Several posters have professed doubt about this image. It was not, to the best of our knowledge, produced in photoshop or edited in any misleading way.
The hack in question is achieved, generally speaking, by using a modchip to allow users to connect to their Xbox's hard drives using an ordinary Windows PC, edit the cached map files that Halo 2 (like Halo 1 before it) keeps on the Xbox's hard drive, and then running the game with those edited map caches.
In this case, the mod author swapped the model of one weapon, the plasma sword, for another weapon, the plasma rifle, to get around the engine's definition of the sword as a non-dual-wieldable weapon.
This is one of the more trivial kinds of hacks that have been performed using Halo or Halo 2 on the Xbox; others have included a pilotable dropship and Pelican and a flying warthog.
More information on this and other user modifications to Halo and Halo 2 can be found at http://www.halomods.com
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narcogen
Banned
In reply to: can some1 hook me up w/ a good deal for a mod chipUsing a modded Xbox on Xbox Live will get you banned. It's not a good idea.
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Rampant for over five years.
Anonymous (not verified)
pelicans are drivable
Anonymous (not verified)
that doesnt look like a hack, just an illusion
Anonymous (not verified)
dueling swords
Anonymous (not verified)
if you look at the pic both h
Anonymous (not verified)
Cheaters how to deal with them
Anonymous (not verified)
Cheaters
Anonymous (not verified)
For all you fools worried about cheaters online.
narcogen
Re: For all you fools worried about cheaters online.
In reply to: For all you fools worried about cheaters online.[quote=]There is NO way for this to affect anyones game online. First of all, modded XBoxes are banned from XBox Live, for life. Second, even if someone did this, your box would have to have it done to it too. So dont rant and rave about hackers, get over yourselfs and just play.[/quote]
Do not be too sure. Players are already using similar methods to cheat at PGR2. It is possible to activate a modchip, extract game elements like map cache files, modify them, upload them to the Xbox, deactivate the modchip, and connect to Xbox Live.
Some Xbox owners who have modded their Xboxes by doing other modifications-- such as replacing the hard drive-- are finding themselves banned. But I doubt it is possible now, nor do I believe it will be possible forever-- for Microsoft to detect every single possible method of modifying an Xbox.
Now, Halo 2's networking model has an authoritative server, so I doubt a hack like this would have any effect unless the host was the modified console. In any case, the game would most likely go out of sync in a fairly spectacular way, probably one that could be detected by looking at game statistics. But don't say there is NO way.
Remember, the idiot proof mousetrap only works until they invent a better idiot.
Anonymous (not verified)
very true
In reply to: Re: For all you fools worried about cheaters online.Anonymous (not verified)
pelican driveable
Anonymous (not verified)
download
Anonymous (not verified)
no your the idoit
Anonymous (not verified)
ok your all idiots. you can
Anonymous (not verified)
Where do u get that stuff and that pic might be edited
Anonymous (not verified)
YES U CAN MOD MAPS (dual swords and stuff)
Anonymous (not verified)
DOWNLOAD THE MAP MODDER HERE
Anonymous (not verified)
KILLER
Anonymous (not verified)
MOD MAPS (dual swords and stuff)
Anonymous (not verified)
lol
Anonymous (not verified)
Duel Swords
Anonymous (not verified)
ur rong
In reply to: Duel SwordsAnonymous (not verified)
Can you Hijack a Pelican?
Anonymous (not verified)
Nope
In reply to: Can you Hijack a Pelican?Anonymous (not verified)
dual swords
Anonymous (not verified)
ui guys are lieing bitchz
Anonymous (not verified)
dude i need to now how to highjack a pelican to
Anonymous (not verified)
pelican
In reply to: dude i need to now how to highjack a pelican toAnonymous (not verified)
donit
Anonymous (not verified)
Dual Sowrds
Anonymous (not verified)
And this is...
In reply to: Dual SowrdsAnonymous (not verified)
the pic is fake
narcogen
Good god, man
In reply to: the pic is fakeRead a thread before you reply. Idiots were posting that same complaint months ago.
The modder replaced the model of another weapon with the sword's model. It's not a photoshop fake.
Rampant for over six years.
Anonymous (not verified)
Yeah I think The Image is Fake
In reply to: the pic is fakenarcogen
Good grief
In reply to: Yeah I think The Image is FakeI don't believe this is still going on.
The image is NOT FAKE. It was achieved by a very early modder who replaced the model of a plasma weapon with the sword's model. It was not (and was never) functional, nor intended to be. But it is not a photoshop fake; if it were, I'd have identified it as such.
Rampant for over six years.
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