More Xbox Titles Added to 360 List

Eurogamer reports that Microsoft will be adding more titles to its list of backwards compatible games. From the article: "Microsoft has made a minor update to the Xbox 360 backwards compatibility list, adding patches to allow three new titles to run on the new console - namely Black, Star Wars Battlefront II, and Winning Eleven 9. The update, which is the first change to the list of backwards compatible titles in several months, also fixes issues with a number of games which previously worked with the Xbox 360 but had bugs in the compatibility code, including Ninja Gaiden, Fable, Half-Life 2 and GTA San Andreas."

I miss real backwards compatibility

[dalmiroy2k]

I miss the days when "Backwards compatibility" were a hardware feature and not some kind of emulation that requires constant Internet updates...

SSX3

[nb caffeine]

I just saw this in the morning so I haven't had a chance to check it out yet, but hopefully they fixed the issues with ssx3. It technically would load and you'd be able to play, but saving didn't work and there was some serious slowdowns in play. I also see they updated Forza, which had some minor slowdowns, and when racing at 150 mph, that did not help my already questioable racing skills :)

Gonna be shredding it up on the mountain tonight :)

Dark Days For The 360

[Anonymous Coward]

This 'update' is just about the final straw for me and my 360. I feel like an idiot for believing Microsoft would come through with something major and we would all be playing flawless versions of every big name Xbox title by now.

There has been a major change of tone among most other 360 owners I know and around the Net. Very much a feeling of despair and how could so many things have gone so wrong with the system.

Unless there is something Earth-shattering from Microsoft at E3 I don't think there is any reasonable hope for the system. Most of the stuff I want to play is coming out for the pc too anyway.

Re:KOTOR, KOTOR II are lumpy on 360...

[Osty]

I was thinking of getting a 360 to play XBL Call of Duty with the nephews, but they'll have to live with Halo 2 until I get a HD 1080p set..

Why would you waste your money on a 1080p set when the Xbox 360 only does 720p/1080i? Not only that, (practically) nothing else does 1080p either, and most 1080p TVs don't accept 1080p signals even if you had a source to drive them. Worse, for those few sets that do handle 1080p input, the framerate of 1080p is around 25fps-30fps. Sufficient for TV and movies, not so great for video gaming. Finally, add in the fact that scaling can take some time (milliseconds, but enough to lag audio or gameplay) depending on the set, and that there's nothing available in the TV's native 1080p source, you're basically never going to use the TV in it's most optimal native mode.

And that's not even getting into any of the other issues, like 1080p sets that aren't even 1080p (or, they are 1080p in that they have a full 1080 pixel vertical resolution, but use a technique called "wobulation" to fake 1920 horizontal pixels using a DMD (Digital Micro Device, the display source for DLP sets) with only 960 horizontal pixels).

I'm all for being an early adopter. I bought an HDTV way back in 2001 (and replaced it with a 720p DLP set this past November), which may not have been right on the bleeding edge but it was close. However, I just can't see spending $1000-2000 more to be an earlier adopter of 1080p when I'm virtually guaranteed to have to replace the set in 2-3 years since what I buy today isn't really 1080p at all.

Well, That's Not Entirely True

[MikeyTheK]

...The update, which is the first change to the list of backwards compatible titles in several months...

It might be the first change to THE LIST in several months, but the 360 patch that was released last month added support for Tom Clancey's Ghost Recon II, among others, for the first time, enabling me to stop using my original XBox except for DDR (the dance mats aren't compatible with the 360, so I haven't even bothered to see if the game is). So while the list might have not been updated in a while, the periodic patches have added more backwards compatibility.

Re:yeah, but you knew this was coming

[nb caffeine]

Caching on the original Xbox sped up quite a few games. I recall the load screens in Vice City being alot shorter than in the ps2 version. I thought it was a good use of the technology. As far as the hard drive size, I want full games. A few patches don't really require a 20 gb HDD.