A. Aronsson’s WeBOLLog

This was the pinnacle of my modding “carrier” of Halo 1, which was shortly after it begun. After that I mostly experimented with weird stuff and looked for hidden things.

Here lots of shaders have been swapped, as well as models, projectiles, particles and mainly… vehicle speed. I managed to get the level dark, so the fire from the wheels would be clearly visible.

It was a ton of fun to record, maybe I should boot up the old Xbox with a patched map…

2003-08-25

This is a collection of videos from Halo:CE on the Xbox from around 2003. Most of it is with modding or other hacks (everything but the first clip!). The source material was captured with various weird USB or PCI devices, so sound and image quality varies greatly. Sound can be especially bad, beware.

2003

This is another Halo Hacking video. It features flying Ghosts, Warthogs, Scorpions and a little more. As well as overpowered weapons, swapped shaders and textures, which is quite noticeable.

As I was so busy exploring the innards of the game at the time, I didn’t have any brains left to come up with a sensible video title, so “Bah” it was.

2003-08-18

My current apartment got a fairly narrow kitchen, so when I moved in I begun thinking of how to put a kitchen table in there, someplace to eat, without blocking off half the room. After throwing away many ideas I picked up a kitchen table top, six brackets, a set of mirrors and a series of spots from IKEA and a fiber board, wooden strips at the hardware store. To this I use three bar stools also from IKEA, and actually the wall clock and timer as well.

• Table top: VIKA BYSKE (in oak, unavailable now)
• Brackets: STILIG (10¼”)
• Mirrors: ALG (only needed three)
• Spots: GRUNDTAL
• Bar stools: ANSSI (29″)

I started by getting the table top sawed in half. Something we had missed was that the table top had ridges on the underside, but we filled those with putty, and since we mounted everything I haven’t noticed them a single time. Me and my father prepared the top half by mounting the spots (required some drilling). We first attached a bracket to the corner, where it was screwed into the side wall as well. Then we fused a fiber board to the bottom half of the table top and mounted all that to the wall, resting on top of the bracket. More brackets were added.

The fiber board was required as the wall wasn’t entirely flat, and we needed a flat surface to put the mirrors on. We put the top half of the table top on top of the fiber board (lots of top there!), like a shelve with the brackets on the wrong side, and then screwed wooden strips to the fiber board before mounting the mirrors with double-sided wide adhesive tape. The description might make more sense if you check out the images below.

Voilà!

I use the top shelve for electronics, like the microwave oven, receiver, old 5.1 system, toaster and radio. Some people that visit me thinks it’s really freaky if you meet their eyes in the mirrors instead of person to person when we eat, which can be fun… but it does indeed feel a bit weird!

I’m going to repost some of my old videos, from the days when hacking/modding Halo was the hottest thing ever (in the Halo community anyway). The first one is Happy Hacking, released a few days after PfhorSlayer had put out his lists for resources in the mapfiles. In the beginning we used those to manually change hex values in the cached mapfiles, then you would re-upload them to the Xbox and hope for them to boot. It was very exciting, and also resulted in the discovering of the Engineer, Flamethrower and Gravgun, which were unused in the actual game.

2003-08-08