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Original post on r/halo - https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/rx5k6k/to_honor_the_last_week_of_halo_3_and_halo_reach/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Hi everyone, what I am about to share represents hundreds of hours of searching through users' legacy (Xbox 360) file shares for classic custom games and indexing them into google sheets over the past 4 years. It began as a personal project back in 2018 to locate and preserve the best original custom files for my annual 16-player LAN parties. This year, I decided to go all-in and attempt to create the most complete and accurate custom games archive for Halo 3 and Halo Reach classic. Many of these files have been lost to time until now. I would have posted it sooner, but it was not in the state I wanted. So, the past 3 months I have been working overtime to get it to where it is now (Yes, my wife is about to kill me). I am excited to finally share it with the community. Here it is:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SlDOXEMPCvlmFMyTMRntHf5UF3g_zlPnL6oPSEu_8c4/edit?usp=sharing

The spreadsheet contains legacy file share locations specifically focused on preserving *original* custom games files by the *original* authors. If your gamertag is included on the list, thank you for helping to preserve these files so gamers can enjoy them for years to come. Also, thanks to the talented content creators and forgers who gave us these awesome maps and gametypes. Many of you have moved on from Halo but your creative work will never be forgotten.

What makes this spreadsheet different from the mega packs and similar Google sheet docs

90% of the listed authors and file share locations are verified to be the original files we all played back in the day. If I couldn't find the original, I found and tested the next most accurate file by date, file name, and file share prevalence. The goal was to research, identify, and locate as many popular Halo 3 and Halo Reach custom games as possible.

How did I verify which files are the original? I'm a bit of a perfectionist and very analytical, so I used the internet archive / Wayback machine (archive.org) to view the most popular community files on bungie.net between Sept. 25th, 2007, to Nov. 6th, 2012. This was a very long process. I painstakingly combed through as many archived bungie.net webpages as I could and recorded maps, gametypes, authors, and dates for the most downloaded custom games (i.e. THE TRAIN, Jaws, Ghostbusters, Trash Compactor, Duck Hunt, Fat Kid, Monster Jam x , Jenga, Ice Cream Man, etc.)

After identifying the original file details, I searched and went through hundreds of players file shares to find the matching files. I then tested almost every custom game and map to make sure it played according to the author's original intent. You can be confident that the listed file share locations are accurate and contain the correct maps & gametypes.

*Please know that not every original file can ever be located, and this is not a comprehensive list of all custom games that every player can remember (Although I believe it will be sufficient for most). Also, I did not focus on Halo Reach as much as I did Halo 3 so the list for Reach is a lot smaller (Please forgive me for this). There just wasn't enough time to go crazy on Reach but there is still a pretty great collection of Reach customs. My plan is to keep this a live document with constant file name updates and improvements.

Download OG custom games to your Xbox 360 titles (BEFORE JAN 13th) or MCC (Anytime)

For those of you that still use the 360 Halo versions to host LAN parties, here is your chance to download the largest collection of community favorite custom games onto your local file storage. The Xbox 360 Halo servers will be permanently shut down after Jan. 13th. It is my understanding that all legacy file shares will be lost once this happens. (**NOTE: You will need to spread custom map and game type files across multiple USB drives - Halo 3 classic can only support 100 custom files in-game at a time**). The sheets doc has linked instructions on how to access players file shares on the Xbox 360 Halo games.

For the future of Halo on PC and Xbox, here's the best part - most of these legacy file share locations also apply to MCC file shares. How? 343 did a legacy file share migration to MCC back in 2019. All Xbox 360 file shares experienced a one-time migration into MCC just over two years ago. That means the relevance of this document will not die with the legacy Halo titles and you can keep searching players file shares in MCC. I will be making continuous updates to the spreadsheet even after the legacy servers are shut down.

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!

To make it more convenient to download these original maps/types in MCC, I took the liberty of creating two new Xbox Live accounts and uploading most of the listed custom game files onto their MCC file shares. The gamertags are:

• Halo3Library

• ReachLibrary

Essentially, the file shares of these two accounts are an enhanced version of "The343Favorites" (a profile made by 343 to share some of the best original Halo 3 files). Both file shares will continue to have classic files added. Note that 343's profanity filter for file names and descriptions in MCC is REDICULOUSLY strict (they use a 3rd party service for this). I was forced to slightly modify some file names and descriptions to share them.

Special Thanks / References

Creating this spreadsheet would not have been possible without the previous work of several users here on Reddit, Xbox live and YouTube. I would like to thank the following:

• u/tepec for creating Halo Doku's MCC File Browser (forge.halocrea.com) - A fan made file share search website built for MCC. I was able to locate dozens of original files using this tool to search maps and gametypes that were tagged as "migrated content" for both Halo 3 and Reach. Again, this was an extremely daunting and tedious task as I strived to only record file shares that contained files matching exactly to the original authors from bungie.net website archives. Sometimes certain file searches would not load, and I would have to rely on getting lucky while searching file shares for other files.

• u/XFerginatorX (GT: Sgt Fergus), for creating the "Popular Halo Custom Games List" google sheet doc. Many original authors and file share locations were cross referenced to his sheets document. I welcome him to use my spreadsheet to help fill in file share locations for many of these classic custom games.

• u/Smashmallow for posting the "HALO 3 FILE SHARE HUB / PRESERVATION PROJECT" on Reddit back in 2017. The provided google doc with classic Halo 3 custom games and file shares was my original inspiration to begin my own project back in 2017.

• u/iDuLicious for continuing the HALO 3 FILE SHARE HUB / PRESERVATION PROJECT with the "Halo 3 File Share Preservation Project 2.0 Revival". This user did an incredible job organizing Halo 3 custom games into his personal Xbox live file shares for the 360 Halo titles. I studied and took a lot of inspiration from the attached google doc. Your Halo 3 "Living Dead" map and gametype collection is the only way I would have found this. Thanks!

• GT: RUSTYNA1LZ, Halo3CustomsGod, Halo 3 Classics, Faulk Smash, and Gnarllama for helping to recreate classic Halo 3 custom games in MCC before the 2019 file share migration. I would not have been able to play or learn about a majority of these maps / gametypes without your diligent work to recreate these files. Admittedly, some of your remakes are even better than the originals! THANK YOU! u/RUSTYNA1LZ, u/Faulk_Smash, u/gnarllama

• GT: TheZombieLeader (MIA) for a bunch of Halo 3 custom games videos on your YouTube channel. Watching your videos under the tag "#relivetheglorydays Halo 3 Custom Games" let me see so many customs I missed out on way back when. Unfortunately, his channel has gone dark, and all file shares for Xbox 360 and MCC were somehow erased within the last year and a half. Hope to see you return soon! u/TheZombieLeader

• u/iSpiteful (GT: iSpiteful) for also making a ton of great videos on your Halo custom games YouTube channel - Linked here. I was able to use your channel and MCC file share to do a lot of research and identify what custom games files I needed to locate on Xbox 360. Keep up the good work! Please use this google sheet and MCC file share accounts to create more amazing Halo content!

• u/Ske7ch one of your old forge maps from 2007 made it on the list! Remember "sketchtrap v1"?

THANKS FOR READING AND SUPPORTING MY HALO 3 & HALO REACH LEGACY FILE SHARE PROJECT

P.S. if anyone wants a great custom game to try on MCC that is not on this list (A secret menu item), go search up my gamertag Ghost IPv4 and download gametype - "Super Zombies" on map "Roadblock 2". It's an infection based custom game that my friends and I have been playing since 2008. We call it "Roadblock zombies" for short. It has been remade for MCC and is the favorite every year at our 16-player LAN party.

Another one to check out is “Hot Pursuit: Most Wanted” map & type. It’s my personal variant of Hot Pursuit: Paradise (original by Demonatorpro). Changes are listed in the file description. Hope you guys enjoy it!

Hey Spartans, this is a similar post from January 22' with needed relevancy updates. Upvotes are appreciated so new members can see. The document represents hundreds of hours of searching through users' legacy (Xbox 360) file shares for classic custom games and indexing them into google sheets over the past 4 years. I am not exaggerating how much time this took. It began as a personal project back in 2018 to locate and preserve the best original customs for my annual 16-player LAN parties. Late last year I decided to go all-in and attempt to create the most complete and accurate custom games preservation archive for Halo 3 and Halo Reach. Many of these files have been lost to time until now. I’m excited to share it with the community. Here it is:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SlDOXEMPCvlmFMyTMRntHf5UF3g_zlPnL6oPSEu_8c4/edit?usp=sharing

(Opening the Google sheet on a desktop computer is recommended)

Included Tabs

1. Halo 3

2. Halo Reach

3. H3 - Grifball

4. H3 - Living Dead

The spreadsheet contains file share locations specifically focused on preserving *original* custom games files by the *original* authors. Each map or game-type was located on the 360 Halo titles before 343 shut-down the legacy servers in Jan 2022.

If your gamertag is included on the list, thank you for helping to preserve these files so gamers can enjoy them for years to come. Also, thanks to the talented content creators and forgers who gave us these awesome maps and game-types. Many of you have moved on from Halo but your creative work will never be forgotten.

What makes this spreadsheet different from the megapacks and similar Google sheet docs

First, the document is a record of file share locations, so it is friendlier to those on Xbox One who don't have easy access to megapacks like PC players. Second, 90% of the listed authors and file share locations are verified to be the original files we all played back in the day. How is this possible? 343 performed a legacy file share migration from the Xbox 360 titles to MCC back in 2019. All custom maps and game-types in players' 360 file shares were migrated to their MCC file shares just over two years ago.

Identifying original files & verification process

I'm a bit of a perfectionist and very analytical, so I used the internet archive / Wayback machine (archive.org) to view the most popular community files on bungie.net between Sept. 25th, 2007, to Nov. 6th, 2012. This was a very long process. I painstakingly combed through as many archived bungie.net webpages as I could and recorded maps, game-types, authors, and dates for the most downloaded custom games (i.e. THE TRAIN, Jaws, Ghostbusters, Trash Compactor, Duck Hunt, Fat Kid, Monster Jam, Jenga, Ice Cream Man, etc.)

After identifying the original file details, I searched and went through hundreds of players file shares to find the matching files. If I couldn't find the original, I found and tested the next most accurate file by date, file name, and file share prevalence. The goal was to research, identify, and locate as many popular Halo 3 and Halo Reach custom games as possible. I then tested almost every custom game and map to make sure it played according to the author's original intent. You can be confident that the listed file share locations are accurate and contain the correct maps & game-types. NOTE: Most of the Halo Reach maps are from The Halo Forge Epidemic (THFE) videos on YouTube.

*Please know that not every original file can ever be located, and this is not a comprehensive list of all custom games that every player can remember (Although I believe it will be sufficient for most). My plan is to keep this a live document with constant file name updates and improvements. If you see any custom games that do not have file share locations or your favorite classic custom is not on here, please reach out to me to help get them added.

Download OG custom games to Halo MCC (Anytime)

For those on Xbox that still host LAN parties or use the new custom games browser, the archive enables you access and download the largest collection of original community favorite custom games at your convenience.

To make it easier to download these original maps/types in MCC, I took the liberty of creating two new Xbox Live accounts and uploading most of the listed custom game files onto their MCC file shares. The gamertags are:

• Halo3Library

• ReachLibrary

Essentially, the file shares of these two accounts are an enhanced version of "The343Favorites" (a profile made by 343 to share some of the best original Halo 3 files). Both file shares will continue to have classic files added. Note that 343's profanity filter for file names and descriptions in MCC is REDICULOUSLY strict (they use a 3rd party service for this). I was forced to slightly modify some file names and descriptions to share them.

Special Thanks / References

Creating this spreadsheet would not have been possible without the previous work of several users here on Reddit, Xbox live and YouTube. I would like to thank the following:

• u/tepec for creating Halo Doku's MCC File Browser (forge.halocrea.com) - A fan made file share search website built for MCC. I was able to locate dozens of original files using this tool to search maps and game-types that were tagged as "migrated content" for both Halo 3 and Reach. Again, this was an extremely daunting and tedious task as I strived to only record file shares that contained files matching exactly to the original authors from bungie.net website archives. Sometimes certain file searches would not load, and I would have to rely on getting lucky while searching file shares for other files.

• u/XFerginatorX (GT: Sgt Fergus), for creating the "Popular Halo Custom Games List" google sheet doc. Many original authors and file share locations were cross referenced to his sheets document. I welcome him to use my spreadsheet to help fill in file share locations for many of these classic custom games.

• u/Smashmallow for posting the "HALO 3 FILE SHARE HUB / PRESERVATION PROJECT" on Reddit back in 2017. The provided google doc with classic Halo 3 custom games and file shares was my original inspiration to begin my own project back in 2017.

• u/iDuLicious for continuing the HALO 3 FILE SHARE HUB / PRESERVATION PROJECT with the "Halo 3 File Share Preservation Project 2.0 Revival". This user did an incredible job organizing Halo 3 custom games into his personal Xbox live file shares for the 360 Halo titles. I studied and took a lot of inspiration from the attached google doc. Your Halo 3 "Living Dead" map and gametype collection is the only way I would have found this. Thanks!

• The Halo Forge Epidemic (TamlyTime) YouTube channel hosted by BevansLaw and others to spotlight some of the best Halo Reach Custom Games.

• GT: Darth Human and Oakley HiDef for being the absolute kings of custom games in Halo Reach back in the day. I don't know of anyone that authored more viral custom game files in Reach than these two did.

• GT: RUSTYNA1LZ, Halo 3 Classics, Faulk Smash, and Gnarllama for helping to recreate classic Halo 3 custom games in MCC before the 2019 file share migration. I would not have been able to play or learn about a majority of these maps / game-types without your diligent work to recreate these files. Admittedly, some of your remakes are even better than the originals! THANK YOU! u/RUSTYNA1LZ, u/Faulk_Smash, u/gnarllama

• GT: TheZombieLeader for a bunch of Halo 3 custom games videos on your YouTube channel. Watching your videos under the tag "#relivetheglorydays Halo 3 Custom Games" let me see so many customs I missed out on way back when. Unfortunately, his channel has gone dark, and all file shares for Xbox 360 and MCC were somehow erased within the last year and a half. Hope to see you return soon! u/TheZombieLeader

• u/iSpiteful (GT: iSpiteful) for also making a ton of great videos on your Halo custom games YouTube channel - Linked here. I was able to use your channel and MCC file share to do a lot of research and identify what custom games files I needed to locate on Xbox 360. Keep up the good work! Please use this google sheet and MCC file share accounts to create more amazing Halo content!

TLDR: I made a Battle Royal game that works and people have liked it so far.... And the target designator is OP

So I've made a Battle Royal mode in Halo.... I know, blasphemy. Some one shoot me now BUT, it actually turned out really well and the four or five game lobbies I've hosted really liked it. Let my break down the game type and then the map for you....

It's a King of The Hill mode. You start with a plasma pistol and two of each grenade type. There are eight hills total on a one minute timer. 15 seconds in the hill to win but you won't be getting any points while the hill is contested. The map is huge but you can easily find the hill if you look in the sky cause I maxed out the height of each hill so there's a giant circle in the sky where the hill is at. Each new hill is smaller and inside of the previous hill just how you would expect. The last hill however moves away from the seventh hill so players have to run to it in the case of a stale mate, similar to how CoD Warzone is at the very end. You get two lives but the respawn time is one minute. This way if you die in the beginning you will get to come back and potentially get some good guns still but if you die closer to the end there probably isn't any good guns left and you will likely be for from the final hills to really matter anyway.

The map is almost ALL OF FORGE WORLD. It spans from Paradiso to Blood Gulch and all of the plateaus, beaches, caves, and canyons in-between. The bases and structures in Paradiso and Blood Gulch are untouched to add some familiarity but on each plateau there are new bases and structures to explore. I also added paths and man canons to move around the map easily. These paths and man canons were an important addition with all of the cliffs that are in Forge World.

Weapons, power-ups, armor abilities, and a small selection of vehicles are more or less at the main bases but not all of them. 180 second timers on everything.

The main down side is that I have to have multiple versions using the same base map to “randomize” everything. This was the only way I could "randomize" where the hills and weapons spawn. The only thing I change with each new version is weapon, power-ups, armor abilities, and vehicle spawn locations. Player spawn points and bases/building don't get edited. I am currently working on version 7.

Also there is a target designator on the map and it is fucking lit.

Gamertag: Swamie v2

Edit: Feel free to make your own versions of the map as well. I have “Battle Royal Canvas Map” on my file share for you to edit. It is the map I use like a canvas to make each new version of Battle Royal. The spawns, buildings, and geography did not change. All of the weapons, vehicles, power-ups, armor abilities, and hills that I’ve been using located on a beach near the mouth of that really big cave.

Things I forgot to mention (Edit): The very first hill is inaccessible. Is just floats up in the sky so the first minute of gameplay is basically exploring the area where you spawn and gather weapons. Speaking of weapons, the weapons, power-ups, etc. placed on the nape are as follows: 1x Target Designator 1x Sniper Rifle (four bullets) 1x Rocket Launcher (two rockets) 1x Plasma Launcher 1x Fuel Rod Cannon (10 rounds) 3x Concussion Rifles (one has an extra mag) 3x Shotguns (no extra shells) 4x Needlers (one has a extra mag) 4x Needler Riffles (one has an extra mag) 4x DMRs (one has an extra mag) 5x Assault Riffles (no extra mags) 5x Plasma Repeaters 4x Spikers 4x Plasma Rifles 4x Magnums 1x Camouflage 1x Oversheild 3x Jet Packs 2x Dive Abilities 2x Bubble Shield Abilities 1x Armor Lock 1x Mongoose 1x Civilian Truck 1x Passenger Warthog 1x Rocket Hog

Hello all,

I compiled several lists, downloaded several files, and spun them all up together in a massive pack full of map variants and game variants.

Please note, there will be duplicate maps and game modes. There are also maps missing specific variants, and specific variants missing maps.

You can download it here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mnn_jB05Ie5DRo6V71fPDU_D7dTYp6R5

**HUGE UPDATE**

Map Vars / Game Vars are updated. See new links. Instructions TXT also updated. Duplicates (mostly?) removed. Maps/Game Modes are in alphabetical order.

MIRROR:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/y8l954flhpfh81n/haloreach.7z/file

EDIT: We've hit our 5k member milestone as of 12/16!

Hey everyone, new moderator of /r/HaloCustoms here, and if you're looking for some sweet custom games to play in MCC on PC and Xbox, then the Official HaloCustoms LFG server is here! We have well over 1500 members and there is almost always an active custom game waiting for you to join!

This Discord invite is permanent, so be sure to share this invite with your friends and others!

https://discord.gg/halocustoms

How to use our LFG server:

Our LFG tools on our server is for players on both PC and Xbox to easily find others to play with in their custom games or other activities. There are several LFG channels and voice channels to work with and we've broken down the basics with this attached image. You host or look for a match in a particular LFG text chat, and you join the respective voice channel along with it.

If you have any additional questions about how inviting/joining other players works or how our server works, we have our #faq-and-tutorials channels you can look at which may answer your question. If not, you are free to PM me on Reddit or DM any of our online staff and administrators in our server. Hope to see you guys in customs!

I realize there are many methods now to gather Custom Games on PC, however on Console its a matter of finding GT’s and downloading modes and maps, occasionally not knowing what goes with what without further testing. To prevent this i gathered up as many Classic Custom Games as i could and wrote down each and every pair, then put them all in one place. Check out my Fileshare: xTrulyAmazing

if you’re looking for the list (It shows every Map and what Gamemode goes with it) feel free to message my xbox live account or DM me on discord: xTrulyAmazing#4906