Guide: All Original Xbox Games You Can Play With Backwards Compatibility

No Def Jam Fight for New York, noooooooooooo!

I want to play that game again.

I watched the act man reviewing Armed & Dangerous yesterday - looks absolutely insane and well worth a go!

And people say we need a xbox classic lol

Is Last Remnant compatible playing for X Box One?

Please bring us more BC games, please Microsoft XD

Well that effin sucks. I just found the old Last Remnant X box game at the pawn shop a couple of days ago I only have the X Box One S console and was curious if my X Box One console would play that game or not

I'm surprised the first Clone Wars game isn't on the list yet.

Well, that will hopefully stop the dumb comments that you can play "all" OG Xbox titles on Xbox Series X. Hell, even on the Xbox One, you couldn't simply play all of the backwards compatible OG titles which do work on the Xbox 360.

One of the many, many reasons that I still own all of my Xboxes.

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For comparison's sake, here's the entire list of OG Xbox titles that is compatible with the Xbox 360:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_games_compatible_with_Xbox_360

Of course, the problem of it lies in the different architecture compared to later Xbox models, which doesn't make it as simple as porting everything 1:1 from the 360, but as you can clearly see, browsing through the list above, the current number of OG Xbox titles compatible with Xbox One/Series X/S is pathetically small in comparison.

Still awaiting Dai Senryaku VII.

All I am asking for at this point is Jet Set Radio Future support, even if it requires the disc.

This was the golden era of Star Wars games, only Jedi Outcast is missing.

The only games I want to be on this list aren't on it: Bloodrayne and Advent Rising.

I feel classic Xbox games should just be in Gamepass by default!

I want X-Men Legends to be backwards compatible so bad. 😔

@Hordak yes!!! I thought I was alone in my love of Advent Rising, I see nothing but hate for that game, but I adored it. It kills me we never got a sequel.

'Black' and Red Faction 2 are two of my favourite games ever

MS needs to add more games to that list.

@JeffWhiff
It's criminal that Def Jam: Battle for NY isn't available as BC, though I'd suspect it'd be a licencing nightmare.

One of my favourite games in that generation.

@JGRockford a fellow cult member. I just want to smash heads into concrete in the name of nostalgia!

Was such an awesome game 🤗

@Hordak @Odium Well, that makes three of us for Advent Rising, then.Loved that game and I definitely wouldn't mind seeing it being added to the BC list.

@ThanosReXXX it was criminally underrated. The story was so good and I loved how everything you did levered separately. It was a game ahead of its time, glitchy as it was.

@Odium Indeed. Would love to see what they could do with the story in a re-imagined form, but that will probably just remain wishful thinking.

@ThanosReXXX I would love that. I wish Orson Scott Card would either write novels to finish out the story or another company would pick up the game (probably THQ they way they are gobbling up studios) and finish it out.

They should really consider continuing BC for Xbox One. Even if they charge $1.75 to download a patch to enhance a specific game would be fine by me.

@Odium Well, even though chances are slim, stranger things have happened, especially of late. I for instance never expected a re-release of one of my other OG Xbox favorites, Stubbs the Zombie, and yet here it is...

Fun fact: I still own a limited edition E3 2005 DVD box that, among other things, features some of the earliest released footage of Advent Rising. I still watch it every now and then.

@ThanosReXXX I was so shocked to see Stubbs getting a re-release. Good times are ahead. I would watch the hell out of that DVD!

@Odium Well, just in case you're seriously interested, here you go:

• https://www.amazon.com/E3-Access-2005-Future-Video/dp/B000AQJ54Q
• https://www.ebay.com/itm/2005-E3-Access-The-Future-of-Video-Games-DVD-4-Disc-Set-2005-Excellent/293523409127?hash=item44575bc8e7:g:cNsAAOSwmAheekcK

The eBay one does look a bit better, but also costs more, so I figured I'd put both links up and let you decide for yourself.

@ThanosReXXX thanks! I may just have to check it out.

@Odium If you do, then I'm almost certain that you won't regret it. It's 4 DVD's in total (GameCube, Xbox, PS2 and PC) and all discs combined are guaranteed to offer many hours of unique show floor material, game videos, presentations and what not. It's like being there all over again...

@ThanosReXXX sounds like an awesome throwback

@Odium It sure is. If you do decide to get it, I'll be looking forward to your findings/review/verdict. No rush, though, seeing as there's a LOT of stuff on there to watch and digest, even though by now, you'll probably know most of these old titles anyway.

Still fun to revisit, though. In some ways, it may very well have been the best console generation.

@ThanosReXXX it’s always fun to look back at those times, in some cases, even finding things I’ve never seen. I’ve been gaming since Atari, and I have to agree, that generation of gaming was so objectively good.

@Odium Ah, well, then we shouldn't be too far apart, age wise.
(it's in my profile, in case you're curious)
Personally, I started gaming on a Pong home console, on a portable black & white TV, and after that, we moved on to the Atari 2600.

Great times, all of them. But don't go and try to explain today's kids that you actually had fun and excitement while using a simple paddle controller to move a very basically drawn bat vertically across the screen, trying to bounce a square dot past the other player's bat on the other side of the screen. Let alone on a small, color-less screen...

It'll probably hurt their little brains...

@ThanosReXXX don’t forget you also had to click to channel 3 before you could even jump into this simple game with just paddles and a ball. 🤣

I loved my Atari, I can’t even tell you how much time I spent on River Raid, Yars Revenge and Dig Dug. I currently have an N64 that I play with my 3 year old, but I’d love to get some of the older consoles I grew up on for him to play. I picked up the SNES Classic just for that reason.

@Odium Haha, yeah. Indeed...

So, teaching your little one all about the classic video games huh? Good on you. Always nice to incorporate others into gaming history. Goes best with the very young ones as well. The older ones will just wonder out loud why the heck you'd even WANT to play such ugly and simple games...

As for Atari favorites: me and my cousin played a lot of Sky Dive, H.E.R.O., Pitfall, the infinitely wrong version of Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Sky Diver, Zaxxon, Combat, and River Raid as well.

Good times, for sure.

As for mini consoles: seeing as I never had a NES or a SNES (my first own console was an N64, before that I was locked firmly in the Amiga home computer camp), I bought both of these when they became available. And later on, I added a Sega Genesis Mini and a Neo Geo Mini arcade cabinet to the collection.

Here's hoping that more minis are on the way. I'm also still looking to get the PC Engine/Turbografx-16 mini. I also never had that one in real life, but I got to know it much later on, through emulation. Some pretty decent games are on there as well.

@ThanosReXXX it’d be a disservice to gaming if I didn’t teach my son right!!!

I didn’t have a NES or SNES until later in life, but I had plenty of ways to play them. I was a SEGA guy as a kid. I wish I was smart and saved my systems/games. I was obsessed with Elemental Masters and Lunar A Silver Star Story (my first true RPG obsession). There were so many great games on those systems that they haven’t added into any Minis yet. It’d be great to release them all in an online store that you could download to the system, I’d buy that Mini in a heartbeat.

@Odium Well, seeing as all of the Minis released so far, are super easy to hack, you can personalize them all you want. I most definitely did with my SNES Mini...

Haven't gotten around to modding the NES and the Genesis Mini yet, but in time, these will be personalized as well.

@ThanosReXXX I’m about the least tech driven person on the planet. I’d try to mod it and my house would likely burn down. 😂

Might be worth finding one that’s already modded though. 😏

@Odium Just check out 8 Bit Flashback's video about adding 300 games (yep, no typo: 300 games, although it's better to add considerably less, like 185 max, to account for enough space for save slots for all of them) to the SNES Mini and you'll see how easy it is.

@ThanosReXXX I’ll give it a whirl!

@Odium Here, saves you the search:

P.S.

For the links to the programs mentioned in the video, just go to the YouTube page itself. Just give the video a watch, to see if you think you could easily perform the tasks mentioned, and if not, perhaps there's someone else in your family or circle of friends who might be able to help you with it.

@ThanosReXXX doesn’t look too difficult, I might have to consider giving it a try.

@Odium Long as you follow all the steps exactly as mentioned, it should literally be a matter of less than an hour's work.

I've done it several times now, switching out games until I ultimately had the collection that I wanted.

I also kept all the originals on there.

I play SSX3 and Unreal Championship 3 quite often. Looks stunning in 4K.

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I don’t see Unreal Tournament 3 in this list.. I can confirm it also works. Only no unlocked FPS.. so sadly capped at 30.

@JayJ I would definitely brave the storage unit for that, it’s so cramped… and last time I saw my box of discs it was way in the back… but for JSRF? Yep.

Azuric rise of perithia , midtown madness 3 & project Gotham racing are the classics I wish were bc

I'd be interested to replay Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30 if they ever made this possible through backwards compatibility. At the time it was a brilliant WW2 fps with basic squad commands and a good narrative following the Normandy landings. Probably hasn't aged well but I think of it often when faced with the monotonous Michael Bay esque campaigns we're stuck with today. The less said about recent Battlefield games the better.

I need Project Gotham back in my life

Missing soooooo many!
I got myself an OG Xbox last year along with all the games I wanted that aren't backwards compatible, just in case they never show up, but it would be a shame if all of them were just left as is for a small market of collectors...

I can’t believe MechAssault isn’t on there, that was a major Xbox title.

@Odium If you have Series S/X you don’t need the SNES classic! Search “emulation on Xbox” and you can find videos on YouTube on how to get the all-in-one emulator RetroArch through Developer Mode.

@Brady1138 that’s good to know, thanks!