Backward Compatibility update...

[Lord Helmet]

From MajorNelson.com

 

Nvember 2007 Back Compat titles added:

2006 Fifa World Cup Germany

25 to Life

AMF Bowling 2004

Apex

Arena Football

Armed and Dangerous

Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance

Batman Rise of Sin Tzu

Bionicle

Blade II

Blinx: The Timesweeper

Blitz The League

Blood Omen 2

Blowout

Breakdown

Burnout 2: Point of Impact

Cabelas Dangerous Hunts 2

Championship Manager 2006

Colin Mcrae Rally 2005

Crime Life: Gang Wars

Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2

Dungeons& Dragons Heroes

ESPN College Hoops 2k5

ESPN NFL 2k5

Fantastic 4

FIFA 06 Soccer

Fight Night: Round 3

Final Fight: Streetwise

Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone

Freedom Fighters

Freestyle Street Soccer

Future Tactics: The Uprising

Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee

Godzilla Save the Earth

Goldeneye Rogue Agent

Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball Max'd

High Heat MLB 2004

Hunter: The Reckoning

Indiana Jones And The Emperors Tomb

MLB Slugfest Loaded

MVP Baseball 2003

MVP Baseball 2004

MVP Baseball 2005

Nascar Thunder 2002

Nascar Thunder 2003

NBA 2k3

NBA Ballers

NBA Inside Drive 2002

NBA Street V3

NCAA College Basketball 2k3

NCAA March Madness 2005

NCAA March Madness 2006

NFL 2k2

NFL 2k3

NHL 2005

NHL 2K3

NHL Hitz Pro

Nightcaster: Defeat The Darkness

NTRA Breeders Cup: World Thoroughbred Championships

Playboy The Mansion

RLH Hunt or be Hunted

Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown

Rocky

Rugby 2006

Shattered Union

Shrek Super Party

Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter

Starsky & Hutch

Syberia II

Techmo Classic Arcade

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Test Drive

The Bard's Tale

The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

The Guy Game

The Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age

Thousand Land

Thrillville

Tom and Jerry in War of the Whiskers

Turok: Evolution

Van Helsing

WarPath

Worms 3D

Zathura

Edited November 27, 2007 by Lord Helmet

[MCHufnagel]

From MajorNelson.com

 

Nvember 2007 Back Compat titles added:

2006 Fifa World Cup Germany

25 to Life

AMF Bowling 2004

Apex

Arena Football

Armed and Dangerous

Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance

Batman Rise of Sin Tzu

Bionicle

Blade II

Blinx: The Timesweeper

Blitz The League

Blood Omen 2

Blowout

Breakdown

Burnout 2: Point of Impact

Cabelas Dangerous Hunts 2

Championship Manager 2006

Colin Mcrae Rally 2005

Crime Life: Gang Wars

Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2

Dungeons& Dragons Heroes

ESPN College Hoops 2k5

ESPN NFL 2k5

Fantastic 4

FIFA 06 Soccer

Fight Night: Round 3

Final Fight: Streetwise

Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone

Freedom Fighters

Freestyle Street Soccer

Future Tactics: The Uprising

Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee

Godzilla Save the Earth

Goldeneye Rogue Agent

Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball Max'd

High Heat MLB 2004

Hunter: The Reckoning

Indiana Jones And The Emperors Tomb

MLB Slugfest Loaded

MVP Baseball 2003

MVP Baseball 2004

MVP Baseball 2005

Nascar Thunder 2002

Nascar Thunder 2003

NBA 2k3

NBA Ballers

NBA Inside Drive 2002

NBA Street V3

NCAA College Basketball 2k3

NCAA March Madness 2005

NCAA March Madness 2006

NFL 2k2

NFL 2k3

NHL 2005

NHL 2K3

NHL Hitz Pro

Nightcaster: Defeat The Darkness

NTRA Breeders Cup: World Thoroughbred Championships

Playboy The Mansion

RLH Hunt or be Hunted

Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown

Rocky

Rugby 2006

Shattered Union

Shrek Super Party

Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter

Starsky & Hutch

Syberia II

Techmo Classic Arcade

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Test Drive

The Bard's Tale

The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

The Guy Game

The Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age

Thousand Land

Thrillville

Tom and Jerry in War of the Whiskers

Turok: Evolution

Van Helsing

WarPath

Worms 3D

Zathura

 

It's a good thing I'm not a betting man. I was sure that with the availablity of downloadable Xbox games, BC updates would be dis-continued.

[Lauren Tyler]

Rugby 06 and Fight Night Round 3? Nice!

[moycon]

Wow, Nice to see they are still adding titles. (Although I've yet to play an Xbox title in my 360)

[Gabriel]

Wow.

 

I'm going to keep saying this is plainly the last one, because they clearly keep intentionally proving me wrong.

 

Shattered Union, there's a game I definitely didn't think would be BC. Too bad I didn't snag Godzilla Save the Earth when I saw it for cheap. My decision to not grab it was entirely based on the fact that the original XBox is permanently retired and the title wasn't on the 360 BC list.

[Lord Helmet]

Although Tron still isn't supported, I'm really glad they are still working on adding more and more titles, especially with the DL XB games coming in December.

[Atariboy]

If the Xbox Originals lineup had games not currently backwards compatible, I could understand why some people thought they'd stop releasing updates. But it doesn't, which is why I'm confused why anyone would be surprised that they did this. It makes sense now more than ever to keep making more titles backwards compatible, since they can now resell select games.

 

Sucky list for the most part. Only three games on there I even own, and of that the only nice addition is Colin McRae Rally 2005. Looks like they've fixed Tecmo Classic Arcade's problems of not playing at resolutions greater than 480p at least.

 

I hope they add Rallisport Challenge 2 someday, I'd like to see that game being upscaled and it would perhaps get some of those on my friends list that don't want the Xbox hooked up and cluttering their entertainment centers to play it again.

 

Makes me glad I kept my old Xbox hooked up.

Edited November 27, 2007 by Atariboy

[FastRobPlus]

Sorry I couldn’t tell you sooner.

[MCHufnagel]

If the Xbox Originals lineup had games not currently backwards compatible, I could understand why some people thought they'd stop releasing updates. But it doesn't, which is why I'm confused why anyone would be surprised that they did this. It makes sense now more than ever to keep making more titles backwards compatible, since they can now resell select games.

My reasoning for thinking that BC updating was over, is that MS would have their teams working on releasing Xbox games they can make money on instead of working on BC where they aren't making a dime. They can always incorporate an emulator into downloadable games that aren't already on the BC list.

 

Concerning the new update, WHERE'S BEYOND GOOD & EVIL? Well somebody has to say it.

[Lord Helmet]

Sorry I couldn't tell you sooner.

 

No problem dude

 

Just keep working on Tron and Star Wars Obi-Wan..kay?

[AtariRocks]

I just wish the Capcom Classics game was on that list. They'd probably rather sell each game for $5 a piece on XBL though.

[FastRobPlus]

Sorry I couldn't tell you sooner.

 

No problem dude

 

Just keep working on Tron and Star Wars Obi-Wan..kay?

 

I don’t have any special insight here. The manager of the back compat test team is a friend of mine from the Salt Lake Games’ Links series days. But that team is so secretive, I didn’t know about the update until just a few days ago.

 

Some of us used to joke that it would be impossible to get 100% back compat, if for no other reason than certain games (like the Guy Game) were pulled from the market and therefore had no possible reason for being on a back-compat update. Shows you what we know…

That said, I have no idea what the future holds for back-compat on the 360. I know some of the very early games used the V1 Xbox analog buttons to do things using “hard” and “soft” presses that cannot be done on the 360’s more traditional controller. But I hink even some of those games are on the back-compat list.

[Shannon]

Wow.. Just look at all those worthless sports games. j/k

 

I do see a few titles on there that I could definitely use. Thanks microsoft. Keep it up. I think your doing a really good service and the downloadable game is a good idea. Just don't be lazy with the bugs, ok? How hard is it to compile a dummy .xbe real quick and use it as a replacement for those "non-working" demo's? Kkkkk?