How to identify it
The Platinum Hits banner replaces the black Xbox band. That is the whole of it, and it is enough: a Platinum Hits box is never a first print.
Nothing else about this reissue is recorded. No date code, no part number and no reliable release date: VGCollect repeats the standard edition's item number and UPC on its Platinum Hits entry, which cannot both be right, and gives a 2008 date that nothing else read here supports. So this row claims none of them.
The disc is the same single USA dump as the launch copy.
Traits
- Case type
- Standard Xbox keep case
- Cover art
- Platinum Hits banner in place of the black Xbox band
- Disc code
- MS-100 — the same dump as the standard edition
- Part number
- Not recorded — wanted
- Print position
- After the first print; no numbered position claimed
- Date code (MMYY)
- Not recorded — wanted
Notes
Recorded so the banner can be ruled out, and left deliberately bare everywhere else.
It has no print number because nothing is known about what came between it and the launch box. Calling it print 2 would claim that nothing did.
Source: Desk research across public catalogs and disc databases — Brandon Green (from VGCollect, Redump, Halopedia, Wikipedia and PriceCharting, October 2026).
Photos
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Other versions of Halo 2
- First print — black label, M41-00028First printNorth America · FP-000318
- Limited Collector's Edition — metal caseNorth America · FP-000319