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After I downloaded the last HALO 2 update from bungie I ran into the big problem where none of the maps did not load. Ok, so I restart my xbox. Same problem. I check the disk, perfect. Restart again, nothing, remove power, plug back in, restart, NOTHING. I use someone elses disc, same problem. Now, the game gives me a system error saying that it cant play the game! Can anyone else play halo 2 in a 360, or is it just that my update went horribly wrong, as before hand I was able to play halo 2 with no problem.

  • 12.04.2007 7:16 PM PDT
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RIP Halo 2

couldn't load as in You failed to load the map.

or

wouldn't stop loading map

if it wouldn't stop loading map, that's because when you play halo 3, it clears the halo 2 cache (idk why) so all the maps have to be loaded again into your xbox, which means that loading a map will take a long time. (several minutes)
Fortunately, this only happens the first time you load one map.


that's all i can do for you

  • 12.04.2007 9:39 PM PDT

"You failed to load the map." I am familiar with the cache system halo 2 had, and am sure that it is not the issue. However, it just wont work now, "system error."

  • 12.04.2007 9:45 PM PDT
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Odds are, your disk is damaged from all the wear and tare...and your xbox cannot load the old maps on the disk it had stored in the cache....personally, my 360 put a wonderful ring around the outside of my Halo 2 disk...and I had to purchase a disk doctor to fix it along with several other games....works fine for me now though...you may want to try and do the same thing.

[Edited on 12.07.2007 11:41 AM PST]

  • 12.07.2007 11:40 AM PDT
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Nope, I wanted to play it for some comparisons and stuff, and too see the change in rankings. But it just had a reeeaallly funky new Xbox intro and said something like "To play this game, put it into your Xbox"

I know my disk was scratched to heck, and I couldn't find my other one, but it still loaded that weird scene.

Anyone know what that was?

-Adam

  • 12.07.2007 12:08 PM PDT
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Mine works fine. Sometimes it won't let me load Cairo Station, Outskirts, or Quarantine Zone, but I just turn it off and back on, and it usually works after that.

  • 12.11.2007 8:56 PM PDT
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i think maybe bungie has put some kinda a bug on purpose so that people cannot return to halo2 after putting halo3 in their xbox 360s.....maybe monetary purposes?

you are atleast the 15th person in the last week ive heard having this EXACT problem.

in fact, some of my friends are really agitated because they play h2 MORE than h3 and after the "update", they can no longer enjoy halo2 or they have to wait like an hour to load a map.

  • 12.12.2007 5:10 AM PDT
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I Played Halo 2 last night on my 360 with no problems.

  • 12.13.2007 6:27 AM PDT
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I love the complainers that complain about the complainers complaining.

this only works on my 360 but sometimes when i try to play on lockout it says i failed to load the map and it shows a new lockout picture. And when i play campaign (this ecpeshhaly happens on uprising) it loads some outlines of the section i just played, any1 else with the same problem?

  • 12.15.2007 7:43 AM PDT
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I love the complainers that complain about the complainers complaining.

finally someone else w/ the same problem ChaBumba, even when i try to play GoW and halo 3 it displays that retated message. That message ussualy appears when you put a 360 game disk itno a standard DVD player. i think that our xbox 360,s have mental issues

  • 12.15.2007 7:49 AM PDT
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when i play halo 2 online it works perfectly on my 360,it says i failed to load the map once in a blue moon but not enough to really bother me any.

  • 12.17.2007 7:16 PM PDT
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i justed started playing h2 again and it worked fine

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  • 12.18.2007 8:33 PM PDT

I jump between playing Halo, Halo 2, and Halo 3, and I have yet to have a problem with any of them.

  • 12.19.2007 3:57 AM PDT
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Yes after the update if you play Halo 3 or possibly any 360 game once you go back to halo 2 the maps cache is wiped, what i usually do is start up a match of bigteam to get the maps circulating again as soon as i see ppl back out do it about 2 times then start up a custom by yourself on lockout then wiat a few seconds and it should load no prob, ive also had probs with halo 3 not loading maps that are on my disc and i take good care of H3, i dont give a -blam!- about H2 so it gets tossed around quit a bit. It wouldnt even let me watch a friends video on guardian, so i reset my box and it finally let me.

  • 12.22.2007 11:23 AM PDT

I keep getting banned since the mods are unfunny and suck at their jobs!

Mine works, except sometimes there is a clear, shadowy, stillimage on the screen.
Sometimes it pops up when you are only playing from 5-10 minutes.

It appears mostly on Campaign and Co-op though, but can still pop up in Split Screen and Xbox Live. Does anybody have a soultion for this other than buying a new Halo 2 disc?

  • 12.22.2007 1:32 PM PDT
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no thats a prob between halo 2 itself and 360's there is no way to avoid it, that is in fact why backwash was removed from matchmaking because it wasnt very compatable with the 360, if i get the pop up on my screen i usually just reset my xbox.

  • 12.23.2007 8:56 AM PDT