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About halo 2 - halo 2 vista cross platform system link...
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:13 am
by DarkMetal
I was browsing through the exe, and found this:
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<Liveconfig>
<titleid>4D53080F</titleid>
<lankey>FEEFF00D01020304506071728a8da99a</lankey>
<rating></rating>
<enableCrossPlatformSystemLink>false</enableCrossPlatformSystemLink>
<titleversion>102B0180</titleversion>
</Liveconfig>
Not sure if it means much, but it's worth testing out later
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:08 am
by HPDarkness
Wait, so that is in the Halo 2 Vista exe? Looks to me like they were going to enable system linking with Halo 2 Vista, but abandoned it. I have H2 Vista, I'll take a look at it. What app did you open the H2V exe in? It is very much worth testing!
Edit: Maybe a Halo 2 revision is coming out for the 360 soon?
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:16 am
by Ar5eNiC
HPDarkness1 wrote:What app did you open the H2V exe in? It is very much worth testing!
You can find that by opening halo2.exe in a hex editor. It is also located in halo2.exe.cfg
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:48 am
by SHOUTrvb
Cross-Platform System link seems a tad pointless considering Halo 2 Vista only allows one player where the xbox version allows 4 extra controllers.
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 12:29 pm
by 0m3g4Muff1n987
SHOUTrvb wrote:Cross-Platform System link seems a tad pointless considering Halo 2 Vista only allows one player where the xbox version allows 4 extra controllers.
So? What about it? How does that make it pointless? The more the merrier.
and you can pwn more people because they can't see their player as well if the screen is split up into smaller parts
EDIT: I thought this meant cross-platform online play. System link on H2V? WTF? Just use lan! Gosh... Wait, does this mean you might be able to play, say, coop campaign over Windows and Xbox live? With 2 participants, one on Xbox and one on Vista?
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 1:58 pm
by Spammy
Pretty sure no sys-link co-op on xbox at least. Or else we would already be doing it on xbox.
System link is just the xbox name for lan anyways. It would be kind of cool if we could have cross-platform sys-link though.
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 2:57 pm
by DarkMetal
I'm thinking they're referring to System Link as online play. Like Xbox Live and Windows Live online together.
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 8:53 pm
by MikeFez
I agree, they must have been testing cross platform play. However, if they didn't put it into the final version, there must have been major issues, something that important/cool i'm sure would have been stuck into there if it was able to.
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 3:36 pm
by SHOUTrvb
My point, Muffin, was that a computer would only be 1 extra controller. This also making the matches uneven...unless people had 2/4/8/even# computers to even the match out. It has some uses, but not many; and nothing of any great importance.
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:27 pm
by 0m3g4Muff1n987
It would still be kewl.
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:19 pm
by johnnyblaz20
does halo 2 vista only work on vista because of directx10 or is it for other reasons too?
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:38 pm
by 0m3g4Muff1n987
It's mostly because of Windows Live, which is Vista-only.
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:24 pm
by SHOUTrvb
There is actually software in development that could possibly allow Halo 2 Vista to run on XP, but it wouldn't be fully-functional.
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:10 am
by G.I.R.
SHOUTrvb wrote:There is actually software in development that could possibly allow Halo 2 Vista to run on XP, but it wouldn't be fully-functional.
As long as the map editor works fully on XP, I don't care. >_>