Streamlining Halo

[bobthenob]

Hi all,

New guy here, first of all would just like to say what a great site, been looking for decent modding tips and I found the right place.

Ok here's my question,

I still have a retail 10GB drive in my box with Halo and Fifa copied to it, therefore I am running extremely low on space and I still have another game I want to put on!

I only play halo multiplayer now, so I was wondering if any of you could tell me which files I could delete to remove all the single player stuff from the game whilst still keeping multiplayer fully operational (if there is any other uneeded stuff I can delete let me know about that to). Then I'll be able to fit Halo on my F: drive and will have room for one more game on my E: drive.

Thanks

[Hivemind]

aww cmon, y do such a horrid thing to halo? but sincei dont want you totaly screwing halo up ill helpu, delete these single player maps: the a's (a30, and other names like that when i just say letters) b's c's and d's... thats 10 maps which = 1.45 gigs ok? is that what you want? thats single player maps only, course i dont know if its gunna want those to run halo anyway, so who knows

[silencer88]

halo might check fo the files but IDK. You should be able to delete the a b and c map files

[Iron_Forge]

There are a,b,c, and d map files for single player...Any map which is only 3 letters is a single player map...ui is two letters and is the User Interface (menu)...Anything above this is a multiplayer map...

[Hivemind]

iron, since u know much more about halo then most people, couild i for example remove the ui, and rename it sumthing else, and have it still work, or does it check for exact name, and not just amount of letters? or was this just to help him?

[raz0r]

would halo try to load files from cache that would need to be on the hd?

in which case just play like the first 2 levels, (PoA and Halo), then delete all except first first 2 a's... but maybe u dont need to its just a thought

[Hivemind]

yeah.. just load you favorite two levels, and quit rite before you win...

[enixn]

yeah...if u delete all the single player maps, as well as the credits.bik (~200mb) u can also delete all the "demo" movies that play when u idle at the title screen... and you can edit the opening bik to be like 0 secs...it will be about 300 mb when ur finished

[XBOX War3z]

Halo only needs the ui.map file and nothing else, offcourse without any level you cant do much
so you can just have ui.map and a mp level

[geofff88]

what about the demo games and stuff like that that aren't related to halo. what of that can you delete

[xorange]

what about the demo games and stuff like that that aren't related to halo. what of that can you delete

You can delete the whole 'XDemos' folder.
Doing so even removes the "Demos" option
from the main screen.

[XBOX War3z]

Halo only needs the ui.map file and nothing else, offcourse without any level you cant do much
so you can just have ui.map and a mp level

if it only needs ui.map (the menu) this means you can leave out xdemos, all movies and all the maps you dont play

[WaLKa]

ui=user interface=you need it

[travatine]

halo dosent need any movies or the demo games/movies to run this. i got rid of all these , my halo is only 1.8gb