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Subject: Halo 2 multiplayer on the 360 won't work.
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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.")"

  • 05.21.2007 2:19 PM PDT

I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the United Earth Space Corp;
And to the military, for which it stands;
One army, under Bungie;
Unstoppable, with Spartans, and Carbines for all!

Can you play the Campaign? I'm assuming you can since you put "Multiplayer." Also, can you play mutiplayer off live? If you can't it might be your disc.

  • 05.21.2007 3:25 PM PDT
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yes I can play splitscreen multiplayer.

  • 05.21.2007 3:39 PM PDT
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  • 05.21.2007 5:24 PM PDT
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it does work u have to download the updates and all the new maps it works for me perfectly

  • 05.21.2007 5:56 PM PDT
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I guess you didn't read the post, I can't even get past the initial title screen for Halo 2. I get the error message as soon as I select "xbox live" from the menu. Unless there's some update I don't know about...

  • 05.21.2007 6:40 PM PDT

The 2 best Visa Credit Card jokes.
Halo 2- 55$
Xbox 360- 400$
Xbox Live- 45$

No Scoping a kid in the face who had the sword and hearing his squeeky voice go WHAT THE----as his voice gets cut out.

I have a 360, halo 2 works fine, campaign works fine, halo3 beta works fine, splitscreen works fine, XBL works fine, backwash loads perfectly.
If it isnt perfect take it back.

  • 05.21.2007 6:45 PM PDT
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Well I managed to get another disc to try it with today, but I still get the message so I'm pretty sure it's not the disc.

  • 05.22.2007 1:59 PM PDT
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there was an update 5/7/2007. Maybe you should try downloading it, if not, try resetting you casch (hold A as the game starts)

  • 05.22.2007 2:50 PM PDT
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perform a maitnence is exactly what you need to do. Go to system, memory than press Y for device options than press this combanation quickly X, X, LB, RB, X, X. It will say this will perform a maintenence do you wish to continue say yes and than play it up bro.

  • 05.22.2007 3:24 PM PDT
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Yes I have the spring update and I've done system matainance by the method you described (X,X,LB,RB,X,X) and neither of those changed a thing. I haven't tried clearing it by holding A as the game loads though, I'll give it a try.

  • 05.22.2007 4:33 PM PDT
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O.K I tried holding A when I launched the game and nothing seemed to happen, it did sort of freeze up a little but I don't think it did anything.

Oh and is it notmal for it to say you signed into xbox live when you exit to the dashboard from the game?

[Edited on 05.22.2007 6:33 PM PDT]

  • 05.22.2007 6:32 PM PDT
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  • 05.23.2007 2:21 PM PDT
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try reseting your modem/ router by turning them off and then on or lastly try a diiferent port for your 360

  • 05.23.2007 2:36 PM PDT