Update to Backwards Compatibility

[MadFerIt]

Source: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardco...tygameslist.htm

The newest titles for this month are:

BLACK?

Star Wars Battlefront? II

World Soccer Winning Eleven 9

I'd also check out previously added titles to see if any improvements have been made (for the one's suffering from bugs or low performance).

It's nice to see Black finally added, while the game isn't exactly what it was hyped to be, it's still a pretty title and seeing it at 720p with AA would be very nice.

[AlphaPrime]

Woo, Black! Although only 3 new titles? I was hoping they would get JSRF to work after this update. Hopefully next time.

[Simon Veteran]

w00t! Star Wars Battlefront II! I've been waiting for that compatability for months, now I have no need for Xbox Classic!

[MGS4-SS]

Nice! Black is a nice add on to that list.

[Hupp]

doh' ,i need my ncaa college football.. i dont care if its only 3 or 4 months away

[OrangeSoul]

Fable framerate is fixed and ninja gaiden is back to running at 60fps after this update

[sfalcon]

Updated games:

Darkwatch™

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas™

Half-Life? 2

Fable?

Fable?: The Lost Chapters™

Forza Motorsport™

Ninja Gaiden?

Ninja Gaiden? Black

STom Clancy’s Splinter Cell? Chaos Theory™2;

kill.switch

World Series Baseball? 2K3

http://www.majornelson.com/2006/03/29/xbox...-compat-update/

I bolded Chaos Theory because we had been discussing its shotty compatibility in another thread today.

[magik]

Wow, I'm glad they added BLACK. I might pick that one up now.

[Deaf Spacker]

Whoo GTA SA was fixed :D I can play my copy now

[Brandon Live Veteran]

Now you know why I bought Battlefront 2 last week ;)

[Elliott]

Awesome! Now I can pick up BLACK! Also, really glad they fixed the Fable framerate (since I was gonna play it again after I finished a bit more of Oblivion). It was pretty choppy in some scenes.

[MrStoo]

Thats good, i can play Black on it now hehe.

[magik]

I'd also check out previously added titles to see if any improvements have been made (for the one's suffering from bugs or low performance).

Yes, it seems this is the case with Halo 2 as there was a mandatory Xbox Live update yesterday. But I'm not exactly sure what they changed/improved. Can anyone confirm?

[Brandon Live Veteran]

FYI: The update will come down when you insert *ANY* original Xbox game. Not just one that was updated.

[magik]

FYI: The update will come down when you insert *ANY* original Xbox game. Not just one that was updated.

I see. So you're saying it was most probably an update to the emulation engine as a whole, eh? If that's true, that's kind of unfortunate as the subsequent patches may break/stop other games from working (or certain parts of other games) while adding new compatability for new ones. But let's hope not! (Y)

[Elliott]

I retract my enthusiasm. :hmmm: The updater freezes whenever I try to update the backwards compatibility. :(

Edit: Nevermind. It was only when I tried updating while Fable was in. I popped in Halo 2 and it updated just fine. Odd....

Edited April 1, 2006 by Elliott

[Neo003]

Why no DOA2 Ultimate.

[sharpy2k4]

why no Doom still ARGH

[MadFerIt]

I'm starting to think they actually were on vacation. No real update whatsoever until this month. And the update that WAS added this month is very small and only adds a few titles.

I really think they need to go faster and get the backwards compatibility to a bit more reasonable level. Don't get me wrong I was very surprised how much was supported when the 360 came out, it's just since then that the ball has dropped a bit.

[GameOverRob]

NO CONKER!!!