Halo 3 Cache Editing

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:54 pm

its about time, i was getting sick of that guy

Post by **grimdoomer** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:57 pm

Where are the cache files stored?

CompKronos · Post by **CompKronos** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:02 pm

well i think it is in the:
Partition 3/Content/00000000000000...0/4D5307E6/
or
Partition 3/Content/E00001A5FA65D95A/4D5307E6/
but i don't believe it's the latter but i am hunting through the former's smaller file in the sub directories

EDit: vv They aren't

Post by **grimdoomer** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:03 pm

CompKronos wrote:well i think it is in the:
Partition 3/Content/00000000000000...0/4D5307E6/
or
Partition 3/Content/E00001A5FA65D95A/4D5307E6/
but i don't believe it's the latter but i am hunting through the former's smaller file in the sub directories

I mean cache files the engine creates, like textures etc. I'm pretty sure those arent on the HDD.

Snave · Post by **Snave** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:47 am

That would be in the RAM, grimdoomer..

And btw halo 2 cache maps couldn't be edit'd because they were replaced upon every start of the game, unlike in halo1 where they were cached to the hard drive once until overwritten by another games cache or running a halo map with alternative build numbers.

haloflames · Post by **haloflames** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:34 pm

Tural wrote:Also, unless I'm mistaken, there wasn't ever anything done with Halo 2 cached maps. I never recall seeing anything of that sort, unless it was a fairly recent development, so the subject description is misleading.

in halo 2 caching maps was still important for people who have an xbox 360. even though you couldn't mod the maps, if you cache zanzibar for example, then you could still take the cache_000001.map (the name is an example), put it on your desktop or wherever you want, and then rename it to zanzibar.map

its useful for people like me who do anything permanent to their 360 but still wanted a copy of the old maps

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:44 pm

That has no relevance to what this discussion is actually about.

haloflames · Post by **haloflames** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:46 am

Well, it was actually relevant, I just didn't say why though.

I was wondering if anyone has done the same thing that I did with halo 2, in halo 3, to get halo 3 maps on their computer without ripping them off the disc.

Post by **grimdoomer** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:50 am

haloflames wrote:Well, it was actually relevant, I just didn't say why though.

I was wondering if anyone has done the same thing that I did with halo 2, in halo 3, to get halo 3 maps on their computer without ripping them off the disc.

RAM is encrypted.

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:52 am

I don't own an Xbox360 nor Halo3 nor do I have much experience with this but is it possible to even access the RAM data?

Only hard way I would know is too freeze the RAM with a cooling solution at runtime and install it somewhere else and make a memory dump

So is there a way to directly access it?

haloflames · Post by **haloflames** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:51 am

Patrickssj6 wrote:I don't own an Xbox360 nor Halo3 nor do I have much experience with this but is it possible to even access the RAM data?

Only hard way I would know is too freeze the RAM with a cooling solution at runtime and install it somewhere else and make a memory dump

So is there a way to directly access it?

Not sure about that, I'm sure someone will respond with an answer though.

To grimdoomer, is it encrypted differently from the way it was in halo 2? If not, then it is possible.

TheEazyB · Post by **TheEazyB** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:17 am

haloflames wrote:
To grimdoomer, is it encrypted differently from the way it was in halo 2? If not, then it is possible.

Pretty sure it is.

skyliner99 · Post by **skyliner99** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:05 pm

even if you could dump the contents of the RAM, there would be no way of injecting any data due to the heavy encryption microsoft decided to use this time around, i guess we all can learn from our previous mistakes