Misc: How Do I Restore My Original Map(s) From My HaloPC CD?

[kaptainkommie]

Did you forget to backup your HaloPC maps before you edited them? Did you somehow corrupt your backup copies of the maps? Do you want to replace the maps on your hard drive, with the ORIGINAL maps? Then read on.

Lemmeh break it down for yaz:

1) Insert your HaloPC CD into your CD/DVD drive
2) Explore the cd using whatever means you feel comfortable with (IE, Explorer, etc). From here on I'll refer to the CD drive as drive G:
3) Go into the folder labeled FilesCab (G:\FilesCab).
4) Here you should see 6 cab files (Cab1.cab, Cab2.cab, ...)
5) Depending on which map(s) you need to restore, you will need to look in a certain Cabinet file. See below table.

Cabinet File Listings:

Cab1

a10.map
a30.map
a50.map
d40.map

Cab2
b30.map
b40.map
beavercreek.map
bloodgulch.map
boardingaction.map

Cab3
c10.map
c20.map
c40.map
carousel.map
chillout.map
d20.map
damnation.map
dangerground.map
deathisland.map

Cab4
bitmaps.map

Cab5
sounds.map

Cab6
Halo Directory Structure*(see note)
wizard.map
ui.map
timberland.map
sidewinder.map
ratrace.map
putput.map
prisoner.map
longest.map
infinity.map
icefields.map
hangemhigh.map
gephyrophobia.map

6) After you have figured out which Cab(s) contains the map which you need, open the cab using WinRAR or WinZIP (or your favorite cab-supporting compression program). Once its opened, navigate to the "maps" directory. Inside you will find the maps mentioned in the above table.
7) This should go without saying but...Copy and paste the map from the CAB archive into your Halo\Maps directory.
Follow the last two steps again for each map that you need to restore.

*NOTE: The Halo Directory structure, are the files and directories which get copied to your Halo directory upon installation. This is ONLY present in Cab6. As with the other cabs, in order to locate the original maps in this archive, you must first travel inside the Maps directory.

Hope this will keep duplicate posts on this subject to a bare minimum.

[mooseman2004]

finally someone put one of these up. Thanx man!!

[Veegie]

And this save's a lot of new people who didn't know this from reinstalling

[peabnuts123]

grr... when i posted this it was like 'so?,i-dont-care-at-all dude!'
but now,oh no, now its another story, its a freikin sticky!!

[krasus1234]

is there any way to restore weapon files? mine kinda got screwed up (im new to modding) and even though ive restored them i get the exception error when i open halo

Edit: i solved the problem with patch. sry if i asked this in wrong area

[Bllasae]

This is really helpful. Thanks, it even helped me lol.

[crashdummy0]

I just copy all the maps before I mod them and put them in a folder called "BACKUP", It helps allot!