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Hmmm.. I've never thought of doing this before. This is pretty interesting

The only problem I see is that you'll spending A LOT of time behind a disassembler figuring out where things are.

You're kidding, right?

Over the internet or on two media on your computer?

1) To the OP: No, it is NOT true that C++ is a part of VB... shoot your friend for me. 2) MunkyDung: It would actually be better to learn a language more people know... more resources, job opportunities, etc. 3) Don't take anybody's advice on which language is better than another. Try them out and s...

1) 'Hex' is short for 'hexadecimal', which is a number system
2) Technically everything in a computer is written in binary (including text...)
3) Look at the stickied tutorial in this forum about opening Halo2 maps in the language of the devil (VB)

Thanks. I've got nothing better to do today, either, so I might just write another one.

Well, what the heck, I have nothing better to do, so I'll write a quick post on how to use streams (particularly file streams) in C++. First off, all streams are derived from basic_streambuf, the lowest-level class for I/O. Everything gets derived quite a few times, so you'll most likely won't ever ...

Yeah, I saw that, but I couldn't get it to work

Yeah, the drive will work just fine as long as it is recognized by your Xbox and your PC.

Just keep a gametype you've made and change that. You can then hex edit the disk image and change the file name. BLAM! New gametype to copy .

http://www.halomods.com/forums/viewtopi ... 8&start=20

I posted code that modifies the memory space of Halo in that thread. Not exactly a tutorial, but it should help.

Thanks. I usually release stuff if I figure at least one person can make use of it . Also note that this doesn't support spaces (found that out when trying a gametype with spaces yesterday). I fixed that, but I probably won't release the new code unless someone wants it.

IIRC the Halo Scripting Language is similar to LISP and is parsed at run-time.

Yep. They only allocate 16 player slots in memory IIRC.

Please move this to the 'utilities' forum. I don't really want to write it up again, so I will just copy and paste what I wrote on the Gearbox forums: I've spent the last few days on my brother's computer and my Xbox. I made a few USB -> Xbox connectors, and wanted to start hacking my Halo 2 gametyp...

A single char or a character array?

For a single char, strchar(), for arrays, strstr().

You'll need to read in the file chunk by chunk into a buffer and use those.

That's why you add it to the section at the end.

You know, viruses work this way... they append themselves to the end, change the address of the start func to the virus code, and then jump back to the real start at the end of their code.

It will work just fine if you do it correctly.

Oh, and if you want to not worry about memory leaks, deallocating memory, etc. you can use smart pointers and STL containers. For an automatically-resizing, heap-allocated array lookalike, use std::deque If you just want to have a single object allocated on the heap and not have to worry about alloc...

I think he really means import. You'll still have to know the name of the function you want to import with a .def file. They will be listed in there, though. You can also load without a .def file by ordinal (going with kaptainkommie's idea here) with good ol' GetProcAddress(). Just specify the ordin...