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A number of game titles and associated add-ons will be removed from the Xbox 360 Marketplace in a select set of regions per title. These removals will start on February 7, 2023.

Numerous games and DLC are being removed from the old 360 marketplace for all supported regions.
The URL that links to this from e-mails that were send out to people seems to contain the phrase ''Xbox 360 Sunset", which is a term used to indicate that a system is going to be phased out.

Xbox Support

support.xbox.com

Note that the 360 Marketplace is different from the storefronts of the Xbox One and Xbox Series devices. In particular, it's this website:

Browse all games | Xbox

You will still be able to re-download previously purchased games on your 360.

 

[Riky]

Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey

Also Daytona USA.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey

I'm still holding out hope for a disk to digital thing. Guess these two are going to be stuck on disk forever.

 

[anthony2690]

I'm still holding out hope for a disk to digital thing. Guess these two are going to be stuck on disk forever.

I got them digitally? They literally gave Lost Odyssey digitally for free around E3 one year.

 

[spons]

I'm still holding out hope for a disk to digital thing. Guess these two are going to be stuck on disk forever.

You can still buy them digitally, and you will be able to do that in the future on Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles. Just not on 360.

 

[ManaByte]

THIS IS ONLY FOR THE XBOX 360 STORE.

The games have been moved over to the new store long ago.

 

[Kilau]

I got them digitally? They literally gave Lost Odyssey digitally for free around E3 one year.

Indeed

Buy Blue Dragon | Xbox

Hironobu Sakaguchi, the Father of the Final Fantasy series, and Artoon present the world of Blue Dragon on Xbox 360. Featuring the character design of Akira Toriyama, the Father of "Dragon Ball Z", and music by Nobuo Uematsu, the composer for Final Fantasy, Blue Dragon is an epic role-playing...

www.xbox.com

Buy Lost Odyssey | Xbox

Hironobu Sakaguchi of Mistwalker brings together the talents of Takehiko Inoue, Kiyoshi Shigematsu, and Nobuo Uematsu to present the next generation RPG, Lost Odyssey.

www.xbox.com

 

[Magic Carpet]

I got them digitally? They literally gave Lost Odyssey digitally for free around E3 one year.

You can still buy them digitally, and you will be able to do that in the future on Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles. Just not on 360.

Yea, but I was hoping for some cheap ass way to convert my disks to digital. I got dozens of disks rebuying digital is gonna be 'spensive.

 

[Kilau]

Yea, but I was hoping for some cheap ass way to convert my disks to digital. I got dozens of disks rebuying digital is gonna be 'spensive.

Doubt we will ever get a program like that, best to keep an eye on sales. Blue Dragon is on sale a lot it seems.

 

[Riky]

Daytona USA, Left 4 Dead 1&2 and The Orange Box don't seem to be available on my Series X.

 

[WoJ]

Bought Defense Grid. I have it on PC and love it, but more and more I want to play everything, even Tower Defense, on console. Banger of a game.

 

[Punished Miku]

Daytona USA, Left 4 Dead 1&2 and The Orange Box don't seem to be available on my Series X.

I checked for months on L4D. Never been up for sale.

 

[Banjo64]

For the old 360 market place, or both that and the new storefront?

 

[Quasicat]

I know there are a couple of games that are backwards compatible, but only available on the old 360 website. A few months ago I bought Sonic 3 and Jet Set Radio and I imagine they are still there. We should try to get a list together of what you can buy that’s backwards compatible before it’s gone.

 

[SubZero_Wins]

So if we buy Orange Box online on this link, Will it show up in the Series X Ready to install??

https://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/...00-77fe-1000-9115-d8024541080f?amp;purchase=1

 

[SenjutsuSage]

I already had lost odyssey digital. I just made sure to grab blue dragon digital also to protect myself even though I still got my discs lol. Only games on that list I care to not lose.

 

[adamsapple]

FYI any of those games that are BC will still be there on the main Xbox marketplace.

This is delisting them from the very old Xbox 360 marketplace.

 

[TLZ]

Daytona USA, Left 4 Dead 1&2 and The Orange Box don't seem to be available on my Series X.

There's this one https://marketplace.xbox.com/en-us/Product/DAYTONA-USA/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410b1d

but I don't know if this is BC on XSX.

 

[6502]

I bought Daytona via xbox website and then downloaded onto my series x a few weeks ago. Could not buy via the console store. What a stunning game

 

[SomeGit]

I don't like this, gonna have to check what I don't own or can't be purchased on the new store.

So if we buy Orange Box online on this link, Will it show up in the Series X Ready to install??

https://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/The-Orange-Box/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024541080f?amp;purchase=1

Yes, it shows up same if you buy on a 360. The other way around also works, buying on the new store will make it available on 360, but this may change after this date.

 

[RedC]

 

[fatmarco]

So if we buy Orange Box online on this link, Will it show up in the Series X Ready to install??

https://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/The-Orange-Box/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024541080f?amp;purchase=1

Yea I did this the other day and it appeared fine. Plays great at 4k.

If it doesn't appear, search it in the store and it will be ready to install. There's a few digital games that aren't on the xbox one store but are on the 360 store that are backwards compatible. The following games are the ones you should target if you want digital copies.

From Reddit:

List of games that will be removed from the xbox 360 marketplace and aren`t available to digitally purchase as backwards compatible games, as native versions or as remasters on xbox one and xbox series x/s:

• Blood of the Werewolf
• Counter-Strike: GO
• DAYTONA USA
• Defense Grid
• Final Fight: DblImpact (Available in Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle)
• Iron Brigade
• Jeremy McGrath's Offroad
• Jet Set Radio
• Left 4 Dead
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Mutant Blobs Attack
• Prince of Persia (2008)
• R.U.S.E.
• Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co.
• Skate 2
• Spelunky
• The Orange Box

 

[SomeGit]

Yea I did this the other day and it appeared fine. Plays great at 4k.

If it doesn't appear, search it in the store and it will be ready to install. There's a few digital games that aren't on the xbox one store but are on the 360 store that are backwards compatible. The following games are the ones you should target if you want digital copies.

From Reddit:

List of games that will be removed from the xbox 360 marketplace and aren`t available to digitally purchase as backwards compatible games, as native versions or as remasters on xbox one and xbox series x/s:

Worth mentioning that DLC is also being removed, I'm not sure every DLC is available on the new store for the other titles.

 

[fatmarco]

Worth mentioning that DLC is also being removed, I'm not sure every DLC is available on the new store for the other titles.

So yea the big one here will be "Left 4 Dead 1" and "2" as they have major DLCs.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

THIS IS ONLY FOR THE XBOX 360 STORE.

The games have been moved over to the new store long ago.

Can you clarify ?

You mean we will still be able to buy ALL old content not available anymore from X360 store on the new store to be able to play them on a X360 original hardware ?

By the way, X360 is one my all time favorite console.

Anyway, digital sucks like nothing. You have no more control on anything, one day people will look back and say "wow, back in time, we could buy an used game and own it forever"

 

[ManaByte]

You mean we will still be able to buy ALL old content not available anymore from X360 store on the new store to be able to play them on a X360 ?

How are you accessing the modern store on a 360?

 

[Mobile Suit Gooch]

I bought Daytona via xbox website and then downloaded onto my series x a few weeks ago. Could not buy via the console store. What a stunning game

Indeed. I play it whenever I fire up my PS3.

 

[nush]

Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co.

This one has Revenge/Super Shinobi in it, and is another M2 release. Don't miss out Sega fans.

 

[Eddie-Griffin]

The Orange Box not being BC is a crime, take Phil to court.

 

[Kilau]

Yea I did this the other day and it appeared fine. Plays great at 4k.

If it doesn't appear, search it in the store and it will be ready to install. There's a few digital games that aren't on the xbox one store but are on the 360 store that are backwards compatible. The following games are the ones you should target if you want digital copies.

From Reddit:

List of games that will be removed from the xbox 360 marketplace and aren`t available to digitally purchase as backwards compatible games, as native versions or as remasters on xbox one and xbox series x/s:

• Blood of the Werewolf
• Counter-Strike: GO
• DAYTONA USA
• Defense Grid
• Final Fight: DblImpact (Available in Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle)
• Iron Brigade
• Jeremy McGrath's Offroad
• Jet Set Radio
• Left 4 Dead
• Left 4 Dead 2
• Mutant Blobs Attack
• Prince of Persia (2008)
• R.U.S.E.
• Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co.
• Skate 2
• Spelunky
• The Orange Box

I think from that list of what I don't have on xbox I'll grab:

• DAYTONA USA
• Jet Set Radio
• Prince of Persia (2008)
• Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co.
• The Orange Box

 

[Celcius]

End of an era

 

[ReBurn]

Daytona USA, Left 4 Dead 1&2 and The Orange Box don't seem to be available on my Series X.

Even though it's backward compatible The Orange Box has never been available on the current version of the store. I bought it digitally last year and I had to get it from the old marketplace. And that kind of sucks because the old marketplace is ass on mobile browsers.

 

[ManaByte]

The Orange Box not being BC is a crime, take Phil to court.

It is BC.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

How are you accessing the modern store on a 360?

I assume that mean it's not possible.
So it deeply sucks my ass. That's why I asked clarification.

Was thinking that maybe but it could be bought on modern store from a browser or app and that will make it available in your download list from xbox 360.

I barely used my Xbox One/S and doesn't own an XSX yet, so the asking.

 

[RickMasters]

Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey

Also Daytona USA.

Glad I have all three installed to one of my external hard drives. Waited since the saturn days to get that port and when they released it on X360 back in the day I decided then and there that I was NEVER gonna delete it off my hard drives. same with VF2 and all my other sega, treasure and square games.

 

[Eddie-Griffin]

It is BC.

That above list lied to me. lol

 

[rkofan87]

prince 2008 and jet set do not pop buy button for me

 

[The_Mike]

It still haunts me that I never got overlord 1 digitally as its very hard to get a copy in my country.

 

[THE DUCK]

Can you clarify ?

You mean we will still be able to buy ALL old content not available anymore from X360 store on the new store to be able to play them on a X360 original hardware ?

By the way, X360 is one my all time favorite console.

Anyway, digital sucks like nothing. You have no more control on anything, one day people will look back and say "wow, back in time, we could buy an used game and own it forever"

I go back to, if you really, really need these games and you cant buy them or download them anymore:

- a lot of the best games have remasters
- pc emulation (or shield tv, or rasbery pie, etc) for a better than original experience.......all the games, every single one.
- a lot of times the old hardware breaks down anyhow. Optical disks eventually degrade too. Roms will always be available.

 

[Syphon Filter]

Down the road they will remove the ability to re download it.

 

[fatmarco]

Down the road they will remove the ability to re download it.

This has actually already happened with some games.

I have a digital copy of the original Xbox version of Halo: Combat Evolved on my 360 which, to me, is incredibly valuable as it's the only truly legitimate version of the game, and after they removed a bunch of the 360 Halo titles from the digital storefront front a couple years ago, they also removed the ability to re-download this game full stop.

Fortunately its still on my hard drive, but its utterly insane that if, for whatever reason, that hard drive gets damaged or the game deleted, I can't re download it ever again.

I'd suggest if anyone wants those non backwards compatible xbox original titles that are also digitally available on the 360 marketplace, that they get them sooner rather than later. That includes the likes of Metal Arms Glitch in the System, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy, Fable (the original xbox version), Burnout 3: Takedown, Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows, The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning and a few others.

https://xbox.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Xbox_Originals_on_Xbox_Marketplace

 

[Fox Mulder]

Down the road they will remove the ability to re download it.

Some games already are just because shit got busted and wont work when you try to download. Plus the download history menu on the 360 is clunky and slow too.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

I go back to, if you really, really need these games and you cant buy them or download them anymore:

- a lot of the best games have remasters
- pc emulation (or shield tv, or rasbery pie, etc) for a better than original experience.......all the games, every single one.
- a lot of times the old hardware breaks down anyhow. Optical disks eventually degrade too. Roms will always be available.

Indeed, thanks for the suggestions.

Well, I guess I will have to find an hacked X360 with ODE emulation to have the peace of mind or eventually wait that Xenia reach *perfection*, didn't checked the state of the emulator since a while ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is it what you meant by pc emulation ?

Hack for preservation is really a blessing, I love so much my Xbox 360.

 

[THE DUCK]

Indeed, thanks for the suggestions.

Well, I guess I will have to find an hacked X360 with ODE emulation to have the peace of mind or eventually wait that Xenia reach *perfection*, didn't checked the state of the emulator since a while ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is it what you meant by pc emulation ?

Hack for preservation is really a blessing, I love so much my Xbox 360.

Xenia for now, pc only really, but let's say in a few years a toaster will likely run it too.......

 

[RaZoR No1]

Indeed, thanks for the suggestions.

Well, I guess I will have to find an hacked X360 with ODE emulation to have the peace of mind or eventually wait that Xenia reach *perfection*, didn't checked the state of the emulator since a while ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is it what you meant by pc emulation ?

Hack for preservation is really a blessing, I love so much my Xbox 360.

Why bother using a ODE?
Just RGH the console and you are good to go. RGH 3.0 doesnt even need a modchip anymore.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

Why bother using a ODE?
Just RGH the console and you are good to go. RGH 3.0 doesnt even need a modchip anymore.

RGH was only accessible to some console back in time, to specific motherboards revision, I don't know if it's better nowadays. Didn't checked the hack scene since a loooong time. By example, I remember that the ultimate Xbox 360 lifting, with its last motherboad revision were totally incompatible back in time to RGH and even ODE. Also ODE has the advantage to play directly ISO, maybe RGH is able to do also now ?

I guess I will have to investigate, again. Unless you do know the state and compatibility to this RGH 3.0 ?
Will Google it later anyways

 

[RaZoR No1]

RGH was only accessible to some console back in time, to specific motherboards revision, I don't know if it's better nowadays. Didn't checked the hack scene since a loooong time. By example, I remember that the ultimate Xbox 360 lifting, with its last motherboad revision were totally incompatible back in time to RGH and even ODE.

I guess I will have to investigate, again. Unless you do know the state and compatibility to this RGH 3.0 ?
Will Google it later anyways

Two weeks ago I managed to mod 2 Phat 360s using the RGH 3.0 method (as a newbie in hardware modding)
You can check Modded Warfares RGH 3.0 Video, which I used as a guide.
Pretty good step by step tutorial incl. the files you need.
And the availablity is much much better.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

Two weeks ago I managed to mod 2 Phat 360s using the RGH 3.0 method (as a newbie in hardware modding)
You can check Modded Warfares RGH 3.0 Video, which I used as a guide.
Pretty good step by step tutorial incl. the files you need.
And the availablity is much much better.

Will do, thanks for the hint, I have 2 Xbox 360 but slim with different motherboards (I have an Halo 4 edition one and a black classic slim one).

Found a video from another channel that may apply for my case but require some soldering. Have an electronic background but didn't sold anything since a while. Dashboard on some videos from MW channel looks gorgeous

 

[CRAIG667]

Bought Defense Grid. I have it on PC and love it, but more and more I want to play everything, even Tower Defense, on console. Banger of a game.

I still play Defense Grid 1 and 2 obsessively!
Best GWG ever!
I want DG3 so much!

 

[//DEVIL//]

I'm still holding out hope for a disk to digital thing. Guess these two are going to be stuck on disk forever.

what a confusing post.

if you have them on disk, pop it in the xbox, it will download the digital "thing"

its been like this since forever. I am not sure whats going on here..