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Title: Halo 2 Splitscreen Problem
Post by: Birixidor on October 24, 2004, 01:32:00 AM

I was at a "box gathering" the other night and a couple people there had H2, playing in splitscreen multiplayer mode and I noticed one box had a vertically split screen. When I asked the guy about it he had said his box does it that way for some reason and there was no way to change it. Come to find out he has an older 1.0 box, the other box was a 1.5.

It looks like older boxes are going to get the "splitscreen shaft" so to speak, I hope not cause I have a 1.0 box and that would really suck to have my sideview limited so much and not be able to change it.

No flames please, I was offered to play but refused. I spent some hard earned cash on my preordered origional and I'll be damned if I'll let a "freebie" ruin my first experience of H2. I bring this up merely as a concerned preowner letting other people know of this possible misfortune.






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Title: Halo 2 Splitscreen Problem
Post by: Heet on October 24, 2004, 01:38:00 AM

When set to widescreen it does that.  4:3 is horizontal split.  <

Title: Halo 2 Splitscreen Problem
Post by: spartan024 on October 24, 2004, 12:13:00 PM

QUOTE (Heet @ Oct 24 2004, 08:30 AM)

When set to widescreen it does that.  4:3 is horizontal split.

Ok, any way to change it from widescreen to 4:3? I couldn't find those settings anywhere...  <

Title: Halo 2 Splitscreen Problem
Post by: A_Guy on October 24, 2004, 12:30:00 PM

I'm pretty sure that it is in the MS dashboard, just look around there.  <

Title: Halo 2 Splitscreen Problem
Post by: spartan024 on October 24, 2004, 02:40:00 PM

Yep, that's where it was....thanks.  <

Title: Halo 2 Splitscreen Problem
Post by: Birixidor on October 24, 2004, 02:52:00 PM

Well that's good to hear, will be waiting till 11/9 to find out because I have no clue how to get ahold of those other guys to test this. Sounds fesable tho, thank god. I was beginning to think I was going to get stuck in vertical splitscreen!


Thanks for the input!  <

Title: Halo 2 Splitscreen Problem
Post by: thegerudo on October 24, 2004, 10:35:00 PM

to be honest i dont think its a ms dash setting, i think its your tv's config... 16.9 tv's will do the horizontal, even if set the other way...   <

Title: Halo 2 Splitscreen Problem
Post by: squeek on October 26, 2004, 12:16:00 AM

yeah i read on a weekly update (i believe it was on an update) that you can change the vertical to horiz and vise versa they said that its easyer to do in sword battles  <

Title: Halo 2 Splitscreen Problem
Post by: rolly poly on October 26, 2004, 12:21:00 AM

it is dependent on your xbox's video settings, not your tv's....

and i read somewhere , a bungie update i believe, that the vertical split is only available in widescreen.

i just met someone last week with a similar problem, i noticed b/c his xbox boot logo was real skinny ;) he had no idea...

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Title: Halo 2 Splitscreen Problem
Post by: SparnY on November 17, 2004, 05:07:00 AM

Right okay!

I have evox, with halo 2 on my hard drive, with a small tv 4:3 or whatever(damn university).

I cant access my ms dash just the evo x one, if i click 'ms dash' is just reloads the evox dash so i cant change my video settings.

Although i do have media centre and its apparently on 4:3 which means halo 2 should be a horizontal screen....

Anyway around this? vert screen sucks big time.
would be okay i guess if evo x had video options... that cant be hard to incorporate into it surly, well whatever.
Does anyone know how to get horizontal screen in halo 2?

Regards Sparn     :blink:
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Title: Halo 2 Splitscreen Problem
Post by: A_Guy on November 17, 2004, 05:23:00 AM

Change the part in your evox.ini where is says

Item "MS Dashboard", "MS_Dashboard  (or something like that)

to

Item "MS Dashboard", "c:\xboxdash.xbe



And it will go to normal M$ dash if its in your C drive.  <