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PC mods on an Xbox 360
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:47 am
by wazmol
okay i am one joint lead modder of the TEC 2 mod for the pc version of the game and i would like to put my edited rep.lvl and mission.lvl on the xbox game but dont have a clue how. i have a xbox 360 and the xbox game.
RE: pc mods on an xbox 360
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:58 am
by Rekubot
I'm 99.9% sure it's not possible. People have tried it and failed miserably. Stick to PC modding.
RE: pc mods on an xbox 360
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:51 am
by Teancum
I'm 199.9% sure. There is no possible way. At all. We do not have the source to munge XBox, PSP, PS2 or (surely Pandemic still has the tools considering they did Clone Wars) Gamecube. So it's impossible to make files compatable with them.
RE: pc mods on an xbox 360
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:55 am
by Darth_Z13
Well in the Data_*** folder when you create a new level there is a readme that says this:
To: Whoever has to maintain or create new downloadable content packs for Battlefront II
This folder contains basically all the stuff necessary to create the first downloadable content package for xbox live. To munge stuff in this dir, just open the VisualMunge.exe located in this folder's _BUILD directory, and munge away. You'll probably want to turn your xbox off before you do this, so it doesn't copy files over. For this pack, you need to munge common, the DLC side, and the worlds COR, KAS, MYG and NAB.
Now, you're left with some .lvl files inside _LVL_XBOX\, which will be used to create the content pack. Note, a content pack doesn't need *all* the .lvl's that are created with the munge process. The package itself is created with XLAST, so open that util (located in your xdk folder somewhere), and open the .xlast project located in XLAST_Data\.
You'll notice it has the necessary .lvl files located in the tree view. To test the pack, just click action->test on local xbox. Also, you should probably test the package running from a burned copy of the *shipped* version of the game with the patch(es) installed (check out Battlefront2\Xbox Patches\ for info on the patch).
To get the files to show up in the mission list, we're using the same "addme.lua" hack from the first game. This script is located in the addme\ folder. It basically tells the game the names of the new levels and adds them to the mission list. It gets run sometime after the normal mission list has been created during the load process. However, the VisualMunge doesn't know that addme.lua exists, so you'll have to run the mungeAddme.bat located in the same folder. It's supposed to munge to _LVL_XBOX\addme.script, and will get loaded directly by the engine. Note: If you have trouble getting it to overwrite the current addme.script, delete the contents of the addme\munged\ folder.
Finally, ****don't forget to keep the manifest file up to date if you remove or add any files!!!!****
So maybe it is possible.
Re: RE: pc mods on an xbox 360
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:42 pm
by Xavious
Teancum wrote: We do not have the source to munge XBox, PSP, PS2 or Gamecube.
Uh, Gamecube? SWBF2 isn't on Gamecube.
RE: Re: RE: pc mods on an xbox 360
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:47 pm
by Darth_Z13
They created SW: Clone Wars for the Gamecube so he means that maybe they still have the utility used to create it.
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:42 pm
by wazmol
i want to hex edit i have heard of people geting into the source files but i dont no how to.
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 4:47 pm
by Qdin
Darth, it might have been - but those files for the other consoles aren't there
so all the utilities etc. needed to munge it for the other consoles aren't there and that's around it.
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:10 am
by Teancum
1-I didn't say SWBF came out for Gamecube, but it runs on an updated engine of Clone Wars, which did. Read my post next time.
2-There is no way, no how, no chance that PC lvls will work on XBox, XBox360, PSP or PS2. They are all created with different versions of the tools.
Question answered, topic locked.