- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
The following is a post from my blog on another website detailing the problem I'm having playing this game over Xbox Live on the 360 and all of the things I've done to date to try and fix it.. I've posted in several different places trying to find the answer and was recently told to post here because you guys might be able to help me. So anyways here it is: (yes it's a bit of a read)
"Ever since I got Halo 2 with my 360 I've been trying to get it to work over xbox live. All of my other games work fine, but when I try this one game(the only xbox game I have) it says "We could not connect to Xbox live. Would you like to start the troubleshooter?" Of course the "troubleshooter" which is just the regular network test, this doesn't find anything wrong except for my NAT which was moderate. However this was also having an affect on 360 games so I port forwarded my 360 and now it's open but the halo 2 problem still persists and I've run out of things to try(see list of things below) I've made multiple forum topics here, on GFAQs and on XBox.com and received the same responses everytime whether they be suggestions I've already tried or "deal with it" and other unhelpful posts like that. So anyways here's everything I've tried:
Allowing my 360 to play original xbox games online(obviously)
Port forwarding, this solves some issues I had with my 360 games but not Halo 2
I tried clearing my cache to see if some update messed it up but no change
My router firewall is disabled
I tried putting my 360 in a DMZ after turning off port forwarding but this only restored my NAT to what it had been without portforwarding(moderate)
My router is a linksys WRT54GX2 which is not listed as "compatible" on xbox.com but then I'm not sure what they mean by that since it works fine with everything except Halo 2. Oh and I'm not using wireless, it's plugged into the 360.
And lastly I called 1-800-4MY-XBOX and their solution was to have me erase my gamesave because it might be corrupt and guess what, it didn't work.
I'm unable to try it with a different game disc since I can't get another one but I doubt that would cause this issue. If there was something wrong with my disc I'd be getting read errors and game freezes/crashes and I've never experienced either of those with this game.
I tried making my ingame profile name different from my gamertag
I tried sgining out of Live befoe launching the game.
I tried reformatting the hard drive on my 360 because I thought that maybe the emulator was broken but this didn't change anything and now I have to redownload all of my stuff.
So if you have any other ideas please please please post them(serious stuff, not "y dont u liek tak ur 360 an thro it out teh window lololololololol.")"