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    #1 iBotPeaches

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    Posted 28 July 2008 - 07:12 PM

    The Complete Halo 3 Modding Tutorial (Part 3 of 5)
    Written by iBotPeaches of iBotModz.net

    Requirements

    -Xbox 360
    -Halo 3
    -xPort or xSata
    -Resigner and ReHasher
    -Container Edits v2
    -HxD Hex Editor
    -Xplorer 360 or xPort Software
    -Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this tutorial
    (all software program downloads at bottom)


    Warning
    If your TV that you intend on doing this tutorial with runs Halo 3 in "wide screen" (Wide screen is when you click the guide button and the whole screen is not covered) I suggest you change it to full screen. Screen shots taken in wide screen mode are a different resolution and size and will not get the same numbers that are in this tutorial.

    Steps
    If you have an account that you would like to make your screenshots on, sign onto that. We don't want our main account to be banned. I'm going to sign into my other account.

    Halo3__002.jpg

    Lets boot up Halo 3 in full screen, and get to theatre mode. We are going to start a random film and take a completely random screen shot.


    Halo3__003.jpg

    Once
    you get that to load, start it. Press A and X in the beginning to stop the film and bring up the tool box.

    Halo3__004.jpg


    You can click either "autoname & save" or "Save as..." I picked autoname and save because I've yet to know what my screenshot is going to be or called. You can change the name once you've modded the screen shot

    Halo3__005.jpg

    Since the other parts of this tutorial explained how to move content between your 360 and computer. I will skip right by that, we will start at the screenshot container on your xPort/Xplorer 360. Guess and check until you have your screenshot container file on your desktop. Something that can help, most modded screenshots end up being 0.27 mb and normal screen shots remain at 0.12mb (This is most of the time, yours might be different)

    openingxportforcontainer.jpg


    Now copy this file to your desktop, assuming you have the right file. (I keep mine on my desktop)


    icons.jpg

    Now open up HxD Hex Editor and open the screen shot container file you just got.

    HxDopened.jpg

    We are going to extract the pure screen shot from this file. Start off by pressing "Ctrl+F" and search the word JFIF

    ctrlF.jpg

    This should automatically bring you to something simliar as this screenshot below.
    foundJFIF.jpg

    This part is tricky!. Please follow it.
    You will want to take your mouse and select back from JFIF until you reach the end of the word "yoya" This picture below should help explain it better. Please don't select any part of the word JFIF. On the bottom of the picture it shows what block your currently on. Ours says "E148" so we will write down that sequence of numbers for the future.

    beforeJFIF.jpg

    Now we have to find the end of the screen shot. So "CTRL+F" the word "_eof"

    searching_eof.jpg

    This will bring up the "_eof" part of your screen shot.

    found_eof.jpg

    Now select the first pair before the actual "_eof"

    before_eof.jpg

    Now that we have the whole entire screen shot parts. We can extract it. Click "CTRL+E" to bring up the Selecting Blocks menu. For the first block input that number we wrote down awhile back. Mine was E148 (Yours should be identical if your screenshot size was the same)

    selectingblocks.jpg


    Now this should automatically select all the texts which is the screen shot. Simply click "CTRL+C" (to copy it)

    textselected.jpg

    Now make a new file and paste all of that text you selected into it

    makenewfile.jpg

    I forgot to get screen shots of this but its fairly simple. Once you've pasted the new code in go to "File, Save as..." Then name is anything.jpg
    Then close that image out of HxD. We now test the image, opposite click it and go to "Open with... Your image previewer"

    testingscreenshot.jpg

    Now my image loads succesfully. So we can now edit that image. NOTE: DO NOT CHANGE THE SIZE OF THE IMAGE

    testcompleted.jpg

    Once you've edited it, re-open that screen shot in HxD Hex Editor. If you get errors when trying to re-open the file, add .jpg at the end it should work. This is the file re-opened. Again you want to click "CTRL+C" and copy this to paste back into the container.

    selectall.jpg

    Go back to the screen shot container file, by clicking on it at the top. It should have your selection still saved, so simply click "CTRL+P" and paste over that. The text will turn red showing there was a change, simple "save it" to fix that

    pastedincontainer.jpg

    Now we will test our image, open up Container Edits v2

    coneditsv2.jpg

    Open up the container of the screenshot. HxD Hex Editor should have made a backup so select the one that doesn't say .bak

    openingcontainerconeditsv2.jpg

    Now on the drop down box select "Image Container" since this is an image.

    selectingimagecontainer.jpg

    Then click "extract" and name the image "test.jpg" It should promt with "extracting..."

    extractingfromconeditsv2.jpg

    Once done it will say "complete" If not you made an error and should try again with a FRESH container file.

    extractfromconeditsv2.jpg

    Now we rehash/resign/retransfer to our xbox. I'm not going to cover that since its fairly easy.

    And now the screen shot is on your xbox.


    Downloads

    Attached File  Paint.NET.3.35.zip   1.51MB   345 downloads
    Attached File  HxD_Hex_Editor.rar   630.86KB   367 downloads
    Attached File  360ConSigner.rar   47.04KB   336 downloads
    Attached File  X360_CON_Hasher.rar   6.68KB   343 downloads
    Attached File  Xplorer360.beta6.rar   55KB   321 downloads
    Attached File  ContainerEditsv2.rar   994.74KB   324 downloads

    This was written 100% by iBotPeaches of iBotModz.net. All images and words were written by him. No images were taken, and nothing but the glossary was from 3rd party sites. Part 4 will come very soon. This tutorial is only authorized on iBotModz.net and iBotModz Affiliate sites. If you see this elsewhere. Please contact iBotPeaches.

    #2 iBotPeaches

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    Posted 28 July 2008 - 07:42 PM

    I went to get my Halo 3 screenshots pic and well... the 360 popped up and said "This gamertag has been permanently suspended for Xbox Live. I couldn't even sign on, o well.

    It works, I just can't prove it.

    #3 SmokiestGrunl

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    Posted 29 July 2008 - 02:45 AM

    Yes its finally here, although I already know how to mod screen shots. I'm still having trouble with number 1 (angry face). I think I got 1 (maybe 2) CD/DVD drive to break before I have to give up. Anyway another nice tutorial, keep it up.

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    Posted 29 July 2008 - 05:12 PM

    sick, this is more explanatory than anything else i have seen.

    and it has images for every single step! :)

    Good job.

    #5 Korupt Data

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    Posted 29 July 2008 - 05:27 PM

    This is n00b proof! thank you Peaches ^__^

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    Posted 22 August 2008 - 11:42 AM

    When i try to rehash it, it says Block variable invalid. could some one help me? thx

    #7 iBotPeaches

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    Posted 22 August 2008 - 05:55 PM

    When i try to rehash it, it says Block variable invalid. could some one help me? thx


    Your TV is running in widescreen. Theres too much I'm forgetting to tell you those steps. Just go to dashboard, change to Full-Screen. Take screenshot, then you can go back into widescreen, since fullscreen is absolute crap

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    Posted 23 August 2008 - 12:13 PM

    When i try to rehash it, it says Block variable invalid. could some one help me? thx

    ok thx

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    Posted 25 August 2008 - 12:48 PM

    Peaches you did a great job on this tutorial VERY noob pr00f thanks!

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    Posted 26 August 2008 - 04:43 AM

    very cool nice one hope the rest are like this :rolleyes:

    #11 spykid197

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    Posted 06 August 2009 - 03:22 PM

    Alright, so I followed this exact and my photo didn't work! It has a X through it saying its no longer valid every time I try to do it! Can anyone please help me?

    #12 SoTo GoTz SwaG

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    Posted 06 August 2009 - 08:14 PM

    if any 1 wants to know how to put there gamertag and watever heres the code <controller0_gamertag/>