This man is working on getting original XBL and halo2 back online!

[Botheredhat360]

Here is the reddit link

https://redd.it/5nrsyc

Here is what it says

This project's goal is to recreate the xbox live service for the original xbox so that people can play games like Halo 2 and such who's online servers are no longer operational. This service is only for the original xbox, and the xbox emulator on 360. In order to try and keep it within safe terms I am NOT support any Microsoft console that still has working xbox live services. My service works on modded, un-modded (ex stock, retail), and development original xbox consoles, and I plan to make sure the xbox emulator for 360 works as well. It only requires you run a DNS re-director program on a computer on your local network, and set the DNS server IP settings on your xbox console to the IP address of the computer running the DNS re-director. I'm planning on making the DNS re-director application run on Windows, Liniux, OSX, and the Raspberry Pi, and it will be open source so people can port it to any other devices you may want to install it on. Once your DNS settings are setup all you have to do is create an account and sign in. From there it will function just as xbox live would normally function. I'm planning on setting up servers for Halo 2 matchmaking, and providing an open source API that people can download and use to write their own servers for other games they want to add support for. You might be wondering why Halo 2 when there are remakes, and why original xbox when the xbox one and 360 still have working live? Well the remakes of Halo 2 have very few people playing them online, and are not as smooth as the original version. Plus my service will allow people to also play matches with custom levels (ex: the Killtrocity map pack). The original xbox was also a great experience for those who had it during its time, and there are still a lot of people who want to play the games that no longer have online servers running. So I have been working on this project on and off for a little over a year, spending about 6 solid months of work on it. I'm still finalizing the signin process as there are a lot of services tied into it. Once that is done the title server for Halo 2 will start being developed and that will lead to public access.

Here is the imgur link

 

http://imgur.com/GWnFOwX

 

This is incredible!

We should show support

[Lickmyb4c0n]

My nostalgia goggles are on... the OG Xbox was so dope. Wish I still had mine...

[Hasuku CE]

if you could find a way to get h1 to work on this aswell that would be sweet

[Hootspa]

if you could find a way to get h1 to work on this aswell that would be sweet

 

Even if that were possible, it would require the people using it to have a modded xbox, which would put H1 players in the same exact spot they are now: stuck playing a game with poor accessibility :/

[Botheredhat360]

Even if that were possible, it would require the people using it to have a modded xbox, which would put H1 players in the same exact spot they are now: stuck playing a game with poor accessibility :/

yeah a lot of people who still play halo ce have h1 final 

[WARGOD]

It's rather unfortunate that someone has to take the time, effort and energy to do something that a video game studio was too incompetent to do despite the fact that they were getting paid for it.

 

Much respect to this guy and his effort, which is miles ahead of what 343 has left us with.

[Apoll0]

I keep saying this but give this guy and some other community members the source code to MCC and it would be fixed in a month.

[Riddler]

I keep saying this but give this guy and some other community members the source code to MCC and it would be fixed in a month.

warning: grapevine post

 

when rumors circulated that 343 hired a halo PC modder to work on mcc, within a week, halo 1 got a ton of updates like SAPP. So my speculation is that your statement is true.

[Riddler]

would this allow us to download the map packs and updates to our xbox? that was a major pain on xbc.

[ZerueLX11]

Even if that were possible, it would require the people using it to have a modded xbox, which would put H1 players in the same exact spot they are now: stuck playing a game with poor accessibility :/

 

Not to mention H1 netcode was never built with modern connections in mind. GG leading shots on a controller.

[Twisted M]

Not to mention H1 netcode was never built with modern connections in mind. GG leading shots on a controller.

?

 

People played H1 Online via XBC for a decade.

[FarSight XR~20]

Would be nice to have this back...

 

[-DeucEy-]

I keep saying this but give this guy and some other community members the source code to MCC and it would be fixed in a month.

 

It's funny you say that because I believe so as well. When Josh Holmes was still actively posting in the H5 thread, I specifically offered my abilities for that very thing. Said I'd do it for free in my spare time too. I didn't even want to get paid for it because that's how much I love Halo and wanted to play the game we all want to.

[Lazer]

Looking forward to seeing updates about it. Hope hes able to do this.

[stunt_man]

warning: grapevine post

 

when rumors circulated that 343 hired a halo PC modder to work on mcc, within a week, halo 1 got a ton of updates like SAPP. So my speculation is that your statement is true.

Source pls. I want to know who this supposed Halo PC modder was pls thx

 

Hang on are you saying that since this Halo PC modder got involved, H1 MCC got "updates like SAPP"? Or are you talking about the PC version?

 

Because MCC certainly does not "have SAPP". It's a community-made mod and the creator of SAPP was not involved whatsoever in the development of MCC, to my knowledge anyway.

[Destroyaaa]

Need superbouncing back. This would be great. Any timetable?

[Riddler]

Source pls. I want to know who this supposed Halo PC modder was pls thx

 

Hang on are you saying that since this Halo PC modder got involved, H1 MCC got "updates like SAPP"? Or are you talking about the PC version?

 

Because MCC certainly does not "have SAPP". It's a community-made mod and the creator of SAPP was not involved whatsoever in the development of MCC, to my knowledge anyway.

source was fb chat, thought i forgot who was saying this. and i dont think it was the creator of sapp, just a hpc modder.

[fascination]

Interesting post... Nice find... Lol

[Lazer]

Where can you stay up to date on the project?

[Botheredhat360]

Where can you stay up to date on the project?

no where unfortunately

[Stoppabl3]

The real question is how can you donate? Need that H2 in my life.. 

[BlackShadow]

The real question is how can you donate? Need that H2 in my life.. 

 

...you can play it on MCC, you can play in on PC through Vista/Project Cartographer, you can LAN it, and you can play it on XBC.  Let's create another 20 ways to play 7 Halo games and divide our community even further.  

[Stoppabl3]

...you can play it on MCC, you can play in on PC through Vista/Project Cartographer, you can LAN it, and you can play it on XBC.  Let's create another 20 ways to play 7 Halo games and divide our community even further.  

 

joking aside, if this works this will be the definitive way to play h2. 

[fascination]

When did they star doing this? ... Lol

[BlackShadow]

 

joking aside, if this works this will be the definitive way to play h2. 

 

It actually does work much better than people who stopped playing MCC realize.  The regular H2 playlist and HC work pretty well now.  It isn't perfect as you may get booted from the game before it begins, and you will get 3 losses if the host switches or lags out so you can't play it in Team Doubles.  But honestly it's not that bad anymore.  And customs work almost flawlessly besides the occasional lag.