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May 21st, 2007, 09:46 GMT · By

PSP Gamers Get Ready for Halo 3 Beta! No Joke - Video

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Everything's there, buty how is this possible?
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Now this, you've gotta see. Halo 3 Beta on the PSP. It doesn't look like a hoax at all, but how is this possible? You have to take into consideration controls, the Internet connection, the PSP's processing power and of course reading the memory stick. I don't know how it was done, but Halo 3 appeared on the screen of a PSP, that much I can tell you for sure.


When you're done reading (which was just about 10 seconds ago I'm sure), check out the footage. Here are some elements I chose to highlight, referring to the quite believable gameplay footage of Halo 3 Beta on the PSP:

- First of all, the user takes the console out of a protective case. The images shown when he takes the PSP out and then places it back in after he's done gaming are quite bad actually. The camera moves around a lot and it's not certain if anything is connected to the PSP, as the user doesn't step too far away from the handheld.

- Second of all, every option and selection done on the PSP looks genuine. Although it takes him forever to select whatever he needs to play, towards the end of the whole video, he actually goes online. How the heck did he do it? Whatever it is, I'm telling you the PSP's screen shows Halo 3 in action.

- Master Chief moves 100% accordingly to button presses. There's no doubt that even if the footage was cut from a TV screen and placed over the PSP's, the user controls his character with the PSP's directional analog stick and individual buttons (square, triangle, circle and X button).

- The image is fuzzy so you can't see everything that's going on the in the menus before the game commences, plus I couldn't see any games when going online but there was indeed a list of something there, written in white.

Why don't you check it out for yourself and see if I missed anything, only to come back and call me names in the comments column.


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Comment #1 by: TE on 06 Dec 2007, 17:47 UTC reply to this comment

its just a video u can see that the vide gets cut right after the load video that the psp always show after u start a game.

he stater onother videogame or homebrew (clearly that psp is homebrew enabled) and then stoped recording, then started the video and turned on the camara again. its so clear.

also look at whe the menus muve some times he moves his finger to the directional buttons after the meus have moved.


Comment #2 by: mitch on 25 Jan 2008, 00:10 UTC reply to this comment

wtf how do you get this, is it homebrew or is your psp moded cuz bungie would never give halo to playstation

Comment #2.1 by: Shaun Gleadall on 24 Aug 2008, 04:55 GMT

Did you hear about Bungie breaking off from Mocrosoft and teaming up with Nintendo. They were creating Halo for DS but there was an argument about money and it was recently cancelled. I guess anything can happen now. If the decide to go with Sony it will probably work out because I'm sure Sony will be very willing to pay for a game all PSP gamers long for. Keep your fingers crossed!

Comment #2.2 by: IAmAGuy on 18 Sep 2008, 00:39 GMT

I hope you know that Microsoft owns Halo. The only reason Bungie still has any write to it at all in Halo 3 is that cutting them off completely would cost Microsoft lots of money. They can not and will not make another Halo game. They is no way that they even thought of Nintendo. Proof? Halo wars. If Microsoft was ever going to let Bungie make any more Halo games, that would be it.


Comment #3 by: vetta on 06 Mar 2008, 09:48 UTC reply to this comment

fake the load time matched my xbox perfectly btw ;) you know right after he STOPS THE CAMERA ...AFTER THE GAMEBOOT ;)

but HERES A BONUS I USED CHARNOLDS dungeons psp engine AND MADE hALO dUNGEONS FOR psp AS WELL AS THE WISE SPREAD TORRENT CALLED

HALO LOST GENERATIONS PSP HOMEBREW :p SO YOU CAN AT LEAST ENJOY THAT WATCH MY HALO PSP VIDS AT YOUTUBE FOR real HALO GAMES FOR PSP WITH real links LIKE A QUAKE2 MOD WITH all halo themes SWORD,GRENADES,SNIPER RIFLES EVERYTHING IN HALO IS IN THE QUAKE MOD shhhhhhh :p


Comment #4 by: Nicholas on 20 May 2008, 17:30 UTC reply to this comment

What are you on about you can see people sign in at the bottom of the screen, and the video being cut.. well thats just obviously fake


Comment #5 by: cory on 08 Jul 2008, 15:25 UTC reply to this comment

i couldnt even see how to do it because in the begining it is way to fuzzy


Comment #6 by: tyui75 on 17 Dec 2008, 03:22 UTC reply to this comment

Lol U can see the vid is cut...Right after the gameboot screen the vid get alot brighter lol ha ha ha


Comment #7 by: Krummy on 10 May 2010, 20:00 UTC reply to this comment

lol you can tell its fake i like the idea but lets face it like everyone else said theres no way that Microsoft would lose millions without halo and bungie. So i seriously doubt that they would have given it up to Sony plus if they would have it would have been all over the news cause halo is most of Microsoft's money. Its a good idea but not possible anytime soon.


Comment #8 by: Keith on 28 Jul 2010, 16:24 UTC reply to this comment

If you look towards the bottom, you will see sometimes someone will go online and if you look real close, the left of that column shows the xbox symbol. This is fake but well done.

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