I recently have tried to add my first custom map to my Halo Custom Edition map file and I failed, and even though the file is not in the mao file when I try to launch the game it keeps saying a file is missing or corrupt. I just do not understand at all, especially when all the map files were just as they had been before. But it gets worse, I assumed that there had to be something wrong with the map files, so I replaced all of them with some other batch of map files, and i'm not sure if the new map files are the true files, and even with me doing that it still doesn't work!

If it's telling you a map file is missing or corrupt, you probably accidentally removed one of the default maps. The default maps you should have when you run Custom Edition are:
beavercreek
bitmaps
bloodgulch
boardingaction
carousel
chillout
damnation
dangercanyon
deathisland
gephyrophobia
hangemhigh
icefields
longest
prisoner
putput
ratrace
sidewinder
sounds
timberland
ui
wizard

Reinstall?
Edited by YakZSmelk on Jun 18, 2011 at 01:22 AM

EVERYTHING in your maps folder HAS to be a map file. Otherwise, it won't run your map correctly.

Not for Custom Edition; the only maps you need to run the game are

bitmaps.map
sounds.map
ui.map

If any of the default maps are remove they will be greyed out

Which file? It will tell you in the error dialog.

I already tried reinstalling it, it just does the same thing. I already have all the maps that you named too, and if im not sure if what I downloaded were the actual maps how do I get all the original maps?

copy them from your halo combat evolved game

beavercreek
bitmaps
bloodgulch
boardingaction
carousel
chillout
damnation
dangercanyon
deathisland
gephyrophobia
hangemhigh
icefields
longest
prisoner
putput
ratrace
sidewinder
sounds
timberland
wizard
Edited by ally on Jun 18, 2011 at 08:26 AM

you might be using the illegal, pirated, "portable" version of HCE. Make sure you have bitmaps.map, sound.map, and ui.map.
kbye.

If you rename a .map file it usually causes errors
Edited by spiral on Jun 19, 2011 at 12:54 AM

Get them from this list:
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=1&sid=11

Also, make sure you are not renaming the map file itself, as doing so will make halo crash.

Read the error message it will tell you which file is missing or corrupt.

if you have created a map then when it was in the maps directory changed it so for example o make a map called "map" and it works then i rename it "map1" the game will say map is missing or corrupt you cannot change the name of any map custom or other wise once it is written to the map directory im pretty sure this is the problem if not take out any custom maps and try if it its that then you need to find out which one is causing the problem.
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You can't just copy them from Halo PC. For whatever reason Halo PC =/= Halo CE

One thing being that the bitmaps.map file is different. I can't remember the specifics for halo PC but if I recall correctly in halo CE the map file has an index to the resource to be loaded from the bitmaps.map file. I think in halo PC it just stores the pixel data and in the map file there's a pointer to it in the bitmaps.map file. I guess for PC it was more of a dump file where as for CE it had some sort of structure to it.
Edited by Sprinkle on Jun 19, 2011 at 01:45 AM

ah mistake on my behalf there then.