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Subject: Halo on GBA
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I posted this yesterday, but I don't think anyone noticed. Now TWO sites are reporting this fact. www.vgpro.com has reported it twice, and www.ign.com has reported it in their mailbag on the GBA section page. I don't understand how this would happen or why, but somebody needs to either confirm it or deny it. There's no reason for us "little people" in the gaming world to sit here and speculate.

[Edited on 6/11/2004 8:39:10 AM]

  • 06.11.2004 8:38 AM PDT
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halo on GBA? i don't think so... maybe psp... or DS

  • 06.11.2004 11:23 AM PDT
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I dunno but its being reported here, http://www.vgpro.com/news/5482, and here, http://gameboy.ign.com/mail.html. I dunno, I don't see it happening though.

  • 06.11.2004 11:32 AM PDT
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I wouldn't discount those rumors, as it isn't all that unlikely that Halo will end up on the GBA or DS (who knows what type of game, sidescroller?). I would never expect to see a Microsoft published game on the PSP though. That's because Sony is the bigger rival, so Microsoft would be smarter to help lesser rival Nintendo fend off Sony in the handheld market, since Microsoft isn't interested in making its own handheld system.

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The rumors have been debunked, but it still wasn't as farfetched an idea as Bungie would have you believe.

[Edited on 6/13/2004 12:03:39 AM]

  • 06.11.2004 1:42 PM PDT
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Hey...um kill yourself. Youre a f***ing -blam!-ot and a half (maybe two.)

  • 06.12.2004 10:54 PM PDT
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try and take a look at the front page

  • 06.12.2004 11:55 PM PDT
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I posted before the news came out on the main page. I admit I was wrong, but contrary to Bungie's news post, it wasn't that farfetched. MS studios do develop GBA games. Check out Rare one of the premier game studios in the world, let alone Microsoft. They have an entire team devoted to GBA games.

And AbijihManiaco, there's no need to flame.

  • 06.13.2004 12:01 AM PDT

I think that the Rare story was denied as well. But don't post those sort of rumours here - if they're true then Bungie will tell us anyway.

  • 06.13.2004 1:44 AM PDT
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Need to also remember that although Halo is a Bungie creation, MS have in the past licensed it out. Starting with the PC version and the Mac version which was licensed off to Gearbox, which has nothing to do with MS, and lets face it the Mac version is in direct competition to MS's OS's. Now would MS license out a Halo "license" to another console. Yes if its in there best interest. If it was to go into compition against a MS product it won't, yet if it was to assist another product to fight Sony (the bigger evil here), then yes...its likely. But it wouldn't be a Bungie creation, it would be developed by a totally seperate team for that machine like how Gearbox did (although that was just a direct port with enhancements).

But, running a version of Halo on a GBA? highly unlikely as the hardware can't handle 3D well, and definatly not something that fast. Just go look at Serious Sam or Doom on a GBA....ewww they really do suck. The GBA lags like made, you can't hit things, it has severe problems. Now, the DS handheld thingy hmm, that a possible as its a major hardware increase, and has a much better processor for handling graphics. Its not going to look like Halo, or HaloCE but it is going to have the elements we'ld expect no doubt. Covenant, Flood...the usuals :) But it would need to be severely cut down graphically, and probably the length of the entire plot also. More than likely loosing vehicles and other things too due to complexity. It is possible to make it run, it would be just something MS or Bungie wouldn't want to do themselves. If someone wants to pay then a huge load of money to use the Halo story and name then thats all well and good though.

  • 06.13.2004 6:57 AM PDT
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YA right Halo is only for Xbox and computer i aint going to buy a Gba just to play a 2d halo game

  • 06.13.2004 8:27 AM PDT
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Maybe you should read the official Bungie post about that, saying it will not happen. They also put in a thinly veiled shot against the game bou.

  • 06.13.2004 8:49 AM PDT
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Posted by: Oppiten
Maybe you should read the official Bungie post about that, saying it will not happen. They also put in a thinly veiled shot against the game bou.


I agree, you should check your theory more carefully before you make a post, but we can always fantasize and discuss crazy ideas about if halo were on a handheld.

Also, nintendo own 95% of the handheld market, microsoft needs to invent a handheld to reap some of these profits! Even sony has caught on to that, and sony are evil, sleezy, backstabbing so and sos!!!

  • 06.13.2004 9:01 AM PDT
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My friend is -blam!-en about how the gameboy Halo will be coming out by another comp. How do you shut him up ive shown him the articla on this website.

  • 06.13.2004 9:02 AM PDT
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Tie him up, gag him and leave him in your basement for a day or two, that should suffice.

  • 06.13.2004 9:04 AM PDT
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Posted by: Oppiten
Maybe you should read the official Bungie post about that, saying it will not happen. They also put in a thinly veiled shot against the game bou.


Maybe you should read the date this topic was posted, the same day as the news article, but several hours earlier. We know now for sure that it won't happen...so it doesn't really matter.

And by the way, that Rare story wasn't denied, look on their website. They made Grabbed by Ghoulies for the GBA even while being part of Microsoft Game Studios.

[Edited on 6/13/2004 9:12:11 AM]

  • 06.13.2004 9:10 AM PDT
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Posted by: Halogod97478
My friend is -blam!-en about how the gameboy Halo will be coming out by another comp. How do you shut him up ive shown him the articla on this website.

Tell him due to national and international copy right laws, no company can make it other than Bungie, also, if he were to buy it, not only would nintendo be sued back to the stone age , he would be sent to prision and shanked.

  • 06.13.2004 9:28 AM PDT
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Posted by: venom8599
Posted by: Oppiten
Maybe you should read the official Bungie post about that, saying it will not happen. They also put in a thinly veiled shot against the game bou.


Maybe you should read the date this topic was posted, the same day as the news article, but several hours earlier. We know now for sure that it won't happen...so it doesn't really matter.

And by the way, that Rare story wasn't denied, look on their website. They made Grabbed by Ghoulies for the GBA even while being part of Microsoft Game Studios.


Sorry, it's not going to happen, it was denied.

  • 06.13.2004 9:29 AM PDT
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duh

We know that now...we didn't on the 11th in the early afternoon. (News story was posted at about 8PM Eastern Time, thread started about 11AM Eastern time.)

Did you even read the post of mine you quoted?

[Edited on 6/13/2004 9:43:33 AM]

  • 06.13.2004 9:41 AM PDT
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Posted by: venom8599
duh

We know that now...we didn't on the 11th in the early afternoon. (News story was posted at about 8PM Eastern Time, thread started about 4:30PM Eastern time.)

Did you even read the post of mine you quoted?

Nope, don't care to either, kill yourself.

  • 06.13.2004 9:43 AM PDT

yoo•zel- ('yoo-zhul): slang: vb.

Officium quod Fidelitas.

Bungie's official word is NO Halo on GB, check the news, that rumor has been busted.

  • 06.13.2004 9:49 AM PDT
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Posted by: Yoozel
Bungie's official word is NO Halo on GB, check the news, that rumor has been busted.


Yeah, I know it is Yoozel. I actually wish you'd lock this thread so I don't have to keep getting flamed for having an opinion, even if that opinion turned out to be wrong.

  • 06.13.2004 10:01 AM PDT
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Yea, life sucks.

  • 06.13.2004 10:14 AM PDT
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Tie him up, gag him and leave him in your basement for a day or two, that should suffice.

hahahahahhhah! Tru7h

  • 06.13.2004 11:05 AM PDT