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Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Thread: Everyone wants it, no one uses it
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I am pretty sure but not 100% that once you buy something you are always free to download it when you like.
Y0j1mb0
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It seems Ska Studios is onboard. (makers of The Dishwasher, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, and Charlie Murder)
This needs to happen. Would love to play my Dishwasher games on the XB1.
RowdyReverb
Member
Classic ports actually make me more excited for the feature than some of the big name games. It would really help to flesh out the XB1's library. It seems like they'd be a priority since people would be more likely to buy a last gen game if it was an old classic that never went out of style.
Castlevania: SOTN, where are youuuuu
brandonh83
Banned
Same here. I'd take SOTN over RDR lol
You can 100% redownload everything you bought (even free content) on 360.
Now for BC that's something different, because if said game has been delisted for expiring license it's hard to see them going BC.
I hope I'm wrong and Outrun goes BC tomorrow though
BenHargrove
Member
Left 4 Dead 2 is a pleasant surprise. So it's basically confirmed that it's backwards compatible? I've got the disc version so I'm pretty excited about this. Been wanting to play it again or a while.
Ein Bear
Member
Yeah, this is how I feel too. It's great to have the Gears games and such playable, but they're the sort of thing that I imagine will be ported/remastered for years to come. It's the lesser-known stuff that I'm more excited to get compatibility for. God knows when Beyond Good & Evil will get released again for example.
Diablohead
Member
Quick Q, is the deus ex that's part of games with gold the directors cut or just the vanilla version? as I own the disc of the first release and wondering if I should renew live today or not for a few months.
ASSauLTxMasTER
Member
EDIT: nvm, late to the party + MS patched l4d2 anyways.
It is the superior original version, not the DC.
kitschykitty
Member
Vanilla, I believe the Director's Cut still isn't backwards compatible.
Diablohead
Member
You can 100% redownload everything you bought (even free content) on 360.
Now for BC that's something different, because if said game has been delisted for expiring license it's hard to see them going BC.
I hope I'm wrong and Outrun goes BC tomorrow though
I want afterburner climax and outrun also
It's the vanilla version, Director's Cut is not BC yet because it's multi-disc. The DLC is also not available yet for some reason, but it will be (along with multi-disc games) in "early 2016" (Square Enix quote)
Diablohead
Member
You can 100% redownload everything you bought (even free content) on 360.
Now for BC that's something different, because if said game has been delisted for expiring license it's hard to see them going BC.
I hope I'm wrong and Outrun goes BC tomorrow though
Thanks you two. That makes me feel better about buying these two.
By the way, could there be a case in which a game works on Xbox 1 without being listed?
ASSauLTxMasTER
Member
i see.
OH, if any of you own Reach digitally, are you able to fully boot into it without problems?
EDIT: Nvm, looks like my 360 profile got corrupted again.
Fleshfeast
Member
I was more pointing out that MS has games that they have they go-ahead on, but still haven't put out yet. They're a small indie studio, I'm sure they know they don't have tons of people clamoring for their games like RDR and CoD.
I never did finish the first game, but I did the second. I never played Charlie Murder (which was a free GWG title) mostly because it came so late in the 360's life.
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ASSauLTxMasTER
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RowdyReverb
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It seems like once they've improved the emulator enough, they should be able to release less-demanding titles like most XBLA games at a faster pace with just QA being the rate limiting step. At least that's what I hope.
statham
Member
Spent two hours today playing 360 games, and again its amazing they pulled this off. spent a hour on Dungeon Seige, very playable but combat is rough, not because of BC, but the way it was designed, I'm sure if I kept upgrading my character it would be better, but after a hour I rather goback to Diablo III. Peggle is still fun as ever, and in some ways I like it better then the XB1 sequel. something about it being more basic. Aegis Wings for a side shooter works very well, not into these games anymore tho. Southpark is perfect, Operation Flashpoint seems to run well, but the game wasn't much fun in the short time I played it. but it looks and runs well from what I played. I did pick games I wasn't sure I wasn't going to keep on my HD. I'll test more games tomorrow.
Fleshfeast
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I believe the game was on the hard drive, but not attached to your account. I think it's still free, you just have to add it to your account.
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Hexic-HD/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802584107d1
Pretty impressed with Fallout 3 and Condemned. Both seem to run great on BC. Was kind of shocked how well F3 has aged. Still looks solid and the only thing that really felt dated was the lack of iron sights.
Condemned runs well and is still a ton of fun. I don't think I have played it since the 360 launch. Was a little shocked at how much better the environments look than the character models do. Thomas looks terrible in the cutscenes and his hands look pretty low res and angular. Still happy to have this gem in my library again even if my memories were a little clouded by nostalgia.
Condemned runs well and is still a ton of fun. I don't think I have played it since the 360 launch. Was a little shocked at how much better the environments look than the character models do. Thomas looks terrible in the cutscenes and his hands look pretty low res and angular. Still happy to have this gem in my library again even if my memories were a little clouded by nostalgia.
a Master Ninja
Member
Yikes.
Dash Kappei
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WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
To be fair, online Rocketfight is literally the absolute worst case scenario possible (edit: actually FRGfight would be, but this is a close second).
It had a fair bit of slowdown on 360 as well. Granted not that bad, but still.Usually games get delisted because of expired licenses (example Outrun and the Ferrari license), so it's hard to see one of those games gets the greenlight to release on X1.
Still, I'd love to see an Outrun on X1 even if it wouldn't have the Ferraris. Sega racing arcades are some of my favourites.
Estocolmo
Member
Now for BC that's something different, because if said game has been delisted for expiring license it's hard to see them going BC.
I hope I'm wrong and Outrun goes BC tomorrow though
Gauntlet is BC and that game was delisted from Xbox Marketplace.
CRAIG667
Member
Tekken TT2 - (found this on reddit and worked for me this morning, UK)
"Tekken works still. I got it done this afternoon. Search up "Hes Pro" and look up what the account is following. Should find TTT2. There are 2 versions on the marketplace one that you can only follow but the other is a BC version. Should be able to do "see in store" and download it."
Make sure you look up the BC version, it has the 360 BC thumbnail, so easy to distinguish.
You must own it digitally.
"Tekken works still. I got it done this afternoon. Search up "Hes Pro" and look up what the account is following. Should find TTT2. There are 2 versions on the marketplace one that you can only follow but the other is a BC version. Should be able to do "see in store" and download it."
Make sure you look up the BC version, it has the 360 BC thumbnail, so easy to distinguish.
You must own it digitally.
MarkMan
loves Arcade Sticks
Just did this and downloading it now.
Anyone have any idea how it runs?
Really? That's a great news, didn't know that.
What was the reason for its delisting though?
They might have blown their load and needed a few days to get stuff up and running, so I give them the benefit of the doubt last week
But I'm expecting at least a few games this week, if not then i'll start to worry we'll be getting like 3 games a month.
MightyHedgehog
Member
Almost perfectly when it's not suffering the occasional slowdown or brief pause, and it doesn't yet support DLC Tekken Tunes. Should get better once updated closer to what should be official release.
It's not the only delisted BC stuff, either, though I cannot recall off the top of my head what the others are ATM. Midway published the original set of Atari/Williams arcade games for XBLA before WB and others pieced up their properties when they went under.
Well, they did say they would release when they were ready, so we shouldn't be expecting a schedule or certain average of releases over time now as opposed to what they set themselves up for earlier with monthly drops.
MarkMan
loves Arcade Sticks
Agreed with the above TTT2 impressions. Only when tagging in (especially from above/near walls) will you see a complete freeze in gameplay. Which is unfortunate but the game is still playable.
Also, I need to test peppery with a stick but I found it hard to do some combos that I hit relatively easy on the X360 version. (Jaycee CH 4 into elbow, etc.)
More testing tomorrow.
Also, I need to test peppery with a stick but I found it hard to do some combos that I hit relatively easy on the X360 version. (Jaycee CH 4 into elbow, etc.)
More testing tomorrow.
CRAIG667
Member
And most importantly, there is no noticeable input lag whatsoever, which is fantastic and compulsory for a beat em' up really!
Fox Mulder
Member
Yeah, classic stuff like streets of rage, sonic, doom, etc are oddly absent years into this generation. Glad we get stuff like that at least through BC.
It seems Ska Studios is onboard. (makers of The Dishwasher, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, and Charlie Murder)
That's weird, since MS has said the ball is in the publishers' court....
patched it how?
shortsFortallPeople
Banned
for all we know, they just haven't gotten around to testing the Ska Studio games and it's as simple as that.
MrBenchmark
Member
SlipperyFishes
Banned
Would it kill you to spell game names? What the hell are you referring too?
Tekkie Tag Tournament 2, Virtua Fighter
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