Xbox One’s First Original Xbox Backwards Compatible Games Now Available

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After a long wait, Microsoft has finally introduced backwards compatibility support for original Xbox games on Xbox One. As is the case with Xbox 360 games, only select titles are supported, although the first batch includes some great ones, such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

The 13 Original Xbox games released will look better on the Xbox One family of devices, taking advantage of the power of Xbox One with up to 4X the pixel count on Xbox One and Xbox One S, and up to 16X the pixel count on Xbox One X. You’ll be able to play Original Xbox games on Xbox One through the disc you already own, or you can purchase the games digitally in the Microsoft Store.
 
Nothing like Microsoft showing how bad the Xbox was. It's a great game and it's nice to see the XBox One doing good things to an old title.
 
It looks a bit better. Keep in mind the Xbox version was running 480i (480p if you had the snazzy component HD cable that didn't come with the console). So a little uprez and tada. In fact just that little jump from 480i to 480p made a HUGE difference back then. Remember this is low 2000's I'm talking about, hardly anyone had HDTV's back then. I had a 50" Sony CRT 480i RPTV until 2003, and that wasn't cheap.
 
I played some Crimson Skies earlier on my Xbox One S and it looked very good. Huge improvement over how it looked on the original Xbox. The game is still awesome, too.
 
Burticus said:
It looks a bit better. Keep in mind the Xbox version was running 480i (480p if you had the snazzy component HD cable that didn't come with the console). So a little uprez and tada. In fact just that little jump from 480i to 480p made a HUGE difference back then. Remember this is low 2000's I'm talking about, hardly anyone had HDTV's back then. I had a 50" Sony CRT 480i RPTV until 2003, and that wasn't cheap.
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You mean projection? They never made crt that big.
 
d8lock said:
You mean projection? They never made crt that big.
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RPTV= rear projection TV. back in the day, projection sets used separate red, green and blue CRTs. the CRTs in my magnavox from the late 90s were actually liquid cooled... amazing the things we did for a larger picture back then
 
d8lock said:
You mean projection? They never made crt that big.
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RPTV = rear projection. Oh man, if they did make a 50" CRT can you imagine what it would weigh? I had a 35" tuber in my bedroom and that monster weighed hundreds of pounds. It sat in a cabinet unplugged for 10 years because I couldn't move the damn thing by myself. Finally gave it to a contractor who was doing some work on my house. Took 2 huge dudes to move it.

commodork6510 said:
RPTV= rear projection TV. back in the day, projection sets used separate red, green and blue CRTs. the CRTs in my magnavox from the late 90s were actually liquid cooled... amazing the things we did for a larger picture back then
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What he said. It was a pretty decent TV back from the SD era. But as soon as HD became "affordable" to mere mortals I had to upgrade. Well, that and the TV died.

GameLifter said:
I played some Crimson Skies earlier on my Xbox One S and it looked very good. Huge improvement over how it looked on the original Xbox. The game is still awesome, too.
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I loved Crimson Skies! I would totally play that today if I had it* (* = would probably rot in my steam backlog)
 
Burticus said:
I loved Crimson Skies! I would totally play that today if I had it* (* = would probably rot in my steam backlog)
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Having played both the PC and XBox versions of that game, I preferred the PC version. That they should put on Steam.
 
boss99 said:
Having played both the PC and XBox versions of that game, I preferred the PC version. That they should put on Steam.
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It's M$ so it isn't on Steam. Only way I can see to buy it is buy from ebay for $10-20... and who knows if it will work on a modern system.

That is one nice thing about the consoles... stuff just works.
 
Hmm... I had a look on our equivalent of eBay, $9 delivered for an unopened box of Crimson skies... Tempted to buy one and try...
 
Burticus said:
That is one nice thing about the consoles... stuff just works.
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If you limit to that generation, I'd agree with that assessment.

Include older and newer generations, that argument completely falls apart. MS, in this case, deliberately made games from old days compatible with the newer consoles, and they have to deliver the data digitally, IE they converted the game to run on newer platforms.

For PC, sure, a few odd games may not work, but by and large, I can expect a copy of Fallout 3, for example, to work on Win 10 PC than I can expect a PS3 Fallout 3 to work on PS4, same with XBox, if it wasn't for MS's deliberate effort to include backwards compatibility.
 
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