Little SysLink Problem

supergamer · Post by **supergamer** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:43 am

Well, I got Halo 2 (collectors edition) and a hat after waiting out in the cold for an hour at 11:00 at my local ebgames, and got home and after putting in the disk, I went straight to campaign mode. Everything loads great, about 4x faster than the first halo, and I play through it on normal and beat it with little to no victory.
Now, replaying the campaign gets boring after a while, so I set up a system link game between me and my friend, being absent of a router to use xbox live with. After tapping A on the 'System Link' option over and over, all we ever got on our boxes was the "cannot find system connection...consult xbox manual...etc." message. Every once in while, one of us got in sys link and tryed hosting a server. Pressing A or Start only made a sound, didn't load a menu or nothing, and until the one trying to host quit, that is all it ever said.
Does anyone know why we cannot get system link to work?

The discs are mint condition, no scratches at all, and all gameplay except system link works fine.
The xbox' are both perfect with no errors, mine has a phillipps drive, and my friends is a samsung, so the disc is read properly. The system link cord is allright as well, proof of this is through a halo match we had a few nights ago ( http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/s ... 0_9306.jpg ).
Does this occure with everyone, or is it just our problem?
Any fix? A downloadable xbox live patch is NOT possible.

Locke · Post by **Locke** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:19 pm

So are you using a cross over cabel. A one designed for xbox? The cord might have worked on Halo1, but Halo2 they decided you have to have one specificly bought from them. Im not sure though

LiOnHeArTbLaDeX · Post by **LiOnHeArTbLaDeX** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 9:15 pm

dont think so.i used the same cord to play halo 1 and 2 with...

Ezekiel Akime · Post by **Ezekiel Akime** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:52 pm

Ive been using a patch cable that I made into a crossover cable to play all my games syslinked, Including the LE version of Halo 2, and it works like a charm. I even used a cable I extended to 30 feet by splicing two 15 footers into one. Sure its not yer cable or something broken on the xbox? Ive heard stories that some xbox's lan ports can break.

supergamer · Post by **supergamer** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 12:26 am

No, I fixed the problem. It is true, at least for the two games in this house, that the person hosting must have either a very, very high quality crossover cable, or the official Xbox one coming out of it. As long as the 'official' cord is in the hosting xbox, the game will allow it. But any other cable will not.
I wonder why some people can use other cables...

Ezekiel Akime · Post by **Ezekiel Akime** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:28 pm

I believe mine was a cat5.. some kinda upgraded version of cat5.. But not Cat6..

kaptainkommie · Post by **kaptainkommie** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:11 pm

Crossover and patch cables can both be cat5[e] or cat6. It depends on how it is terminated inside the RJ-45 that determines whether the cable is crossover or patch.