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I really want to start modding halo 2 but i have a small problem.

I'm not ready to buy and install a bigger hdd in my xbox and there's no way I'm gonna fit halo 2 on there with all the other invaluable hacked xbox goodies I have.

First, I think i remember reading somewhere you could store halo 2 minus some files on your hdd and make it much smaller. This may work for me.

Second, mimesis seems to add maps and makes halo 2 think they are dlc. I would like to know how to do this to edited maps of my choice and think it would be the best solution. I really did look all around the forums and made a few searches but all i could find was something about editing the mainmenu. Maybe that will work, but I have no idea how to do it.

If there are tutorials on how to do things like this, a link would be great because I can't find one.

Thanks,
-Evan

for the first part, just put your h2 disc in, look on your D drive through flashxp or whatever you use, and take everything from the D drive except the single player maps which all start with a number. Take everyhting else though. Now put the files in a folder called halo2 and ftp it all back to your E drive on your box and you should have around 2 Gigs left for apps, emulators, mimesis maps, and games.

As for the second part look in the tutorials section for 'adding maps to the main menu'
http://files.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=37383

Also, you can delete everything in the bink folder, and you don't need all the maps. I think you might need to ask at Mimesis about making .mcp's though.

The mimesis team will not give information as to how they re-engineered dlc for halo2 because cheaters could use it.