Several posters have professed doubt about this image. It was not, to the best of our knowledge, produced in photoshop or edited in any misleading way.
The hack in question is achieved, generally speaking, by using a modchip to allow users to connect to their Xbox's hard drives using an ordinary Windows PC, edit the cached map files that Halo 2 (like Halo 1 before it) keeps on the Xbox's hard drive, and then running the game with those edited map caches.
In this case, the mod author swapped the model of one weapon, the plasma sword, for another weapon, the plasma rifle, to get around the engine's definition of the sword as a non-dual-wieldable weapon.
This is one of the more trivial kinds of hacks that have been performed using Halo or Halo 2 on the Xbox; others have included a pilotable dropship and Pelican and a flying warthog.
More information on this and other user modifications to Halo and Halo 2 can be found at http://www.halomods.com
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Anonymous (not verified)
duel swords
that is cool i am like one of halos biggest fans i think the whole kill aliens thing is well cool.
Anonymous (not verified)
Halo duel swords
How??!!!!!!!
Anonymous (not verified)
howwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww??
howwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww??
Anonymous (not verified)
OMFG, that is the wildest thi
OMFG, that is the wildest thing I've seen yet....gimme gimme
Anonymous (not verified)
You can't duel wield plasma swords!!
I've played Halo 2 and (unfortunately) I fuond that (sniff) you cannot duel-wield plasma swords.
narcogen
Not without hacks
In reply to: You can't duel wield plasma swords!!This image was created using a modified Xbox and hacked Halo 2 map files.
No, we don't know how to do it.
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Anonymous (not verified)
how do you know someone hacke
how do you know someone hacked halo 2? it could be possible?
narcogen
Because...
In reply to: how do you know someone hackeBecause the guy who made the screenshot also wrote how he did it.
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Anonymous (not verified)
wtf
how the hell did they do that???
Legends
Fake
You can't duel weild those swords. I've played through halo 2 and it is just impossible(there are no cheats for halo or halo2. So i doubt that you can haave dual swords and that picture is a setup!
narcogen
Not fake
In reply to: FakeThis wasn't done in photoshop. It was done by hex editing map cache files-- the same way Halo 1 on the xbox was originally modified to allow players to fly warthogs and pelicans, or to change the behavior of many other things in the game.
It requires a modchip and a way to upload and download the files from the Xbox.
I'm not putting detailed information up on how to do it here, but sufficed to say, this isn't a photoshop hack.
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Anonymous (not verified)
U GUYS ARE IDIOTS
LOOOOL u guys are so stupid.. look at the damn picture... its not hacking... its nothing but coping and pasting. look here.. u knw when you hold ONE sword ur left hand sticks out .. like imagine the left hand without a sword.. see how it sticks out... hes not clutching it like the one on the right.... so obviously he took a picture and pasted another on on there and if u look up on the wepons on the top right corner it shows his second weapon as a plasma pistol.
SNAKE
ur right
In reply to: U GUYS ARE IDIOTSthats definetely copy paste, or photoshoped somehow, the plasma rifle and the left hand position gives it away.
narcogen
Sigh
In reply to: ur rightMost weapon mods like this are made by replacing one weapon with another. Since the game normally won't let you hold two swords, it was done by replacing another weapon's slot with a sword-- hence the different hand position and the lack of a lefthand weapon indicator.
If you want to believe it's a photoshop hack-- please be my guest. I didn't do the mod, so it doesn't really matter to me. However, much more than this was done on the Xbox with the original Halo game, and I expect much more will be done in the near future. It's possible-- players have been doing it for years. Check Google and you'll even find out how this mod was done.
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Anonymous (not verified)
OMG
In reply to: U GUYS ARE IDIOTSYOU ARE AN IDIOT. YOUR A F*@#(*& IDIOT!!! ITS NOT PicTURE EDITED. ITS MODDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ENERGY SWORD STAT CHANGED
non-dual weildable>weildable!!
Anonymous (not verified)
Modded console
It was just done with a modded Xbox. Whoever took the image linked it up to their PC with an FTP client and swapped hex values for the second weapon.
The reason you see the plasma weapon icon above is probably just because either they didn't swap that either or the game wasn't made to identify a plasma sword as ta weapon that can be dual-weilded.
Legends
No U think
No SHIT sherloc that's what i said and u think i'm an Idiot?
Anonymous (not verified)
hokay then.
In reply to: No U thinkWow, you're ego's big enough. No need to try to bring me down for helping making clear what no one else said.
You said it was a fake, quit changing your story. :\
Anonymous (not verified)
BS...
Its not hard to photoshop the other blade in... seriously, where is the proof? A picture isnt enough.
narcogen
Guys, go check the site
In reply to: BS...There are whole sites devoted to Halo and Halo 2 mods that have been doing and discussing Halo 2 mods now since the French leak-- and real H2 mods have existed since before the official release.
If you want to believe it's fake-- go right ahead. If you want to see how it was done and by who, check the forum thread the original story item links to, or just google it. It isn't hard to find. However, making mods like this to Xbox games, while non-trivial, is hardly impossible, and swapping weapon models is one of the easiest-- which is why this was one of the first mods made.
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Anonymous (not verified)
I have
In reply to: BS...I have proof, but i just wont give it here. Other wise people will be like, oh help me, oh i need help.....
All you do is get a program, copy a halo2 map, change the weapon variables. as easy as 1,2,3.
And do you seriously think that you can photoshop another sword in when the is a PHOTOGRAPH in crap quality?
Anonymous (not verified)
dual_swords
how do u do that
Anonymous (not verified)
dual swords
that mod is so old ive had that since it came out i made the mod
Anonymous (not verified)
dual swords
how do u get them
Anonymous (not verified)
If thats real then how come t
If thats real then how come there is a pic of a plasma rifle??? huh huh huh????????????????????????????/
narcogen
read the thread before replying
In reply to: If thats real then how come tRead the damn thread, this is already answered elsewhere. The mod is achieved by replacing the model of one weapon with that of another. The modder didn't bother to change the weapon's indicator in the hud because it isn't necessary.
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Anonymous (not verified)
nope
In reply to: read the thread before replyingYour wrong, its the weapon which Masterchief puts away when he dual weilds. And the models arent replaced. The stats of the sword is just changed so that it is dual weildable....
Anonymous (not verified)
omg....
In reply to: If thats real then how come tBECAUSE THATS THE BACKUP WEAPON YOU IDIOT!!!!
Anonymous (not verified)
how do u do that
how do u do that
Anonymous (not verified)
i was thinking that to
i was thinking that to
Anonymous (not verified)
dual energy swords
HOW THE F@$% DID YOU GET THAT
Anonymous (not verified)
ITS CALLED A MOD-ED XBOX
First why would u need more then one, and second if u have a modded xbox this is a piece of cake to do
Anonymous (not verified)
How do you do it?
How do you dual energy swords??? Please send answer to my email Address: mike.barr@cox.net
Anonymous (not verified)
Its not
Ive been able to do this too. You cant cat hit with one of them, when you hit with the right weapon you drop the left...
Legends
!!NEVER!!
you can't duel weild with a sword there is just noway, unless of cours ur a hacker.what i'm saying is that if you have one sword then you still can't duel weild with a gun. And the way the guy's hand is in that picture just spells out FAKE, because his hand is the way it is normaly when u have a sword. My little cousin even thinks it's "FAKE".
Anonymous (not verified)
dumb.
narcogen
read the thread before replying
In reply to: dumb.Legends
but
narcogen
*I* don't hack
In reply to: butBut I didn't make this image, I only posted it. It was taken by the author of the mod from HaloMods.
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Anonymous (not verified)
yeah its tru
Rampant AI (not verified)
It's not that hard to do!!!
Legends
Now i c
Anonymous (not verified)
stfu nub
Anonymous (not verified)
mirror hack
narcogen
No, it isn't
In reply to: mirror hackThis is not a photoshop trick. Kindly keep a civil tongue in your head, especially when you don't know what you're talking about.
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Anonymous (not verified)
how do you duel a sword
Anonymous (not verified)
your right
Anonymous (not verified)
YEAH IVE HEARD ABOUT THIS HACK B4
Anonymous (not verified)
halo2
Anonymous (not verified)
can some1 hook me up w/ a good deal for a mod chip
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