LIST OF XBOX GAMES COMPATIBLE WITH XBOX 360

A list of 'Xbox games that are backward compatible on the Xbox 360' stands at the heart of this article. This list has experienced significant fluctuations over time and many of these are noted below. Additionally, the manner in which backwards compatibility is achieved and the software errors associated with it are discussed in brief.

Contents

Fluctuations in the list of compatible games over time

How compatibility is achieved

List of compatible titles

Backward compatibility issues

External links

Fluctuations in the list of compatible games over time

The original list was composed of 213 games and was unveiled on November 11, 2005 on the Xbox.com website; however, some games have been subsequently removed due to bugs. The following 13 games were removed from the list, although many of them have since been re-added: ''Catwoman'' (now re-added), '', ''Curse: The Eye of Isis'', ''NBA Live 2003'', ''Sid Meier's Pirates!'' (now re-added), '' (but works in Europe), ''Blinx 2'' (now re-added), ''FIFA World Cup 2002'', ''Grabbed by the Ghoulies'' (now re-added), ''Legends of Wrestling'' (now re-added), '' (now re-added), ''Rugby 2005'', and ''Pariah (computer game)'' (now re-added). ''He-Man: Defender of Grayskull'' remains on the list despite the fact the game was never released (it had been canceled by the developer before completion). The Japanese version of the console was initially compatible with only 12 games, while the European version had 156 games.
Microsoft continues to expand on the number of Xbox games available for use on the Xbox 360, eventually hoping to make the vast majority of original Xbox titles backwards compatible. The last update for backwards compatibility in the US was July 12, 2007, raising the total number of Xbox games compatible with the Xbox 360 to '394'. Approximately 42% of the original Xbox library is now compatible with the Xbox 360 (as of the July 12 update). The latest European update was April 2007, now with a total of '295' compatible games. The latest update for the Japanese was April 20, 2007, with '101' working games.
These updates can be downloaded from Xbox Live and xbox.com.

How compatibility is achieved

According to Microsoft, each game needs an ''emulation profile'' to run. These profiles can be downloaded through the Xbox Live service or at Xbox.com and burned on CD or DVD recordable media. The profiles are downloaded as a single bundle, and hence only need to be applied once per update (if doing so offline), or are automatically downloaded the first time a backwards-compatible game is inserted.
The Xbox 360 hard disk is required to play the games on this list. The hard disk is used not only to store the emulation software, but also to store saved games, store downloaded content, and to serve as a data cache for titles which utilize disk caching. Since games for the original Xbox were designed with the expectation that a hard drive would always be available, most titles rely heavily on the presence of one.
An early version of the emulator for playing '' and ''Halo 2'' offline was included with the Xbox 360 hard drive at launch. Xbox 360 hard drives manufactured later include updated emulation profiles which allow a greater range of titles to be played out of the box without updating. Whenever a new version set of emulation profiles is released, drives manufactured after that date automatically include the latest update. While it is likely that a number of games will remain incompatible for technical reasons, Microsoft continues efforts to add popular titles in future updates. Compatibility can also be achieved through the free downloads in the Official Xbox Magazine monthly demo discs.

List of compatible titles

In the following chart, any Xbox game with a "Yes" for its region will work in that region, and only in others which also have "Yes" (although cross-region compatibility is not guaranteed). "Yes" in the 60Hz column indicates that the PAL title supports 60Hz output mode, and thus is compatible with the Xbox 360 VGA cable. 'Any game not on the list at all does not work in any region at present.'

'Title'	'PAL (EU, AU, NZ)'		'NTSC (JP)'	'NTSC (NA)'	'Glitches'
	'50Hz'	'60Hz'
''4x4 Evo 2''
''Aggressive Inline''					Opening video runs at around 15fps & stutters often.
''Air Force Delta Storm''
''Alias''
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''All-Star Baseball 2003''
''All-Star Baseball 2005''
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''Amped 2''
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''Atari Anthology''					Button prompts & text not sharp.
''ATV Quad Power Racing 2''
''Auto Modellista''
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''					Often lags heavily when a large number of breakable objects are on screen. White Xbox screen flickers for a few seconds when starting.
''Barbarian''
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''Bass Pro Shops Trophy Hunter 2007''
''Batman Begins''					All movies stutter occasionally.
''Battle Engine Aquila''
''Battlestar Galactica''					Afterburners show up as black voids instead of white mist.
''Big Mutha Truckers''
''Bistro Cupid''
''Black''					Game tends to lose screen brightness at the start after black screen with white text writing that comes after FMV
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''Bloodrayne 2''
''BMX XXX''					All of the Acclaim demos movies and the Competitive Edge movie fail to run and just take the user back to the previous menu. All of the Scores videos will play in the game but will fail to play in the Movie menu.
''Breakdown''					Crashes the instant you press a button in game (definite for PAL version)
''Brute Force''					Both the Tao Feng and the MechAssault demos cause the game to go back to the Xbox 360 dashboard.
''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''
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''Burnout''
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''Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2005 Adventures''
''Cabela's Dangerous Hunts''
''Cabela's Outdoor Adventures 2006''
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''Call of Duty 3''
''Cars''
''Casino: High Rollers''
''Catwoman''
''Chicago Enforcer''
''Circus Maximus''
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''Colin McRae Rally 4''
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''Constantine''
''Counter-Strike''					Loading screen disappears.
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''Crash Nitro Kart''
''Crash Twinsanity''
''					Demos don't work, and some downloads aren't compatible.
''Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon''
''The Da Vinci Code''
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''Dark Angel''
''Darkwatch''
''Dead or Alive 3''
''Dead or Alive Ultimate''
''Dead to Rights''
''Deathrow''
''Destroy All Humans!''
''Digimon Rumble Arena 2''
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''Doom 3''					The Limited Collector's Edition works as well.
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''Drake of the 99 Dragons''
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''Drive to Survive''
''Drive to Survive (EM)''
''Dynasty Warriors 4 / Shin Sangokumuso3''
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''ESPN Major League Baseball''
''ESPN College Hoops''
''ESPN MLS ExtraTime 2002''
''ESPN NHL 2K5''
''Euro 2004''
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''Evil Dead Regeneration''
''Ex Chaser''
''Exaskeleton''
''F1 Championship Season 2001''
''Fable''					Frame rate dips; Attempting to run the demos causes a fatal error in which the game must halt.
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''Fahrenheit / Indigo Prophecy''					Aspect ratio is slightly narrow in PAL VGA.
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''Family Guy Video Game!''
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''Fatal Frame (NTSC) / Project Zero (PAL)''
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''FIFA 2003''
''FIFA 2004''
''FIFA 2007''					ZOOM in replay & Goal Kicks closeups are blurry. Regular wide angle overall gameplay fine.
''FIFA Street''
''FIFA Street 2''
''Fight Night 2004''
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''FlatOut''
''Flight Academy''
''Ford Mustang Racing''					Custom soundtracks do not work.
''Ford vs. Chevy''
''Forza Motorsport''					Version with "Live Arcade" does not run smoothly. Occasional graphical glitches.
''Freaky Flyers''
''Freedom Fighters''
''Frogger Beyond''
''Full Spectrum Warrior''					Content download does not work in PAL60
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''Futurama''
''Fuzion Frenzy''					Several minigames are laggy.
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''The Great Escape''
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''Grabbed by the Ghoulies''
''Grand Theft Auto III''
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''Greg Hasting's Tournament Paintball''
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''Guilty Gear Isuka''					Minute glitches in sprites (upper right of sprite box) and animation (occasional random frame).
''Guilty Gear XX #Reload''
''Half-Life 2''					Loading images at title screen gone.
''					Some textures go white and the demos option in the main menu is gone. Significant slowdowns in co-op.
''Halo 2''					Noticeably lower frame rate in four player split-screen. Content Downloader for getting new map packs doesn't work in 60Hz along with the upgrader. Occasionally, 'ghost' images stay on screen unless console is reset. Note: Upgrades now run through Xbox 360 system instead of Xbox upgrade system, so will work in PAL60 now. Dolby Digital sound cuts out when playing across system link.
''Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack''
''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets''					Usually runs slowly, runs full speed when not looking at complicated scenes, slowdown even evident in intro at any resolution.
''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''					Some minor slowdowns.
''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban''
''Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone''
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''House of the Dead III''					Gameplay in House of the Dead 2 tends to both speed up and slow down at certain sequences.
''The Hulk''
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''IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005''
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''Incredibles / Mr. Incredible''
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''IndyCar Series 2005''
''I-Ninja''
''Innocent Tears''
''Intellivision Lives!''
''Jade Empire''
''Jade Empire Limited Edition Disc''					Demos and bonus disc do not work for PAL 60HZ. The update already includes Special Edition content (Mong Zhen character).
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''Jet Set Radio Future''					Noticeable slowdown in some stages. Flickering and obscured text in pause menus. Textures may disappear after leaving pause menu.
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''Junko Takahashi's Mahjong Seminar''
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''Justice League: Heroes''					Very noticeable slowdown whenever large objects you can pick up are an the screen.
''Kabuki Warriors / Zan Kabuki''
''Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer''
''Kill.Switch''
''King Arthur''
''The King of Fighters 2002 & 2003''					King of Fighters 2002 has graphical issues including lines through sprites.
''The King of Fighters Neowave''
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''Kunio Yonenaga's Shogi Seminar''
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''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events''
''Links 2004''
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''Mad Dash Racing''
''Magatama''
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''Manhunt''					The Narrator's voice-overs cannot be heard unless a headset is used.
''Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2''
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''Marvel vs. Capcom 2''					In-game character sprites suffer from severe graphical issues.
''Max Payne''
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''Maximum Chase''
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''Mega Man Anniversary Collection''
''					Map can sometimes turn solid blue and sound can skip. PAL version freezes 360 completely when entering top of the map.
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''Micro Machines''
''Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing''
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''MLB SlugFest 2003''
''MLB SlugFest 2004''
''Monster Garage''
''					The Game of the Year Edition works as well; some minor graphical glitches occur over the pictures of items in inventory (rarely) and over the pictures for save games (often); load game option from main menu experiences heavy lag. Game seems to crash when using trainers to level up.
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''					The Kollector's Edition game disc including Mortal Kombat and the bonus featurettes works. Area-51 demo non-playable (audio is heard but picture is black except for visible HUD).
''MotoGP''
''MotoGP 2''
''MTV Music Generator 3''
''MTX Mototrax''
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''Muzzle Flash''
''MX Unleashed''
''MX vs. ATV Unleashed''
''MX World Tour featuring Jamie Little''
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''Namco Museum''
''Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection''
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''NBA Live 2002''
''NBA Live 2004''
''NCAA Football 06''					Slight slowdown in pass plays on making the catch, and kickoff returns. Game still playable.
''					2 player bottom screen stares at the ground. Cutscenes are skippy. Burnout demo crashes.
''NFL Blitz 2002''
''NFL Blitz 2003''
''NFL Blitz 2004''
''NFL Fever 2004''
''NHL 2004''
''NHL Hitz 2003''
''Ninja Gaiden''					Game is slowed down.
''Ninja Gaiden Black''					Game is slowed down.
''Nobunaga no Yabou Ranseiki''
''					Voices and various sounds become inaudible after an FMV & all icons and most text can't be viewed, even game save icons are missing.
''Open Season''
''Outlaw Golf 2''
''Outlaw Golf 9 More Holes of X-mas''
''Outlaw Tennis''
''Outlaw Volleyball''
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''Outrun 2''					The main menu HUD and the unlockable original 1986 Arcade have some slight graphical glitches.
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''Over the Hedge''
''Pac-Man World 3''
''Panzer Dragoon Orta''					PAL version crashes after the full-motion video at the end of the third level. Original Panzer Dragoon is not playable (exits to Pandora's Box menu).
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''Pariah''					Long loading times.
''Petit Copter''
''Phantom Crash''
''Phantom Dust''
''Plus Plumb 2''
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''					The Unlockable Prince of Persia and Prince of Persia 2 games won't play. Some lag when the screen fills up with multiple enemies.
''Pro Cast Sports Fishing''
''Pro Evolution Soccer 5''
''Pro Race Driver''
''Project Gotham Racing''					Looks fantastic, but frame rate is poor, does not work in widescreen in 720p.
''Project Gotham Racing 2''					Black screen at car selection. Radio does not work.
''Psychonauts''					Raz's body texture sometimes replaced with pause menu's background texture. Small, faint, vertical lines visible in the distance.
''Psyvariar 2: Extended Edition''
''Pump It Up: Exceed''					Cannot use Pump It Up dance pad.
''The Punisher''
''Pure Pinball''					Flippers activate on their own on some Xbox 360 consoles.
''Puyo Pop Fever / Puyo Puyo Fever''
''Quantum Redshift''
''Rallisport Challenge''					Frame-rate issues.
''Rapala Pro Fishing''
''Rayman Arena''
''Raze's Hell''
''Red Dead Revolver''					Sky flickers from blue to black and parts of many objects flicker during game play. Objects in the load screens and cut scenes flicker. Game freezes during the canyon level.
''Red Faction II''
''RedCard 2003''
''Reservoir Dogs''
''Return To Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War''
''Rent-A-Hero No. 1''
''Richard Burns Rally''
''RoadKill''					XBox Live connectivity disabled.
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''Rocky Legends''
''Rogue Ops''
''Rogue Trooper''
''RugbyLeague 2''
''Samurai Jack''
''Samurai Warriors''
''					Low framerate. Run in 1080i for best results. pal vga narrow aspect in 1280 res.
''Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights''
''Scrapland''					Minor occasional flickering and start of most speech clipped.
''Sega GT 2002''					Version of game bundled with JSRF suffers from reduced frame rate.
''Sega GT Online''					During one particular race there is an awful framerate. May also corrupt save files.
''Sega Soccer Slam''
''Serious Sam''
''Shadow the Hedgehog''
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''Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures''
''Shark Tale''
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''Shenmue II''					Changing the game's 'Filter' to a different color does not work and causes a brief pause. Sound issues with advanced scart leads and VGA cable. Arcade games (ie: Outrun, Space Harrier) both have noticeable glitches in the textures and the classic games do not work in PAL60 mode. Sometimes Ryo's head disappears momentarily.
''Shincho Mahjong''
''Shrek 2''
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''Sid Meier's Pirates!''
''					Has an issue where the light from the flashlight shines behind the character as well as in front. Many 'game over' events render the game unplayable unless starting a new game via deleting the save file - otherwise the title screen is never presented again even after a reboot.
''					Slight skipping occurs during FMVs. Black lines appear in facial areas.
''The Simpsons Hit & Run''
''The Simpsons Road Rage''					Much of the voice over is missing.
''The Sims 2''
''Smashing Drive''
''Sneakers / Nezmix''
''Sniper Elite''					Game freezes at the briefing screen before loading if using any resolution other than 480i and 4:3 mode.
''Sonic Heroes''					Text isn't sharp and has some graphical errors on it (lines under or through letters). The stage title screens have lines through them. All movies run at around 15fps but is in sync with the audio. On the opening movie the song has to repeat sections in order to stay in sync. During gameplay button prompts aren't sharp. On the title screen the logo still has aliasing issues.
''Sonic Mega Collection Plus''					Sound glitches in PAL version when playing Sonic the Hedgehog, may occur in other games.
''Sonic Riders''
''Soul Calibur II''					Widescreen gameplay only available in 480p. Framerate sometimes dips when fighter is airborne, especially when fighting in the Library arena.
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''Speed Kings''
''Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy''
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''Spider-Man 2''
''Splat Renegade Paintball''
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''The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie''
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''Spy Hunter 2''
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''SSX 3''					Minor graphical glitches.
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''					Boots, but is unplayable - graphical glitches throughout the game.
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''					SFX sometimes bug out and become very quiet until the Xbox is reset; often experiences heavy lag during combat and short lag bursts out of combat.
''					Random crackling sound, music will occasionally stop playing before starting again and then stopping again, music will not play at main menu, also frame rate will randomly drop for a couple of seconds out of combat.
''Star Wars Republic Commando''					SFX sometimes bug out and become very quiet; many textures bug out and appear as a multicolored metallic texture instead
''					Tetris worlds combined disc doesn't work.
''State of Emergency''
''Street Fighter Anniversary Collection''
''Street Racing Syndicate''
''Stubbs the Zombie in "Rebel Without a Pulse"''
''The Suffering''
''Super Bubble Pop''
''Super Monkey Ball Deluxe''
''SX Superstar''
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''Tecmo Classic Arcade''					Game will not run. According to the console, an error message appears stating that the game has encountered a problem and cannot continue.
''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''
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''Tenerezza''
''Tenku''
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''Tetris Worlds''
''Tetsuya Nakajima's Othello Seminar''
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''The Thing''
''Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07''
''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon''
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''Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2''
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''Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3''
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''Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell''
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''Tony Hawk's American Wasteland''
''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X''
''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3''
''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4''
''Tony Hawk's Underground''
''Tony Hawk's Underground 2''
''Torino 2006 Winter Olympics''
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''Toxic Grind''
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''Trigger Man''
''Trivial Pursuit Unhinged''
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''Ty the Tasmanian Tiger''
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''Ultimate Spider-Man''
''Ultra Bust-A-Move''
''					Some cut-scenes sometimes show garbage at the top and bottom and glitch in several ways, random FPS slowdowns occur also.
''Urban Freestyle Soccer''
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''Vexx''					When booting the white Xbox screen flickers for a few seconds. All trailers in the Extras section stutter & pause occasionally.
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''Whacked!''
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''World Soccer Winning Eleven 8''
''World Soccer Winning Eleven 9''
''Without Warning''
''World Series Baseball 2K3''
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''Wrath Unleashed''
''WWF Raw''
''WWE RAW 2''
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''XIII''
''Xiaolin Showdown''
''Yourself!Fitness''
''Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of Destiny''
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Backward compatibility issues

When an original Xbox game has been emulator patched in accordance to Microsoft instructions it may still refuse to play on the Xbox 360. The following error message displayed on the Xbox 360 dashboard signifies this failure:
:''"This original Xbox game is not supported on your Xbox 360 console. An update to support this game may be available. For more info, go to www.xbox.com/games. X: 2689.0 B: 1884.0"''
This message is identical to the one displayed when trying to play an unsupported or unpatched game for the first time. At this time no reference to the significance of the X and B variables can be found on the Microsoft Xbox website. This may be related to international region compatibility; a Microsoft disclaimer notes
:''"Currently the North American versions of these games are the only ones supported as backward compatible titles on Xbox 360."''
PAL games that do not support PAL-60 cannot be played using the VGA HD Cable. Microsoft has an article on this here.
Additionally, a number of titles are technically backwards compatible, but still contain emulation errors or glitches. These are often minor, but can still include problems with graphics, sound, loading/saving, or gameplay. In some cases, Microsoft has subsequently updated the emulation profiles for individual titles, such that incidence of these issues is reduced or eliminated.
Currently the only way to transfer save files from the original Xbox to the 360 is via a special transfer kit which requires the original system's memory card or a modded Xbox. Without modding an Xbox, this also limits saves that can be moved to those that can be stored on a memory card. Some game saves on the original Xbox could not be moved due to either file restrictions or size limitations.
Another limitation applies to downloadable content. No content can be moved between systems. Free content can simply be downloaded again on the 360, but due to purchased content being assigned to systems instead of user accounts, any content purchased on the original must be purchased again on the 360.
Both issues could potentially be fixed via an update to the software of both systems adding some sort of file transfer via LAN option that moved all saves between the two systems.
As an aside, save files when viewed from the 360 menu don't seem to use the same icons they had on the original system. This is possibly because each emulation profile includes custom icons created for it instead of simply reusing the same icons the original game used.

External links

★ Official US list

★ Official European list

★ Official Japanese list

★ Official Australian list

★ Official FAQ

★ Support and technical issues

★ GameSpot article - shows and explains the graphical differences

★ Another GameSpot article - explains the technical issues of many of the Xbox games on the Xbox 360