19th April 2007, 5:15 PM
Yay! That's Panzer Dragoon Orta and Street Fighter Anniversery I can add to the list. Oh, interesting note about Street Fighter. While I've yet to hear anything about SF3, it appears they are releasing something far superior to the last release of Turbo on XBox Arcade. It'll basically be Super Turbo only with completely redone visuals and maybe a few other extras (Akuma actually usable without a silly button code and maybe even balanced instead of overpowered?). So long as they follow the same route as Anniversery and basically include all the versions of all the characters (as well as the sound tracks from all versions to select from and videos of all intros and ending credits across the versions), this'll be the version to get, sans SF3 and that animated movie.
That said, we have a few things they still need to do. First of all, I'll need to unlock the first Panzer Dragoon to make sure they also got the "emulator within an emulator" thing with that game working exactly as it should. Speaking of, Prince of Persia's backwards compatibility really needs to be updated so that the old POP games included as unlockables in that game will also run on the 360. Further, allow us to move old XBox saves to the memory card from the hard disk, and back. On a nitpick here, I'll also add they really don't need to bother selecting their own custom icons for the saves when seen on the 360. Those save files have their own icon data they could just as easily use. It's just I've noticed that sometimes they really don't even bother and there are iconless saves in there. Just add the ability to read those icons already in the save files to the dashboard.
Anyway, there's still games they need to add. They put Mechassault 2 in, now add just the first one. They also need to make the 2nd and 3rd Prince of Persia games work. Also, Silent Hill 2 (they already have 4) and Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (the only LOTR game worth playing).
Blinx I think also needs to be added, and Time Splitters 2, and one more 2D fighter in the form of Marvel vs Capcom 2. Yep, that would make for the rest of my original XBox games fully compatible.
That said, we have a few things they still need to do. First of all, I'll need to unlock the first Panzer Dragoon to make sure they also got the "emulator within an emulator" thing with that game working exactly as it should. Speaking of, Prince of Persia's backwards compatibility really needs to be updated so that the old POP games included as unlockables in that game will also run on the 360. Further, allow us to move old XBox saves to the memory card from the hard disk, and back. On a nitpick here, I'll also add they really don't need to bother selecting their own custom icons for the saves when seen on the 360. Those save files have their own icon data they could just as easily use. It's just I've noticed that sometimes they really don't even bother and there are iconless saves in there. Just add the ability to read those icons already in the save files to the dashboard.
Anyway, there's still games they need to add. They put Mechassault 2 in, now add just the first one. They also need to make the 2nd and 3rd Prince of Persia games work. Also, Silent Hill 2 (they already have 4) and Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (the only LOTR game worth playing).
Blinx I think also needs to be added, and Time Splitters 2, and one more 2D fighter in the form of Marvel vs Capcom 2. Yep, that would make for the rest of my original XBox games fully compatible.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)