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Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: pimp on January 08, 2004, 06:30:00 PM
hey, i have been looking around the files in the Udata, and found a file called "SaveMeta.xbx" this says the name of the profile. when i changed this, and added it back to my xbox, nothing happened.... anyone have any ideas on something that i could do to get this to work?

P.S. i looked in the other files too, but ofund nothing.
Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: Odb718 on January 08, 2004, 10:06:00 PM
I don't think this will ever happen...
Sux cuz I have some badass names too.

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you know better stuff then BABY
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Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: enixn on January 09, 2004, 08:25:00 AM
ive figured out how to put symbols in the name and stuff, but it wont show the symbol in game, like when someone's aiming reticle is over you.  It will only show the code for the symbol...is there any way to get the game to interpret the code and show the symbol and not the code?  (i used %zoom)  jester.gif
Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: XBOX War3z on January 09, 2004, 08:28:00 AM
yea same here only saw it when selecting the profile sad.gif
pimp¥ you need to edit the blam.sav
I think the other file is used for the dashboard to show the save name
Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: pimp on January 09, 2004, 10:59:00 AM
yah, i opened the blam.sav, but found all code.. tryed openin it with a hex, but it didnt work.

ill look at it a little more

P.S.i was trying to make my name -~=¤º^P1[M]p¥^º¤=~-

thanks for the assistance guys

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Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: mastertito4 on January 09, 2004, 12:38:00 PM
pimpy ur name in unicode (what halo uses as far as i know) is:

2D003D007B00500031005B004D005D007000A5007D003D002D00

(i took out the ~ cuz i thought maybe it might be up top)
Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: pimp on January 09, 2004, 12:52:00 PM
how would i insert that into halo...?

and into the Blam.sav file...correct?

Thanks for the help guys

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Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: pimp on January 09, 2004, 02:08:00 PM
alright guys, i got the name to appear in the game's profile selection it appears as
-~={^P1[M]p¥^}=~-

but when i select the game, it says "Unable to load saves game file. Press A to continue."

i have been trying everything..... ¿Any suggestions?

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Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: mastertito4 on January 09, 2004, 02:19:00 PM
my thought is that MetaSave.xbx says what the name is, then finds the corresponding Blam.sav, if u only change the metasave or change both but change the # of chars, itll fuck up because itll read the blam wrong.

soooooooooooooooooo
make a profile with # of desired chars
edit in winhex (both blam and metasave)
transfer back


holla if this works
Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: pimp on January 10, 2004, 04:09:00 AM
no, it didnt work.... i think i need to resign the file..mabye? now when i put the origional name back, it still dosent work.
Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: XBOX War3z on January 10, 2004, 12:38:00 PM
nah count doesnt matter,
had a profile called Wim
only changed the blam.sav
edited it to %x-button (or just %button)
resigned it and it works perfectly wink.gif

[edit] btw MetaSave.xbx is only used by MS Dash, how else does it know the save name?
it's not gonna know each save format and check that tongue.gif
so they use MetaSave.xbx to have a common save name for the dashboard
Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: pimp on January 10, 2004, 01:01:00 PM
i have no clue how to resign a file haha, any good tuts?
Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: FunkmaztafoX on January 10, 2004, 01:22:00 PM
it's quite simple really...

maybe i'll make a tut today, hrm. yeah i will.

Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: pimp on January 10, 2004, 01:22:00 PM
what tools are needed?

p.s. i tut would be nice biggrin.gif

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Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: XBOX War3z on January 10, 2004, 02:05:00 PM
CODE
[4d530004_2]
ID=4d530004
Title=Halo Save
AuthKey=5770E155A1C75FA9830B141896544428579AF1E6
DataFile=blam.sav
SigOffset=48
DataOffset=0
DataLen=48


rest is the same as the tut
Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: Allister on January 10, 2004, 07:07:00 PM
So this is for getting a longer name? So now the name "the guardians" will be available?! Wow!
Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: runawaywarthog on January 11, 2004, 08:40:00 AM
Im confused is this for the ingame name?
Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: pimp on January 11, 2004, 09:15:00 AM
hey XBOX War3z, i did everything in the resigning step of your tutorial, but it still didnt work for me....

do i delete everything in the blam.sav then resign it and edit it? or edit it and THEN resign it?

thanks
Title: Changing Your Name In Halo To Longer One
Post by: FunkmaztafoX on January 11, 2004, 09:23:00 AM
How to get 50+ kills/Custom in-game player profile

I made the tutorial yesterday, and let xbox-war3z look over it to make sure he agreed.

see if that clears things up