Menu music and cut scene audio sometimes fail to play. Sound clicks while racing around opponents. Opening video runs at around 15 frames per second and stutters often. Some games still will have small black over-scan lines on the sides of the screen.
Certain games without the widescreen function can be "cheated" into being widescreen by changing the screen resolution to 480p in the Xbox 360 display settings menu. Note that all compatible games will stretch to widescreen, potentially distorting the aspect ratio, if the Xbox 360 is configured for standard definition ( 480i / 576i) or enhanced definition ( 480p / 576p). If the widescreen column is "No", pillar boxing is used to preserve aspect ratio on high definition displays (most HDTVs have an option to change or stretch the image to fill the screen). "Yes" in the 60 Hz column indicates that the PAL title supports 60 Hz output mode, and thus is compatible with the Xbox 360 VGA cable.Ī game with "Yes" in the widescreen column has built-in support for widescreen, and will fill high-definition displays. In the following chart, any Xbox game with a "Yes" will work in that region, and also in others which have "Yes". When playing an Xbox game on Xbox 360 (using an Xbox 360 controller), the white button is mapped to the left bumper and the black button to the right. Specifically, there are no white and black buttons on the 360 controller they were replaced by the "bumpers" found above the left and right triggers. The original Xbox controller is not compatible with Xbox 360 due to a different connector and marginally different button layout. Whenever new emulation profiles are released, drives manufactured after that date include the latest update. Xbox 360 hard drives manufactured later included updated emulation profiles which allow a greater range of titles to be played out-of-the-box without updating.
Since games for the original Xbox were designed with the expectation that a hard drive always would be available, most titles rely heavily on its presence.Īn early version of the emulator for playing Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 offline initially was included with the Xbox 360 hard drive at launch. The hard disk is used to store the emulation software, and also to store saved games, downloaded content, and to serve as a data cache for titles which utilize disk caching.
The profiles are downloaded as a single bundle, thus only needing to be applied once per update if doing so offline, or are automatically downloaded the first time a compatible game is inserted.Īn official Xbox 360 hard disk is required to play any of the games on this list. They were also distributed as part of the content on the Official Xbox Magazine monthly discs, which were discontinued in 2012. These profiles are downloaded from Xbox Live, or are downloaded manually from and burned on CD or DVD recordable media. How compatibility is achieved Ī hard drive is required to play emulated Xbox games.Īccording to Microsoft, each game requires an emulation profile to run. The latest update for Japan was released on November 28, 2007, with 122 working games. The latest European update was in November, 2007, with a total of 476 compatible games.
The last update for Xbox 360 backwards compatibility in North America was on November 27, 2007, raising the total number of Xbox games compatible with the Xbox 360 to 461, which is approximately 51% of the original Xbox library in North America. He-Man: Defender of Grayskull remains on the list even though the game was never released it was cancelled by the developer before completion. 7 other games were also removed, but were then added back later: Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space, Catwoman, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Legends of Wrestling, Mortal Kombat: Deception, Pariah, and Sid Meier's Pirates!. The Japanese version of the Xbox 360 console was compatible with only 12 games, while the European version had 156 games.ħ games were removed from the list due to bugs: Codename: Kids Next Door – Operation: V.I.D.E.O.G.A.M.E., Curse: The Eye of Isis, Dance Dance Revolution UltraFIFA World Cup, NBA Live 2003, Rugby 2005, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The original list for North America comprised 279 games and was released on November 11, 2005. 1 Changes in the list of compatible games over timeĬhanges in the list of compatible games over time.