The History of HackHalo

Phenomena · Post by **Phenomena** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:31 pm

Humble Beginnings (CA Sept. 2003)

Its known history begins in the fall of 2003 (the site was actually founded in 2001, but very little is known about pre-September 2003). It was a fan community, founded mainly to form a place where people could get together and discuss their "modding" projects in a new game, Halo PC. It actually did pretty well, in its original days. Its most famous mod was called "Stealth Gulch", created by Ppsimakesmehigh. It provided several interesting tutorials on how to go about modding everything from your Xbox controller to connect to your PC to becoming an elite in Singleplayer. There were also information pages on the different maps, vehicles, and weapons.

FADAN and the Dark Days - (Spring 2004 - Spring 2005)

In the following months, a small faction that called themselves FADAN (Federation against Noobs and Dumbasses) started to flame any "noob" in the forum, shutting down the influx of new members for months, and putting HackHalo into a deep sleep. The site did not return to its normal activity until the summer of 2004, when members began to get hyped about the upcoming game, Halo 2. The forum remained active for the next month or so, but on the Christmas of 2004, the site was hacked, and many of the admins were banned. The site was brought back shortly, but was hacked several more times and was downed for a while. A backup forum had been put in place for the time being.

Integra-Mod and the Collapse of HackHalo (Spring 2005 - August 2005)

Once the site was brought back on-line, it put to use a new system called "Integra-Mod", which had its ups and downs. It was finally blamed for majorly slowing down the forums and killing the place off. The site once again almost died. There was an attempt to revitalize the site by changing the domain to vgmods.com, but this had little effect. Not much later, the owner of the vgmods.com domain, Ps2Player4u, decided to shut down the HackHalo community. For most, it looked like it was the end, and the small, friendly community packed their bags and went their seperate ways.

Rebirth (August 2005)

This, of course, did not last long, due to how tightly-knit the HackHalo community is. dpraedan, one of the lead admins for a majority of the known history of HH (affectionate term for the site), decided to take action, and began rounding up as many members as possible to try and bring HackHalo back to life. An older member of the site, Pronto, offered a free sub-domain on his hosting site, pronto185.com, called "hackhalo.pronto185.com". This reunited some of the famous Golden Members (translated: HackHalo AARP), enough to form a strong enough backbone to finally bring HackHalo to what it truly was: a close community of friends. To add to this boom, Yomama offered to donate hosting and the HackHalo.org domain to the admins, which is currently in place at the time of writing. The site has all but given up on actually modding Halo PC, but is now just a community for pretty much talking and posting stuff about computers and the world in general, and the only reason that its name is still HackHalo is because it's just been come to be known as that. Who knows? When Bungie decides to release Halo 2 for PC, maybe HH will go back to its roots and actually mod again. Everyone is certainly ready.

At this point and time, the admins, specifically dpraedan and Phenomena, are planning on starting a Halo modding contest, offering custom computer parts, modded personally by dpraedan and Stuntman, as prizes for the winners, to attempt to bring HackHalo back to its former glory.

Onetoomanysodas · Post by **Onetoomanysodas** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:40 pm

But why no mods?

Phenomena · Post by **Phenomena** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:44 pm

most of us have left halo modding, some dont even play halo anymore

which brings along the whole purpose of the modding contest

edit: and yes i realise that the whole HH vs HM flamewar was left out... its gonna take awhile to write that bitch up

Onetoomanysodas · Post by **Onetoomanysodas** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:53 pm

Phenomena · Post by **Phenomena** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:59 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hackhalo

*cough* check out well-known members section

BEEF!!! · Post by **BEEF!!!** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:01 am

Phenomena wrote:and yes i realise that the whole HH vs HM flamewar was left out... its gonna take awhile to write that bitch up

Ahaha... The cr4zy days

I remember we hated HH (Well a majority of the members did). The spamming from the opposite sites, the threats of hacking each other's forums, and all that fun stuff =P

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:50 pm

im going to join hack halo for the purpose of being the only modder lolianswbitif.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:50 pm

Heh. Last mod I made I started about 6 months ago, and still haven't finished. Soon, my pretties...

The Arbiter · Post by **The Arbiter** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:38 pm

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maca_§ · Post by **maca_§** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:16 am

BEEF!!! wrote:
Phenomena wrote:and yes i realise that the whole HH vs HM flamewar was left out... its gonna take awhile to write that bitch up
Ahaha... The cr4zy days
I remember we hated HH (Well a majority of the members did). The spamming from the opposite sites, the threats of hacking each other's forums, and all that fun stuff =P

lol - That was fun/funny.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:14 am

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GOD DAMN THEM! THEY DELETE EVERYTHING!

The Arbiter · Post by **The Arbiter** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:18 am

I'm famous! Click!

family_guy · Post by **family_guy** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:22 am

Aren't we all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy

The Arbiter · Post by **The Arbiter** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:23 am

Nice. Did you take a look at mine?

wes · Post by **wes** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:54 am

Wikipedia wrote:Phenomenon: Has been around for a looong time. Known as the duckman or duckmaster, for his odd love for his beloved Rubber duck

lolianswbitif

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:39 pm

rossmum wrote:Heh. Last mod I made I started about 6 months ago, and still haven't finished. Soon, my pretties...

LOLIANSWBITIF!!!!!

Reaper21 · Post by **Reaper21** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:03 pm

this is what really saddens me...
we modders keep splitting apart...
halo gamers used to be very split up too...
PC vs. X-box... o don't get me started on that!
and when modding came in...
PC vs. CE, GAH!!!
and now u people tell me that modders are splitting apart entirly??? ugh...
luckily I've been seeing the blur between PC and X-box increasing (someone on-line thought i play Halo 2 alot on x-box live but i'm mostly a PC/CE gamer because i've used H2 weapons in some h2 mods...)
the blur between PC modding and CE modding forming (i've noticed both sides develop more discovories leading to new modding options)
now if only we'd all unite! and charge against the forces of the Nintendo and PS2 gamers!!! I mean... against... some... other... whores... YEAH!!!

Phenomena · Post by **Phenomena** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:29 pm

and now u people tell me that modders are splitting apart entirly??? ugh...

so your saying halomods should be the only modding site, because if thats true i would have left modding LONG ago... frankly i dont like halomods i only post here because this is the most popular modding site.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:38 pm

Reaper21 wrote:this is what really saddens me...
we modders keep splitting apart...
halo gamers used to be very split up too...
PC vs. X-box... o don't get me started on that!
and when modding came in...
PC vs. CE, GAH!!!
and now u people tell me that modders are splitting apart entirly??? ugh...
luckily I've been seeing the blur between PC and X-box increasing (someone on-line thought i play Halo 2 alot on x-box live but i'm mostly a PC/CE gamer because i've used H2 weapons in some h2 mods...)
the blur between PC modding and CE modding forming (i've noticed both sides develop more discovories leading to new modding options)
now if only we'd all unite! and charge against the forces of the Nintendo and PS2 gamers!!! I mean... against... some... other... whores... YEAH!!!

im going to stick with modding PC, i wont make CE maps and i wont mod XBOX, im too stubborn.

Reaper21 · Post by **Reaper21** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:41 pm

o that didn't come out right did it? i have bad communication problems...
i meant to say that because like we're all competing and i've seen sites hate each other... i don't care if theres over 50 different modding sites... i'm just saying that we shouldn't be refusing stuff from each other or never interacting with each other, we should all join (and by join/unite i mean don't kill each other and do stuff FRIENDLY with each other) together... or at least don't flame just because someone from another site is... THERE. Or refuse members from one site to be on yours... believe me its happend... i couldn't join one site because it detected me to be on another site... (i think halomods acually) or something.