I occasionally play it. Modding the campaign levels provide hours of fun.
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Edited by Prototape: 6/26/2013 11:44:03 PMTag/dependency swapping can get old eventually. It's a shame Halo 2 Vista modding never fully took off.
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Never bores me, I've done some outrageous things with messing around with some tags, but then again I only touch H2 Vista like once every three months.
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Messing around with it on the Xbox is a [i]lot[/i] of fun. I haven't done it in a while because I don't want to set up the FTP between my console and my computer, because lazy. You have a lot more stuff to mess with that way, though. Alternatively, Halo CE on the PC is pretty fun, too. I just find it to be a bit more confining considering the environments you get to work with.
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Hm I've never tried to mod Halo 2 on the xbox, mainly because I really don't know how. I assume it's similar to how you would for Halo 3?
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Eh, kinda. It's a bit easier considering the massive amount of work the community put into it. I don't think I've ever seen more support for modding before, same case with Halo PC. Keep in mind you'll most likely need an original Xbox. It might work for the 360, but that's territory I'm completely unfamiliar with. Honestly, modding your Xbox and setting up a communication with it and your computer is the hardest part, which isn't that hard. After that, you just have to jump over to a website to get the tools and tutorials you need (example: halomods.com). The unfortunate part of all this is the community is pretty much dead and gone by now, so as far as getting any questions answered you may be out of luck. The fortunate part however, is the website has an 8 year archive available to you. So almost anything you'll need is there. Most of the Halo modding tools are laid out pretty much the same. The tag 'trees' are classified the same (such as, you'll find all the weapons under the "Weapons" label, models under "models", etc). So if you've been messing around with Halo 2 Vista, it should feel familiar in some respect.
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Well fortunately for me I think my original xbox is somewhere in a box still. But I'm confused by what you mean by communication between the xbox and my pc.
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Edited by Prototape: 6/27/2013 12:26:56 AMWell the tools won't work on your Xbox, considering they were designed to be run on your PC. So you make the modifications to a .map file on your computer, then transfer them over to your Xbox. So basically, with a modified Xbox you just pull all the game files onto the Xbox's HDD, put them onto your computer for your modification enjoyment, shoot them back to the Xbox when you're done, then play your mods. It's essentially the same thing as pulling a text document from your Program Files folder to your Desktop, modifying a couple sentences, then placing the text document back into Program Files. The only difference is, you have to set up a connection for your Xbox and computer to communicate with each other via an Ethernet cable preferably. There's guides for it online. It definitely requires a bit of work, but it's worth it.
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Well that makes sense now. Thanks.
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No problem!