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so i used to play a lot of modded maps before the whole cheating thing. now that everything is back up, i want to play some of the modded maps. but whenever i try to load them it goes back to the pregame lobby thing. it works whenever i replace a map. but it doesn't work when i try to add the map to the mainmenu.map. i have the 5 new maps if that has anything to do with it. i've signed both the mainmenu.map and the modded map (in this case lockout underground arena). is there something i'm missing?

im having the exact same problem, since i downloaded the patch whenver i try to load one of the maps that i have added to mainmenu.map i can't it just sends me back to the pregame lobby, did the patch to something to it, if you could please help that would be awesome

HomelikeBoat

well this happened to me to, but i deleted that u$ folder in the TDATA section and now my new maps work perfectly fine

can you still play on live?

You need to delete the autoupdate. The file is called default.xbe and it is in Halo 2's TDATA folder somewhere.

can you still play on live?

does anyone know?

uralllame wrote:You need to delete the autoupdate. The file is called default.xbe and it is in Halo 2's TDATA folder somewhere.

DO NOT delete that, just replaace it with the original default.xbe

I'm having the same problem - If you change the default.xbe, can you still play on live? And what is the "origional" default.xbe? I thought there never was one on there

i would like to know the answer to that as well.

No, if you try it will give you the update again.

well thats what i figured so is there any way around it or no

curses...

what if I rename the default.xbe in $u folder or whatever it is and I put the normal halo 2 default.xbe in there and i play it for a while, how would i go back to playing on live? I know I'd have to put the default.xbe back to normal but would I have to clear the cache too? Sometimes i just feel like playing new maps that i have but i can't because of the stupid update but I don't want to get banned from matchmaking or something

I had the same problem, I just popped in my halo 2 disc and coppied the default.xbe and the downloader.xbe to the 4d530064/$u folder and the problem was fixed. The only problem with this is that you go back to all of the stock settings which means no weapons update. Also, unless you have 2 seperate hdd's you wont be able to play on xbl after doing this.

I have a question: Does anyone still have the previous Auto Update? If someone does have it could you send me the file? I would like to play my mods and have the 1.1 update...I just need to find that update.

i also wood like to have the 1.1 update