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XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC announced

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.
I was simply responding to your "WhY wOuLd AnYOne WaNt tHiS?!?!?!?!?!?!".

From what I read of the article if you have already purchased the digital versions of those games (which were later available on the Xbox Store/marketplace) you can now play them on PC.

If people don't have an OG xbox and don't want to go through the process of downloading 878gb worth of OG xbox game images (IE the theft I was referring to), this seems to be a great way to experience those old games as they make them available.

I am sure you have a complete collection of OG xbox games as you have gone "balls deep" into it.
 
I was simply responding to your "WhY wOuLd AnYOne WaNt tHiS?!?!?!?!?!?!".

It is still a ridiculous answer, you are defending Microsoft 'good action' of letting people pay again for 20+ games, only to get a worse version of what they can have thanks to many community tools like Insignia, a free revival of OG xbox live.
From what I read of the article if you have already purchased the digital versions of those games (which were later available on the Xbox Store/marketplace) you can now play them on PC.
Thats the minimal thing they can do. What? The licenses you rented on Xbox is somehow incompatible with the license of the emulator?

(IE the theft I was referring to),
What theft man? Those games have been abandoned for 20+ years, and we already know that at best you rent a digital license. If 5-10 years for now Disney/Lucas Art revoke all license of Star Wars to EA, we know these companies have no shame in just taking games like Star Wars Battlefront 2 from your 'library'.

If you tell me I can just go to a place in the Microsoft store, and just order a new copy of Star Wars Battlefront, of Halo 2 or Dead or Alive: Xtreme and then deliver it to me (aka, not a license rent), I will concede you that it is theft. But thats not real.
this seems to be a great way to experience those old games as they make them available.

And this is what my original post was about: It is not great, unless somehow you are slave that if you dont see it on the store for digital borrowing, then it doesnt exist.

TODAY, there are better solutions, all community driven and related to the OG Xbox, I will just name a few:

- Free Online: OG Xbox live in all its glory with friends, message, etc
- Achievements: Some mad lads somehow managed to introduce achievements in the OG xbox.
- Mobile ports and Cross play: Play on your Xbox, play on your PC, Steamdeck, tablet or phone and with everyone else using insignia and unlocking achievements.
- Mods and ports: games like UT99, Hexen 2, Dark Forces are being ported with even more things to come now that people developed some C tools for new homebrew games. And dont worry, these ports usually ask you to put the game files from PC into the the port, so this is not first degree robbery.
 
  • If you already own a digital license for these games on console, that license now carries over to your PC or handheld.
The way it should be.
 
Well I'll leave this hex edit I did years ago for Crimson Skies, it makes the game display in Widescreen and unlocks the framerate to 60 fps, if anyone or ever is possible to patch these games it will come in handy.

Name = Crimson Skies
TitleID = MS-033


*16:9 AR
Code:
FIND
00 00 80 3F 8B CE E8 31 06 03 00 F3 0F 10 06 F3 0F 10 4E 0C F3 0F 11 44 24 40 F3 0F 10 46 04 F3 0F 11 44 24 44 F3 0F 10 46 08 F3 0F 11 4C 24 50
REPLACE
00 00 40 3F 8B CE E8 31 06 03 00 F3 0F 10 06 F3 0F 10 4E 0C F3 0F 11 44 24 40 F3 0F 10 46 04 F3 0F 11 44 24 44 F3 0F 10 46 08 F3 0F 11 4C 24 50

*FRAMERATE UNLOCK*
Code:
FIND
01 00 00 00 5B 83 C4 08 C3 D8 0D 18 EE 28 00 89 46 10 89 4E 14 E8 56 1E 0C 00 5F 89 46 18 5E 33 C0 5B 83 C4 08 C3 CC CC 83 EC 08 56 8D 44 24 04
REPLACE
00 00 00 00 5B 83 C4 08 C3 D8 0D 18 EE 28 00 89 46 10 89 4E 14 E8 56 1E 0C 00 5F 89 46 18 5E 33 C0 5B 83 C4 08 C3 CC CC 83 EC 08 56 8D 44 24 04
`
*FRAMERATE FIX*
Code:
FIND
00 00 7A 44 00 00 20 41 50 B7 01 00 50 93 01 00 20 93 01 00 50 4F 01 00 B0 AD 01 00 10 F8 12 00 60 4F 01 00 70 4F 01 00 60 04 12 00 60 04 12 00
REPLACE
00 00 FA 43 00 00 20 41 50 B7 01 00 50 93 01 00 20 93 01 00 50 4F 01 00 B0 AD 01 00 10 F8 12 00 60 4F 01 00 70 4F 01 00 60 04 12 00 60 04 12 00

Too bad the game runs like dogshit in Xemu.
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