Some bad news for us all. -Very important news

[Apoc4lypse]

surge protectors are awesome.

This.

And the Irony of using map protection almost makes this funny for me.



On a more serious note, I'm terribly sorry for your losses... and also disappointed.

Why didn't you back it up onto something like a CD, something more full proof, then like, seal it inside of a waterproof safe.

Then you could say god himself couldn't take this map away....

Of course then a terrorist would have ran into your house and blown up the safe after you said that.

[Patrickssj6]

How does HEK+ protect the map? If it's a hash and you used a short password I could probably brute force it.

[E3pO]

About to get news back from laser man. Hope for the best.

[Apoc4lypse]

How does HEK+ protect the map? If it's a hash and you used a short password I could probably brute force it.

well... I'm not entirely sure what type of protection they got going, but I have a feeling its more than just password protected HEK+ stuff...

While hek+ has the option of using a password to unlock maps, I also believe it can do it with no password option also.

Not to mention it jumbles all the names so you can't tell what tag is what, and what goes where...

I'm pretty sure theres another method of protection tho that doesn't even let you get any where near extracting the tags too.

[E3pO]

well... I'm not entirely sure what type of protection they got going, but I have a feeling its more than just password protected HEK+ stuff...

While hek+ has the option of using a password to unlock maps, I also believe it can do it with no password option also.

Not to mention it jumbles all the names so you can't tell what tag is what, and what goes where...

I'm pretty sure theres another method of protection tho that doesn't even let you get any where near extracting the tags too.

That made me think.. If halo can read the files correctly, why can't we just make a program read what halo reads?

**goes to test something.

EDIT: Failed.

[ShadowSpartan]

How does HEK+ protect the map? If it's a hash and you used a short password I could probably brute force it.

They didn't use a password, so that is not an option.

While hek+ has the option of using a password to unlock maps, I also believe it can do it with no password option also.

Not to mention it jumbles all the names so you can't tell what tag is what, and what goes where...

When the map is protected without inputting a password, the tag names data is stripped from the map file, meaning it no longer exists. This is what happened with the yoyo map, so there is no way to get the correct tag names back.

[PenGuin1362]

Long thread short, you're shit out of luck.

[supersniper]

This marks an end for yoyorast Island 2 i'm guessing... Unless you all are uber dedicated and want to re-do all the work...

Anyways I'm sorry to hear about this, accidents happen and you can only learn from them. Maybe this happened for a reason. You never know.

I do wish that the company you sent it to can recover your data.
Also have you tried using an X - drive (hard drive on the internet)

[Heathen]

Thats bunk. Good luck getting it back.

I could always keep your uber secret files.

[Masterz1337]

They didn't use a password, so that is not an option.


When the map is protected without inputting a password, the tag names data is stripped from the map file, meaning it no longer exists. This is what happened with the yoyo map, so there is no way to get the correct tag names back.

The SSBSP could always be recovered though, right?