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Halo Version Changer

Halo Version Changer
Filed under: Projects — Tags: 1.02, 1.04, 1.07, 1.08, changer, halo, haloce, halopc, version — omegga @ 2:27 pm

Because of the recent 1.08 update for halo, many programs made for halo or haloce 1.08 no longer work. While it is possible to update all these programs, this could take a long time. And the people who made them could be inactive and never update their program at all. The easiest fix is to allow a 1.07 client to connect to a 1.08 server. This way you can still use your old programs, but play on the updated 1.08 servers. This is exactly what the Version Changer will do.

You download the modified strings.dll[http://home.scarlet.be/mathy/goemitar/downloads/versionchanger/Strings.dll] and overwrite the original one in your halo directory (make a backup of the old one!). Then simply start halo. If everything went good, you will see a small message when halo starts. You can now use the new version command in the halo console:

version: Displays the version of the executable (your real version) and the version you are playing on (the faked version).
version table: Displays all the versions you can switch to.
version 1.0x: Changes the version to 1.0x (for halopc).
version 1.0xCE: Changes the version to 1.0x (for haloce)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrAFq9hc0ak

It will also disable the “checking for updates” message. Although you will still see this message, no actual check will happen. While it is possible to change between halopc and haloce versions, you will not be able to join any servers if you mix halopc and haloce. The versions 1.00/1.01/1.02 for halopc are not supported. Version Changer will not load if you use the executables of these versions. You also cannot join these versions from a newer client (halo will crash - protocol mismatch?). These versions (and halo trail) will not be supported in future releases, unless there are enough requests of users to also support these versions.

Attention Halo Custom Edition users: Make sure you always include the CE postfix when changing to a different version!

Note: Version Changer only changes the version numbers used. It doesn’t patch the actual bugs/exploits in older versions.

Hint: You can use HPE Version Switcher[http://exp.clans-r.us/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=468] to change the executable version. Or you can directly download the 1.07 executables for ce and pc here[http://home.scarlet.be/mathy/goemitar/downloads/versionchanger/halocepc107.zip]

Original Doc:
http://goemitar.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/halo-version-changer/