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This is that place where everything that doesn't go somewhere else goes. New to Halo, and wondering what this site talked about for 3 years? Browse around. Wondering where to find that cool Halo font, or where the link to the Halo Updates disappeared to, or wondering about what's been written about Halo in languages other than English? This is the place! Kick up your feet, browse around a bit...
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HBO Prime |
| These are items that are unique to HBO - or whose presentation is unique. They're things we feel all people interested in Halo would enjoy perusing. |
| Resource |
Date |
Description |
| Movie Cynics Database |
22 Dec 05 |
A database created when our own Miguel Chavez wanted to know how bad the plot of a Halo movie could get. It exists so that people can catalogue what they consider to be the worst cliche'd offenses that COULD be perpetrated by whoever ends up making a Halo movie - in the hopes that having these written down will actually keep someone from using them. |
| HEK Tutorial |
4 May 04 |
The HEK (Halo Editing Kit) Tutorial, presented in an easy to read format. Also available on a white background, which some find easier to read... or you can grab a zipped copy for easy downloading. |
| Alex Seropian Interview, April 26, 2004 |
26 Apr 04 |
Miguel Chavez had a chance to chat with Alex this morning about where Wideload is, and where it might be going... if the idea of a new game based on the Halo engine does anything for you... |
| Going Nowhere Fast |
26 Apr 04 |
Halo Xbox on Legendary Speedrun competition |
| Enkidu |
26 Apr 04 |
Read the complete Enkidu saga that entertained HBO for its entire run. |
| Win A Date With One One Se7en |
8 Apr 04 |
Come up with a brilliant one-liner using BOLL's Automagic 117 StripMaker, and win a cool prize! |
| AutoMagic 117 Stripz |
1 Apr 04 |
BOLL created an app for making stuntmutt's One One Se7en strips yourself. |
| Cold Plasma Still Sticks |
18 Feb 04 |
CYBRFRK wrote up a different kind of reminiscence about the Offensive Tetraboxing lanfest. New (gigantic) pictures... but the meat is in the text. Take a look - this is what HBO is all about. |
| HBO Elite Namelizer |
10 Feb 04 |
Stuntmutt's vision, and BOLL's work bring you an app to give you your own Elite name. |
| The HSP crew inverviewed the pair of Erics, Nylund and Trautmann. |
3 Feb 04 |
The Halo Story Page Crew cornered Eric Nylund and Eric Trautmann and got them to answer a few questions about the Halo backstory. |
| Frankie's Halo 2 Updates |
26 Jan 04 |
During the latter stages of Halo 2's production, Bungie PR representative Frank O'Connor began sending out weekly updates on the progress of the game to a number of Halo fansites. Here they are archived, in an easy-to-read format. |
| Plinth of Art |
6 Dec 03 |
The One One Seven Art contest. Entrees, winners, and prizes. |
| HBO's Great Halo Scavenger Hunt writeup |
6 Nov 03 |
HBO held a Scavenger Hunt - and a lot of people came. This is the post-mortem. |
| Dialogue Databank |
7 Jul 03 |
A collection of Halo dialogue snippets in MP3 and WAV format. They are organized by speaker, and the database is fully searchable. |
| Pillar of Art Contest |
19 Jun 03 |
A traditional media art contest for Halo-related art. There were actual cash prizes, which brought out actual artwork. Killer artwork, even. |
Art |
| No, not some guy - it's artwork that doesn't fit into other niches around the site. Scans of flyers distributed at events, model collections (too big for a single Miscellaneous Art submission), icons... just art. |
| Resource |
Date |
Description |
| PoA Grand Prize |
6 Aug 03 |
The grand prize in the Pillar of Art contest - a framed piece by Lorraine McLees originally done for Bungie's 10th Anniversary party. |
| Multiplayer Color Image |
22 Jun 03 |
High resolution TIFF file with all 18 multiplayer colors, 689K. |
| Paper Model of Master Chief |
21 Mar 03 |
A paper model to build and place on your desk. (Originally on the site playmore.com, now local because it's vanished from there.) |
| Weapons schematics from Halo PDF manual |
20 Jan 03 |
Gholsbane and Brian Hannan went to the trouble of extracting the weapons schematics from the Halo Manual - they're available in both raster and vector formats. |
| Halo 2 Photo Story slides |
10 Jan 03 |
In early January, 2003, Microsoft released a WMP9-only slideshow. Thanks to some kind readers, we can present to you the individual slides, for all those people without access to a WMP9 player. |
| Halo Difficulty Badges |
5 Nov 02 |
Dave Candland sent along high-res versions of the badges that show when you pick your difficulty level in Halo. This is also available as a layered Photoshop file (499k zipped) for anyone who wants to use it in fan-created artwork. |
| Japanese Halo Site Goodies |
19 Mar 02 |
A package of some music, sounds, and screens, lifted from the Official Japanse Halo site by Alan Wu, for the sake of the non-Japanese-speaking. |
| OSX Halo Icons |
2 Mar 02 |
An assortment of Mac OSX-ready icon images, made up of various graphics from the Halo universe. Created by Malagigi. You can preview them here, as well. |
| Halo Desktop Icons |
1 Mar 02 |
An assortment of Halo-themed desktop icons for your personal computing needs, in both .gif and .ico format and created by Djoey.154. |
| ASCII Halo Marine, redux |
30 Oct 01 |
An extremely detailed, very large, colored ASCII depiction of the Halo Marine, done again by [SE]X-Com. |
| ASCII Halo Marine |
29 Oct 01 |
A large-scale Halo Marine, done entirely in ASCII art. Created by [SE]X-Com. |
| Halo Box Image Change |
18 Oct 01 |
A page showing something odd - a side-by-side comparison between the ordinary Halo DVD box, and the thumbnail of the box that was displayed at the online store Futureshop.ca. For whatever reason, Futureshop used a different, completely unknown image. |
| Old Halo Marine Icon |
5 May 01 |
A charming little .gif image for use as a system icon, in the shape of the head of the old Halo marine. Downloadable as a miniscule Mac folder. Created by arcarsenal. |
| E3 Flyer Scans - Inside |
28 May 00 |
Scan of a press flyer (inside cover) taken from a Bungie E3 presentation movie; shows the Master Chief and contains a brief summary of the Halo backstory. .jpg format. |
| E3 Flyer Scans - Outside |
28 May 00 |
Scan of a press flyer (outside cover) taken from a Bungie E3 presentation movie; shows the Master Chief and contains a brief summary of the Halo backstory. .jpg format. |
Background |
| This is a collection of items that contain background information about Halo or its creation. If you want to dig a little deeper... look here. |
| Resource |
Date |
Description |
| Halo:CE | HEK Tutorial Mirrors |
6 May 04 |
The Halo Custom Edition and the Halo Editing Kit Mirrors Page. |
| Chiastic Style of Halo |
26 Dec 03 |
Dispatcher has written up an interesting analysis of the Halo storyline, with an eye to explaining some of the repetition in level design as intentional, rather than practical necessity. |
| Halo PC Dedicated Server v1.03 Readme |
9 Dec 03 |
Bungie's newest version of the Dedicated PC server readme. |
| Halo Movie Hosting Information |
26 Jul 03 |
An overview of the movie-hosting situation here at HBO, in an attempt to inform people who want to help. |
| Halo Movie Starter Guide |
23 Jun 03 |
A how-to movie creation guide written up by c0ld vengeance. |
| 'The X-Factor' Press Release |
15 Jun 03 |
Press release for the Discovery Channel special on the X-box, which heavily features Bungie and Halo/Halo2. |
| E3 Trailer Impressions |
12 May 03 |
b.org staffer mnemesis got in early to see the press screening of the Halo 2 trailer at E3 - and wrote up his experience. |
| Reference Guide for Halo MP |
27 Apr 03 |
Reference Guide for Halo Multi-player Gametype Creation |
| Halo Babies Episode Guide |
3 Mar 03 |
The full 3-season episode guide for the children's show, sadly in limbo after its first season. |
| Brian Morden Sound Clip |
15 Feb 03 |
A high-quality sound sample of Brian's single line in Halo: CE, provided by Marty O'Donnell. |
| Brian Morden Fund |
19 Jan 03 |
Originally set up to give the HBO community a way to contribute to the Morden family for the expenses incurred by Brian's illness, it's become, after his death, a way for the community to contribute to a Brian Morden higher education scholarship, funding for Ewing's Sarcoma research, and contributions to patient care at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. |
| Loony Sarge |
8 Dec 02 |
An interesting little clip, described by gd in this forum post, recorded for this post. Update, August 2003: This clip is now available both from our Dialogue Databank and Bungie's Dialogue Archive - both are better quality than this original. However, this was still the first we'd heard. |
| A Fan Letter |
17 Nov 02 |
We get plenty of mail here, but there aren't many notes like this one. We thought it was worth sharing. |
| Useful Halo Tidbits |
6 Nov 02 |
poena.dare #CP# created several graphic images to illustrate various facts about Halo. They can help you get your bearings far better than straight text will. |
| Random Stats |
20 Oct 02 |
Zachary Hahn armed himself with a stopwatch and a copy of Halo, and calculated a number of statistics about the Halo world. Check out his results. |
Fan Creations |
| Stuff created by you, the fans. Models, Winamp skins, descriptions of insane feats... whatever. If it's in here, a fan made it. |
| Resource |
Date |
Description |
| 3D Screenshot |
30 May 04 |
Bungie created a 3D screenshot, and BOLL created this version for people without quicktime. |
| Analysis of Halo: Combat Evolved using Game Design Patterns |
30 Mar 04 |
BOLL wrote an interesting paper for school. He uses a methodology developed last year by three Scandinavian researchers to break down gameplay in Halo, and determine how well the game would work without the patterns found. |
| Churchill Halo Speeches |
22 Mar 04 |
Walshicus created a pair of speeches modeled on ones given by Winston Churchill in 1940. |
| Madda Cheeb: Golfer |
22 Mar 04 |
Benny, from Xbox Ottawa (part of the team behind the FTC videos) has submitted a new Flash game - Madda Cheeb: Golfer. |
| Guitar Tab of the Opening Halo Theme |
16 Mar 04 |
A guitar tab of the Opening theme of Halo, created by XvShadow. |
| Pillar of Autumn |
15 Mar 04 |
Frankie 'Deadpool' G. had been creating Halo miniatures out of Warhammer 40k models. |
| Dancing MC |
11 Mar 04 |
Ragnarok shows off the Dancin' MC. I gotta say - he's pretty funny! 13 seconds, 672K, in DivX format. |
| Halo Dot Game |
5 Mar 04 |
J Squared has submitted a Halo Dot Game; download this image and print it out, and you and a friend can play this classic pencil-and-paper game with a twist. 372 kb jpeg, suitable for printing at 8.5 x 11 at 300 dpi. |
| Beginner's Guide to Halo PC Hacking |
4 Mar 04 |
XLNC has posted a rather extensive guide to Halo PC Hacking for beginners. Many usefully tips in this one. |
| Blood Gulch, a story of Bravery and Servival. |
3 Mar 04 |
Michael Frank and some others wrote a Flash animation; it's a 4 mb story of Bravery and Survival (yeah, their words) in our favorite canyon. |
| Fur-lo, Tina Leyk's Halo Furry Fan Comic |
1 Mar 04 |
Tina Leyk has created a Fan Comic that is a blend of Halo and Furry/Fantasy. |
| Tina Leyk's Halo Fan Art. |
1 Mar 04 |
Tina Leyk has a great collection of Halo Fan Art. |
| Player Stats |
1 Mar 04 |
Greg Irvine put together a spreadsheet to keep track of player stats for his local LAN group. He's now made it available to the community as a whole. |
| Warthog Launch revisited |
25 Feb 04 |
BOLL continues to turn out flash games for the masses. This creation has you launching warthogs into engineers for points. |
| Active Camo MC from Joyride |
19 Feb 04 |
Danny Kolacz spent an hour getting a promo Active Camo MC into a regular Joyride container. |
Fan Music |
| The Halo score is impressive enough that it's begun to inspire tributes all by itself. Here you can find music based to some degree on themes found within Halo. |
| Resource |
Date |
Description |
| The Best of Halo |
4 Apr 04 |
It's bits of dialogue, set to a Halo soundtrack, comprising what the author, Rob (Hippo) Palardy, considers "some of the finer parts of Halo, both gameplay and story." |
| Programmed For War |
3 Apr 04 |
Created by Rayagon, he considers it a work-in-progress, but he's not sure he'll ever get around to another edit, in his words, "I was just feeling like channelling the Master Chief badassedness into some music one day, and the mix came out." |
| Repeater |
23 Feb 04 |
Mothergoat has written another Halo inspired song. This one is intended for background music in Fan Videos (3:20 long, 3 mb mp3). |
| Hail to 117 Anthem |
9 Feb 04 |
Mothergoat's full version of Hail to 117 (just over 5 minutes long, 4.7 mb). |
| Hail to 117 |
5 Feb 04 |
A musical creation by Mothergoat (2 minutes, 1.8mb). |
| Halo Master and Chief |
15 Dec 03 |
The sweet radar of the familar opening choral chant to HALO sparked Justin Durban's inspiration to do this track. Read the author's comments here. |
| Halo 2 Hip Hop |
18 Nov 03 |
chaostheory has mixed a bit of music from the Halo 2 trailer with some other samples for a new Hip Hop sound (2:13 long, just under 2 mb). |
| Mombasa |
17 Sep 03 |
Another Silverbrin piece - read the author's comments here. |
| Ruined Desert |
26 May 03 |
A haunting piece of fan-created music (inspired by Marty O'Donnell's Halo theme). Read the author's thoughts here. |
| Get Up (Halo Mix) |
22 Jan 03 |
An electronica Halo-sample song created by D.J. Cliché; 5.6 mb. |
| Belly of the Beast (Remix) |
31 Dec 02 |
A powerful piece of Halo fan music, originally posted at Xboxworld.nl. The author was kind enough to write up some comments. |
| Atom's Halo Tribute |
25 Dec 02 |
An audio tribute to Halo. The influence is subtle... |
| Mahdrigalo 2 |
19 Nov 02 |
Another piece from Silverbrin. Started out as a reworking of his original 'Mahdrigalo', turned into something more. Read the author's thoughts here. |
| Edgen HALO 2 Theme |
11 Nov 02 |
Another great piece of fan-created music (inspired by Marty O'Donnell's Halo 2 theme). Read the author's thoughts here. |
| Halo Electronica |
28 Oct 02 |
Another SilverBrin offering, this time with both Halo and Oni influences. Read the author's comments here. |
Fun |
| Bizarre Halo-related stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else (but is too good to simply toss out). |
| Resource |
Date |
Description |
| Red vs Blue in the Wall Street Journal |
10 Apr 04 |
Scans of an article in the Wall Street Journal about the Red vs Blue team. |
| Xbox Halloween costume |
3 Nov 03 |
Chris Macias dressed up as an Xbox for candy. Life-size! |
| HBO HaloPC Fanstock Writeup |
16 Aug 03 |
A recounting of an event at Gearbox headquarters in Texas, just before release of Halo PC, aimed at fansite maintainers. |
| Keyes Exploration |
29 Jul 03 |
c0ld vengeance uses his modded Xbox and a lot of patience to give Keyes what he always wanted... a tour of his ship. |
| Team HBO Halo 50k |
3 Jun 03 |
Halo 50k pictures and writeup from Team HBO |
| Limited-Edition E3 Master Chief figures |
29 May 03 |
Photos by Warbow of the mini-Master Chief action figure distributed to Fanfest-goers at the E3 2003 Fanfest. Very cool little guy... |
| Bungie Fanfest 2003 T-shirts |
26 May 03 |
Some pictures of the myriad of Bungie-related T-shirts available at E3 2003 (not all were PUBLICLY available, but all were obtained at E3). |
| Grunt-O-Lantern |
31 Oct 02 |
A Bungie webcam shot showing a Dave Candland Halloween creation. Thanks to mnemesis for saving this while HBO HQ staff was trick-or-treating. |
| Bungie Dream Team |
31 Aug 02 |
Picture of the Bungie Dream Team, beaten soundly at the Halo National Championship Finals in LA |
| E3 Fanfest - Closing Up Shop |
27 May 02 |
Picture taken at the end of the 2002 Bungie Fanfest in Santa Monica, showing most of the attendees. Numerous Bungie employees, Bungie fans, and general troublemakers. Snapped by Miguel Chavez. |
| Xbox.com April Fools Site |
31 Mar 02 |
An archive of Xbox.com's 2002 April Fools homepage. Contains all sorts of... interesting content. |
| Picture of the Xbox eBay auction |
20 Nov 01 |
A page archived from a wonderful eBay listing, where one happy fellow was auctioning off a "picture of the BRAND NEW XBOX". Bids reached upwards of 300 dollars. Page archived by bungie.org's Doughnut. |
History |
| Here you'll find pages or collections of stuff that once had meaning - but has now been superceded. A browse through here is a walk down Halo's Memory Lane. |
| Resource |
Date |
Description |
| Halo 2 Pre-Release Playable Game On Ebay |
31 May 04 |
A Halo 2 Pre-Release Playable Game Ebay auction (an obvious fake). Only one working link, the bids page (so you can see the insanity). |
| Mac Halo 1.05 Patch Press Release |
19 May 04 |
The iHalo press release for the patch that fixes a number of issues. |
| Halo 2 LE Press Release |
11 May 04 |
Here's the Limited Edition Halo 2 press release sent to websites just before E3 2004. |
| HaloPC Worldwide Championship Finals Press Release. |
13 Feb 04 |
HaloPC Worldwide Championship Finals 04 Press Release. |
| JoyRide Studios 2004 Halo Toys Lineup |
29 Jan 04 |
Richard White Jr sent us some information about the 2004 toy lineup from JoyRide, straight from its distributor (he's a retailer). |
| Mac Halo 1.03 Patch Press Release |
19 Jan 04 |
The Press release for the patch of iHalo, making it compatible with our WinPC brethren. |
| Mac Halo Ships |
11 Dec 03 |
The press release from MacSoft about Mac Halo shipping. |
| Mac Halo Gold Press Release |
7 Dec 03 |
The press release from MacSoft about Mac Halo going gold |
| Bungie Acquisition FAQ |
29 May 03 |
When Bungie was bought by Microsoft, they released a Frequently-Asked Questions document covering some of the basics of the transaction. It's long gone off of Bungie's site, but we've dredged a copy up and archived it here for the sake of history. |
| Safari Fix |
15 Jan 03 |
When Apple released Safari, HBO cookies stopped working for many mac users. A kind reader sent in a fix for this problem. It shouldn't be necessary any more (a separate solution has been installed, server-side, that SHOULD allow ALL HBO visitors to receive cookies from us), but is included for historical purposes. |
| Vehicles on Top of Blood Gulch |
11 Dec 01 |
Archive of an email from Finn of Team 7HR33, explaining in detail the proper method for moving all of the vehicles on the map to the roof of the Blood Gulch bases, and then inside. Team 7HR33 was the first to do this. |
| Warthog Influences |
22 Mar 01 |
Images of some real-life military vehicles that may have inspired the Warthog in Halo. All bear a resemblance to it in design and apppearance. |
| Second Covenant Rifle |
1 Jan 01 |
Brief rundown on the saga of the "second Covenant rifle", seen briefly in only a few released videos and screenshots, and eventually removed from the game. |
| Covenant Jeep Turret |
1 Jul 00 |
Small page explaining the controversy over a feature of the red Covenant "Jeep" that was removed from the final game. |
| Old HBO Halo Weapons Page |
8 Apr 00 |
Outdated HBO Weapons informational page. Features images and descriptions of the weapons once included in the early PC/Mac Halo builds. |
Transcripts and Translations |
| Often, when large movies were released, or non-English articles on Halo were written, we'd post a transcription (or translation) of the item. You'll find our collection here. |
| Resource |
Date |
Description |
| CPL Chat Transcript |
29 Oct 03 |
Transcript of an IRC chat with Gearbox, Bungie and Microsoft hosted by the Cyberathlete Professional League. |
| Translation - Pete Parsons Interview |
28 Sep 03 |
German magazine Blick Online interviewed Pete Parsons at X03 - Harry Al-Shakarchi translated. |
| E3 2003 Fanfest Q&A Transcript |
26 May 03 |
A transcript of the Q&A Bungie held at the E3 2003 Fanfest - boatloads of good info on Bungie games, past, present, and future. |
| E3 2003 Halo 2 Trailer Transcript |
12 May 03 |
What it sounds like - a transcript of the E3 2003 Halo 2 Demo Trailer. It's been updated and corrected several times since the original post date; it's now got Bungie's seal of approval for accuracy. |
| Halo 2 Trailer Transcript |
4 Sep 02 |
Full transcript of the Halo 2 trailer, compiled from forum posts and input from Bungie employees. |
| GameReactor interview alternate translation |
10 Jul 02 |
A second translation, this time by Christian Hølberg, of the GameReactor (Denmark) interview with Jaime Griesemer, Halo 2 Lead Designer. |
| GameReactor interview translation |
9 Jul 02 |
A translation, by Johannes Petersson, of the GameReactor (Denmark) interview with Jaime Griesemer, Halo 2 Lead Designer. |
| Translations - Japanese Television Commercials |
26 Apr 02 |
Translations of the four Japanese Halo television commercials released in April 2002. Mangled into English by Robert Whitaker. |
| Translation - MSN.dk Danish Halo Review |
14 Mar 02 |
Translation of the Halo review posted at msn.dk in March of 2002. Translated by Sippan. |
| Translation - Swedish Halo Preview |
1 Oct 01 |
Translation of a Swedish Halo preview, by Sippan. |
| E3 2001 Movie Transcript |
20 Mar 01 |
Transcript of the dialogue from the E3 2001 Halo trailer. |
| Gamestock Halo Transcript |
11 Jul 00 |
Transcript of Joe Staten's narration from the 2001 Gamestock Halo presentation. |
| Translation - PC Games "Battle for the Ringworld" |
6 Jun 00 |
Translation by Harry Al-Shakarchi of PC Games's German "Battle for the Ringworld" article featuring the original PC/Mac Halo. |
| Translation - GameStar Halo Preview |
3 Apr 00 |
Translation by Harry Al-Shakarchi of GameStar's April 2000 German Halo preview of the original PC/Mac Halo. |
| Translation - MacNews Halo Preview |
14 Mar 00 |
Translation by Mikkel Eriksen of MacNews's 2000 Danish Halo preview of the original PC/Mac Halo. |
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