April '07 Backward Compatibility Update

April showers have yielded us a Back Compat update 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 over 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.

April 2007 Back Compat titles added/updated:

Tenku (Japan only)
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Avatar: The Legend of Aang (EMEA/ANZ)
Breakdown
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
Call of Duty 3
Cars
Crash Bandicoot 5: Wrath of Cortex
Daisenryaku VII
FIFA Soccer 2007
Full Spectrum Warrior
Guilty Gear Isuka
Innocent Tears (Japan only)
Jet Set Radio Future
King of Fighters 2002
King of Fighters: Neowave
Mad Dash Racing (Japan only)
Mech Assault 2
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Nascar 2006: Total Team Control
NFL Fever 2004
Oddworld Munch's Oddysee
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Petit Copter (Japan only)
Phantom Dust
Reservoir Dogs
Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Rugby League 2
Sengoku Warriors (Japan only)
Sonic Riders
Soul Calibur 2 UPDATED
Spider-Man 2
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Tony Hawk's Underground
Ultra Bust a Move /ULTRA Pazzle Bobble
Unreal Championship 2

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You'll get shorter battery life on your wireless controller if you use wired headset, since the headset is sucking the power from the controller.

You'll get longer battery life on your wireless controller if you use wireless controller, but you need another battery life to worry for.

Yes it is. A charger will be provided with the headset.

I wanna buy a rechargeable battery pack for my 2nd controller. Play-Asia selling it for US$ 10.90 (~ RM 36.05). Any possibilities to get almost similar price here?

If no, then maybe I'll go and order from Play-Asia.

Ubisoft Gets Strategic with Tom Clancy's EndWar

Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon this is not.

Remember when Ubisoft launched a bizarre website to promote an unannounced Tom Clancy game that seemed to chronicle the start of World War III? Turns out Tom Clancy's EndWar was that game and will debut in the pages of Electronic Gaming Monthly soon enough. And we're not looking at just another realistic shooter, either, as EndWar is anything but -- it's actually a strategy game.

Ubisoft says their Ubisoft Shanghai studio, who last worked on the Xbox 360 version of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent, is completely handling EndWar. "A strategy game like no other, EndWar will allow gamers to lead their own armies against hundreds of others online in real global locations on the massive battlefields of World War III," said Serge Hascoet, chief creative officer at Ubisoft, in the press release.

We'll know more when those sneaky kids at EGM let us, but Ubisoft says EndWar will arrive sometime within the company's 2007/2008 fiscal year, which could mean before the end of the year or as late as next spring. When we know more, we'll pass it on.

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IINM 4 ROL means that the video cable is not plugged in. Checked whether it's plugged in properly or not. If it is, then maybe the cable is no longer working.

See this:
Microsoft Knowledge Base - 4 Red Lights Flashing

This post has been edited by mzaidi: May 1 2007, 11:22 AM

I noticed that this morning, most of my games prompted me an update when I played the games while connected to Xbox Live. I found it to be strange that all these games to release game update at almost the same time.

I'm thinking it could either be:
a) My HDD is probably spoiled and erased updates to most of my games.
b) The games are releasing updates to prepare for the upcoming Spring 2007 system update next week. IIRC, this happened to me too before the Fall 2006 system update was released.

Does this happen to any of you guy? If yes, it's probably the case b. If not, it's most probably case a.

Hope it's not a sign that the HDD is dying.

Nope, she's not playable in the story mode.

Do you know that Spartan 458 (A.K.A Nicole) is playable in DOAX2? You need to unlock all costumes, accessories, and items for other 9 girls, and Spartan 458 will be playable.

This guy is unbelievably dense.

I've posted the answer at the thread you opened. Didn't you read that? Do you need to repost the question again and again at different threads?

Saints Row 2 rollin' onto PS3, 360 in '08

Sequel to popular Grand Theft Auto-style free-range crime game to debut on both Sony's and Microsoft's consoles next year; PS3 port of original canceled.



THQ announced today that the PLAYSTATION 3 port of Volition's free roaming crime spree Saints Row has been cancelled. The game was previously confirmed for a spring release earlier this year. Instead, company execs say that the game's sequel, Saints Row 2, will ship simultaneously for the Xbox 360 and PS3 next year.

Why the cancellation? According to Gamespot's report, THQ CEO Brian Farrell told analysts:

We think the most important thing for the Saints Row franchise is to have a simultaneous ship into a larger installed base next year. We think the bigger opportunity is a multiplatform launch.

In other words, there aren't enough PS3s out there to make it worth their while. Okay, now make with the "I didn't want it anyway" or "PS3 is doomed" comments. I'll tally 'em up later. Michael McWhertor

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GTA 4 is coming out this October. Saints Row 2 won't be out till 2008.

Lost Odyssey is not from Square Enix. It's from Mistwalker.

There's something wrong with my Play & Charge kit. The charge light doesn't turn on when I connect it to the controller. I've made sure that the battery pack is connected properly to the controller. I've tested the battery pack and the charger on another controller but same thing happens.

I've noticed that if I use the wireless controller without connecting the charge cable, the remaining battery meter will be shown on the top left of the screen when I press the guide button, but once I connect the controller to the charge cable, the remaining battery meter will not be displayed, even after I disconnect the cable from the controller.

IIRC, the remaining battery meter should be there whether the charger cable is attached or not. Any of you can try and verify this for me?

I'm using the original Play & Charge kit. Both the charger & the battery are original, bought it last August. I'm going to drain the battery first and see what happens.

According to the knowledge base at Xbox.com, they say if the charger LED is not turning on, it's either because of the battery pack is not connected properly or the battery is damaged.

I doubt that the battery pack is damaged because I still can turn on the controller, and the remaining battery meter is displayed normally until I plug in the charger cable.

What do you plug to your box's USB till you run out of ports?

I have 2 controllers. Tested the battery and charger in both controllers, same thing happens. It was working fine till today.

Tried that last night, and the controller is working normally like a wired controller. This means that my battery pack is damaged?

This post has been edited by mzaidi: May 12 2007, 02:22 PM

Go to System > Memory > Hard Drive > Gamer Profile > Select whichever profile you want, and choose "Delete"

Hope that helps.