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The Best of Xbox Back Compat
Eurogamer takes a look at the best of Xbox backwards compatibility; the original Xbox games that run the best on the 360. From the article: "Enough ranting to embattled Zenmeister Peter Moore about the Xbox games that don't work on our 360s. What about the ones that do? It's not as though Microsoft's 'emulation ninjas' haven't already managed to get a whole bundle of them working, and with that in mind we've cheered up a bit since yesterday and started working through the 'compatible' list and had some fun sorting the wheat from the chaff."
...to buy Nintendo, or maybe Sony.
Here are some links you'll find useful:
l itygameslist.htmu nch-day-titles/a rketplace-launch-content/
Backwards compatible title list:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardcompatibi
Launch titles:
http://www.majornelson.com/2005/11/14/xbox-360-la
Arcade titles:
http://www.majornelson.com/2005/11/15/xbox-live-m
The list of backwards compatible games will grow over time, so if you're not already signed up for Xbox Live (even Silver, which is free), you should do so. Enjoy your 360!
They're right on the money with GR2: Summit Strike. I still play it way more than GR: Advanced Warfighter. The maps are better, there's a lot more variety, and you don't have to deal with the kiddies who rig the game to get their rank up. And Forza is still my racing choice. All of the idiots who play bumper cars instead of racing seem to have moved over to PGR3, and there's some great competition on Live in Forza.
I had to stare at that title for a minute trying to figure out what the hell "compat" was. No room for ability?
nothing
Barbie(TM) Horse Adventures(TM) Wild Horse Rescue(TM)
Everything else is irrelevant.
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Just wondering if it is possible with backwards compatibility.
I understand that they have plenty of them ported for playing on the 360, but the fact is that there is that 'game' that i want to play and i can't play it the 360. This and a lack of a great launch library is what caused me to sell my 360 in return for a working XBox. There are plenty of great old games and not that many great new games, how are you going to play the majority then.
It's as if Microsoft is trying to actively blow it in the console market. It's like someone at Microsoft deliberately chose the maximally worst possible way to go about the process of handling BC.
First Microsoft decided the Xbox library of games was too small and not worthwhile enough to bother with BC. A huge portion of the Xbox library you can just run the better pc version of most of the games.
Then Microsoft's marketing types started making promises around the middle of last year.
Then Microsoft was forced to scramble to try to hobble some sort of software BC at the last minute before the system hit the shelves last November.
And the trickle of games every three months or so does nothing but remind the rest of the console world of just how badly botched BC was handled by Microsoft.
And most of the games that Microsoft calls 'working' are plagued with slowdowns, graphics glitches, and sound/music glitches.
Microsoft should have stuck to their guns and just continued to stay with the message that they didn't feel BC was something gamers want. End of story.
Along with the absurd failure rate of 360 machines seven months after hitting the market and the poor sales of the system, one has to wonder what exactly is going on up there at Microsoft? Isn't it time some people were shown the door and some competent people were brought in to set things in order? It's five years into Microsoft's entry into the console market and they appear to be making negative progress.
...of the backward compatibility issues (i don't keep up on XBox news). Why is it so complicated, anyway? I mean, does anyone know of any PSX games that don't run on PS2, for example?