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LOOKING BACK WHILE MOVING FORWARD
Don’t think that just because the Xbox 360 is out that the people at Microsoft are resting on their laurels. No
way, no how. Each and every day they are still hard at work bringing you titles you’ve come to grow and love.
What is the point, you ask?Easy backward compatibility is the best way to expand your gaming library almost three hundred fold, right
out of the box. Among the Xbox 360’s buckets of abilities is its ability to play games for the original Xbox.
Attached is a current list of original Xbox titles that are compatible with the Xbox 360.
Updating with Xbox Live®
This is, by far, the easiest way to get the required
updates for your Xbox games. Because it is automatic,
all you need to do is pop an original Xbox title on this
list into your online-enabled Xbox 360, and it does all
the work for you. You might need to follow a few online prompts, but
all the hard work will be done on the Xbox 360’s end.
Sit back, relax, and enjoy.
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In order to take advantage of the Xbox 360’s back-
wards compatibility, you will need a few things.
1. A hard drive: it contains the emulation soft- ware needed for backward compatibility
2. Either a high-speed internet connection to download the CD image (and a burner on your
PC to burn it to disc), or enough patience to
order a CD and wait for it to arrive
3. The actual Xbox game disc
Did You Know?
The game catalog for the Original Xbox is huge! So it might take some time for more obscure
titles to become backward compatible. In the
meantime, though, check out the updated list at http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/ backwardscompatibility.htm.
NOTE

You can get the updated emulation software
through Xbox Live with either a Xbox Silver- or a Xbox Gold-level membership.
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Updating Using a Created CD or DVD
To create a CD or DVD with the update software, you
will need an Internet connection, a CD or DVD burner,
and the necessary burning software. Follow the listed steps to burn the software update
onto a writeable CD or DVD.
1. Download the current xex software from
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/
backwardscompatibility.htm.
2. Insert a blank CD or DVD into your disk tray.
3. Drag and drop the default.xex over the blank
CD/DVD RW and click “Write Files to CD.”
4. Follow the onscreen prompts from the burning wizard.
5. Wait for the disc to finish burning and you’re halfway there.
6. Take your created CD or one provided by Microsoft, and insert it into your Xbox 360.
7. The updater will automatically start up. Follow the onscreen prompts and wait for it to complete.
8. Let the Xbox 360 reboot and you’re done. Now reach for your Xbox Library.
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You can create the disc using third-party
software. If you do, just burn the xex file as you would with any other data format. Just be sure it is the only data file on the disc.
TIP
If you don’t have a CD or DVD writer, you can
also request a disc from Microsoft! Go to http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/
backwardscompatibility.htm and click on the order disc button. Place your order and in a few short days, you’ll have your disc.
If you do choose to order a disc, skip to number six on the instructions list.
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It doesn’t matter what you name the disc.
Just give it a name so you know what it is. Your best option is to use the date of the download as its name.
NOTE
If you could do it on the original Xbox, you can do it on Xbox 360. That means that 
backward-compatible titles on the Xbox 360 have all the functionality they had on their original home.
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BACKWARD-COMPATIBLE TITLES
4x4 EVO 2 
AirForce Delta Storm
Aggressive Inline™
Alias™
Aliens versus Predator ™
Extinction
All-Star Baseball ™
2003 
All-Star Baseball ™
2005 
Amped®: Freestyle Snowboarding
Amped® 2 
Aquaman: Battle of Atlantis 
Army Men®: Sarge’s War ™
Atari® Anthology™
ATV: Quad Power Racing 2 ™
Bad Boys 2 
Big Mutha Truckers 
Baldur ’s Gate™
: Dark Alliance™ II
Barbarian
Barbie ™
Horse Adventures™ Wild Horse Rescue ™
Batman Begins™
Battle Engine Aquila
Battlestar Galactica ™
BL ACK™
BMX XXX ™
Brute Force ™
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy the Vampire Slayer ™
: Chaos Bleeds
Burnout® 3: Takedown ™
Cabela’s® Big Game Hunter ™
2005 Adventures
Cabela’s® Dangerous Hunts ™
Cabela’s® Outdoor Adventures ™
06
Cabela’s® Deer Hunt ™
2004 Season
Cabela’s® Deer Hunt ™
2005 Season
Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth ™
Call of Duty™
: Finest Hour ™
Casino
Catwoman™
Chicago Enforcer
Circus Maximus
Close Combat: First to Fight
Colin McRae Rally 4
Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers ™
Commandos 2: Men of Courage™
Conflict: Desert Storm
Conker™: Live and Reloaded
Constantine ™
Counter-Strike ™
Crash Twinsanity ™
Crash Nitro Kart™
2 
Crimson Skies®: High Road to Revenge ™
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon™
Dark Angel
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Darkwatch™
Dead or Alive® 3
Dead or Alive Ultimate
Dead to Rights® 
Deathrow
Destroy All Humans!
Digimon® Rumble Arena® 2 
Dinotopia2
DOOM 3®
Drake™
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey 
Dynasty Warriors 4
Egg Mania ™
: Eggstreme Madness
ESPN Major League Baseball 
ESPN MLS ExtraTime 2002
Euro 2004
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick
F1 2001
Family Guy
Fable ®
Fable®: The Lost Chapters ™
Fairly OddParents: Breakin’ da Rules
Far Cry: Instincts
Fatal Frame™
Fatal Frame™
II: Crimson Butterfly DIRECTOR’S CUT 
FIFA Soccer 2003
FIFA Soccer 2004
FIFA STREET
Fight Night 2004
FlatOut ™
Ford Mustang
Ford vs. Chevy 
For za Motorspor t ™
Freaky Flyers 
Frogger Beyond™
Futurama™
Fuzion Frenzy®
Gauntlet®: Seven Sorrows ™
Genma Onimusha
Goblin Commander™
: Unleash the Horde
Grabbed by the Ghoulies ™
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas ™
Gravity Games Bike: Street. Vert. Dirt.
Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder
Half-Life® 2 
Halo®
Halo® 2
Halo® 2 Multiplayer Map Pack
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ™
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ™
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He-Man: Defender of Grayskull
Hitman: Contracts™
House of the Dead 3
I-Ninja
IHRA Drag Racing Sportsman Edition
IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005 ™
Indigo Prophecy
The Incredibles
IndyCar® Series 2005 
Intellivision Lives 
Jade Empire™
James Bond 007 ™
: NightFire ™
Judge Dredd®: Dredd vs. Death ™
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
Kabuki™
Warriors 
Kelly Slater’s Pro Surfer
kill.switch
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
LEGO® Star Wars®
LEGO® Star Wars® II: The Original Trilogy 
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events ™
Links® 2004 
LOONS—The Fight for Fame
Magatama 
Manhunt
Mat Hoffman’s Pro BMX™
2
Max Payne™
Max Payne® 2
Maximum Chase 
Medal of Honor European Assault ™
Medal of Honor™
Frontline
Medal of Honor ™
Rising Sun
Mega Man® Anniversary Collection
Metal Arms ™
: Glitch in the System
MicroMachines
Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing
Minority Repor t
MLB SlugFest 20-04
Monster Garage ™
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
Mortal Kombat® Deception ™
MotoGP
MTV Music Generator™
3
MTX: Mototrax ™
Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit
MX Unleashed
MX vs. ATV Unleashed 
MX World Tour™
: Featuring Jamie Little
Namco Museum ™
Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection 
NBA LIVE 2004
Need For Speed™
Underground 2
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NFL Blitz 2002
NFL Blitz 2003
NFL Blitz 2004
NHL® 2004
NHL Hitz™
2003
Ninja Gaiden®
Ninja Gaiden® Black
Open Season
Outlaw Golf 2
Outlaw Tennis 
Outlaw Volleyball
Over the Hedge ™
Pariah
Phantom Crash ™
Pinball Hall of Fame ™
Pitfall®: The Lost Expedition ™
Predator Concrete Jungle™
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ™
Pro Evolution Soccer 5
Pro Race Driver™
Psychonauts
Pump It Up™
: Exceed
Pure Pinball
Puyo Pop Fever2
Quantum Redshift®
RalliSport Challenge
Rainbow Six Lockdown
Rapala Pro Fishing
Rayman Arena
Raze’s Hell ™
Red Dead Revolver
Red Faction® II
RedCard™
2003
Richard Burns Rally 
Robotech: Battlecry
Rocky ™
Legends
Rogue Ops
Rogue Trooper ™
Samurai Jack
Samurai Warriors ™
Scarface
Scooby Doo!™
Night of 100 Frights
Scrapland
SEGA GT ™
2002
Serious Sam 
Shadow The Hedgehog ™
Shamu’s Deep Sea Adventures
Shark Tale
ShellShock: Nam ’67™
Shenmue II
Shincho Mahjong 
Sid Meier’s Pirates!®
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Silent Hill® 4: The Room
Smashing Drive 
Sneakers™
5 
Sniper Elite
Soccer Slam
Sonic Heroes ™
Sonic Mega Collection ™
Plus
Soul Calibur 2
Spawn® Armageddon
Speed Kings ™
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy ™
Spider-Man™
Splat Magazine Renegade Paintball
Splinter Cell: Double Agent
SpongeBob SquarePants ™
: Battle for Bikini Bottom
The SpongeBob Square Pants Movie
SpyHunter® 2
SpyHunter:® Nowhere to Run ™
Spyro™
A Hero’s Tail
SSX 3
Stake ™
Star Wars Battlefront ™
Star Wars Battlefront™
II 
Star Wars®: Episode III Revenge of the Sith ™
Star Wars® Jedi Knight®: Jedi Academy™
Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic ™
Star Wars® Knights of the Old Republic® II: The Sith Lords ™
State of Emergency
Street Racing Syndicate™
Stubbs the Zombie™ in Rebel without a Pulse ™
Super Bubble Pop
Super Monkey Ball™
Deluxe
SX Superstar ™
Taz Wanted 
Tecmo Classic Arcade
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ™
Test Drive®: Eve of Destruction
Tetris Worlds™
4
The Great Escape
The Hulk ™
The Incredible Hulk ™
: Ultimate Destruction
The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer 
The Legend of Spyro ™
: A New Beginning 
The Lord of the Rings ™
: The Return of the King ™
The Punisher™
The Simpsons ™
Hit and Run ™
The Simpsons ™
Road Rage
The Suffering 
The Terminator ™
Dawn of Fate
The Thing ™
Thief: Deadly Shadows ™
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon™
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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon®
2
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon ™
: Island Thunder ™
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® 2 Summit Strike™
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® 3
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® 3 Black Arrow ™
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell®
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell® Chaos Theory™
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell® Pandora Tomorrow ™
Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater™
4
To n y  Ha w k ’s  U n d e rg r o u n d  2
Torino 2006 ™
Winter Olympics 
Tork™: Prehistoric Punk ™
Toxic Grind
Tr ig g er  Ma n™
True Crime: Streets of LA 
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger ™
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger™
2: Bush Rescue ™
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger ™
3: Night of the Quinkan
Ultimate Spider-Man
Urban Freestyle Soccer
Vexx ™
Vietcong ™
: Purple Haze 
Volvo: Drive for Life
Wakeboarding Unleashed: Featuring Sean Murray
Whacked!®
Winback 2: Project Poseidon
World Soccer Winning Eleven 9
World Series® Baseball 2K3
Worms 4 Mayhem
Worms ™
Forts: Under Siege
Wrath Unleashed ™
WWE™
Raw ™
2
X2 Wolverine’s Revenge 
Xiaolin Showdown
XIII
Yourself!Fitness ™
Zapper™
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GLOSSARY
You may come across some words and phrases in this book, or while using the Xbox 360, that you might not
recognize. If you’re lucky, they’re listed here.
A
ACHIEVEMENTS: An extra set of challenges included in every Xbox 360 game. They are not intrinsically tied to
the game’s main objective and instead are supplementary challenges to be achieved.
AI : Artificial intelligence. This refers to the programming of non-playable characters. Also referred to as alien
intelligence.
AVOID PLAYER : Allows Xbox Live users to avoid being matched up with particular players on Xbox Live. It is a part
of the Xbox Live feedback system.
B
BANDWIDTH : The rate used to measure data transmission to a computer.
BL ADE : Any of the four interchangeable sections in the Xbox 360 Dashboard. They are Xbox Live, Games, Media,
and Systems.
C
CHAT : Xbox Live function that allows players to, well, chat. Voice communication.
CHAT INVITE : An invite to partake in idle chitchat over Xbox Live.
CHEAT : A code or button sequence that circumvents, adds to, or changes gameplay in some way.
CONNECT BUTTON : A button on the Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 Wireless Controller used to synchronize a connection
between the two.
CONSOLE : The Xbox 360 hardware unit.
CONTROLLER : Either wired or wireless. It is used to control the onscreen action.
CUSTOM MATCH : An online match whose specifications were modified to your liking.
D
D-PAD: The circular 8-way directional pad on the bottom left of Xbox 360 controllers.
E
EASTER EGG : A hidden or unlockable “something” in a game. It is usually not clearly accessible or doesn’t serve
any function.
F
FAMILY SETTINGS : Modifiable settings accessible through the Xbox 360 Dashboard. They are restrictive settings
used to monitor content. 
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FAMILY ZONE: The family-friendly Gamer Zone of Xbox Live. Its focus is on clean language, polite etiquette, and
family-friendly gaming habits.
FRIEND : Anyone on your Xbox Live friends list. 
FRIEND REQUEST : A request sent to another gamer to join your friends list.
FRIENDS LIST : People on this list comprise your immediate circle of friends online. You can view their recent
activity online, and they are typically easier to get ahold of for gaming sessions.
G
GAMER PICTURE : A picture displayed on your gamer card. It can be modified and should reflect something about
your interests.
GAMER PROFILE : Your gamer card and achievements combined. A view into your gaming career.
GAMER ZONE : Either Recreational, Pro, Family, or Underground. Your Gamer Zone indicates your style of gaming.
GAMER CARD : Comprised of your gamerscore, gamer picture, and other bits of information like reputation, motto,
and Gamer Zone, this is a quick snapshot of your gaming style.
GAMERSCORE : The allotment of every achievement you’ve acquired.
GAMERTAG : Your name on Xbox Live.
GUI : Game user interface. See HUD.
H
HUD : Heads-up display. A display showing current options, settings, or conditions.
I
IP ADDRESS : Internet Protocol address. A 32-digit number that serves as your Internet connection’s name.
L
LAG: The difference between a command and its execution. Often times it is used when online play slows down
or a game’s frame rate drops due to excessive processing.
LAN : Local area network. A network of computers linked via wireless or hardwire connection.
M
MESSAGES : Chat, video, or text sent from one player to another.
N
NOTIFICATIONS : Brief message bubbles that pop up during gameplay or while idle, notifying player of an 
achievement, a message received, sign-on status, or friend status.
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