Back Compat Update

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SydRocks — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

meh. I never cared for BC anyway.
new system=new games.

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Police People — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

i was wondering when you would say something about that.

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me — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:30:30 GMT

I just want island thunder to work. all the other clancy games do except my favorite! weird because ghost recon island thuder used the same engine as the first ghost recon. it was on the first bc list then removed before launch. did you forget it guys? it was there, and the rest are now, but wheres my GRIT?! P13453!

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Sweet0blivion — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 23:42:08 GMT

Here is a snippet from a Q&A session Todd Holmdahl (MS VP) on http://www.xbox.com/en-NZ/games/backwardcompatibilityqa.htm talking about BC

Todd: When we say Xbox library, we mean the entire Xbox library.

205 out of 1018 (gamerankings) BC does not seem like a good definition of entire library

Just looking at the at the top 10 list from gamerankings all are BC except for Burnout 3 & PGR2

They are the only 2 that have franchise titles currently available on the 360, coincidence?

It's easy to see why people get cynical about MS

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Sweet0blivion — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:53:53 GMT

Personally BC is not so critical for me but it would be nice to get rid of the old black box as MS told me how stylish their new console was and would look great in my home, therefore the black box must go as it's just not stylish (yeah right) More of an issue for me is the fact that MS said they were going to try and make every game current and future BC and now we have Pete Moore saying hey we've lived up to our end of the deal Well the only people who have lived up to their end of the deal so far are the people who have paid their money for an Xbox 360 console I guess PMs comments were designed to test the waters and MS have their spin strategy all sorted out to make it sound like no one really wanted BC It doesn't really matter how many people don't care about BC only the fact that some people do who spent money on a 360 with the expectation set by MS that BC was going to happen for most if not all games

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RC Master — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:30:22 GMT

aries, unfortunatly i don't think very many devs would go for that. It would be interesting to see reactions if MS asked though.

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Bennyboy — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:15:37 GMT

shhhhhhh missiletoe dont give people ideas (micro$oft) especialy about nominal fees. i would love "deus ex:invisible war" and although its not a very popular game but "broken sword the sleeping dragon" would be nice to have at least 1 decent adventure/puzzle game made BC

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Missiletoe — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:25:07 GMT

Let's keep backward compatability moving forward. It would be nice to have all of the DOA games playable on a single console and please bc the exclusives like the original Buffy, Panzer Dragoon Oorta and Unreal Championship 2. Also the 007 adventures like EON and FRWL. I'd be willing to pay a nominal fee for continued development (updates via Live points) than to see it go away completely. A big thanks to the BC team to the games they've already contributed. Please keep them coming.

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tantanman — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:14:56 GMT

B4 u give up on BC plz plz plz make my last xbox 1 game that doesnt work on my 360 work Midnight Club 3 DUB Edition

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Knight Rider 2K — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:02:56 GMT

I paid $400 to play both 360 and Xbox games, not just one or the other. Justice League Heroes is going to be released this fall and only for the Xbox 1. I also have a ton of games I'm wating to be BC. I'm pretty sure they are more popular than Barbie.

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J.Goodwin — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 20:02:02 GMT

I'm all in favor of fan service. If they post video on the XBLM of hot female programmers coding backward compatibility in skimpy bikinis, I'm ALL OVER THAT SH*T.

You can name your price for that.

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StalkerofHades — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:41:16 GMT

One of the things that concerns me, is that the teams working on BC are not related to the ones pushing out titles. Therefor, releasing the BC team from fixing up games, really doesn't mean that a huge flood of games would be released, or that dashboard updates would magicallly occur.

I would much rather leave the BC team to keep working on titles so long as Xbox 1 titles are being released. I realize they are playing catchup still -- specially with hits like MechAssualt and Psychonauts, but if we didn't want BC, we wouldn't be leaving 200+ posts in Major's blog.

We all know that the various Xbox teams do read Major's blog too, so it's vital that we keep the interest alive. We realize that BC is not revenue generating, but it does create insterest in the 360 itself. It's a selling feature that brings about the full circle (360!) so to speak from one generation of consoles to the next.

Keep up the good work, and may the flow of emulation software continue.

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aries — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:29:03 GMT

what i dont get major is why u guys dont get the developers to do the bc programming for u. if they have a new game coming out, like painkiller, they should take a few days and have a crew make an emulator file. or if u guys want lucasarts titles to work on the 360, supply them the emulator code and say can u guys do some fan service? code a patch for ur games and when the update is released we will inform gamers u guys went back and did the updates for free for fan service. it would be very cool. u would have 3x the games on the list and the few guys working on it at redmond could be used to do other stuff. i mean if i were over the rockstar team im sure i would gladly say ok. we can take a team and do a quick patch for the game for the fans that spen HARD EARNED money for the gta 3 trilogy.

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Geoff Christopher — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 01:54:23 GMT

I understand both side to BC, but at the same time BC is very important imagine not being able to play your old DVD's on HD-DVD player, all that money you spent on it is wasted at the same time its like trying to play an old VHS video in DVD player how far does BC go. Sony with the PS2 made it BC but something like 10% of the new PS2 onwers played there old PS games, why because like most things once you see what the new games are like and having played them then going back you take one look at it and say nah ill go back on my all new game with the best graphics best sound and so on.

I do play my XBOX sometimes but since ive got my xbox 360 I hardly play it at all.

To me BC is like this if I want to play say BIA's i would play it on my XBOX rather than waiting until MS get the BC working on the 360.

P.S

*Geoff is pronounced Jeff

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SlushTurtle — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:35:31 GMT

Peter Moore failed Marketing 101.

Just voicing my support...I use the emulator and I love it!

Can't wait for more and more updates, so PLEASE keep them coming "till it's done". And I'm talkin "Halo 3" done....

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The Snapple — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:28:50 GMT

i really hope they put pirates back on the list... it was on that list... and i orderd it.. while it was being shipped it suddnely disappeared from the bc list... good game ont the pc... which makes it 10x better on a console...