XBOX360 & XBox games

[JagLover]

I just read on Amazon that only a limited number of X Box games can be played on the XBox360. Is there a way of finding out which ones?, also why is this the case?

[steve_evil]

Basically Microsoft are too lazy to provide compatability for all the games, or are doing it to make money from people who are forced to buy 360 versions of games. Good example being Burnout Revenge, Criterion (the developers) begged Microsoft to make the xbox game backwards compatible, Microsoft refused so they've made a 360 specific version...

Full list of compatible games can be found here:

www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm

Apparently they'll be adding more games in the future.

[JagLover]

steve_evil said:

Full list of compatible games can be found here: www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm Apparently they'll be adding more games in the future.

Cheers Steve

No Black yet I see , my own X Box is broken and I would like to buy that to play on the XBox360 (which I will buy once prices have gone down a bit)

[MAd Man]

In case you've not heard Black is now backwards compatible.

[Jaglover]

MAd Man said:

In case you've not heard Black is now backwards compatible.

Good News

[scorp]

steve_evil said:

Basically Microsoft are too lazy to provide compatability for all the games, or are doing it to make money from people who are forced to buy 360 versions of games. Good example being Burnout Revenge, Criterion (the developers) begged Microsoft to make the xbox game backwards compatible, Microsoft refused so they've made a 360 specific version... Full list of compatible games can be found here: www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm Apparently they'll be adding more games in the future.

Considering the two machines have almost entirely different architectures i would put down the incompabilities down to technical difficulty rather than laziness. The Xbox 360 is running virtually a full software emulator, unlike the GBA, GBC or PS2 which include their predecessors hardware.

[Steve_evil]

But if it can emulate one, surely it can emulate them all with a bit of work, especially as it's emulating most of the games which utilised most of the hardware (forza, Halo 2 etc) and the fact that they are adding new games all the time just goes to show a lot of it is down to them not investing enough time to start with in getting all of them working.

[scorp]

Steve_evil said:

But if it can emulate one, surely it can emulate them all with a bit of work, especially as it's emulating most of the games which utilised most of the hardware (forza, Halo 2 etc) and the fact that they are adding new games all the time just goes to show a lot of it is down to them not investing enough time to start with in getting all of them working.

Given infinite time it is possible to create a 100% working and perfect emulator, unfortunately no developer has the luxury of infinite time, this is the reason we see so many bugs/faults/missing features in other software aswell.

>> Edited by scorp on Friday 28th April 12:33

[jamieboy]

satch said:

I bought Black on release - are all versions backwards compat or just later copies?

The game code won't have changed, all this means is that first time you try to run it on a 360 it'll download the new emulator code, I think.

[Dr JonboyG]

Steve_evil said:

But if it can emulate one, surely it can emulate them all with a bit of work, especially as it's emulating most of the games which utilised most of the hardware (forza, Halo 2 etc) and the fact that they are adding new games all the time just goes to show a lot of it is down to them not investing enough time to start with in getting all of them working.

Have you tried playing Forza on the 360? It's horrific.

It is true that Microsoft's task is a lot harder than Sony's, as Sony included the PS1 chip on the PS2, but then it is also true that their emulation software is not that great.

However, the forthcoming PS3 is also going to have to use software emulation for backwards compatibility, so that might suck too.

[Baconbonce]

Dr JonboyG said:

Have you tried playing Forza on the 360? It's horrific.

There's been a fix for this that makes Forza much better now - if you have an Xbox Live connection, you will be prompted to download the update next time you pop Forza in your drive.

[basil brush]

Baconbonce said:

Dr JonboyG said: Have you tried playing Forza on the 360? It's horrific. There's been a fix for this that makes Forza much better now - if you have an Xbox Live connection, you will be prompted to download the update next time you pop Forza in your drive.

And it is much, much better.

[Dr JonboyG]

basil brush said:

Baconbonce said: Dr JonboyG said: Have you tried playing Forza on the 360? It's horrific. There's been a fix for this that makes Forza much better now - if you have an Xbox Live connection, you will be prompted to download the update next time you pop Forza in your drive. And it is much, much better.

We must be playing different Forzas on different Xbox 360s then, because I downloaded the update and it's still laggy as all hell. Framerate hardly ever gets above 15 IMO.