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Hackers piss me off. Well then again I know a trick or two but I use it for good not evil. Anyway... lets get back on track. Now what was the last thing we were discussing? I forgot =/.

  • 07.09.2007 12:23 PM PDT
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Well thank GOD you are here. We were talking about IN AMBER CLAD and Coconuts

  • 07.09.2007 12:33 PM PDT

-Its a MG42!
-My favorite color is bubble shield

Posted by: Stumpy99
Posted by: moneyburner
Theres another egg, i doubt it has to do with the skulls tho
Why dont you try to find the megg


I'm pretty sure we've already discussed this and found this. Has no correlation to the skulls or TUE. Thanks though.


I believe it will be more like the megg, do a bunch of stuff and do something out of the ordinary and a secret door will open, but hey what ever u think. (until bungie confirms it is) I just dont think it has to do with the skulls, maybe sputnik to get somewhere high but honestly good luck if u find it thats great. (althogh i believe if u dont find it bungie will tell us) I know how much fun it is to find out stuff, espically by yourself. The best i found was getting on top of delta halo with the pelican instead of the ghost or wrait, made me feel like good even if someone found it first. but if ya find anything tell me id love to try it once its found out.

Good luck.

P.S. Ignore the haters lol

  • 07.09.2007 12:36 PM PDT
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that sucks about the old thread hopefully we get it back, this one just confuses everything, and it allows more noobs into the thread. this search has been basically ruined, we are missing all the big Guys, all we pretty much have is janube stumpy and some other dudes. we need more leaders. i would be but i dont know that much info about this and it would take to long to figure out by myself..

  • 07.09.2007 12:54 PM PDT
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Good, some of the big dogs are back. Im staying FYI. I'm not letting this be over run by haters and noobs. We worked too hard. I PM'd sonic about this, and e-mailed a few people. This thread is NOT official. Once Sonic gets back, he will make the official one, and add all of his first posts again. So don't get comfortable in this one because we'll be transferring soon. Until then, I say we just regain focus on what we were doing and hope bungie can get the deleted threads back. They said they are working on it.

  • 07.09.2007 1:06 PM PDT
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Yes, hopefully they can pull it back up. But, i'm sure we all have plenty of info to contribute if bungie can't pull the old threads back up. Death made a second thread because the first one didnt have as much room as this one...doesn't make snese to me but whatever.

  • 07.09.2007 1:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Janube Taso
So this is the "official" thread just because you say so? You just want to make your name big or something?

If this is true, you could at least put a little effort into getting your facts straight. Giving some credibility to your name takes time and dedication. Something that this thread already doesn't have.

At least four of those skull powers are unfinished, or just plain wrong.

I may have left this thread in terms of helping, but that doesn't mean I can't criticize you for being... well.... stupid.


Did you ever think that something was just thrown up to give everyone a place to talk about things instead of having a whole slew of skattered threads?

If anyone has links to videos showing the location/how to get to skulls post them and ill edit the links in

[Edited on 07.09.2007 1:17 PM PDT]

  • 07.09.2007 1:12 PM PDT
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That was a bad night
threads got deleted
people got deleted..I heard this

And bungie is trying to bring the forum back
not what i call a good hacker
but it seems he was able to do some damage
so what did i miss
never mind don't anwser i'll read the pages
last 2 pages

[Edited on 07.09.2007 1:24 PM PDT]

  • 07.09.2007 1:18 PM PDT
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yeah. as soon as the others come back, most of the noobs will disipate. as far as haters, Janube is the only one that actually makes a point.

  • 07.09.2007 1:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: SonicJohn
I feel that there's not enough searching for the Skulls going down. It's been ages since we discovered the orginal "Blind" Skull. We really ought to figure out the whole Acronym theory. Bungie (I'm sure of it) have already confirmed that the letters "EGATFIBGBCSIMAW" in a certain order do, in fact, unlock something subtle. And as we're getting closer to Halo 3 I propose a challenge for all of you "hardcore" and "casual" Halo 2 gamers out there :D.

THE CHALLENGE

The challenge is to completely figure out the whole Skull deal. It's been too long. Be it manual searching - "Trial & Error" - or any alternative method. The only problem I have is Modding, although, reading some Hex-file reading would be very useful.

There are many useful resources located at the bottom of this post.
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A list of Confirmed Skulls:

Envy
Grunt Birthday Party
Assassins
Thunderstorm
Famine
I Would Have Been Your Daddy
Blind
Ghost
Black Eye
Catch
Sputnik
Iron
Mythic
Angry
W ???
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Ah, help has arrived:
Here is a video showing an interesting find. There has been rumor that finding all the skulls in a specific combination will unlock the gate. There are sixteen different combinations, but I won't take credit for them. All credit goes to the wonderful people in this group.
The music in that Video is called "Requiem For A Dream"

However, here is a video by DeadlyDean contradicting and explaining that the BSOD is in fact nothing more than a Placeholder. If you need to ask him about it, I'm sure he'd be happy to give you an automated response ;D...

See here for a list of Skull Combinations.
Credit goes to TheKillaIsBack, and Howru.
TheKillaIsBack has also made a tutorial video on how to get the IWHBYD skull, here
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Possible Gates

Link to Gate/Door Descriptions and Vids

Those are the directions for the Triangles.
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Guide for Infinate Camo:

Get the Envy Skull (Delta Halo).
Start another level you want the Camo on.
Activate the camo in such a way that you'll be invisinble when a checkpoint message appears on the screen.
Save and quit.
Turn off your Xbox.
Turn on your Xbox.
Resume the game and you should have perma camo for that level.

Skulls (Only) Held On Completetion of Level Vids
Armory - By DeadlyDean
Cairo Station - By DeadlyDean
Outskirts - By DeadlyDean
Metropolis - A - By DeadlyDean
Metropolis - B - By BIO Culke
The Arbiter - N/A (yet) - Seems to be slightly impossible on Single Player...Co-op seems easier
The Oracle - By DeadlyDean
Delta Halo - By DeadlyDean
Regret - By DeadlyDean
Sacred Icon - By DeadlyDean
Quarantine Zone - N/A (yet)
Gravemind - N/A (yet)
Uprising - By BIO Culke
High Charity - N/A (yet)
The Great Journey - N/A (yet)

The reason that a Skull isn't not shown as being held is because the cutscene shown is actually the cutscene for the following level, so the Skull is discarded. The above will all be completed and filmed. This is (partly for kicks) to show that the Skulls are implented in the Script one way or another. Enjoy.

Skull Dropping - Sword Glitch
This is a funny little glitch (discovered during the Outskirts Skull run) that shows that sometimes - when the Chief is without weapons - when he drops the Skull, he pretends to strike up a Sword. Enjoy.

WHAT WE HAVE FIGURED OUT/UNDERSTAND SO FAR! Be wary of Shift Key

* EGATFIBGBCSIMAW IS AN ACRONYM, NOT AN ANAGRAM. BUNGIE HAS THUS FAR ONLY EVER WORKED WITH ACRONYMS

* THERE IS NO GOLDEN WARTHOG AT ALL.

* THERE IS NO OPENABLE GATE ON COAGULATION, HEADLONG, TERMINAL OR ANY OTHER MULTIPLAYER MAP THAT RUMOURS HAVE BEEN NOTED ON.

* PLEASE DON'T NOTIFY US ABOUT THE ASSASSINS SKULL....YES IT APPEARS ON ALL DIFFICULTIES ON REGRET...NO NEED TO RE-POST ABOUT IT.

* THERE ARE NO MORE SKULLS...ALL HAVE BEEN FOUND (ACCORDING TO BUNGIE)

* WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR SKULLS, WE ARE LOOKING FOR A PRIZE AFTER COLLECTING ALL OF THE SKULLS IN A CERTAIN ORDER

* WE'RE ALSO NOT LOOKING FOR A SPECIFIC FINAL PRIZE, (EG A SKULL MENU), WE'RE LOOKING FOR ANY POSSIBLE CHANGE AFTER THE COLLECTIONS OF THE SKULLS.

* BUNGIE SAID THERE WASN'T ANYTHING ON THE SCALE OF A SKULL, THIS DOES NOT RULE OUT MORE EASTER EGGS. THERE MAY BE EGGS ON A GREATER/LESSER SCALE THAN THE SKULLS.

* ICE CREAM IS IRON...DON'T SAY DIFFERENTLY (SAYS SO IN THE HEX...AKA GAME CODING)

* NOTICE THAT BUNGIE HAVEN'T LOCKED (although Shishka has posted once) THIS THREAD YET...THIS MEANS THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING GOING ON HERE.

* THEY MENTION PLACEHOLDERS HERE SO THIS CAN MEAN THE SWITCHES ARE PLACEHOLDERS. BUNGIE ARE ALWAYS GIVING HINTS.

* THE POSTERS WITH 1 AND 7 IN THE IWHBYD ROOM ARE HINTING TO THE SKULL SPAWNING RANDOMLY 1 IN EVERY 7 IWHBYD RUNS.

* CO-OP SKULLS COLLECTING IS NOT A IDEA WORTH TRYING BECAUSE THE IWHBYD WILL NOT LOAD AND THE IRON THROWS YOU BOTH BACK YOUR MOST RECENT CHECKPOINT IF ONE OF YOU DIES.

* THERE WILL NOT BE ANY SKULL HINTS IN EITHER HALO 1 OR HALO 3.

* THE ARMORY SKULL CAN BE KNOWN AS: "WHUPPOPOTAMUS", "WOULD IT HELP IF I SAID PLEASE?", "COW BELL" OR THE MOST POPULAR ONE "UNNAMED". THERE IS JUST NO VISIBLE NAME WHEN YOU PICK IT UP.

* MOST OF THE PICTURES OF THE LEVELS SHOW THE AREA ROUGHLY NEAR WHERE THE SKULLS ARE LOCATED. THIS MAY BE IMPORTANT.

* WITH THE BLIND SKULL, IF YOU PRESS YOUR TORCH BUTTON, THE LIGHT WILL SPAWN WHERE YOU PICKED UP THE BLIND SKULL, IT WILL NOT EFFECT THE OTHER SKULLS. THE LIGHT JUST DECIDED TO GET LEFT BEHIND WITH THE SNIPER SCOPE.

* COLLECTING SKULLS ON THE 15 DIFFERENT PROFILES WILL STILL WORK IN THE SAME WAY AS IF YOU HAD GONE AND COLLECTED THEM ALL ON ONE PROFILE. THE SKULL EFFECT IS CARRIED OVER, UNTIL YOU TURN OFF YOUR XBOX.

* THE FLOATING GRUNT AND ELITES ON CAIRO HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SKULLS.

* THERE ARE FLOATING BOXES AND OBJECTS NEAR EDGES OF MAPS (SUCH AS "THE GREAT JOURNEY" AND "GRAVEMIND") BUT THESE DO NOTHING MORE THAN FALL DOWN TO THE GROUND ONCE TOUCHED.

* YOU CANNOT GET A BANSHEE ON DELTA HALO WITHOUT ACTION REPLAY.

* NOT ALL MODDERS ARE BAD, MOST JUST MAKE COOL MAPS AND STUFF.

* "THAT'S JUST...WRONG" WAS DISCOVERED AT THE END OF A SKULL-HEX-LINE, THIS MAY BE THE TRIGGER MESSAGE FOR THE PRIZE, OR THE ACTUAL PRIZE. WE DO NOT KNOW AS OF YET. IT IS CERTAINLY NO SKULL.

* NUMBERS ON THE BACK OF THE SKULLS I DOUBT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE ORDER.

* THERE ARE ITEMS AROUND THE SKULLS THAT HELP YOU DECIDE THE ORDER. THE ORDER IN THE HEX IS THE SUPPOSEDLY REAL COMBO (SEEN AS COMBO 9 IN THE COMBO THREAD)

* WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING THROUGH MAKING VIDS FOR ALL THE LEVELS BEING COMPLETED WITH ONLY SKULLS. BE PATIENT PLEASE.

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Any more help on this topic would be greatly appriciated.
Big thanks to peeps helping already.

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Links:

The Very First Skull-Thread

Tri-Gate on Delta Halo

A Group On Bungie.net dedicated to searching for Skulls -- Check it Out

High Impact Halo's (Locked) Skull Forum

High Impact Halo's List of where to find Skulls

Bungie.net's very own Easter Egg Thread

My little Skull Sumarry on my website.

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If anyone's interested in this challenge, please feel free to pick up your Xbox controller, flex those knuckles, switch on any Instant Messenger with friends and get searching.

Join my Bungie Group The Halo Raiders

My Clan Site - The Halo Raiders

Join The Site that has it all (even though it's still being developed) The Halo Raiders (this doesn't belong to me though :P)

Expected Deadline: Halo 3's Release Date

Thanks for any help.
SonicJohn [/quote]

  • 07.09.2007 1:21 PM PDT
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USE THIS FOR THE FIRST POST, THE LINKS ACTUALLY WORK. DELETE THE OTHER ONE DEATH, k thanks

Quote it, then copy it and post it so it copies the links

[Edited on 07.09.2007 1:24 PM PDT]

  • 07.09.2007 1:22 PM PDT
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Yeah, thanks man im just trying to keep everyone and all the info in 1 spot

  • 07.09.2007 1:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: GrenadeMasterSte
Well thank GOD you are here. We were talking about IN AMBER CLAD and Coconuts


Say didn't Tedmouse discover IN AMBER CLADS name under the words
FFG 142 on IN AMBER CLAD its self...well no one looks for this things i suppose

I am glad the leaders are back
superninjamonkey
janube taso
Others
oh and Tedmouse
Stumpy i'd like you to pm me about the cocanut thing.opps i misspelled that

  • 07.09.2007 1:32 PM PDT
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Check the second post for an explination of what happened to the old thread.

  • 07.09.2007 1:34 PM PDT
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Alright, i'm back, I had to go do something. So some people are wondering about the coconut thing. I posted this in the original thread before...dooms day occured. So I went to the meta file labled easter egg, then under it was one tab labled "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" We talked about this becasue someone else had found it a long time ago. But we quickly regarded it a nothing important. Well, the other day I thought I would mess around with it. I put it as a projectile on the carbine...yes im an idiot who think of stupid thing, but I thought it would...shoot out...umm...coconuts. No flaming ok? Well anyways, I shot it at my friend to see what it would do, and when it hit him, the projectile dipersed in a small flame. Like mario's fire balls from those old games. It made me wonder. Anything else I put as a projectile freezes the game. But this thing WAS an actual projectile. And a flaming one to boot...so wierd. I sent the file to Der andhopefully when he get's it he can read the META file and understand what it is. So we'll just have to wait on this.

[Edited on 07.09.2007 1:49 PM PDT]

  • 07.09.2007 1:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: Stumpy99
Alright, i'm back, I had to go do something. So some people are wondering about the coconut thing. I posted this in the original thread before...dooms day occured. So I went to the meta file labled easter egg, then under it was one tab labled "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" We talked about this becasue someone else had found it a long time ago. But we quickly regarded it a nothing important. Well, the other day I thought I would mess around with it. I put it as a projectile on the carbine...yes im an idiot who think of stupid thing, but I thought it would...shoot out...umm...coconuts. No flaming ok? Well anyways, I shot it at my friend to see what it would do, and when it hit him, the projectile dipersed in a small flame. Like mario's fire balls from those old games. It made me wonder. Anything else I put as a projectile freezes the game. But this thing WAS an actual projectile. And a flaming one to boot...so wierd. I sent the file to Der andhopefully when he get's it he can read the META file and understand what it is. So we'll just have to wait on this.


hmmmmmm... maybe a weapon to be found like the scarab gun that shoots fireballs. cool :P

  • 07.09.2007 2:01 PM PDT
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That's what i'm thinking, but who knows.

  • 07.09.2007 2:03 PM PDT
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but havent we searched practically all levels completely? if this new gun exists, it must be in a REALLY good spot

  • 07.09.2007 2:07 PM PDT

A voice is calling in the wind
yon the horizons, and from within
I deem the thought, shall I abide
these ghastly whispers inside?

well, lets see, bungie said that it wasnt going to be on the scale of a skull.......... so maybe. but where would it be hidden? this is IF it exsits that is. that would be so cool if it was a new weapon! i think we might be on to something here. but im not sure.

  • 07.09.2007 2:09 PM PDT
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I'll look through the HEXES, I highly doubt there is anothre gun, it would have been found by now. But, then how do we explain the fire? I'm so lost.....

EDIT: I looked, there are no other weapons.

Edit 2: Scratch that, What's a flak cannon doing on high charity? ...better yet, why does it say theres a flak cannon in this game? Im so confused..

[Edited on 07.09.2007 2:19 PM PDT]

  • 07.09.2007 2:10 PM PDT
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incenerary grenades? maybe? ahhh im pulling ideas out my a**.

  • 07.09.2007 2:14 PM PDT
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Look at my edit again

  • 07.09.2007 2:19 PM PDT
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I think TUE might be the DIRT room where bungie tested all the textures and such in, allthough this may be to big to hide in the Hex. Idk

  • 07.09.2007 2:21 PM PDT
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oooooooh. a flak cannon. Like a shotgun that shoots Fireballs. i dont know about you guys, but im flipping searching asap on high charity.

  • 07.09.2007 2:22 PM PDT
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Wait wait wait, i think the flak cannon is fuel rod. Cuz it says the max ammo for this thing is 30 and its the same for the fuel rod. Strange that they changed the name though.

  • 07.09.2007 2:28 PM PDT