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WoW · Post by **WoW** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:46 pm

Someone should make the new maps playable on halo 2 xbox.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:49 pm

Yeah, that's been suggested dozens of times. We won't know if it's possible until the game is released. Even then, it would technically be ripping, and thus not allowed.

WoW · Post by **WoW** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:51 pm

hmmm.But if both games are halo 2 would it not be legal?

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:55 pm

They're not the same game. A tutorial could be allowed, because it would require the people own the maps themselves. Releasing the patches for Xbox would offer no way to verify people actually owned Halo 2 Vista.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:58 pm

Tural wrote:They're not the same game. A tutorial could be allowed, because it would require the people own the maps themselves. Releasing the patches for Xbox would offer no way to verify people actually owned Halo 2 Vista.

Sure there is, make a patch for the Vista .map that converts it to be compatible on the Xbox.

WoW · Post by **WoW** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:02 pm

im guessing this idea will go into a huge extent....

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:02 pm

WoW wrote:im guessing this idea will go into a huge extent....

What?

WoW · Post by **WoW** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:06 pm

in other words im going to guess a lot of people are going to attempt this idea.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:07 pm

Anyone who gets the game on Vista when it comes out will probably try.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:07 pm

G.I.R. wrote:Sure there is, make a patch for the Vista .map that converts it to be compatible on the Xbox.

Touch

-DeToX- · Post by **-DeToX-** » Wed May 02, 2007 6:10 pm

What if Bungie changed the map structure, like sometag's values have been changed to different read/write types(bytes, etc) to save space, just like CE was done to halo 2, and other values were to be added and all. You would need quite a bit of programming.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Wed May 02, 2007 6:38 pm

"If"

We'll have to wait and see.

kibito87 · Post by **kibito87** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:49 pm

Ah geez you guys. Like i've said a few other times. It'll be done. It's just by who?

me!

destroyer69 · Post by **destroyer69** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:59 pm

Or me. >.<

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Wed May 02, 2007 9:15 pm

I vote kibito >_>

xbox7887 · Post by **xbox7887** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:22 am

-DeToX- wrote:What if Bungie changed the map structure, like sometag's values have been changed to different read/write types(bytes, etc) to save space, just like CE was done to halo 2, and other values were to be added and all. You would need quite a bit of programming.

You also forget they will be releasing their development kit along with the game, so any differences could be discovered or reverse engineered from that.

XBC-Requiem · Post by **XBC-Requiem** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:43 am

I SERIOUSLY doubt that Bungie would try to stop us from modding. From what I've seen, it's only M$ that doesn't like it.

MilyardoX2 · Post by **MilyardoX2** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:09 am

do you think that anyone will some how make the map maker work with windows XP or other variations of windows. this is if the map editor is a stand alone app from the game, like starcraft and that map maker program, they were two differant things.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:33 pm

Why would you need the map editor on XP if you can't play the maps on XP?

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:37 pm

Tural wrote:Why would you need the map editor on XP if you can't play the maps on XP?

H2V maps on XP will most likely never, ever happen, but they may want the tools packaged with it for authoring their own maps if a method for converting them to Xbox compatible .map files is discovered.