Surprise XBox 360 Backward Compatibility Update Released

Major Nelson - July 2007 Back Compat update

"Whiule I've been crazy busy down here at E3, the team back in Redmond has been busy with a Back Compat update update. (yea, it was a surprise to me too!) The latest backwards compatibility update is now available over Xbox Live (or will be very soon.) This free update brings the complete list of original Xbox games that you can play on your Xbox 360 to way 300. Remember, your original Xbox games will look better than ever on Xbox 360 running in 720p and 1080i with anti-aliasing.  You can also play cross-platform between Xbox 360 and the original Xbox over Xbox Live.

When I get back to Redmond next week, I'll kick out an updated PDF file that will contain ALL the updates. For now, here is what the July ''07 update contains:

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By my count, 65 games added or updated.

Available via XBox Live and as an ISO/CD-ROM image (for those not able to connect to XBox Live) download from Microsoft Downloads (Xbox Game Support Updates)

 

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