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[siamesedreamer]

Alright, someone answer me this.

I D/Led the Halo 2 patch to play. I played it on my 360 to see if it worked. Everything was fine.

So, I took my hdd over to my bud's house to play Halo 2. Well, his 360 would not recognize Halo 2 even with my hdd on. What was the deal?

I know there's bee several patches released, but surely you don't have to be connected to Live for the patch to work? Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Reilly]

Halowned



seriously though, it's probably linked to the system's id number

 

[Wunderchu]

ya, .. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing that your friend needs to download the update using his own Xbox 360 and his own copy of Halo 2 ...

 

[Pedigree Chum]

That's pretty retarded.

 

[ChrisReid]

You could probably do that thing where you download the compatibility patches fom xbox.com and burn them to a CD and install them on your friend's xbox (with your hard drive installed if he doesn't have one) and have it work that way.

 

[DopeyFish]

yeah the patches might be stored on rom but really... halo 1 / halo 2 are 2 games that should work out of the box regardless

 

[MrAngryFace]

When I did halo 2 on the 360 it needed to patch, but afterwards stuff wouldnt load or maps couldnt be found, so I took the disc out and put it back in and voila, so I dunno.

 

[johnjohnson]

Is his X360 connected via the VGA cable? IIRC both halo games don't work over VGA.

Edit: I think this only applies to the European Version of the games requiring 50hz output while VGA is fixed to 60hz.

 

[Lyte Edge]

Is his X360 connected via the VGA cable? IIRC both halo games don't work over VGA.

Edit: I think this only applies to the European Version of the games requiring 50hz output while VGA is fixed to 60hz.

Works fine on NTSC.

 

[maxmars]

<sigh> I hope that consoles won't end up being unmanageable POS like PCs.

 

[Yusaku]

Is his X360 connected via the VGA cable? IIRC both halo games don't work over VGA.

Edit: I think this only applies to the European Version of the games requiring 50hz output while VGA is fixed to 60hz.

It works, but it assumes 16:9 if you try any resolution higher than 640x480.

Halo 1 and 2 work on the 360 out of the box, no updates required (though the updates make the game run better).

 

[siamesedreamer]

yeah the patches might be stored on rom but really... halo 1 / halo 2 are 2 games that should work out of the box regardless

My 360 D/Led something that said was necessary for it to play. So, I'm not sure. I guess I should have just tried using his hdd with the game.

It was just weird though because his 360 was saying that Halo 2 was from the wrong region. And that just isn't true.

 

[Yusaku]

If you're on Xbox Live it will prompt you to download the updates before playing, otherwise Halo 1 + 2 will play out of the box without updates.

 

[Dr_Cogent]

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory would hang on loading on my 360. It worked the first couple of times, but after that it was a no go. I tried rebooting and everything - still same shit.

I took back my Xbox and all the games shortly there after. Fuck BC in the ass - it's a total fucking joke.

 

[Templar Wizard]

you went and downloaded the live update, that doesnt work. go and delete your CT saves and all will work again.