Editing in game text?

ph0rn2 · Post by **ph0rn2** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:40 am

I've seen it done, but I cannot find any information on it.
The text I'm talking about are things like "You killed...", "Double Kill", etc etc.
I've searched through these forums and others too, but no luck.

Does anyone have any information on this?

ExileLord · Post by **ExileLord** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 1:03 pm

download a hex editor and search for "warthog" or something like that

however with warthog make it w.a.r.t.h.o.g

then replace the bytes of the periods with 0x00

hit search and then change the letters

ph0rn2 · Post by **ph0rn2** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 1:30 pm

What file would I edit though?

Would I edit the maps?
If so, would I directly edit the .map files, or would I have to edit the cached maps?

Spartan III · Post by **Spartan III** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 3:24 am

Cached maps. And also, for the "You killed" etc text, you need to search for strings in the XBE, if it's the NTSC version, anyway.

ph0rn2 · Post by **ph0rn2** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:13 pm

If it's in the XBE, where is it cached? I already searched the original XBE. But either way, wouldn't moddifying the XBE not allow me to play on system link(with other people that have the original XBE)

Spartan III · Post by **Spartan III** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:32 am

Noo, I meant that text in mapfiles, like weapon names, are in the cached mapfiles found in the x,y,z drives. The "You killed" strings are found in the default.xbe file as normal.