Changing seen name of a map

[crystal49d]

Hi I've noticed that a lot of hacked maps have their names changed, meaning when someone downloads or enters the room and looks at the name of the map at the top right corner he can see a different name, making a lot of people suspicious or realise instantly the map is hacked.

I tried changing the name of the map by going to Maps > XX FIX.w3x and changing the name to say XX.w3x but upon creating the map in-game, the name is still XX FIX. How do I change this? Is the name found in war3map.j in the script because I can't find it o.0.

Thanks!

[haxorico]

The name is shown in several places and they can all be different.
1) when downloading a map from some one you can see the name of the file itself. so if you rename the map to "lolz you see download now" thats what he will see at the top right UNTILL HE FINISHES THE DOWNLOAD!
2) Game Lobby and Map selection screen (map selection screen is where you choose what map you want to host from your map list)
To change those names you need the following tools
a) hex-editor (like XVI32)
b) MPQ-Editor (like MPQMaster)
c) some text editor (like jasscraft)
open map using ur MPQEditor and extract war3map.j
open war3map.j using your text editor
look for function config and under it look for

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call SetMapName

Now, if the map name is over there, change it. If it says TRIGSTR_X(some number not really X) so extract the file called war3map.wts from the map using MPQEditor. open it using your text editor and look for string X(x being the number from the TRIGSTR_X) there you will see the maps name.
Import the file you edited back to the map using your MPQEditor.
close the MPQEditor
Open the hex-editor and browse for your map
on the right side youll see the maps name. change it. NOTE: if there is something you want to delete (in the name) so click on it and press the space bar to make it empty DO NOT delete anything using the backspace.
Recommend - dont save over the same map as you could have messed something up and you cannot undo it.
Now the names have been changed.

[Kyoshiro]

Pretty sure you need to hex edit the war3map.w3i as well.

[haxorico]

Pretty sure you DONT HAVE TO

[UndeadxAssassin]

I never needed to hex edit the w3i.

[]SouL][ReapeR[]

I never needed to hex edit the w3i.

How long does it take you to edit that file?

[owner123]

Open it in notepad and see.
Typicly, you have a single thing you want to look for and change before you go edit the w3i.
And theres nothing about the map name in the w3i

[UndeadxAssassin]

For some maps there are. DotA, for example, where the map version is listed in the top right corner of the map in that square next to the food (or was it the food one?)

[haxorico]

If you want to change it in each and every place like what undeadxassasin said. there are so many places it could be.
Besides what I said above it could also be:

1) in loading picture
2) in preview picture
3) in quests
4) in income-tab
5) a string that says it every X minutes

there are so many places to put it in... you just gotta look for the place and edit it.

[LilBirdy]

I did what you said and it changed the name and all, cept now the maps for 0 players. [When I join, there are no player slots, and in the game selection screen, the number 0 is to the left of the name.]