Hack 88. Give Yourself Super Powers

Activate the EvolutionX trainer to change your abilities.

Trainers are packaged mods that give gamers easy access to various special abilities. They are called trainers since players can use abilities such as infinite ammunition to practice their skills in various situations. Trainers are available for various games and each one contains a number of hacks.

To use the EvolutionX trainer, you must have the EvolutionX dashboard running on your modded Xbox. Visit http://www.xbox-scene.com and look at their FAQ and Tutorial sections to find information about installing the EvolutionX dashboard on your Xbox. For more information about EvolutionX trainers, refer to http://trainers.evolutionx.info.

The EvolutionX Halo 2 Trainer includes:

Infinite Ammo

This alteration gives all players infinite ammo.

Rapid Fire

If your current firing rate is not fast enough for you, you will like this change.

No Overheat

Covenant plasma weapons quickly overheat. Use this hack to fire a steady stream of burning plasma.

Infinite Grenades

Do you find yourself searching the map for grenades? This change will save you the trouble.

Infinite Shield

With a fully charged shield, you will be much harder to beat.

Tiny characters

This alters the character height so that everyone is half as tall as normal.

Really tiny characters

This is an extension of the tiny character hack. However, instead of being twice as short, all characters are so small that they are barely visible.

Huge characters

Instead of making characters smaller, you can choose to make them larger. This changes all characters to twice their normal height.

Cloaked

This change gives you the advantage of being virtually invisible.

Never Die

Make yourself unbreakable with this change.

11.8.1. Install and Use the Trainer

First, ensure that you have installed the EvolutionX (Evox) dashboard and set up FTP access to your Xbox [Hack #54]. Next, go to Settings under the System Utils menu and set TSR to Normal (scroll down to see the other options). Once you have done this, choose the Save and Exit option.

At this point, you should reboot your Xbox. You can do this by either turning it off or using the Reboot option in Evox's main menu. Next, check to see if you have the Trainers option in the main Evox menu. If the option is available, then you are good to go. If you can't see the option in the Evox menu, you either have a modified copy of evox.ini or you have modified the file yourself. The easiest way to remedy this is to find the original copy of the file and overwrite the one on your Xbox.

Next, extract the trainer file that you downloaded. You should now have a .ETM (and .MTE if the trainer has an In-Game Menu). Copy the .ETM (and .MTE, if it has one), from your computer to your Xbox's Trainers folder. After the transfer, reboot your Xbox.

Finally, look in the Trainers menu. If everything went smoothly, you will see the newly added trainer options. Turn on some trainer options and make sure you do a Save and Exit.

The first time you run the trainer, Halo 2 may take longer than normal to load.

When you have the trainer running, you will be able to select a number of options (see Figure 11-16).

Figure 11-16. The EvoX Trainer menu

Some of the interesting trainer features include the Giant MC and Tiny MC (see Figures 11-17, 11-18, and 11-19).

Figure 11-17. The giant MC is an imposing figure

Figure 11-18. The tiny Master Chief in the Warthog

Figure 11-19. Another shot of the tiny chief

Make sure you are running your games from within Evox, or else the trainer will not work. You have to do this so that Evox can run its trainer code before the game launches.

11.8.2. Editing the evox.ini file

If you find that you aren't able to get the Halo 2 trainer running on your modded Xbox, you should investigate whether your installation of EvolutionX has trainer support enabled. You will only need to worry about this if the previous steps did not work for you.

To check this, FTP the evox.ini file to your PC and then open the file with a text editor. You can download a copy of original evox.ini file here: http://evox.xboxhackz.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8665.

This is the line that you need to add so that the Trainers option will be enabled:

 Item "Trainers",ID_trainer 

You need to add this line below the following lines, which you'll find in the evox.ini file:

 [Menu] Section "Root" { 

Note that if you're running a modified version of the EvolutionX .INI file, your code might look slightly different. However, these guidelines should be enough for you to find the right spot in the file (see Figure 11-20).

Figure 11-20. Adding the trainers to the Evox Games menu

After you edit your evox.ini, save it and FTP it back to your Xbox [Hack #54] (see Figure 11-21). Make sure you create a backup before you overwrite the original file.

Figure 11-21. Using CuteFTP to send the trainer to the Xbox