XBox games not always compatible

with 360. My daughter wanted to play a game of hers (older Xbox game SSX Trickery) some snow boarding game. The 360 doesn't support it ..yet. Any idea if all the older games will be able to be played on the 360?

 

Is your XBOX the premium system with the hard drive? I know that having the hard drive loaded with the emulator is the only way to play older games.

 

Yep $399.00 worth of game. Her game is one of those platinum games. The real early XBox games. So I am hoping that the more current ones will play

 

You can go to http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardscompatibility.htm#order
and download the patch to play older games .It will tell you how to do it .
Or you can get the updates from xbox live.

 

here is the list of backwards games

4x4 EVO 2
AirForce Delta Storm
Alias™
Aliens versus Predator™ Extinction
All-Star Baseball™ 2003
Amped®: Freestyle Snowboarding
Amped® 2
Army Men®: Sarge's War™
Atari® Anthology™
ATV: Quad Power Racing 2™
Bad Boys 2
Big Mutha Truckers
Baldur's Gate™: Dark Alliance™ II
Barbarian
Barbie™ Horse Adventures™ Wild Horse Rescue™
Batman Begins™
Battle Engine Aquila
Battlestar Galactica™
BLACK™
BMX XXX™
Brute Force™
Buffy the Vampire Slayer™: Chaos Bleeds
Cabela's® Big Game Hunter™ 2005 Adventures
Cabela’s® Dangerous Hunts™
Cabela’s® Outdoor Adventures™ 06
Cabela's® Deer Hunt™ 2005 Season
Cabela's® Deer Hunt™ 2004 Season
Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth™
Call of Duty™: Finest Hour™
Casino
Chicago Enforcer
Circus Maximus
Close Combat: First to Fight
Colin McRae Rally 4
Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers™
Commandos 2: Men of Courage™
Conflict: Desert Storm
Constantine™
Crash Twinsanity™
Crash Nitro Kart™2
Crimson Skies®: High Road to Revenge™
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon™
Dark Angel
Darkwatch™
Dead or Alive® 3
Deathrow
Digimon® Rumble Arena®
Dinotopia2
DOOM 3®
Drake™
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Egg Mania™: Eggstreme Madness
Fatal Frame™
FlatOut™
ESPN MLS ExtraTime 2002
Euro 2004
F1 2001
Fable®
Fable®: The Lost Chapters™
Fairly Odd Parents: Breakin' da Rules
FIFA Soccer 2003
FIFA Soccer 2004
FIFA STREET
Fight Night 2004
Ford Mustang
Ford vs. Chevy
Forza Motorsport™
Frogger Beyond™
Futurama™
Fuzion Frenzy®
Genma Onimusha
Goblin Commander™: Unleash the Horde
Grabbed by the Ghoulies™
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas™
Gravity Games Bike: Street. Vert. Dirt.
Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder
Half-Life® 2
Halo®
Halo® 2
Halo® 2 Multiplayer Map Pack
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone™
He-Man: Defender of Grayskull
Hitman: Contracts™
House of the Dead 3
IHRA Drag Racing Sportsman Edition
IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005™
Intellivision Lives
Jade Empire™3
James Bond 007™: NightFire™
Judge Dredd®: Dredd vs. Death™
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
Kabuki™ Warriors
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
kill.switch
LEGO® Star Wars®
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events™
LOONS—The Fight for Fame
Manhunt
Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX™ 2
Max Payne
Max Payne® 2
Medal of Honor European Assault™
Medal of Honor™ Frontline
Medal of Honor™ Rising Sun
Mega Man® Anniversary Collection
Metal Arms™: Glitch in the System
MicroMachines
Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing
Minority Report
MLB SlugFest 20-04
Monster Garage™
MTV Music Generator™ 3
Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit
MX World Tour™: Featuring Jamie Little
Namco Museum™
NBA LIVE 2004
Need For Speed™ Underground 2
NFL Blitz 2002
NFL Blitz 2003
NFL Blitz 2004
NHL® 2004
NHL Hitz™ 2003
Ninja Gaiden®
Ninja Gaiden® Black
Outlaw Golf 2
Outlaw Volleyball
Pariah™
Phantom Crash™
Pinball Hall of Fame™
Pitfall®: The Lost Expedition™
Predator Concrete Jungle™
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™
Pro Evolution Soccer 5
Pro Race Driver™
Pump It Up™: Exceed
Pure Pinball
Puyo Pop Fever2
Quantum Redshift®
RalliSport Challenge
Rayman Arena
Raze's Hell™
Red Dead Revolver
Red Faction® II
RedCard™ 2003
Robotech: Battlecry
Rocky™ Legends
Rogue Ops
Samurai Jack
Samurai Warriors™
Scooby Doo!™ Night of 100 Frights
Scrapland
SEGA GT™ 2002
Shadow The Hedgehog™
Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures
ShellShock: Nam '67™
Silent Hill® 4: The Room
Sneakers™ 5
Sniper Elite
Soccer Slam
Sonic Heroes™
Sonic Mega Collection™ Plus
Spawn® Armageddon
Speed Kings™
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy™
Spider-Man™
Splat Magazine Renegade Paintball
SpongeBob SquarePants™: Battle for Bikini Bottom
SpyHunter® 2
Spyro™ A Hero's Tail
SSX 3
Stake™
Star Wars Battlefront™
Star Wars Battlefront™ II
Star Wars®: Episode III Revenge of the Sith™
Star Wars® Jedi Knight®: Jedi Academy™
Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™
Star Wars® Knights of the Old Republic® II: The Sith Lords™
State of Emergency
Street Racing Syndicate™
Stubbs the Zombie™ in Rebel without a Pulse™
Super Bubble Pop
Super Monkey Ball™ Deluxe
SX Superstar™
Tecmo Classic Arcade
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™
Test Drive®: Eve of Destruction
Tetris Worlds™4
The Great Escape
The Hulk™
The Incredible Hulk™: Ultimate Destruction
The Lord of the Rings™: The Return of the King™
The Punisher™
The Simpsons™ Hit and Run™
The Simpsons™ Road Rage
The Terminator™ Dawn of Fate
The Thing™
Thief: Deadly Shadows™
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon™ 2
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® 2 Summit Strike
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Black Arrow™
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® Chaos Theory™
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® Pandora Tomorrow™
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater™ 4
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Tork™: Prehistoric Punk™
Toxic Grind
Ty The Tasmanian Tiger™
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger™ 2: Bush Rescue™
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger™ 3: Night of the Quinkan
Urban Freestyle Soccer
Vexx™
Volvo: Drive for Life
World Soccer Winning Eleven 9
World Series® Baseball 2K3
Worms 4 Mayhem
Worms™ Forts: Under Siege
WWE™ Raw™ 2
XIII
Yourself!Fitness™
Zapper™

 

Ok so these games mentioned are already good to go or I still need to download and load the file to my 360?

 

need to download file and install in 360

 

wow. that's lame. i realize it's probably not too profitable, but you'd think there'd be a pretty good system for recompiling the executables to run under the new system. that's all you'd need to download is a new executable designed for the later hardware. games these days are like 99% assets and 1% executable code. i can't imagine the new hardware is incapable of anything the old hardware was capable of.

in fact, a recompile would allow those who wanted to, to make adjustments to the game (like clipping distance or level of detail settings) that would make the games look better without too much effort.

ms should have coordinated backwards compatability better. i know ps1 games kept selling after ps2 came out cuz you could still play them.

 

The problem is that in addition to changing from an nVidia based graphics solution to a next generation ATi chipset, they also made an evolutionary leap forward in terms of central processing unit(s). The hardware in the new box is just massively different than the old one.