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[NiKeJuStDoItOk?]

.  Everyone interested in HCE might wanna go to the forum war3z set up on sourceforge at http://hce.sourceforge.net/forum/.  I thought this was kinda inseresting that me and war3z were talking and we figured out that HCE was first released on August 12 2003.   Also, I first suggested that we should recode the program on October 30 of that same year.  Cache backup is going good and a little keyboard support will be in by version 8 (not virtual keyboard).  The error mode works pretty good and two of the fonts are loaded from the xbe so it can run even without the media folder .  War3z is doing the hex editor and it is developing real quickly so that will definantly be in by 8.0.  The other other thing I can think of is a lot of bug fixes from version 7... And a logging system.

[d3fault_dot_xbe]

i know this is a stupid question... i haven't been around much... but what is the network thingy gonna do?? download ppfs?? auto-update? what what what?/??

p.s. i LOVE the hex editor idea.... that is awesome.... nice job war3z

[XBOX War3z]

QUOTE (d3fault_dot_xbe @ Jun 1 2004, 02:40 AM)

i know this is a stupid question... i haven't been around much... but what is the network thingy gonna do?? download ppfs?? auto-update? what what what?/?? p.s. i LOVE the hex editor idea.... that is awesome.... nice job war3z

we'll try all of those then
but also for this:
- you and your friends want a LAN party
- you connect all of them
- start hce
- one person sets everything, applies some patches and got like 3 mp levels ready to play
- he then sends out a 'message' to all the xboxes in the current network that he wants to 'share' the maps
- every xbox gets a popup message with the details like Name/Region and from which xbox
- you accept the transfer and the it starts copying the cache file to your xbox
- with the new backup thing we might even make a ppf of it, send that and then apply it

or just send any file you want to other xboxes

it'll be great

[th3gh05t]

QUOTE (XBOX War3z @ Jun 1 2004, 06:02 AM)

we'll try all of those then but also for this: - you and your friends want a LAN party - you connect all of them - start hce - one person sets everything, applies some patches and got like 3 mp levels ready to play - he then sends out a 'message' to all the xboxes in the current network that he wants to 'share' the maps - every xbox gets a popup message with the details like Name/Region and from which xbox - you accept the transfer and the it starts copying the cache file to your xbox - with the new backup thing we might even make a ppf of it, send that and then apply it or just send any file you want to other xboxes it'll be great

Yea, that sounds freakin' sweet!

[XBOX War3z]

so i change my region, want to apply a patch and select my cache



oh cool hce can undo patches


more to come

[XBOX War3z]

ok i need some help, if anybody wants,
check out any of your halo map files (cache, compressed, doesnt matter) at 0x40
this is the build date, could you list your builddate here with the region that your halo is

on another thing
the go to offset thing
i had this in mind:

you move arround in the hex numbers,
(A) adds the hex number to the offset thing,
(X) deletes the last,
(B) cancels and (Y) takes you to that offset

any other suggestions for the hex editor?
like what could the find do, ...?

[Lightning|Striker]

Have it, say, search for Level names, descriptions, etc...

Oh! It would be awesome if there was a built in model injector, it's awesome to swap the models in SP, but there's only Cyborg in multi...

[Moleman]

This is what was at decimal offset 64 (0x40 in hex).

01.10.12.2276

NTSC Blood Gulch.

Not sure if it is what you want though.

[Moleman]

double post

[XBOX War3z]

about the searching, that would be searching for unicode text (the ones with the dots in them )

[th3gh05t]

QUOTE (XBOX War3z @ Jun 4 2004, 04:53 AM)

cool i thought it would all have the same build, ok then i only need the build number of the german cache files about the searching, that would be searching for unicode text (the ones with the dots in them )

Yea, my thought is that all the NTSC BG build versions will be the same and the PAL and German might change.

But who knows..

[XBOX War3z]

changed the background color for all menus
hexeditor has a working go to offset thing:


you move with your dpad in the hex numbers and then use A to add a hex number, X to delete last and Y to go to the offset you 'typed'

cache backups working


the information shows if you have a cache or not (you will also get a * behind a cache file but i think im gonna change this so it shows changes)


press black to start the backup thing


after its done everything gets updated and you can continue to work



what's left to do:
- file browser for hex editor
- editing in hex editor (any ideas? )
- restore backups (something in the menu where you can select (restore/delete) all the backups)

todo: (not for hce08)
- gametype editing
- network
- make ppf by comparing backup to current map
- ...

[Gab_dC]

[omnidragonomega]

bu would it be possible to do that? caus if so there a suggestion for a later version

[Lightning|Striker]

Model injector!