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Subject: There Is A Catch....

H1 and Halo Custom edition name: madkiller92
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This update wile it eliminates the Cd check for Custom Edition it also gives you an exception every time you use 3rd Person or Fly Cam. Please fix this as i want to make a machinima some time or do some third person game play.



I don't have that problem

For CUSTOM EDITION, not normal. Go to modacity.net (NOT .COM), and search for [APP] version changer, and there should be a thread telling you what to do from there.

[Edited on 09.01.2008 12:26 PM PDT]

  • 09.01.2008 12:25 PM PDT
Subject: Halo 1 PC 1.08 has released

THANK YOU!

i hate finding the disc over and over again when i feel like playing over the years, thanks very much

  • 09.01.2008 2:56 PM PDT
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Has the message of the day been updated?

If not will it ever be?

  • 09.01.2008 5:19 PM PDT
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Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I'm sorry. I really do mean well, but I'm not running on all cylinders.

Everytime someone buys a copy of Halo 2 Vista, a puppy dies.

Still the same MOTD.

  • 09.02.2008 11:08 AM PDT
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NIce update, now we can shrink wrap the CD and keep it safe.
MOTD really needs updating to something else, like "Bungie are committed to bringing Halo 3 to the PC!!" ........

  • 09.06.2008 8:16 AM PDT
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this is cool

  • 09.06.2008 10:00 AM PDT

Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time. I know who you are. You are destiny.

Wow. This is just, wow.

I start playing Halo PC December, 2003. I enjoy the good game and continuous patches throughtout the years, until 2005. I download the 1.07 patch and we keep it over the next three years. And then out of nowhere, wow! A Bungie superninja busts his ass making us a new patch. I am trully shocked. I knew Sawnose was a good admin, but I never thought of this.

Thank you, Sawnose. My CD, already having a year of being broken, needs a good burial detail by now, it's fifth year of being on my CD Drive.

  • 09.06.2008 1:40 PM PDT
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Thanks alot Sawnose, I really appreciate this.

  • 09.06.2008 6:00 PM PDT
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Ohh thanks i had lost my disk

  • 09.07.2008 3:11 AM PDT
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Thank you!!!
Thank you!!!
Thank you!!!
Thank you!!!
Thank you!!!
Thank you!!!

My CD is very scratched and I haven't found a reliable way to dupe it. This will save on future wear and tear.

Too bad we can't have a patch for "Fair Use" copies.

  • 10.02.2008 10:56 PM PDT

Sweetness. My Halo disc keeps on getting lost. Now I don't have to look for it.

  • 10.03.2008 8:00 AM PDT

Godspeed.

any word on whether mac users can play without a cd?

  • 10.07.2008 12:24 AM PDT

All this time I've still been using the CD.................:P

  • 10.07.2008 8:49 AM PDT

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

i love you. no -blam!-

  • 10.11.2008 7:41 AM PDT
Subject: HELP! All of us Halo Mac users are out in the cold!!!

H1 and Halo Custom edition name: madkiller92
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Creative editing indeed!

Here's the fix:
0. Copy \games\Halo\CONTENT\1200editbox.ksml to \games\Halo\CONTENT\1200editbox.ksml.good so you have a backup in case you really break your text box.
1. If you've set your resolution to be larger than 1280x1024, edit the file \games\Halo\CONTENT\1200editbox.ksml using WordPad. (right-click, open with...)
2. In the line
<editbox width="1060" left="220" top="1160" background="gallery

change top="1160" to, say, top="1000".

* The logic here is that the game is using the profile for 1600x1200 resolution since we the game have specified 'something' larger than 1280x1024. The 'top' attribute is getting cut off since 1050 is smaller than 1160. So, if we pick a number we know to be within the bounds of 1680x1050 -- like 1000 -- we can thus see the text.

3. Save and exit.

There can probably be further editing -- for instance, the 'width' attribute probably specifies the width of the edit box and 'left' probably specifies how many pixels from the left the typing should start. Play around with it and you should be able to have a nice looking text box in no time. I'll post good numbers if I find anything.

Also, if you're using a resolution different from 1680x1050, you'll have to adjust accordingly. So, if you are using 1440x900, you'll probably want to set the "top" attribute to be "800" or "850" or something. You may also need to edit a different file. (I think the text box is only 36 pixels high, so you can probably just subtract 36 from your resolution's Y number and have the text box right at the bottom of the screen.

08.12.2008 8:46

Thanks for the fix! I just decided to visit here because I got bored.

It says "access denied" when I try to save, but I'll try to find a way around it.

  • 10.11.2008 3:36 PM PDT
Subject: Halo 1 PC 1.08 has released

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Well, I've been playing halo PC back then and just recently tried to play it again with and without the disk in the drive with correct CD key and when i go to join a game now it says my CD key is invalid, could this be a problem with the new update or is this a users CD key issue?

  • 10.16.2008 11:02 PM PDT
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Either your game is pirated or someone's managed to steal your CD Key. Sometimes you can get around it by trying to host an internet game until that works, then you can join.

  • 10.17.2008 6:34 AM PDT
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Wow how did I miss this? Amazing thank you much to everyone who made this patch possible.I lost my disk months ago and feared Id never play again!

  • 10.20.2008 10:51 PM PDT
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I was having a problem before the patch, and I'm still having it.

Whenever I try to join an online game, 98% of the time it will say "Unable to join game server".
The other 2% of the time when it decides to let me in, I'm only in for maybe 30 seconds until it says "connection lost" and I have to try all over again.

I've tried reinstalling halo, uninstalling all my anti virus, and turning off my firewall. Nothing seems to work.

I'm running windows vista if that matters.

Please help me out, I've been unable to play for about a year now...and I wanted to buy Halo 2 for Vista, but not if I'm going to be having the exact same problem as I'm having with Halo 1.

  • 11.01.2008 7:19 PM PDT

Thanks so much, i am happy not to have to put in my disc anymore hopefully that means i can play this game much longer because i will only have to use it when i get a new computer/reinstall windows. Did you have to get MS's permission to do this? Think you can do this in 5 years for H2:V? :p

  • 11.04.2008 4:01 PM PDT

want to know a conspiracy about bungie? dont tell sawnose, but every huge thing they have done.... HAPPENS IN THE SEASON OF FALL. swear to god, i bet it will take a year for halo wars to get here, thats next fall.

  • 11.14.2008 9:04 PM PDT
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Considering its right before the holidays I would call it a marketing tactic. ;)

  • 11.23.2008 8:31 AM PDT

Hello! Star Wars FTW. Also, join the MAW group. Please?

Everything epic from any game company comes out in the fall....
Lets review some recent releases....
Gears of War 2
Far Cry 2
Fallout 3
WoW: Wrath of the Litch King
Left 4 Dead
....to name a few

[Edited on 11.25.2008 3:00 PM PST]

  • 11.25.2008 3:00 PM PDT
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Alright Sawnose, now give us a mic-functional patch. :D

  • 12.05.2008 3:11 PM PDT
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Please.... no.... One of the reasons I stopped playing H2V (other than lack of people playing) was the super poor voice communication system spewing out annoying voices.

I'd personally take Vent/teamspeak anyday over built in voice.

  • 12.06.2008 3:05 PM PDT