is a different map completely

thinkreddie · Post by **thinkreddie** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:55 pm

DELETED FOR TEH N00BNESS LOLZ

TfAv1228 · Post by **TfAv1228** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 6:51 pm

that really isnt nice seeing as u used thinkreddies color enabled elites