To understand the differences between the different releases of Halo: Combat Evolved for the Xbox. Below are two tables tracking releases of the full game and of the demo for the Original Xbox. This repo will not concern itself with the Gearbox PC releases, the Xbox 360 Anniversary release, or the Master Chief Collection releases. As far as I can tell the higher level differences for the full game are whether or not there is a demos section and whether or not there are language specific versions of the maps that seemingly require the language to be set within the system's bios for them to be used. The version number comes from the MPF dump which should be parsed from the disc itself, so that seems like an important way to start grouping variants. Variant "Names" are just how I am going to refer to each variant in plain english. There are a ton of different releases even within a same region even excluding platinum hits/classics. Games can be exactly the same but the barcode is different (or sales not for resale), games can be exactly the same but one has the "Only On Xbox" logo with the other doesn't, etc. While I am not including the covers in this, as I bought all of these used and I know at least one disc was swapped out of its original case, I will be using cover variants in the naming of discs here. That means there can and will be rows below that are basically the exact same and you can easily tell that by seeing their full disc MD5 hash. The full scans link will link the archive.org items that correspond to the full game (disc and cover) I scanned and dumped as a part of this project.
Eventually I will include ips file diffs of the default.xbe or demo.xbe file so people can take their copy of the game and compare it to other variants. I am almost certainly making minor mistakes in filling this out, so please let me know if something looks wrong or if I am incorrectly interpreting something (like what I am calling a disc, for instance).
| Version | Full Disc MD5 | Part No. | Region | Variant "Name" | Disc Image | Full Scans |
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| 1.01 | 97d632afc66e33e37497d85f180bdfbb | 0103 Part No. X09-22162 | NTSC-J | South Korea Only On Xbox Game Of The Year Edition |  |
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| 1.01 | d0a39051b482f388d70becb5fd409d2e | 0103 Part No. X09-22154 | NTSC-J | Asia Not For Resale Reflection |  |
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| 1.01 | fa324595c31365f2c1474e2448470556 | 0103 Part No. X09-22154 | NTSC-J | Asia Not For Resale No Reflection |  |
Content Cell |
| 1.01 | fa324595c31365f2c1474e2448470556 | 0103 Part No. X09-22154 | NTSC-J | Asia Not For Resale No Reflection Not For Resale |  |
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| 1.02 | 001344d055e2f8ccbb41b37697401562 | 0901 Part No. X08-54601 | NTSC | North American Only On Xbox |  |
Content Cell |
| 1.03 | 579298e3e856787323e8e0acbe4431a6 | 0901 Part No. X08-61627 EN | PAL | Australia Classics Not For Resale |  |
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| 1.03 | 579298e3e856787323e8e0acbe4431a6 | 0901 Part No. X08-61627 EN | PAL | Australia Not For Resale |  |
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| 1.03 | 579298e3e856787323e8e0acbe4431a6 | 0901 Part No. X08-61627 EN | PAL | Australia Only On Xbox |  |
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| 1.03 | 579298e3e856787323e8e0acbe4431a6 | 0104 Part No. X10-40104 EN | PAL | Australia Best Of Classics |  |
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| 1.03 | 579298e3e856787323e8e0acbe4431a6 | 0104 Part No. X10-40104 EN | PAL | Europe Only On Xbox Software in English, Manual in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Sweden |  |
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| 1.04 | fbeca96bfc230e2a19c35969d5aa2f0d | 0104 Part No. X10-40104 EN | PAL | French Classics |  |
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| 1.04 | fbeca96bfc230e2a19c35969d5aa2f0d | 0901 Part No. X08-61627 EN | PAL | French Only On Xbox |  |
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| 1.04 | fbeca96bfc230e2a19c35969d5aa2f0d | 0104 Part No. X10-40103 DE | PAL | German Classics |  |
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| 1.04 | fbeca96bfc230e2a19c35969d5aa2f0d | 0901 Part No. X08-61627 EN | PAL | German Only On Xbox |  |
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| 1.04 | fbeca96bfc230e2a19c35969d5aa2f0d | 0206 Arbkelnr X12-13029 DE | PAL | German Best Of Classics |  |
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| 1.05 | b3307e1309ddc74409822d128b9e600a | 0104 Part No. X10-40104 EN | PAL | Italian Classics |  |
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| 1.05 | b3307e1309ddc74409822d128b9e600a | 0901 Part No. X08-61627 EN | PAL | Spainish Only On Xbox Totalmente In Castellano |  |
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| 1.05 | b3307e1309ddc74409822d128b9e600a | 0104 Part No. X10-40104 EN | PAL | Spainish Classics |  |
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| 1.05 | b3307e1309ddc74409822d128b9e600a | 0104 Part No. X10-40104 EN | PAL | Philips Exclusive Promotion (Probably Not A Variant) |  |
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| 1.06 | 56cd36650c2afcbdbed1797b4bcb41fe | K43-00002 X08-74982 | NTSC-J | Japanese Platinum Hits Only On Xbox |  |
Content Cell |
| 1.08 | ca1e8cbb88ea9a2bd9ba6ebf5a100966 | 0901 Part No. X08-54601 | NTSC | Mexico Game Of The Year Made In USA |  |
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| 1.08 | ca1e8cbb88ea9a2bd9ba6ebf5a100966 | 0901 Part No. X08-54601 | NTSC | Canada French Game Of The Year Only On Xbox |  |
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| 1.08 | ca1e8cbb88ea9a2bd9ba6ebf5a100966 | 0901 Part No. X08-54601 | NTSC | North America Game Of The Year Not For Resale Bottom Center |  |
Content |
| 1.08 | ca1e8cbb88ea9a2bd9ba6ebf5a100966 | 0901 Part No. X08-54601 | NTSC | North America Only On Xbox Game Of The Year Microsoft Store Sticker |  |
Content Cell |
| 1.08 | ca1e8cbb88ea9a2bd9ba6ebf5a100966 | 0901 Part No. X08-54601 | NTSC | North America Game Of The Year Not For Resale Bottom Left |  |
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| 1.09 | 523d82be68f267579864331085a56ce8 | 0903 Part No. X10-16812 | NTSC | North America Not For Resale Disc Only |  |
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| 1.09 | 523d82be68f267579864331085a56ce8 | 0903 Part No. X10-18964 | NTSC | Mexico Game Of The Year Made In Mexico |  |
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| 1.09 | 523d82be68f267579864331085a56ce8 | 0903 Part No. X10-18964 | NTSC | Canada French Game Of The Year |  |
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| 1.09 | 523d82be68f267579864331085a56ce8 | 0105 Part No. X11-04644 | NTSC | North America Best of Platinum Hits Best-Selling Xbox Game |  |
Content |
| 1.09 | 523d82be68f267579864331085a56ce8 | 0903 Part No. X10-18964 | NTSC | North America Only On Xbox Game Of The Year |  |
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Note: The Full Disc MD5 is going to include non-halo stuff, so may generate an MD5 for the Halo folder in the future. Also the version numbers are kind of irrelevant, unless somehow certain demo discs actually had variant releases, which AFAICT did not happen.
| Version | Full Disc MD5 | Part No. | Region | Demo Disc Name | Disc Image | Full Scans |
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| 1.01 | 3b4673fe11cb3354bc9e08f846aae7a1 | NTSC | North America Official Xbox Magazine Disc 11 |  |
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| 1.01 | ab19620c4e47d77348feb0eea2a99fa1 | NTSC | North America Official Xbox Magazine Disc 17 |  |
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| 1.02 | 00e281c09fa341e41f90376773f3733e | 0902 Part No. X09-05041 | NTSC | North America Exhibiton Demo Disc |  |
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| 1.02 | 00732467bf710dd50da70fc7eb7758d8 | 0604 Part No. X10-75848 EN | PAL | German Xbox The Best of Demo Disk Version 10.0 |  |
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| 1.05 | 1ee7fa11430f6e72ac67bf182ecbf894 | PAL | Europe Xbox Playable Start Pack 2003 |  |
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| 1.05 | 71972b5868c687c86669c4e170c970c2 | PAL | Australian The Ultimate Selection XBOX Playable Game Sampler |  |
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| 1.12 | 17cea7b20bcf4770f375246656bdc5aa | PAL | Europe The Official Xbox Starter Pack 2004 |  |