xbox "Backwards Compatibility"

Monster ninja · 30 Jul 2009 at 15:00

the so called "Backwards Compatibility" for the xbox is a load of rubbish! under half of the games work and some big games like metal gear 2 do not work however, some games people have never heard of are made for Backwards Compatibility mode why is this???? how can they have a Backwards Compatibility when half the games dont work with it! the PS2 you could play all of the PS1 games

antijoke · 30 Jul 2009 at 15:01

Huh?

Nismo · 30 Jul 2009 at 15:03

Microsoft hates you

ic1male · 30 Jul 2009 at 15:03

Some games use more complex coding so therefore are more difficult to emulate. Barbie is probably a simple game, for example. I've tried it with a few games - only Halo is any good. Halo 2 has graphical artifacting. The GTA games have terrible slowdown. Thankfully I have them all on PC.

Kreeeee · 30 Jul 2009 at 15:07

Nothing to do with that, it purely depends on the hardware tricks used within each individual game. Games that use fewer of these tricks are easy to emulate and often emulation is enabled for those games as a by product of doing BC for another game. This is why some obscure games are on the BC list.

Shamikebab · 30 Jul 2009 at 15:09

All the games I've tried are fine. Still play JSRF and SSX 3 occasionally, the only last gen games that don't have a next gen equivalent yet that I'm keen on. (In fact it shock me that we still haven't seen a next gen snowboarding game other than the average, lacking multiplayer Amped 3 and the crap Shaun White's, EA GIVE US SSX [/rant])

ic1male · 30 Jul 2009 at 15:19

Kreeeee said:
Nothing to do with that, it purely depends on the hardware tricks used within each individual game. Games that use fewer of these tricks are easy to emulate and often emulation is enabled for those games as a by product of doing BC for another game. This is why some obscure games are on the BC list.

That's naughty then! All developers are supposed to have stuck to using DirectX so no matter what hardware is used, the games should still run.

z0mbi3 · 30 Jul 2009 at 15:24

When I eventually play from the xbox classic back catalogue I'll just see what's available to download from xbox live and buy them second hand.

Anyway, I always thought Microsoft advertised which games were compatible?

antijoke · 30 Jul 2009 at 15:28

I didn't even realise Metal Gear 2 was an xbox title. :eek:

This thread makes no sense.

titchard · 30 Jul 2009 at 15:29

ic1male said:
That's naughty then! All developers are supposed to have stuck to using DirectX so no matter what hardware is used, the games should still run.

They do - just some devs can figure out a few slight of hand tricks within that which make it harder to emulate.

Rich

z0mbi3 · 30 Jul 2009 at 15:30

anticonscience said:
I didn't even realise Metal Gear 2 was an xbox title.

This thread makes no sense.

Cats chasing dogs, horses eating each other etc etc.

It was the Substance version of MGS btw, but I think it lacked the skateboarding.

Strife212 · 30 Jul 2009 at 15:32

anticonscience said:
I didn't even realise Metal Gear 2 was an xbox title.

This thread makes no sense.

It is

Phatjayunoi · 30 Jul 2009 at 16:41

z0mbi3 said:
Cats chasing dogs, horses eating each other etc etc.

It was the Substance version of MGS btw, but I think it lacked the skateboarding.

Yep, only the PS2 version of Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance had the skateboarding game as it was based upon Evolution Skateboarding by Konami themselves.

Otherwise though, obviously the Xbox and PC versions was the better looking one.

JBeck · 30 Jul 2009 at 19:55

ic1male said:
only Halo is any good. Halo 2 has graphical artifacting

That's odd, halo for me has a constant jerking/fps drop every 3 or 4 seconds, does it on all the 360's I have had. Halo 2 is perfect however...

ic1male · 30 Jul 2009 at 19:57

JBeck said:
That's odd, halo for me has a constant jerking/fps drop every 3 or 4 seconds, does it on all the 360's I have had. Halo 2 is perfect however...

How weird! I thought that was why Microsoft haven't put Halo 2 as an Xbox Original yet because of the artifacting...

wannabedamned · 30 Jul 2009 at 20:31

JBeck said:
That's odd, halo for me has a constant jerking/fps drop every 3 or 4 seconds, does it on all the 360's I have had. Halo 2 is perfect however...

Works fine for me too the first one, only problem i had with the game is it was very dark on my HD screen, I had to play around with custom settings to bring it up properly. It also has a few glitches here and there with triggered events. but it seems fine other than that

Vonhelmet · 30 Jul 2009 at 22:36

Obligatory Penny Arcade.

D.Roberts · 30 Jul 2009 at 22:41

ohhh i was going to ask some one if operation flashpoint elite works on xbox 360 ive looked at official site and its not in the list wtf?

Ascendancy · 30 Jul 2009 at 22:49

Just buy an Xbox, I'm sure you can pick one up for next to nothing these days.

rp2000 · 30 Jul 2009 at 22:59

This is the official list of games:
http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/backwardcompatibilitygameslist.htm

This is a wikipedia article listing reported issues on the relevant games:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_games_compatible_with_Xbox_360

I think if it is not any of these 2 lists you are out of luck. I am fairly sure I read there were not going to be any future updates for backwards compatibility (not certain of this, although the last update to the official page is in 2007 so it seems plausible).

rp2000