Halo 1: Final

[Cursed Lemon]

Your favorite shit-talking H1 veterans proudly bring you:

Final Fantasy Doom Fight Halo

 
 
Essentially, this is H1 + H1.5 + a bunch of tweaks to make the competitive experience even better. 
 
A list of features for those too lazy to click on the link: 
 

- In-Game Talking Timer

• Counts down every minute, announcing the seconds left every 10 seconds. Counts down from 10 to 1 second, with the “beeping” sound when powerup(s) spawn. The current minute is announced after beeping sound. Every 38 and 18 seconds of a minute, it also announces the minute that is up next.

- In-Game Sounds Removed

• Overshield Pickup, Camo Pickup, Health Pickup, Shield Charge. Shield Low, Shield Depleted, All Portal Sounds, Assault Rifle Pickup/Ready, Pistol Pickup/Ready, Rockets Pickup/Ready, Shotgun Pickup/Ready, Plasma Nade Pickup, Damnation Waterfall & “Tink” Sound, Downrush & Outbound Waterfall Sounds

- Optimized Texture/Bitmap Rendering

• All the maps in Halo 1: Final will be compressed using the most optimal texture/bitmap settings that the game recognizes. These “new” settings render all textures at around 1/8th the size of the originals, and does not hinder the output quality. Naturally, this method should reduce stress/usage on the xbox’s CPU and video card, which will result in a reduction of frame rate (fps) lag.

- All-In-1 Map Pack

• Unlike in Halo 1.5 where you had to switch back and forth between “Original Maps” and “New Maps”, Halo 1: Final will have all the best original & new maps in one convenient map pack.
• Original Maps – Chill Out, Hang-em High, Prisoner, Damnation, Derelict, Battle Creek, Rat Race, Wizard
• New Maps – Downrush, Exhibit, Imminent, Decidia, Outbound

- Other Changes

• New map pictures for chill out, damnation, and prisoner.
• Intro menu music removed.

 
Basically, this is the definitive Halo CE backup plan in case things go really, really south with MCC. 
 
Obviously requires a modded box. Donate if you're not a skidmark on Master Chief's underwear.

[natsu]

looks cool but i don't have a modded xbox

[chaosTheory]

I'll download & donate when the link goes up. Amazing stuff.

[Sitri]

Why not remove spread and full-auto functionality of the Pistol, just because?

[AkaDemiK]

god damn...

 

 

edit: videos 

 

 

[ZipCity117]

Why take out all the sounds? Seems sort of simplistic.

[Cursed Lemon]

Why take out all the sounds? Seems sort of simplistic.

 

Because using headphones for H1 is impractical and it's annoying when everybody in the room knows you picked up camo. 

[RunningRiot4Fun]

Nice!

[Rocker]

Now if I could just get my modded box back from the hotel in Raleigh I'd be all set. Looks awesome!

[Hitzel_89]

Man I need a new modded Xbox...

[Hard Way]

I came.

 

My LAN group has been briefed. This shit is getting played when I go back on leave.

[Riddler]

action replay is 50$ used on amazon...

 

what in the world

[ddsAKAjeff]

This is now available guys - http://www.halo1final.com

[VODE]

Good shit. To bad I have trouble getting a NTSC or modded xbox to be able to get this.

[ThreeShotPistol]

Already DL it. Will 100% be exclusively what we use at our LANs. Awesome work.

[wldstyl]

Wow, this is awesome. I wish I still had a group of people to LAN with. 

[Oby]

The website seems to be down now: www.halo1final.com

 

Will it come back up, or has the project been abandoned?

[Riddler]

The website seems to be down now: www.halo1final.com

 

Will it come back up, or has the project been abandoned?

I'll msg someone and get the dropbox link

 

 

edit: no1 has or is too lazy

[cmiz87]

Our LAN group has played this multiple times, but we still would love to see support for objective games. Also, the website is still down. If anyone needs a link to download, I can zip up what I've got on my xbox currently.

[Riddler]

Our LAN group has played this multiple times, but we still would love to see support for objective games. Also, the website is still down. If anyone needs a link to download, I can zip up what I've got on my xbox currently.

i dont think obj support is coming anytime soon, any work going on right now is going into neutral host.

[JukkisP]

How's the neutral host project progressing?

[Pyroteq]

Good shit. To bad I have trouble getting a NTSC or modded xbox to be able to get this.

 

It's pretty easy to soft mod your Xbox.

 

The hardest part will be finding a game like Mech Assault, 007, etc, that lets you crash the game and launch the softmod software.

 

Making the cable is easy. Grab an Xbox controller breakaway cable and a male-female USB extension cable. Cut the cables in half and splice them together and then plug in a USB.

 

There may even be new ways to do it that don't involve the original games, but I haven't checked in like 10 years.

[Riddler]

How's the neutral host project progressing?

very slowly...

[stunt_man]

Does anyone know where I can this? The site is still down. The drive I used to have it on has returned to nature unfortunately (but I don't think I had the last version anyway).

[VinnyMendoza]

Man

Someone should just like... mod Halo multiplayer so it's juuuust different enough to avoid lawsuit and release it on Xbox Store with online play.