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Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit

icode4.coffee published 2024-04-11

Everything I went through to add support for HD resolutions to Halo 2 on the Original Xbox. From patching the game's rendering engine and memory allocator, to hot patching the Xbox OS, to overclocking the GPU and running performance benchmarks. This post covers how I pushed the game and console to t

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