As mentioned awhile ago, Cody Miller had completed Twin Galaxies' challenge to finish Halo 2 at Legendary difficulty in one sitting and with zero deaths. How, that three-and-a-half hour journey can be downloaded via BitTorrent at HBO. There are 800 and two gigabyte versions. Thanks Louis Wu.
Stuntmutt's ridiculously long Suffer This LAN event writeup from a few days ago is over in the HBO forum, where such things rightfully belong. If I can find a British slang translator I'll link it here, too.
First, it is possible to hop back thru the invisible wall. Just Ghandi-hop ( crouch-jump + crouch again) onto the small ledge on the wall of the level, and jump right past the concrete wall back on to the roof.
Second, it is possible to get past the invisible wall without a "dummy-guest". Just have your friend who already got thru stand in the same corner on his side and jump. The guy who is still on the roof side sword-cancels him and squeezes thru the crack no dummies required.
Note: The first superbounce is done on the side of the wheel that is looking toward the base, and the second is done on the side that the seawall is visible.
Louis Wu at HBO called 1UP's Broken Halo article a broken record by a whiny writer, but myself I find it hard to shrug off all of it's criticisms, even if they are old hat by this time.
As noted by Major Nelson and many, many others, the five maps in Bungie's second, or "maptacular" pack of new maps for Halo 2, comprising Gemini, Relic, Elongation, Terminal, and Backwash, are now available for free to all Xbox Live subscribers.
Podtacular, the unofficial Halo 2 podcast radio show, includes an interview with Overswarm in this week's episode. Overswarm is the author of the [url=http://halo.bungie.org/gameplay/stratguide/]Not So Common Sense[/url] Strategy Guide on [url=http://halo.bungie.org]Halo.Bungie.org[/url]. We talk to him about strategies he uses, tips and techniques, his views on boosting, modding, and superjumping, and more.
[image:9673 align=left hspace=5 vspace=5 border=0] Halo blog Tied The Leader today has an eighteen-minute telephone interview with Steve "Master Chief" Downes, on-air personality for Chicago's WDRV and the voice of the terse protagonist of Halo and Halo 2.
The voting booths are open for the 2005 Rockets on Prisoner awards presented by That Weasel Television.
Couple of good strategy articles linked from HBO this weekend. Overswarm updated the Not So Common Sense Guide with new articles and movies, and LegendaryMark wrote an article on coordinating large matchmaking teams. Both are excellent reads with useful tips.