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Subject: halo 2 random pictures on xbox 360
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I was wondering if this happens to anybody else who plays halo 2 on a 360: this mostly happens during campaign, random pic tures seem to burn into the screen which clouds your view, but do disappear after a while. Also pictures are are not from the my gameplay (which cancels out the actual burn in on my tv screen) the pictures show like the arbiter or group of grunts or just snapshots or random campaign maps. The pictures are transparent and are only one colour (shades of grey). Not only that they have depth, I can "hide" the image behind objects at certain distances (depending on the picture). It does happen on multiplayer maps but not as much. I think this is an unwanted easter egg because the pictures seem to "chosen" in such a way that a game can't produce as a glitch and a final thing if go into menus or lobbies and start another game the pic is still there.

  • 06.05.2007 9:15 PM PDT
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me confused??

  • 06.05.2007 10:10 PM PDT
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Would you happen to be playing on a HDTV? My friend plays on a Hi-Def and sometimes images will "stick" to the screen, like a warthog after a death sequence while driving, but eventually go away. I think HDTV's are prone to this when you play games that aren't designed for HD

  • 06.05.2007 10:13 PM PDT
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yes im using a HDTV but some of pictures are from places I wasn't there at the time (on lockout and the arbiter appears in the multiplayer)

  • 06.05.2007 10:28 PM PDT

Shoot them in the face!

Yup, i get it too.(not as severe as you've experienced, but grey shadows) I think it has something to do with the CD, It's happened on both mine and my roommates 360's, it was the same copy of Halo2. Mainly on the second level of campaign. I use a standard TV.

[Edited on 06.06.2007 6:36 AM PDT]

  • 06.06.2007 6:34 AM PDT

Posted by: WolfmanMaverick
You people have just sent my sides into orbit. A bunch of MLG try hards sucking the dick of some supposed pro half the thread hasn't even heard of. Classic.

What you are experiencing is the problems of the crappy emulator that is used in the 360. It happens to me from time to time.

  • 06.06.2007 6:49 AM PDT

"Veni Vidi Castratavi Illegitimos"

Me too, also on standard tv. i've heard it's just a glitch from playing it on the 360. only happens on certian levels to me. never noticed if they actually looked like pictures.
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Yup, i get it too.(not as severe as you've experienced, but grey shadows) I think it has something to do with the CD, It's happened on both mine and my roommates 360's, it was the same copy of Halo2. Mainly on the second level of campaign. I use a standard TV.

  • 06.06.2007 6:51 AM PDT

Yup, and ya know the irony? It just happens on arbiter lvls for me.
GO MC!

  • 06.06.2007 7:07 AM PDT

it will go away if you jump of the map. Killing yourself will nades wont work. You got to actually jump off.

  • 06.06.2007 10:06 AM PDT

Rice is cool when you are hungry for 2,000 of something.

It happens to me every time I play warlock but that is the only one.

  • 06.06.2007 10:44 AM PDT
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It happens sometimes to me on Lockout

  • 06.06.2007 11:15 AM PDT
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I've had this happen during campaign and in multiplayer, although I'm on an original Xbox and regular CRT tv.
Nothing fancy there, just have noticed the 'ghosts' of things lingering around after the image has left my view.

  • 06.06.2007 11:22 AM PDT

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I can tell you exactly what it is, but not why it happens.
Halo 2 is made of different .map files, each one is either a level or the mainmenu, single player shared and shared .map files. In these files is everything related to the map and the shared maps are used to store sommonly used images models etc. In the game there are hundreds of images, they are laid on top of each other so the xbox needs to know which to show over the other. This is in the form of an invisible alpha channel. The images pictures are RGB + A The a tells the xbox which parts to show The part which you can see (in this glitch) is the area around this alpha channel. (The part you're not supposed to see) and the part that is transparrent is the part your are supposed to see but in this glitch you cannot. This is why you can see the shapes but no colour, only the alpha channel is visible. When you're running around you will notice that you can see fog at a set distance from yourself. This is called a shader, ususally just a single colour that is a set distance from yourself. The .dds (direct draw surface) the bitmaps used in games replaces the shader with its alpha channel, this is why it is only visible at a certain distance or further.

I don't know why it happens I only know what is happening.

  • 06.06.2007 11:46 AM PDT