Original Xbox Games Playable on Xbox 360

[IcePak]

I just don't have any interest in any games available for the console at the moment. My opinion may change when better games are released, but for now I can live without a 360.

[sj33]

I just don't have any interest in any games available for the console at the moment. My opinion may change when better games are released, but for now I can live without a 360.

Oh I agree, I've had a 360 since launch and use it very little.

It's just your earlier post implied you would have bought one had it been backward compatible with those games, think that's the point they were getting at.

[ph0rce]

Ok, not sure if this has already been mentioned in this thread ( there's a lot of previous posts! ) but I need to have a rant about something.

I assumed that when a game was on the backwards compatability list released by Microsoft it meant that is was perfectly emulated / playable on the 360. With this I mind I went out yesterday & picked up a copy of Ninja Gaiden Black to see what all the fuss was about ( never had an original XBox so I missed out on this first time round ), got home & discovered that they'd added an undocumented feature to the game, uncontrollable bullet-time.



Occasionally the entire game just slows down for no apparent reason, only for about five seconds or so but it really ruins my enjoyment of what is looking like an excellent game.

Just wondering if anyone else has played this & experienced the same issues? I had assumed that the 360 would check for an updated version of the emulator on its own, should I be updating it manually, if there is indeed an update available.

Also, does anyone know if the original plays ok as it may just be a better idea for me to get that instead?

Cheers.

[MartyG]

The emu is definitely a little lackluster on most of the the emu I've tried. Only Halo and Halo 2 seem to be perfect.

Forza has terrible frame rate issues on the emulation, almost bullet time all the time

If there's is an update for the game, it does tell you, there just hasn't been any since v1.2.

I don't remember the original US Ninja Gaiden having frame rate issues on the Xbox proper, but I haven't tried the black version.

[MJ]

The original PAL Ninja Gaiden also suffers the frame rate issue with the current BC software.

I got the US version because I wanted decapitations, so have to play it on the Xbox, eitherway it's possibly the best single player game I have ever played.

I want to get N. G. Black, but am looking forward to seeing what Team Ninja have in store for the true sequel on the 360.

[Crisp_Rapper]

The emu is definitely a little lackluster on most of the the emu I've tried. Only Halo and Halo 2 seem to be perfect.

hold up, Halo won't play on my 360.... why is this?

[ph0rce]

Halo & Halo 2 seem to be perfect on my 360 also, that's why I had such high hopes for N.G.B. I think they had to download a software update on first boot though whereas N.G.B didn't try to download anything.

Maybe you weren't connected to Live when you tried to run it?

[Crisp_Rapper]

my 360 is always hooked up to the internet... how odd. the game plays but the display is messed up, bright purple. is the game upscaled to 720 or is it trying to play in normal 525 (or whatever) rez?

[Mephistopheles]

NGB is a mess on 360 and has major slow-down during fights. Of course, it runs at 60fps constant on Xbox 1. Very shoddy emulation, tbh.

[themanwithapc]

Again same problem with my NGB. It's so bad (and annoying) for me, that I've completely abandoned the game for now, waiting until an update is released to fix these. The first boss fight was all completely slowed down for me

[C']

my 360 is always hooked up to the internet... how odd. the game plays but the display is messed up, bright purple. is the game upscaled to 720 or is it trying to play in normal 525 (or whatever) rez?

Does your panel support 720P at 50hz? Halo PAL is 50hz only and won't play on my plasma in 720P as the panel does not support this mode. Runs fine in if I set the dashboard to 480P or 1080I though.

[Crisp_Rapper]

Does your panel support 720P at 50hz? Halo PAL is 50hz only and won't play on my plasma in 720P as the panel does not support this mode. Runs fine in if I set the dashboard to 480P or 1080I though.

'tis a projector which'll run practically everything else... must check actually, be very annoying if it doesn't. it'll mean i'll have to take my 360 and plug it into my crt to play it! i was wondering, ghost recon summit strike is the same.

**edit: ""480i, 480p, 576i, 576p, 720p, 1035i, 1080i, computer resolutions VGA 640x480 through SXGA 1280x1024. Color systems include NTSC, NTSC 4.43, PAL, PAL-M, PAL-N, SECAM.""

pretty sure it's 720 at 60hz, not 50... oh well, can always play it on the xbox, just annoyed i can't play summit strike as it literally will not work on my xbox.

if there's a work around i'm all good though, cheers C'!

[HaHaUK]

Black is not backwards compatible.

[John Beaulieu]

I don't think any current releases will be backwards compatible until the next update to the emulator by MS

[MJ]

Halo doesn't support 60Hz, nor does Doom 3 as another example, and the current VGA cables don't support 50Hz, so if you try playing Xbox titles that don't support 60hz with VGA, they will not work.