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MICROSOFT The Xbox One Backward Compatibility program now boasts over 200 games to play from Xbox 360 It’s a big milestone to reach following the popular program’s launch late in 2015 and Microsoft have yet to confirm that an end-date has been reached for adding new titles. The latest update to came on June 23, when Microsoft released another eight games for fans to download and play. June has proved a busy month, seeing as many as 20 new games arriving from Microsoft. While there has been a mix of big and small titles, the most-popular to launch in the last four weeks has been Fallout: New Vegas. Most-wanted titles can be found on the official Xbox feedback page, where they are ranked by the amount of votes they have received from fans. While failing to break the top five on the official feedback site, Fallout: New Vegas currently sits at number nine, ahead of GTA IV. Related articles.
It has a total number of votes of 78,099, still putting it way behind first-placed Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, which has a staggering 176,592. It wasn’t the only game that was announced for Xbox One Backward Compatibility this week, a total of eight were confirmed by Larry Hryb on Twitter. Others include: D&D: Chronicles of Mystara, Blood Knights, Red Faction Battlegrounds, Joe Danger, Crystal Quest, Comic Jumper and I Am Alive. The new additions also mean that the BC program has reached a new milestone in terms of how many games can be played from the older generation. There are now around 205 games to be picked up and played via the Backward Compatible collection, the biggest games so far include Call of Duty: Black Ops, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead 2.
Other titles that have been promised but have yet to arrive include Bioshock Infinite, Bioshock and Bioshock 2, as well as Skate 2. Hopes of joining the ranks now seem slim, following Bethesda's official unveiling of the new Special Edition version of the game for PS4 and Xbox One at E3.
Use a CD or USB thumb drive to be able to play more Xbox games on your Xbox 360 -AUTHOR'S NOTE: THIS INSTRUCTABLE IS OUTDATED. DO NOT USE IT. TO UPDATE YOUR XBOX 360, CONNECT IT TO XBOX LIVE TO UPDATE IT FOR FREE.I'm a huge fan, so I want to buy or rent Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory some day, as it's the only one I haven't played, aside from Pandora Tomorrow (which is crappy because it's made by Ubisoft Shanghai, not Ubisoft Montreal like Chaos Theory and the original Splinter Cell, which are the only good ones). I don't know if my Xbox 360 already supports backward compatibility (in the Xbox 360's case, the ability to play original Xbox games) for it, so I decided to update it. I don't have Xbox Live (which you would usually use), so I decided to update it by downloading the update from Microsoft.com and putting it on a CD, and then putting that CD in my Xbox 360. I followed the instructions, so I didn't know why I got an 'unreadable disc' error.
After a lot of searching Google for a solution, I found one. Is the page where I found out how to make it work. NOTE: I only tried this using a thumb drive.
If you have a writable CD and a thumb drive, use the thumb drive, because it's much easier. Stuff you'll need: + Xbox 360 + Computer + USB thumb drive (recommended) OR writable CD and CD writer + Zip file extractor, I use 7-zip.org 7-Zip Step 1: Download the Update. First of all, you'll need the update file. Download it from here: DO NOT FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THAT PAGE! They do not work.
If they did, I probably wouldn't have bothered to write this instructable. Just download the file, that's all you need to do there.
NOTE: Microsoft stopped updating their backwards compatibility for original Xbox games years ago. If your firmware is very old you can try updating it, but if it doesn't work after that, it never will. Also, if you have any way to connect your Xbox 360 to the internet like normal, DO THAT. You will automatically get the latest firmware. Step 2: Organize Files, and Put on CD or Thumb Drive.
Now use your Zip file extractor to extract the contents of the Zip archive somewhere. Once you do that, make sure the file and folder have the proper names. On the CD or thumb drive you are using, the file MUST be named su2000000, with no extension, and it MUST be in a folder named $SystemUpdate. If they are not in the proper hierarchy, the Xbox will not recognize it and it won't work. These also must be the ONLY files on the CD or thumb drive. It doesn't matter what the name/label of the CD or thumb drive is though. Step 3: Install on Xbox 360.
Hi friends., i bought xbox before 2 days ago. Now i am faceing a little problem i need to install game in my hard drive but there is not comming a any option like (install game to hard drive) there is comming just (install game) when i am install game in my xbox after that i want to play game without disk., and my xbox not able to play game without disk when i click on the game who i installed in my xbox there is comming some wrong like (insert disk in the tray). The game is already installed in my xbox.
Why Won't Original Xbox Games Work On My Xbox 360? The one thing we do know in regard to BC on the Slim systems is that it won't work on the 4GB model without a proper hard drive installed. The 4GB Slim doesn't actually have an HDD installed, just 4GB of onboard memory, so BC won't work on it unless you install an HDD. The 250GB (or bigger) should play BC games just fine. A question that comes up every once in a while that seems to stump everybody is some variation of 'I just got an Xbox 360 but it won't play original Xbox games.
It is a tricky question because there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to play OG Xbox games on your Xbox 360 (as long as they are on the ) and you have a hard drive attached to your 360. The system variations (Arcade, Pro, Elite, etc.) don't matter one bit in regards to backward compatibility as long as you have a hard drive attached to the system. Certain eBay sellers try to make more money by buying 20GB official for cheap, and then putting larger laptop hard drives into the official 360 hard drive case and then selling them for less than an official drive of the same size would be.
Now, technically, these hacked hard drives are the exact same thing as an official one, at least as far as parts go. They will function exactly the same as an official drive. But many of the sellers that sell these drives forget (or might be just plain ignorant about) one important thing – to play backward, the need a special partition for the Xbox 360 to store BC-related data in. If the hard drive doesn’t have that partition, you can’t play backward with it. What Can You Do? There isn’t really much you can do other than just be wary. It can be hard to tell if a hard drive you buy off of eBay has been tampered with because they’ll look exactly the same as an official one on the outside.
They might look new, but you can’t ever be 100% sure about anything you buy on eBay. Some sellers might have even made sure to partition the hard drive correctly so it’ll work and you’ll have no problems, but not all of them do and that is where the problem comes in. If you don’t care about backward compatibility, you don’t need to worry about this.
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Everything else will function exactly like an official one. If you do want to use your Xbox 360 to play original Xbox games, you just need to ask the right questions of the seller before you buy a 360 HDD.
Ask them if it is an official or hacked drive. And if it is a modified drive, ask them if it has the necessary partitions. If they don’t give you a straight answer or don’t understand the question, don’t buy from them. Bottom Line So, to answer the question “Why won’t original Xbox games work on my Xbox 360” there really is only one answer – Your cheap eBay hard drive might not be as official as you thought and is missing key files that allow for backward compatibility.
The solution - Buy official Xbox 360 accessories from established retailers, or if you want to save a few bucks on eBay, make sure you ask the right questions so you know what you're getting.
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Specifically, I mean the discs I already own, not this 're-download' digital crap since I don't pay for Xbox Live and only ever use it on special discount months. I also own some pretty obscure 360 games I'm sure won't ever have an XBL digital re-release on them, as well. Honestly, I still have about ten never-played 360 games I still need to burn through (Dragon Age, Gears of War, Blood Stone 007, Fallout New Vegas, Resident Evil 6, etc) and would probably play those about as much, if not more, than any new Xbox One titles.
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My current 360 is getting old, but I'd still rather keep that than downgrade to a console that may not play/read my discs. If it the XB1S won't be able to play 360 games on it, I won't even bother with it, and will just keep saving up $1,000 to build a lower-performance, bargain gaming PC, instead. (Though I know very little about PC hardware and I've never liked mouse-and-keyboard gaming.) Or maybe the Nintendo NX will surprise us. Well, that's not what I want. That's essentially buying the game twice. This is what I thought the original Xbox One had and I was right.
Beechcraft. I don't like that. It's stupid and a waste of time.
You're essentially just re-buying a digital version of the game again, only you need the disc to make it run, making it more convoluted than just buying it digitally as if you never owned the disc. This method also won't allow you to use the 360 save data as well I'm assuming, since it's basically just a brand new game, as far as the Xbox One is concerned. And as I said, half the games I own probably won't be re-released on the digital marketplace anyway, meaning I could only play them on 360. Also, I'm not going to have the hardware space for all those games to be downloaded even if I used Xbox Live Gold. That's not backwards compatibility. What I meant is, will Xbox One Slim have actual backwards compatibility? Just put the game in and play, like the Xbox 360 had with the Xbox original.
How do I use Xbox One Backward Compatibility?For disc-based games that are a part of the Back Compat game catalog, insert the disc and the console will begin downloading the game to your hard drive. After the game has downloaded to your hard drive, users will still need to keep the game disc in the drive to play. Is Xbox Live Gold required for backward compatibility? Xbox Live Gold is not required for Xbox One Backward Compatibility. However, it is required for any standard Xbox Live Gold feature like online multiplayer. Thank you for the link.
But as I said, that's just worse than just re-buying the game digitally anyway. What's the point of the disc to begin with if A) the game is going to be fully digital anyway and the disc is just for legality purposes and B) the game I own won't be available on the Xbox One Marketplace? I doubt they're going to re-release The Sims 3 or Dragon's Dogma or Perfect Dark Zero or Blood Stone 007 or Saints Row (1) on there.
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but that is NOT backwards compatibility. That's just a more convoluted way to re-release old games on Xbox One. They might as well have just done that and charged $1 to $5 for them, or used hard drive save data to confirm you already own the game and download it for free without even having the pointless disc requirement. Not that that would've been backwards compatibility, either. I just want actual true backwards compatibility on the Xbox One Slim. As I said, there's not exactly any reason for me to own one if I can't even play my current 360 games on it, or worse, won't even have my save data updated onto it (since it's basically a new digital version of the old game, anyway). It's 'bitching and moaning' that they want me to pay $300 for a system that has nothing on it and can't even play the damn Xbox 360 games?
I'd be wasting money on a useless console that is literally a downgrade of a gaming experience from the 360 and I literally can't name a single title on there right now that's any good (and not cross-platform like GTA V or Fallout 4). You're either a Microsoft fanboy or you don't realize why the Xbox One is failing so miserably.
I'd get a PS4 if they had the kinds of games I liked on there. All they really have is shooters and action games just like PS3 and I like more variety than that.