New 360 Backwards Compatibility

Gamespot is reporting that a new update to the 360's backwards compatibility has been issued ... and just as promptly recalled. From the article: "Late last night, Microsoft updated the backwards-compatibility list with eight games from the trio of Tom Clancy-inspired series. Software emulators for Ghost Recon, Ghost Recon 2, Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike, Rainbow Six 3, Rainbow Six 3 Black Arrow, Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory all became available for download. However, within hours of the new update's release, reports began to circulate that it was causing problems with Halo 2. "

Comments

Re:XBox prices...

[inu_maru]

It sort of dropped today. In Japan.
I got to pay 1000 yen less, as it seems that most retailers (asobit, bic camera) are selling it at 38,800 something yen.

Also, dead or alive 3 is working, even tough it's not listed in the japanese site. Not really amazed, but in makes me wonder why they haven't released that info yet.

About the quality of the emu... ninja gaiden black gets slugish pretty often... even if no enemy is on sight. Bleh...

Re:Welcome...

[AlexMax2742]

Spoken like someone who has never tried their hand at emulation. Creating emulators with 100% compatability isn't easy, even when you have the schematics yourself. They had to have been able to update the software somehow, or else they would have had to scrap backwards compatability...unless they figured out a (probably very costly) way of putting the old architecture in the new system somehow.

There was no easy solution for backwards compatability with an architecture as complex as the Xbox's. Good thing it's Microsoft, because then you can bitch about them no matter what avenue they take.