Mac Gaming Mods

Phantom is a program made to quickly remove protections from maps. Its features are:

• Fast deprotection of most low-level protected maps.
• Incyclopedia and Sparky's Plugins for precision.
• Support for retail, mini demo, and demo maps.
• Sam Marshall's Halo Map Loader.
• A debug window for viewing deprotection times.

As I said, this program is not 100% finished yet. It's got some more things to fix:

• Reflexives.
• Batch unprotection.
• Support for Z-Team and Illusion deprotection.
• Memory leaks/stability issues (if present)
• Byte-for-byte deprotection; Most precision, least speed. Will be optional.
• Support for bitmaps and sound tags.
• [strike]Make window look better.[/strike] ✓

The program is limited to the Incyclopedia data. It will not reveal CE rip tag names. Tags it cannot find are renamed to "custom\unknown_<tag#>"

System Requirements: OS X 10.6 or higher.

Download link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/302 ... hantom.zip

An example map I will be using is The Shaft, which can be found off of HaloMD. This is a KW map, so map protection was put in place so people could not modify the map to get an unfair advantage.

Original Version (from HaloMD): http://halomd.macgamingmods.com/mods/shaftkw_1.zip
Unprotected Version: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/302 ... tected.zip
Debug: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/302 ... _debug.png

Edit: On a side note, I've uploaded Beta 2 which greatly improves tag deprotection efficiency.
Edit: Uploaded Beta 3. Changes include:

• Simpler, better UI.
• Faster deprotection.
• Quits when closed.

I hate triple posting more than double posting, but there isn't a lot of activity going on in this forum, so bump I do.

I'm working on a tag searching function (for last-resort or for CE tags), and everything is going on smoothly.

Step 1: Open your map. (I'll be doing Headlong)



Step 2: Select Tag Search. In the following dialog, choose the tag class, then choose constraints. Click "Search" when finished.




Step 3: Rename matching tag to make it identifiable in Eschaton and click "Save Tag Names".

Step 4: Open in Eschaton. Make a slight tweak if there is a duplicate tag, then check if it's the right tag by looking out for the tweak in Halo.

Suggestion: you could remove the Debug option in the window and have a Debug window accessible from the menu like in my old memory modding template.

Although you may be changing UI anyway..

I removed the debug function altogether, already. Since it's instantaneous deprotection, there's also no more need for a progress bar. I've totally remodeled the UI.

I haven't downloaded anything yet to try it, but I have an idea for you:

- add a "Batch" button that lets you unprotect multiple map files at once, selecting multiple files in the open dialog window