Bob Violence wrote:

Forensic wrote:

Bungie had the code for the flamethrower in the game right until the final release, but cut it because they couldn't make it a balanced weapon.

Actually they left the code in the final release. You can unlock it (and the gravity rifle) with a modded Xbox and a hex editor. It doesn't work that well, though, since the code that's there isn't complete. Slashdot did an article on it heyah or if you want to just skip Slashdot (which is usually not bad advice) the videos are here.