"Message of the day" ...

[Love De Lux]

http://www.bungie.net/halopc-motd_106.txt
http://www.bungie.net/halopc-motd_106.fr.txt
http://www.bungie.net/halopc-motd.txt

Hi,

I was bored to see the "Manual Update Required! Get it from http://www.microsoft.com/games/halo/downloads.asp" message on my halo CE, so I searched how to replace it by a new thing. And I found how.

I think that would be cool if we create a comunity message of the day, that anouce new maps and stuff, and can be up to date.

Anyone up with this ? :p

[Stealth]

Ya, that would be useful.

[THEdarkLord]

cool,you can make it so we make the messages and they always update the message whenever we please?


hmmm,on halo ce it sometimes says "welcome to halo multiplayer!"

[Limited]

It's probaly possible to edit the .exe and change the url that shows the .txt? :D

[WhÎþLå§h ÐÆmØÑ]

To do this, you would have to ask Bungie if you can put more comments in their site directory like those ones. Or edit everyone's exe so it is directed to a different site and directory.

[Love De Lux]

It's probaly possible to edit the .exe and change the url that shows the .txt? :D

It's not the exe...:)


To do this, you would have to ask Bungie if you can put more comments in their site directory like those ones. Or edit everyone's exe so it is directed to a different site and directory.

Yeah, I know that we need to ask bungie if we can edit their files... I don't think they still care about what we're doing on haloPC. :eyesroll:

[Stealth]

well then, maybe some one should start asking them if some of us can keep the Halo PC and CE messages up-to-date for them.

[Limited]

It's not the exe...:)
There has to be an exe that holds the location of the url. Which inturn reads it from bungies server....

You said you knew where eh? :D tell tell

[Love De Lux]

There has to be an exe that holds the location of the url. Which inturn reads it from bungies server....

Strings.dll actually



STRINGTABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
{
144, "http://www.bungie.net/halopc-motd_106.txt"
145, "Autobalance: Team Change Request Denied"
146, "There is a copy of Halo already running on this machine."
147, "We have detected the video card in your machine may be a prototype. We recommend using only supported retail video cards to play Halo."
}

[Limited]

Strings.dll actually



STRINGTABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
{
144, "http://www.bungie.net/halopc-motd_106.txt"
145, "Autobalance: Team Change Request Denied"
146, "There is a copy of Halo already running on this machine."
147, "We have detected the video card in your machine may be a prototype. We recommend using only supported retail video cards to play Halo."
}


Ahhh yes

We also need to edit this one

119, "Exception!"
120, "Gathering Exception Data..."

Make it say some thing like "Lifes a bitch eh" :D

[thehoodedsmack]

What do you guys use to open the dlls?

[Limited]

I'm using ResHacker but when I save the file, when I load halo it doesnt change any thing.

Also, my strings had

"144, "http://www.bungie.net/halopc-motd.txt""

in it which gives me the "manual update required, I tried editing it but no luck..

[Stealth]

lol, agreed, lets edit a few things like

145, "Autobalance: Team Change Request Denied"
to

145, "**SERVER**: Sorry, the teams are even, you can not change teams"
that would be much better.

[thehoodedsmack]

Put something like, "Oh, what, too good for this team? Huh? F*** you. You're staying. B****."

[Love De Lux]

I'm using ResHacker but when I save the file, when I load halo it doesnt change any thing.

Also, my strings had

"144, "http://www.bungie.net/halopc-motd.txt""

in it which gives me the "manual update required, I tried editing it but no luck..

O_o

Works fine there

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/7220/lolxi0.jpg

[Limited]

When you change the strings.dll, afterwards when you right click, properties does it say todays date as modifed date? because mine doesnt, yet when you open up it shows the changes i made :O

Imageshack = SLOW :(

[Timo]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/Timo12/Image_000007.jpg
=o

[Stealth]

lol, I like that Exception error message.

[rossmum]

Timo, you must school me in the art of exception message editing. <3

[Stealth]

same here plz, and the Message of the day on the main server.

[Edward Elrich]

Here's one way, even though someone will have to manually change it. There's a console command to change the message of the day (I think it's sv_motd [insert message, with quotes, here, minus the brackets], but I can't remember.)

[Bodzilla]

That is really cool, soo... ppl can change the Motd For the Entire community?
hmm becareful with this, we could end up with Adds in Halo >_>

who was that dude that now works for bungie that started in CE. mb you could have the Server Msg of the Day looked after by him, and he can change it to advertise recently released maps

[HDoan]

was it that nero guy who was the h2ce leader?

[Stormwing]

NiTrOuSoXiDe and Mrs. Doublefire are the people you're lookin for.

(:

[Syuusuke]

Where do you upload you .txt files =(

[Stealth]

Here's one way, even though someone will have to manually change it. There's a console command to change the message of the day (I think it's sv_motd [insert message, with quotes, here, minus the brackets], but I can't remember.)
if I remember right, that is in fact ded servers.

[WhÎþLå§h ÐÆmØÑ]

That is to set where to find the MOTD file for dedicated servers. Which you would name the file motd.txt.

[Timo]

I emailed KPaul about it, hopefully i'll be able to get a reply over the next few days.

[n00b1n8R]

so are we trying to get heaps of people to change the url in that or are we trying to get permission from bungie to use that URL?

[Stealth]

That is to set where to find the MOTD file for dedicated servers. Which you would name the file motd.txt.
Or, any other name, I have 2 or 3 MOTD files.

I emailed KPaul about it, hopefully i'll be able to get a reply over the next few days.
Oh good, I hope we can do it, if so, there should be a link to H2Vista.net, or HaloMaps.org in the Message.

[Cortexian]

If you guys need somewere to host your text files for usage, contact me I can get them up, like so:

http://68.147.211.67/halopc-motd_106.txt

or an idea here, would it be possible to create a program that automaticaly downloads a replacement Strings.dll and replaces the default one when there is an update? You could then host the modded txt file on a web site, create w/e ads and stuff you want, give the auto downloader to people who want it, and there ya go, spiffy new messages for the community. You could put map updates or news on Halo 2 Vista, ads for clans mb?

For my clan I posted a download to a modded Strings.dll, they download it, I update the motd every now and then, we win :P

[TheGhost]

Just make everyone's Strings.dll point to the same spot, like http://www.h2vista.net/motd/haloce_motd.txt, and we will update it there. If someone could change the Strings.dll to point there and then contact me on AIM we could distribute the new file. Also, make sure you replace the URL in the newest Strings.dll with the compatibility fix: http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=959

[n00b1n8R]

so do we actually expect the whole comunity to use this?

has any body tried asking bungie to let us use that page to make MOTD things? (i don't really see why they wouldn't. it would take an employee 5 seconds to proof read it)

n00b out

[Timo]

I get a message telling me haloce.exe is corrupt when I use that .dll ghost :x (I have a 256mb card, and SP2 too, very odd). Here's the strings.dll that comes with halo, with the URL changed: http://files.filefront.com/Stringsrar/;6703364;;/fileinfo.html

[DaneO'Roo]

I seriously hopeKP get's back to you. Would be awesome, if the opening message for Halo PC was Halo CE, cuz alot of people don't notice it.

[Cortexian]

Yea, after thinking about it more and how it works, you wouldn't need an auto downloader unless you were changing the URL all the time.

I have this setup for my clan right now, I have clan updates and stuff on it.

[Limited]

Right now I think we should use h2vista.net's hosting (no offence freelancer)

as long as some one regularly updates the .txt to say things such as new maps out and other CE information (rather than just "hai itz me hereLolz")

[Cortexian]

Right now I think we should use h2vista.net's hosting (no offence freelancer)

as long as some one regularly updates the .txt to say things such as new maps out and other CE information (rather than just "hai itz me hereLolz")
I'm doing this for my clan, if the community in general wants to use H2V, I don't care.

[Pooky]

Right now I think we should use h2vista.net's hosting (no offence freelancer)

as long as some one regularly updates the .txt to say things such as new maps out and other CE information (rather than just "hai itz me hereLolz")


Then we might actually get people playing custom maps

[Corgy]

Does the motd have to be a fixed length (It'd explain the large amount of spaces)? You should write some sort of web interface to update the motd (obviously only admins would be able to do it), and make it automatically add the spaces, etc. Probably not worth the effort.

[TheGhost]

No, I think it can be as long or short as wanted. Right now it's pretty easy to update the message of the day, but we're looking to get more people using it and still there isn't much to announce right now, haha.

[Cortexian]

Does the motd have to be a fixed length (It'd explain the large amount of spaces)? You should write some sort of web interface to update the motd (obviously only admins would be able to do it), and make it automatically add the spaces, etc. Probably not worth the effort.

No, I think it can be as long or short as wanted. Right now it's pretty easy to update the message of the day, but we're looking to get more people using it and still there isn't much to announce right now, haha.
Wrong Ghosty, there is a limit, it is quite large though, I tested that right away. I could test what the character limit is if you would like.

[Llama Juice]

*bump*

This was interesting, did anyone ever actually do something with this?

[DEElekgolo]

Yea e3po did this a while back. I think he used ollydbg to do it.

[Rentafence]

*bump*

This was interesting, did anyone ever actually do something with this?

Damnit guy, I thought I was reading a new thread. \:mad:/

[Hunter]

I seriously hopeKP get's back to you. Would be awesome, if the opening message for Halo PC was Halo CE, cuz alot of people don't notice it.

Where have you been? :eek:

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And it would be better if bungie/who ever gave TheGhost ftp access to the origional file. I really doubt everyone will know about these new strings and new people won't know about them. Unless you do a lot of advertising.

[Heathen]

Okay, how about this.
This + Cerebrum = great right?
Talk to bungie, I think they would be game.

[Reaper Man]

Where have you been? :eek:
Post was made on February 7th, 2007. :eyesroll:

[Hunter]

Oh :/ I never read when the post has been made Lol. My bad.