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Subject: IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR HALO2 PLAYERS

Bungie is the best.

Simple as that.

The tips below ensure that your Xbox 360 console will work at its optimum Graphics quality, after sometime and ignoring signs the Xbox 360 will appear with 1 red light, straight lines vertically down on your TV reducing absolute quality and a lot of dots and odd lines instead of crisp graphic viewing. My friend didn't believe me and started playing Halo2, he had hoped to finish the game (Halo2) on his Xbox 360 before anything happened, unfortunately that wasn't so, he had the first signs of "Shadows" appearing on the top half of his screen, they are solid colours but are not opaque, they are semi-transparent, usually in the colour of lilac/light purple/light blue. Please read the following for more information on protecting your consoles:

TIPS: (XBOX 360 USERS ONLY XBOX WORKS FINE)
1) If you see shadows of previous levels or an outline of something at the top or covering the screen while playing Halo 2, stop playing Halo2.

2) Don't leave the Halo 2 disc in your disc drive or/and have your Xbox 360 set to boot up a disc rather than the dashboard, ALWAYS BOOT TO DASHBOARD EVEN WITH OR WITHOUT HALO2 IN YOUR DISC DRIVE (its ok to boot game disc for Xbox 360 games, even Halo3 but avoid it for Halo2).

3) Ensure that if you start to get lines drawing down your screen, reboot, if still bad quality, keep rebooting. Don't succeed? (Before doing this please make sure you can boot to the dashboard even with deranged graphics, then turn off, un-plug and follow these instructions) Re-wire your Xbox 360, change its position somewhere else, detach all cables, and reassemble neatly lying flat on the floor. Blow down onto the AV cables and into the slot in that they are going in, plug in. Fire up the console, it sometimes appears fine then, or keep trying if you get one red light. If after 20 successions of booting, abort... your console is then officially impaired and needs urgent maintenance.

AGAIN ONLY FOR XBOX 360 USERS XBOX OR ALSO KNOWN AS XBOX 1 WORKS FINE WITH NO FAULTS!

Thanks for reading,

SST7.

[Edited on 07.24.2008 3:47 AM PDT]

  • 07.24.2008 3:39 AM PDT

Does this happen with Halo CE also or it just Halo 2?

  • 07.24.2008 7:11 PM PDT

Posted by: Oo PonchoDude oO
Does this happen with Halo CE also or it just Halo 2?
As far as the shadow images, yes, I've only experienced them in Halo 2. Thanks for the pointers OP.

  • 07.24.2008 7:39 PM PDT
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"Rise and shine Mister Freeman. Rise and----shine." -Gman

You mean like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbNryvYhhXg

Its only happened to me once and then I just ejected and reinserted the disc. Its an emulator glitch by not transitioning the cutscenes correctly.

  • 07.24.2008 7:53 PM PDT

Bungie is the best.

Simple as that.

No problem for the pointers. No this does not happen on Halo CE, just Halo 2. And if this is an emulator glitch then why eventually does it become so bad that it happens outside of Halo 2 and produces lines? I'm thinking you are right, but if we both are, then it means the emulator is the source of our problems.

Thanks,

SST7.

  • 07.30.2008 4:11 AM PDT
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Well Enough Alone...

~"The people who play Bungie games tend to sense that there's something behind the games that's attractive to them. Then they become fans of the games. And then they become rabid fans. And then they become employees of Bungie."(Life story) -Marty

And that's why I still have my original xbox! + it has all the skull profiles. + I like the original xbox controler more.

  • 07.30.2008 8:33 AM PDT
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Posted by: StarShipTrooper7

2) Don't leave the Halo 2 disc in your disc drive or/and have your Xbox 360 set to boot up a disc rather than the dashboard, ALWAYS BOOT TO DASHBOARD EVEN WITH OR WITHOUT HALO2 IN YOUR DISC DRIVE (its ok to boot game disc for Xbox 360 games, even Halo3 but avoid it for Halo2).


SST7.




i have left my games in my 360 everyday for the last 2 years and ive never had a problem. i always boot up with a game in it.

dunno what youre talking about.

  • 07.30.2008 9:15 AM PDT

I have this problem sometimes. When I jump off the cliff it goes away. I don't know why.

  • 07.30.2008 9:25 AM PDT

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Benjamin Franklin

I had the shadow a few times with my first 360 but I haven't seen it at all on the one I bought about 6 months ago.

  • 07.30.2008 12:21 PM PDT
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"Rise and shine Mister Freeman. Rise and----shine." -Gman

Posted by: StarShipTrooper7
No problem for the pointers. No this does not happen on Halo CE, just Halo 2. And if this is an emulator glitch then why eventually does it become so bad that it happens outside of Halo 2 and produces lines? I'm thinking you are right, but if we both are, then it means the emulator is the source of our problems.

Thanks,

SST7.
Its only ever happened to me in Campaign but thats okay for me because I use my 360 for online and old Xbox for Campaign and everything else.

  • 07.30.2008 1:02 PM PDT

somewhere in the heavens...they are waiting. I love the Marathon Trilogy.
Halo CE will always be the best game in the Halo franchise. What a perfect game.
(Proud LONGTIME owner of the PC and Xbox versions of Halo CE)

I dont ever notice these problems when playing Halo 2 on my 360! Hmmm...

  • 07.30.2008 4:53 PM PDT

Actually, neither have I. I got a shadow when I was playing the second level (cannot for the life of me remember what its called... Outskirts?), but then I just turned off my TV, and it was fine.

-Spazzy-

  • 07.30.2008 5:16 PM PDT
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this happens to me alot i will stop playing it on 360
i didnt know that halo ce worked on 360

  • 08.06.2008 4:38 PM PDT

(Bungie > 343i)

First off this has happened to me also. And people the Xbox360 gets hot, really hot. It doesn't help when people leave their console on all the time.

So please kids turn off your Xbox for a while.

  • 08.06.2008 5:50 PM PDT
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ARBITER, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BUTTER!!! WORT WORT WORT.

My super nintendo never got hot, nor did my n64. Beat that. Time to make Halo 2 for N64 with a 64 bit reverse emulator.

  • 08.07.2008 12:08 AM PDT

Waiting to respawn... too many enemies nearby

Halo 2 for Wii!

  • 08.09.2008 11:26 AM PDT