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[Lizard King]

I'm happy with the games they fixed, not the games they added (as soon as they get me a jump button for Black, I'll buy it), but that's irrelevant.

BC is a reason I bought the 360, and I did not decide I actually wanted one until I saw that BC was the plan. I've said it before - this is a valid REASON to buy a 360, it is not a gift. It is not something I should bend over and thank MS for all their graciousness. It is something announced, and advertised before the console hit the market.

Some people have the space for one more console - I do not. My receiver only has 6 digital inputs, 5 of which are used now. I do not use crappy video switching boxes. My complaint was that MS did not deliver as promised. That may have been true for launch, but I am ecstatic to see work has not ceased. I'm happier and happier each day; it seemed like such a slow start.

[incognegro]

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I'm happy with the games they fixed, not the games they added (as soon as they get me a jump button for Black, I'll buy it), but that's irrelevant

I can never undertsand why ppl make stupid excuses NOT to play a good game.

anyways in terms of ps3 Back Compat, I heard theyre putting in some of the ps2 chipset in the system while the ps1 games run by software emulation (makes sense since its easier to emulate).

[Lizard King]

QUOTE(incognegro @ Mar 31 2006, 05:30 PM)

I can never undertsand why ppl make stupid excuses NOT to play a good game.

Facetious. Look it up. The game is not my cup of tea, I don't have to make excuses, I didn't like it for a number of reasons. One of which was the lack of jump, which i felt was needed. I did not enjoy the demo, rented the game anyway, was not very entertained

[ximmortalxxkingx]

QUOTE(twistedsymphony @ Mar 31 2006, 06:14 AM)

For my money the 13 games that were on the list before and are now being emulated near flawlessly as opposed to barely playable is worth a whole lot more then 3 new games... IMO that means they added closer to 16.

Ok...well the 13 games should never have even been released untill now if they were "barely playable"...

[Gobelet]

And all I wanted was to play Crazy Taxi: High Roller again

[incognegro]

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Facetious. Look it up. The game is not my cup of tea, I don't have to make excuses, I didn't like it for a number of reasons. One of which was the lack of jump, which i felt was needed. I did not enjoy the demo, rented the game anyway, was not very entertained

yea ok.....good 4 u.

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Ok...well the 13 games should never have even been released untill now if they were "barely playable"...

hmmm.........good point.

[Hannard]

I'm wondering if the March 2006 update has been pulled. Because whereas the original update file was 3.8MB, the current one seems to be 3.07MB and is dated as being from December. Anyone else found this?

[PedrosPad]

QUOTE(Hannard @ Apr 4 2006, 10:48 AM)

I'm wondering if the March 2006 update has been pulled. Because whereas the original update file was 3.8MB, the current one seems to be 3.07MB and is dated as being from December. Anyone else found this?

I concur, it has changed!

Oddly, I've also noticed that it's different again if downloaded from the UK BC page.  

The US xbox.com BC page says "March 2006 update", the UK BC page doesn't (phased rollout maybe?).  

Further, looking inside the March update zips....
US default.xex downloaded early March = 3,862,528 bytes
US default.xex (downloaded just now, 04/04) = 3,153,920 bytes - So indeed smaller!
UK default.xex (downloaded just now, 04/04) = 3,866,624 bytes - Biggest!

Well spotted Hannard, and certainly interesting.

[Hannard]

QUOTE(PedrosPad @ Apr 4 2006, 11:16 AM)

I concur, it has changed!

Oddly, I've also noticed that it's different again if downloaded from the UK BC page.  

The US xbox.com BC page says "March 2006 update", the UK BC page doesn't (phased rollout maybe?).  

Further, looking inside the March update zips....
US default.xex downloaded early March = 3,862,528 bytes
US default.xex (downloaded just now, 04/04) = 3,153,920 bytes - So indeed smaller!
UK default.xex (downloaded just now, 04/04) = 3,866,624 bytes - Biggest!

Well spotted Hannard, and certainly interesting.

The file was different last night, which was I last downloaded it. Now I've tried it again and it's a new file! In fact, I know why it's changed. It's a stealth update to enable sound on the PAL version of Star Wars Battlefront 2! And presumably Ninja Gaiden as well.

[Hannard]

By which I mean I *know* it fixes the no-sound bug on PAL Battlefront 2 as I've got that game. But I don't have  Ninja Gaiden so I can't be sure on that one. I've sent a news item into feedback@ about it. The place I got the file from was via the US update page, with the URL http://download.MS.c...855/default.zip

[PedrosPad]

QUOTE(Hannard @ Apr 4 2006, 01:25 PM)

By which I mean I *know* it fixes the no-sound bug on PAL Battlefront 2 as I've got that game.

Appears your quite right.  From Major Nelson's blog Update: Back Compat update:

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There is an update to the Back Compat update that went out last week. This update does NOT add any new titles to the list, but rather fixes some audio issues. The back compat team game me this information to share:

“Today we’ve released a compatibility update to resolve the loss of audio problem some customers outside of North America and Asia were experiencing with the March update. The Backwards Compatibility product is complex and we committed an error when building the package to release on Live. These issues are now resolved.”

This update is now available via Xbox Live (when you play an original Xbox title you’ll get prompted for the update.)

Note: It may take a couple of hours before the updated version appears on the website (it has to be loaded on a lot of download servers) so if you have live…just grab it from there. Again, no new titles were added to the list.