Game Support: Halo 4
emoose opened this issue · comments
Right now I'm not able to load into any H4 map, seems to guest crash at the menu, does anyone know a fix for that?
If I can at least load into a map and move camera with controller hopefully I can add support for it to Halo3Game class, assuming H4 uses similar things to handle the camera like the other Halo games (quick look in IDA seems it's similar, but no idea since I haven't been able to start it...)
If you're trying to access Halo 4's DLC maps without patching the default.xex, Halo 4 will exit to the main menu. It's not really "crashing", but it's refusing to load the map due to a unpatched default.xex, then reverting back to the main menu. This same behavior happens on a Xbox 360, and Xenia.
You can load all the "War games" aka the base Halo 4 maps just like (like Adrift, Abandon, Complex, Haven, etc.) just fine, but without a patched xex, it won't allow you to load any of the dlc maps.
Did experience a weird anomaly where my patched xex of Halo 4 was causing Xenia to freeze (sometimes the dlc maps wouldn't even show up) but restarting my computer seemed to of fixed it. The unpatched one didn't have such issues, and the feb. 1st build worked fine on the patched xex to. Restarted it as a last resort and it seemed to of fixed whatever the problem was initially.
That's my best guesses really. After the restart, on a patched xex of Halo 4, the mp maps are working fine for me.
Forgot to mention but, your Halo 4 DLC files look like this right?
We had this convo about a year ago and this was how we figured out how to get Halo 4's DLC working in Xenia, otherwise it just didn't work properly. I know you had a specific build which sort of fixed this issue at one point I believe.
The only things that don't unlock properly is the DLC armors, which I'm positive is more profile related anyways.
@Nighterlev ah was hoping you'd see this, right now I can't even load into any map, let alone DLC, just guest crashes a few seconds after "press start" appears...
I seem to remember something about needing bik files removed, is something like that still needed?
Maybe the copy of H4 I'm using is just a bad dump or something, I'll try seeing if I can get a different one.
E: hmm seems this crash is random, sometimes will guest crash at press start, sometimes will let me get passed it fine, seems to be more likely to crash for me though :/
E2: alright managed to add support for it, luckily camera stuff is still handled like in H3 etc. TU0/TU8 are supported, hopefully other media IDs besides one I had use matching offsets.
@emoose Not trying to reopen this or anything, but the bik files being removed isn't needed anymore. Around Nov. 2020 Rick added a new kernel function which fixed cut scenes causing Halo 4 to crash, Halo 3 crashes, reach and ODST crashes. Even Halo Wars 1 goes in-game now.
That kernel function was kernel-KeSetCurrentStackPointers. I was actually experiencing those same crashes until I restarted my computer which "fixed" the issue for some odd reason, can't really figure out why yours was crashing at all.
If you want we can talk on discord later.