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[KenaiPhoenix]

I mean... ok, but why would anyone need it?

You can just get the game for free (or just buy and digitalize your physical actually owned game) and even play online with Xemu + Insignia

Why is people like 'FINALLY!'?

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

I mean... ok, but why would anyone need it?

You can just get the game for free (or just buy and digitalize your physical actually owned game) and even play online with Xemu + Insignia

Why is people like 'FINALLY!'?

Not everone is a thief, has a pc, is technically inclined, or has time for that (or some combination of all of those).

I have no issues buying old xbox games like this and I have already digitized my exiting library of those consoles*. Its just nice to have access to that stuff from anywhere instead of having to take a laptop with a hardrive loaded to the gills with images.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Its...um...well the time mechanics are cool at least!
(everything else: camera, controls, character responsiveness, etc were lackluster even back then to me)

Yea I already hate the camera. I'm going to have to use controller remapping and flip the horizontal.

 

[Senua]

Not everone is a thief, has a pc, is technically inclined, or has time for that (or some combination of all of those).

I have no issues buying old xbox games like this and I have already digitized my exiting library of those consoles*. Its just nice to have access to that stuff from anywhere instead of having to take a laptop with a hardrive loaded to the gills with images.

 

[Dacvak]

I have nothing bad to say about this at all. This rules.

 

[jshackles]

I have nothing bad to say about this at all. This rules.

Same. As someone who was pretty heavy in the Xbox ecosystem from the 360-Series era, who has now moved almost exclusively to PC: more of this please.

 

[hollams]

Played 40 min of Conker and had no issues except I couldn't figure out how to exit the game. I had to alt tab and then kill it. Crimson skies is 9.99 so I'll wait for that to go on sale.

 

[DavidGzz]

Oh shit, games are already on there! I thought it was in the works lol, and I just noticed Tears of Metal is on there(Game Pass). Glad I checked, was about to pull the trigger on Steam for 24 bucks. That will hold me over until Halo. Nice!

 

[kevboard]

Played 40 min of Conker and had no issues except I couldn't figure out how to exit the game. I had to alt tab and then kill it. Crimson skies is 9.99 so I'll wait for that to go on sale.

it tells you on startup to press Menu and View at the same time to bring up the overlay (same way you bring up the guide in 360 games on Xbox One/Series X), and in that overlay is an exit button.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

are the others even in the store yet? when I looked them up earlier, only Conker was even available. so they are releasing them slowly across all regions it seems

yes all four of them are, I thought conker was w11 exclusive but it was just slow on the upload and became available 30 minutes later after my post in this thread.

 

[adamsapple]

I've never played Conker before.

 

[kevboard]

I've never played Conker before.

the original was pretty jank, so that's excusable. the remake plays way better tho. but neither version is anything amazing gameplay wise tbh.

 

[CGNoire]

No disc support
Win 11 required
Xbox store required......ughhhh

 

[MrCunningham]

Comparison. The lighting looks off in spots. But otherwise, pretty good. I am sure that DigitalFoundry's working on their comparison video right now, and there will be a video up soon enough.

 

[LordBritish]

My games for gold years (over 350 free games) might finally pay off?

 

[Slayer-33]

Thanks uncle Asha

She's Xbox Mommy to us dude.

 

[Beechos]

One step closer to project helix.

 

[Tobimacoss]

Give us Ninja Blade.

 

[kevboard]

Give us Ninja Blade.

that's not even back compat on console currently.
and it's a 360 game...
so I wouldn't count on it.

but there's a PC port of it already... which is supposedly really fucking bad

 

[kiphalfton]

Hows emulation scene for Xbox? Still sucky?

Would much rather play games at 4k/60fps

 

[kevboard]

Hows emulation scene for Xbox? Still sucky?

Would much rather play games at 4k/60fps

for the most popular games it's decent.
for the majority of games it's awful.

so you can play Jet Set Radio Future, Halo 1/2 pretty decently, but something like FarCry Instincts has severe visual issues.

Conker is for example not really playable last time I checked, but runs basically perfectly here at 1920p 30fps

 

[kiphalfton]

for the most popular games it's decent.
for the majority of games it's awful.

so you can play Jet Set Radio Future, Halo 1/2 pretty decently, but something like FarCry Instincts has severe visual issues.

Conker is for example not really playable last time I checked, but runs basically perfectly here at 1920p 30fps

Damn.

And original Xbox consoles are stupid expensive now on the used market.

 

[kevboard]

Damn.

And original Xbox consoles are stupid expensive now on the used market.

that's why I hope someone cracks this emulator open.

thanks for this emulator (Xenon Fusion) by Microsoft, almost 900 games are playable on Xbox 360 (yeah, 2005 hardware) with only minor issues.
all thanks to modders getting around the whitelist of supported games, and thanks to back porting the Xbox One and Series X updated version to the 360.

now imagine if people get that emulator running on PC without the limitations it currently has!


I still have an og Xbox (modded of course), but still.

 

[Revolutionary]

Cool initiative but personally I never cared about 95% of Xbox's exclusive slate. Virtually every Xbox 'exclusive' I've ever had an interest in was also released on Windows. The only exceptions that I can think of are Fable 2 and the Mistwalker RPGs, so I'm looking forward to finally checking those out (if they make the jump).

 

[IntentionalPun]

I wonder if my modded OG Xbox works. That was fun times.

 

[Instant_Classic]

Crimson Skies is incredible.

 

[BennyBlanco]

 

[digimaster7]

holy shit, I can finally play the OG NG2 officially on PC???

Edit: RIP my reading comprehension, its only for OG Xbox game not 360

 

[Tobimacoss]

that's not even back compat on console currently.
and it's a 360 game...
so I wouldn't count on it.

but there's a PC port of it already... which is supposedly really fucking bad

Correct, it should be made BC, it's MS published From Software game. 360 BC games will likely expand to PC also by November.

 

[R6Rider]

I actually just bought Conker on my Series X last week.

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

Not everone is a thief, has a pc, is technically inclined, or has time for that (or some combination of all of those).

I have no issues buying old xbox games like this and I have already digitized my exiting library of those consoles*. Its just nice to have access to that stuff from anywhere instead of having to take a laptop with a hardrive loaded to the gills with images.

Thief tf you are on?

If you want to go balls deep into OG Xbox (like I did) you can just get one, get an OSSC (unless you have a CRT) and an internet cable and you are done, online + good games. You want on the go? Xemu is already on Android and IOs, and since you dont want to be a 'thief' you just get your games and then the images.

This just cattle behavior of 'Please! Let me just get digital licenses of 20+ year games Microsoft!" or even worse "Please Asha! Let me rent older games!!"

Not that long ago everyone where shitting on Sony for trying to force people into digital licensing but now this is a 'good' move? This is a worse version of what we have right now.