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Posted by: MaxRed
Hi all I am new here but have been a Bungie Fan for many years. Marathon ROCKED and when I first saw
that they had created Halo I new it would be a winner. Anyway down to the issue at hand. These guys with chipped Xboxs downloading and copying games..
Just so you know I am very opposed to this how ever….
I feel that it has been made a much bigger issue than it really is…
Firstly who in their right mind (English speaking) is going to play campaign mode with French dialogue and English subtitles? Modified Xboxs can’t be used on Xbox live so multi player is down the drain. BUNGIE WILL NOT LOSE ONE SALE FROM THIS LEAK!! As any of these DROP OUTS would not have bought a copy anyway they would have just waited for a mate to buy it or rented it and then copied it to there box.

I have 4 copies on pre-order so I can have mates around and system link! As I am in New Zealand
and am going to pick mine up just after midnight I will get to play before most of you even with out playing a pirated copy.




Hey, another New Zealander! Kool. But I do think 4 copies is a bit overboard, unless you're actually buying them FOR your mates... You should have made them buy their own... Anyway, I'm leaving this thread, died about 20 pages ago, picked up 18 pages ago, died again twice since... See you on the 9th...

  • 10.18.2004 8:34 PM PDT
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stink so every1s just like gone now...

  • 10.18.2004 8:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ikkon
Posted by: MaxRed
Hi all I am new here but have been a Bungie Fan for many years. Marathon ROCKED and when I first saw
that they had created Halo I new it would be a winner. Anyway down to the issue at hand. These guys with chipped Xboxs downloading and copying games..
Just so you know I am very opposed to this how ever….
I feel that it has been made a much bigger issue than it really is…
Firstly who in their right mind (English speaking) is going to play campaign mode with French dialogue and English subtitles? Modified Xboxs can’t be used on Xbox live so multi player is down the drain. BUNGIE WILL NOT LOSE ONE SALE FROM THIS LEAK!! As any of these DROP OUTS would not have bought a copy anyway they would have just waited for a mate to buy it or rented it and then copied it to there box.

I have 4 copies on pre-order so I can have mates around and system link! As I am in New Zealand
and am going to pick mine up just after midnight I will get to play before most of you even with out playing a pirated copy.




Hey, another New Zealander! Kool. But I do think 4 copies is a bit overboard, unless you're actually buying them FOR your mates... You should have made them buy their own... Anyway, I'm leaving this thread, died about 20 pages ago, picked up 18 pages ago, died again twice since... See you on the 9th...


Good post, but sadly theres nothin goin on here anymore. I suggest you go over to NEW MOMBASA and see the bungie tribute NOW. totally awesome!!!!

  • 10.18.2004 8:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ikkon
Posted by: MaxRed
Hi all I am new here but have been a Bungie Fan for many years. Marathon ROCKED and when I first saw
that they had created Halo I new it would be a winner. Anyway down to the issue at hand. These guys with chipped Xboxs downloading and copying games..
Just so you know I am very opposed to this how ever….
I feel that it has been made a much bigger issue than it really is…
Firstly who in their right mind (English speaking) is going to play campaign mode with French dialogue and English subtitles? Modified Xboxs can’t be used on Xbox live so multi player is down the drain. BUNGIE WILL NOT LOSE ONE SALE FROM THIS LEAK!! As any of these DROP OUTS would not have bought a copy anyway they would have just waited for a mate to buy it or rented it and then copied it to there box.

I have 4 copies on pre-order so I can have mates around and system link! As I am in New Zealand
and am going to pick mine up just after midnight I will get to play before most of you even with out playing a pirated copy.




Hey, another New Zealander! Kool. But I do think 4 copies is a bit overboard, unless you're actually buying them FOR your mates... You should have made them buy their own... Anyway, I'm leaving this thread, died about 20 pages ago, picked up 18 pages ago, died again twice since... See you on the 9th...


Aye, the New Zealander Rocks. Definitely cool to have another long term fan of Bungie on the forums. Four copies does seem like a bit much, but if you've got four boxes for you and you're friends to system link at your place, then hey that's awesome.

Also, since the few people I agree with are leaving the thread for a while, I figure I'll drop out and probably not return to post. G'dday boys and girls.

  • 10.18.2004 8:43 PM PDT
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Posted by: Lost_Bunnie
asl ppl?


Has this turned into AOL all of a sudden?

Bungie is probably crying at how many people are such racists. Throughout this thread I've seen so many people making fun of the French. Mostly coming from people who reside in the States. "Land of the free" my ass. How can you be free in a place which makes you believe in one religion and is possibly going to start drafting people for the war.

You all make me sick. I feel sorry for Bungie to know that their games attract such pathetic and childish people.

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I'm a kiwi and fine all u just leave me!!!

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Posted by: MCDJ
Posted by: Lost_Bunnie
asl ppl?


Has this turned into AOL all of a sudden?

Bungie is probably crying at how many people are such racists. Throughout this thread I've seen so many people making fun of the French. Mostly coming from people who reside in the States. "Land of the free" my ass. How can you be free in a place which makes you believe in one religion and is possibly going to start drafting people for the war.

You all make me sick. I feel sorry for Bungie to know that their games attract such pathetic and childish people.


AOL indeed.. hello again!

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Posted by: MCDJ
Posted by: Lost_Bunnie
asl ppl?


Has this turned into AOL all of a sudden?

Bungie is probably crying at how many people are such racists. Throughout this thread I've seen so many people making fun of the French. Mostly coming from people who reside in the States. "Land of the free" my ass. How can you be free in a place which makes you believe in one religion and is possibly going to start drafting people for the war.

You all make me sick. I feel sorry for Bungie to know that their games attract such pathetic and childish people.


AOL indeed.. hello again!

Heyya.

  • 10.18.2004 8:53 PM PDT
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It is a real bummer but as ikkon said their is not much that they could do with the copy. But I say, if ya find em rip their fingers off! It does seem like the right punishment.

  • 10.18.2004 8:56 PM PDT
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Those who committed this act of piracy should be treated as war criminals. There is no reason for anyone to steal what others have worked so hard to develop. As far as I am concernd hese individual are no better than the terrorists that threaten our nation. They have raped Bungie of their property and run the risk of damaging the Halo 2 energy that runs crazy throughout the world.

Those responsible must be found, arrested, and sent to life without Halo 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Breaking all their fingers for the next 10 years would be nice.

  • 10.18.2004 9:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: Wolf 69
Those who committed this act of piracy should be treated as war criminals. There is no reason for anyone to steal what others have worked so hard to develop. As far as I am concernd hese individual are no better than the terrorists that threaten our nation. They have raped Bungie of their property and run the risk of damaging the Halo 2 energy that runs crazy throughout the world.

Those responsible must be found, arrested, and sent to life without Halo 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Breaking all their fingers for the next 10 years would be nice.


How old are you? 13? You have to be 15 at most. I'm glad people like you don't make up any laws, because that is one of the most stupidest things I've seen someone write in this thread. Theft is NOTHING close to terrorism, that is why they are separate laws. I bet that, if in fact you are older than I had predicted and at least 18, you voted for Bush. Your views of how to treat the person(s) responsible for leaking Halo 2 (along with countless others in this thread) aren't very different than Bush's choice to go to war with Iraq.

Your failed attempt at American patriotism has made me laugh though, I thank you for that much.

  • 10.18.2004 10:08 PM PDT
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Who ever told you that you cant play XboX LIVE with modded boxes. I know for a fact you can play them on XBOX LIVE. Also they already stated that the PAL version did not have LIVE features so it wonte matter, read the news much?... Anyways you dont even have to open your XBOX to make it possible to download things on to it, ever heard of BIOS HAX, well to make it short your Xbox thinks it has limitted possiblities, and once you change your BIOS your XBOX now thinks it can be a PC. MOD chips are a waist of money, but BIOS HAX are free ^_^. As I stated B4 people who download HALO 2 PAL are bad men/women. Another thing is mod chips void warranty, on the other hand BIOS HAX do not. They are also legal, and therefor you have only doen 1 crime when you steal the game HEE HEE, but that was dumb so enough of that. When you post something that is racist or threatening you are killing a good thread and picking apart other peoples posts is kinda worng this aint politics we are not in a debate with john kerry. We can leave that to GEORGE. So nice job supporting Bungie but the only thing immature thoughts and posts are doing for bungie is giving them great laughs. Or atleast you are giving me good one's. I am sure it wasnt the french to, I bet it was some low life that worked for Microsoft. It's not lik e anyone has access to that sort of Product, well I have no idea why I joined thispost I am not a search engine Monkey so I am done.

  • 10.18.2004 10:16 PM PDT
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G0DSR34P3R, After readin your post it's obvious you dont know first hand anything about modding an Xbox.

Bios hax..WTF

There are modchips and there are exploits, you can Softmod your xboxs via a savegame exploit. Or Flash the tsop which would require you to solder points on this mobo. Modchips are far from worthless, they push the xbox to the and make modding as awesome as can be.

Most Important, you CANNOT play Xbox live if you use an Exploit/Softmod. You will have to remove it before even trying. You CAN play xbox live as long as you chip supports it.

There is no way of flashing abother bios without running some sort of exploit.

  • 10.18.2004 10:37 PM PDT
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i don't think that people are downloading it for the pc...i think what has happend is that they downloaded directly to the box. My friend called me late the other night to tell me the story, thats some stuff man, i think they didn't want to be outdone by the halflife2 hacker sad world really. but i'll keep my eyes and ears open and i'm sure that whoever did this has no life but to ruin the fun of others. - Yu out

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The game has to be downloaded to the pc first, from there is has to be tranfered to the xbox. It CANNOT be played on pc as I seen alot of people saying.

You can do that via FlashFxp or any ftp program or if you burned it to a dvd you can then place the dvd in the xbox and run a program called dvd2xbox...and it will copy to the xbox Hdd as long as you have the space.

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Absolutely umm yeah....you sound like you have had a chip for a while....maybe a xecuter 2.3 lite or pro? Just unlocks the box.....makes it what it was before the tamporing...a computer. There are many legal bios'.....the illegal ones are hacked microsoft code like evox and evolutionx. Unfortunetly the illegal ones are usually the best bios and dashboards. What most people don't understand is that you don't become a pirate when u mod your xbox. No one makes you do illegal stuff...you can store movies/ songs onto a much larger hard drive and be perfectly legal. As well as back up all the games you ALREADY OWN incase it gets scratched. It will void your warranty once you open it however. It all depends on how far you want to take it....... www.xbox-scene.com

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Modding an xbox can also be a learning experience, if you take it the right way...the legal way.

  • 10.18.2004 11:01 PM PDT
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Master Chief 81, Yep, had the pro....just upgraded to SmartXX.

Modding is fun, and like Xpocalypse says a great learning experience. Pirates make a concious choice to do what they do, they have to accept the consequences of being caught.

I mod because I like to make thing my own, My box is my own flavor...from the custom paint job to my custom dvd window. Illegal or not in my opinion I have every right ot backup my games I own. When I go to a friends house I dont want to haul around 50 + games so that whay I have a 160GB Hdd in my box.

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Posted by: Wolf 69
Those who committed this act of piracy should be treated as war criminals. There is no reason for anyone to steal what others have worked so hard to develop. As far as I am concernd hese individual are no better than the terrorists that threaten our nation. They have raped Bungie of their property and run the risk of damaging the Halo 2 energy that runs crazy throughout the world.

Those responsible must be found, arrested, and sent to life without Halo 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Breaking all their fingers for the next 10 years would be nice.



Wow, someone needs a nap! I dont want people pirating the game either, but good god, no better than terrorist? cmon, get some perspective for a min, grow up!

  • 10.18.2004 11:32 PM PDT
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Any truth to that story?
http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2004/mft04101821.htm

  • 10.18.2004 11:52 PM PDT
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you are so stupid man im a manager at game crazy and my 3 copys will be paid for you stupid dumbass so how im i a hacker im not stealing like the stupid french and the downloaders so just becuse im getting it early im not stealing and posting the game on the net for others to steal $150 is not any thing to me for 3 copys of bungies work of art man you are really sad saying im stealing i gladly trade worthless green paper for the greatness that is halo 2 becuse bungie earned every dime you im not a broke loser like the pirates so if you say im like them man ill find you and kick your ass!!

  • 10.19.2004 12:02 AM PDT
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Posted by: Gouken
Any truth to that story?
http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2004/mft04101821.htm



sounds about right, doesnt it:?

  • 10.19.2004 12:27 AM PDT
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Thats a theory without basis. If MS leaked their own game they wouldnt have a leg to stand on in sueing anyone over downloading it,

  • 10.19.2004 12:33 AM PDT
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I just finished Halo yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Halo is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think there is a Halo 2 coming out!!!!!!!!!!!

Its going to be very fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

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One thing though, the game being in french doesn't mena att all it was stolen in france, or that someone french did it. I think the odds are more likely they manufacter all games in the same factory.

  • 10.19.2004 12:42 AM PDT