Hacking Halo

In this section I am gonig to tell you about editing halo to make it more enjoyable etc. Obviously the following is not really intended to be used as a method to cheat online, and most of it will not work unless YOU are hosting. However, some like accuracy, do, so if you do not want to be called a cheat, don't go overboard.

What you will need:
1. HEX Editor
2. Retail offsets
3. The halo map files

How we are going to do it is we are just going to change the value of one thing to the value of another. An example of this is changing the assault rifle to shoot rockets, which is what I am going to show you now.

First of all, install the hex editor that you have downloaded from this site. Then extract the zip file with all the offsets in. Make a backup copy of bloodgulch which is in the MAPS folder in your halo directory. That's the preparation done.

Now for the editing. In the MAPS folder, right click bloodgulch.map, and click hex editor. The hex editor should appear, with a lot of numbers in it. Ignore the numbers for now, minimise, and open up bloodgulch.retail.html which is located in the extracted retail-offsets file that you downloaded from here. There should be an index at the top. Click on projectiles and that should take you down nearer the bottom of the page. Where it says: 

Bullet	00853F10	A4AA6440	00A5C418	E29F012B	5,940b
weapons/assault rifle/bullet

Ok, the one that is highlighted in red is the offset of the value. The offset is kind of an address. The one highlited in yellow is the actual value, which we will be changing. If you look down the list, and go to the rocket launcher bullet, the value is 6C3B7340.

Go back to the hex editor, and press ctrl+G, this will open a box. type in the offset for the AR bullet, which is 00853F10. Then press OK. It will take you to the start of the value, replace the value with 6C3B7340 and click save. Close all windows, and run halo. Create your own game in bloodgulch, and use the AR!!!!

To reset the map back to normal, just replace the hacked version with the BACKUP that you made earlier, and if you didn't make a backup, then you have to re-install.

Happy hacking.