Xbox One Backwards Compatibility Thread: Everyone wants it, no one uses it

D'ultimate said:
Did you install the game from the Ultimate Edition Disk? I believe you have to do that for it to work as it's all included in the emulation 'wrapper'. If you didn't you may have to uninstall, put your disk in and reinstall it.
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Even though I was fairly certain I did install the DLC disc first I went ahead and uninstalled everything just to start fresh again.

After uninstalling the game and all the DLC I inserted the DLC disc (the second disc to the Ultimate Edition) and the green "install" icon popped up on the Xbox One dashboard in the Home section. Clicking it didn't do anything :-/ I have prior experience with clicking the icon and nothing happening so I went into "My Games and Apps" and waited for it to appear. Nothing. After 10 minutes I gave up and walked my children up to the local library (only a block away) leaving the DLC disc inside the Xbox One and the system running. Returning from the library I noticed the green "install" icon on the dashboard had changed to Dragon Age: Origins. I clicked it but it instantaneously popped up with a "need to install message." I did so and it downloaded and installed the game and all the DLC.

However, launching the game now either digitally or physically shows the exact same issue as before. The game wants me to re-buy the DLC again. Booting my prior save from "the cloud" also shows me needing to repurchase the DLC again in-game.

Really at my wits' end here as to what to do :-/ Is there anyone else with the Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition disc having this issue? I could have sworn everything was functioning fine on Xbox One until the Games with Gold version dropped.
 
amdb00mer said:
What's interesting is that MS figured out a way for the Xbox One to identify OG Xbox discs.
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Both OXbox discs and 360 discs are standard DVDs to the point they play a little "hey you put this in an Xbox console" video if you try to play them in a DVD player.

So all they have to do is read it with the DVD laser and then run some checks to make sure it's a legit disc (probably just a hash) and then just trigger the download from the server for the game and unlock it.
 
amdb00mer said:
What's interesting is that MS figured out a way for the Xbox One to identify OG Xbox discs.
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Is that really such a big deal, they are just standard DVDs after all? When I rip games on my OG Xbox they all have a small unique icon and the correct name, pretty much exactly like an early 360 game before the transition to higher res icons.
 
FyreWulff said:
Both OXbox discs and 360 discs are standard DVDs to the point they play a little "hey you put this in an Xbox console" video if you try to play them in a DVD player.

So all they have to do is read it with the DVD laser and then run some checks to make sure it's a legit disc (probably just a hash) and then just trigger the download from the server for the game and unlock it.
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EmiPrime said:
Is that really such a big deal, they are just standard DVDs after all? When I rip games on my OG Xbox they all have a small unique icon and the correct name, pretty much exactly like an early 360 game before the transition to higher res icons.
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That's true, the 360 discs had the same split image where part had a small DVD file structure to let people know it would only work on an Xbox 360. Probably is the same, but Bill Stillwell made it seem like it was something special they had to overcome for OG Xbox BC. I believe this was during one of the Xbox Daily Briefings and when they announced Fusion Frenzy and had people playing it. One of the controllers kept disconnecting when they were trying to play, hopefully just dead batteries. He also said it would actually make the games look better. It looked like Fusion Frenzy, even though it was 4:3, was running at 1080p with AA. It looked clean and smooth.
 
Any word from MS on social media or elsewhere about new games? Any hints, teasers...ANYTHING?

I know they gave that one statement about E3 but it's been a week since then and over a month since any new games (I think).
 
amdb00mer said:
That's true, the 360 discs had the same split image where part had a small DVD file structure to let people know it would only work on an Xbox 360. Probably is the same, but Bill Stillwell made it seem like it was something special they had to overcome for OG Xbox BC. I believe this was during one of the Xbox Daily Briefings and when they announced Fusion Frenzy and had people playing it. One of the controllers kept disconnecting when they were trying to play, hopefully just dead batteries. He also said it would actually make the games look better. It looked like Fusion Frenzy, even though it was 4:3, was running at 1080p with AA. It looked clean and smooth.
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pretty sure it is the custom chip in the Xbox OG.
 
Did some test this weekend.

I hooked up my Xbox 360 and Xbox One with Halo Reach for SYSTEM LINK. It worked!
One used disc and guest account, the other used my account of download game.

I also tried to do Castle Crashers on xbox one but had issue with local multiplayer. It wouldn't let me log in with a guest account.
 
gar3 said:
Hi all,

I'm having a bit of difficulty with the DLC to Dragon Age: Origins and I'm hoping someone can shed some light on it for me. On both my Xbox 360 and Xbox One I have Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition installed. Booting the game digitally on Xbox 360 (or from the main game disc) shows and allows me to access the DLC. On Xbox One though, the DLC is not showing up as owned (it wants me to rebuy it). I have tried booting digitally, booting from the main game disc, and booting from the DLC disc. All three on Xbox One just boot the vanilla version and want me to rebuy the DLC again. I even tried going into my external HDD where Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition is stored, making sure the DLC is there and installed which it is, and booting it from there but the same scenario happens. Any ideas or thoughts about what is going on? Am I missing something?
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When I had this issue I had to delete the game from the HDD and install it from the second disc, only then did the DLC show up as owned and downloadable.
 
Gorki247 said:
Cannot wait to see someone try the "system-link play across all three generations" and if it really is possible.
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I thought they already did that at E3 with Crimson Skies?

Banjo-Kazooie said:
Let's see if tomorrow breaks the dry spell. Been waiting for AC Liberation!
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I wish they would communicate a bit better. If the drought was because they wanted to have the Crimson Skies emulation ready for E3 and all the engineers were on it then cool, that's totally understandable.
 
Gorki247 said:
Cannot wait to see someone try the "system-link play across all three generations" and if it really is possible.
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Already works between 360 and OG, and X1 and 360, no reason it shouldn't work fine with all three.

Honestly, as cool as it is (and it is cool!), it's not that crazy from a technical standpoint.
 
Question: what's the criteria that causes the xbox one to close games? I was playing Soul Calibur 2 earlier and went back to the dashboard to fiddle with some TV settings because I was having black level issues. After spending a few minutes toggling between standard and PC rgb and running through my TV's own black level settings, I decided to continue playing Soul Calibur 2. I noticed that the xbox closed the game, probably sometime while I was going through my display settings because it restarted again with the 360 splash screen. I didn't even open anything else. The same thing happened to me a few months back while playing Lost Odyssey so I don't know of it's just a BC thing
 
georaldc said:
Question: what's the criteria that causes the xbox one to close games? I was playing Soul Calibur 2 earlier and went back to the dashboard to fiddle with some TV settings because I was having black level issues. After spending a few minutes toggling between standard and PC rgb and running through my TV's own black level settings, I decided to continue playing Soul Calibur 2. I noticed that the xbox closed the game, probably sometime while I was going through my display settings because it restarted again with the 360 splash screen. I didn't even open anything else. The same thing happened to me a few months back while playing Lost Odyssey so I don't know of it's just a BC thing
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My Xbox randomly closes suspended games all the time, but 360 games pretty much seem to have a 100% close rate for anything more than a couple minutes just on the dash.
 
Xbox One BC lately......

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I liked the first Two Worlds... Yes, janky but it had simple yet satisfying combat. Cool crafting system where if you had 2 identical weapons you could combine them to a higher level. Interesting magic system, variety of quests... Voice acting was awful and it chugged like heck on 360, but the underlying game was pretty solid.
 
B4D1E said:
It's the lack of communication that's the most disappointing.

Let's pray for Thursday...
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That is also my biggest gripe. They said games would be released when available. They then would release every month, but then have droughts. They then said the same thing but proceeded to release on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Noon EST. When you do that for over a year, people get used to it. At least put out a statement saying the team is still hard at work, but just does not have anything certified for release at the moment.
 
amdb00mer said:
At least put out a statement saying the team is still hard at work, but just does not have anything certified for release at the moment.
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This is what we got last week (13 June)...
https://twitter.com/wcstillwell/status/874727577490817024 said:
I know things have been quiet on the 360 BC front. First the 360 super sale, now E3. But don't worry - we'll be back strong soon enough.
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Everytime I see this thread make the front page, I enter in hopes of reading "Tales of Vesperia finally added to BC!"... and I leave sad because I don't.

Everytime.
 
So how big would you guys say the chance is that Microsoft will add the Sega exclusives for the original Xbox to the new compatibility program, i.e. Crazy Taxi 3, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Jet Set Radio Future, Outrun 2 and 2006, etc.?

I guess for some of them like Outrun there are licenses involved now that I think about it...hmm...

That said, if the games above do end up in the selection then that would likely push me over the edge to finally invest in an Xbox One of some kind. I missed most of these back in the day despite being a big Dreamcast era Sega fan so I'd be looking forward to finally try them. (Improved versions of Outrun 2 / 2006 alone justifies this compatibility program for me, honestly.)
 
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