Help with xbox 360,please!?

Question

I have an x-box 360, and 5 original x box games that I cannot upgrade to the 360. We bought a disc that was supposed to help with this, but it didn't. Are some original games just not compatible with a 360, or am I maybe not doing something right? Any advice appreciated! Thanx!

Answer 1

Yes. Some old X-Box games are not compatible with the 360. I believe some of the more popular games such as Fable, Halo 2, etc... Would be compatible.

Answer 2

Although some xbox games are compatible with xbox 360, all are not. Here is a list that was last update November 2007 of xbox games that are compatible with xbox 360:

Original Xbox Games Playable on Xbox 360

List updated November 2007.

The folks at Xbox® are working hard to add more of your favorite games to this list, so check back often for the latest updates.1

Note: A software emulator is required for each original Xbox game you play on your Xbox 360™ console.

2006 FIFA World Cup™

25 to Life™2

4x4 EVO 2

AirForce Delta Storm

Aggressive Inline™

Alias™

Aliens versus Predator™ Extinction

All-Star Baseball™ 2003

All-Star Baseball™ 2005

America's Army®: Rise of a Soldier™

AMF Bowling 20042

Amped®: Freestyle Snowboarding

Amped 2

APEX™

Aquaman: Battle of Atlantis

Arena Football™

Armed and Dangerous™

Army Men®: Sarge's War™

Atari® Anthology™

ATV: Quad Power Racing 2™

Auto Modellista

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Bad Boys 2

Baldur's Gate™: Dark Alliance™2

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II

Barbie™ Horse Adventures™ Wild Horse Rescue™

The Bard's Tale™

Bass Pro Shops Trophy Hunter 2007

Batman Begins™

Batman™: Rise of Sin Tzu™

Battle Engine Aquila

Battlestar Galactica™

Big Mutha Truckers

Bionicle®

BLACK™

Blade II

Blinx™: The Time Sweeper™

Blinx® 2 : Masters of Time & Space

Blitz: The League2

Blood Omen 2

BloodRayne™ 2

BlowOut

BMX XXX™

Breakdown™

Brute Force™

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer™: Chaos Bleeds

Burnout

Burnout™ 2

Burnout® 3: Takedown™

Cabela's® Big Game Hunter™ 2005 Adventures

Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts™

Cabela's® Dangerous Hunts™ 2

Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures™ 06

Cabela's Deer Hunt™ 2005 Season

Cabela's Deer Hunt™ 2004 Season

Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth™

Call of Duty™: Finest Hour™

Call of Duty® 2: Big Red One

Call of Duty 3

Cars

Casino

Catwoman™

Championship Manager 20062

Chicago Enforcer

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Circus Maximus

Close Combat: First to Fight

Colin McRae Rally 4

Colin McRae Rally 2005™

Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers™

Commandos 2: Men of Courage™

Conflict: Desert Storm

Conker: Live and Reloaded

Constantine™

Counter-Strike™

Crash Bandicoot 4

Crash Bandicoot 5: Wrath of Cortex

Crash Nitro Kart™ 2

Crash Twinsanity™

Crime Life Gang Wars

Crimson Skies®: High Road to Revenge™

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon™

Dai Senryaku VII: Modern Military Tactics™

Dark Angel

Darkwatch™

Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2™

The Da Vinci Code™

Dead or Alive® 3

Dead or Alive Ultimate

Dead to Rights®

Demon Stone™

Deathrow

Destroy All Humans!

Digimon® Rumble Arena® 2

Dinotopia2

DOOM 3®

DOOM 3®: Resurrection of Evil™

Drake™

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

Drive to Survive

Dungeons & Dragons®: Heroes™

Dynasty Warriors 4

EA SPORTS™ Fight Night Round 3

Egg Mania™: Eggstreme Madness

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind®

ESPN College Hoops

ESPN College Hoops 2K52

ESPN Major League Baseball

ESPN MLS ExtraTime 2002

ESPN NFL 2K5

ESPN NHL 2K5

Euro 2004

Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick

Evil Dead: Regeneration

Ex-Chaser

F1 2001

Family Guy

Fable®

Fable®: The Lost Chapters™

Fairly Odd Parents: Breakin' da Rules

Fantastic Four

Far Cry: Instincts

Fatal Frame™

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly DIRECTOR'S CUT

FIFA Soccer 06

FIFA Soccer 07

FIFA Soccer 2003

FIFA Soccer 2004

FIFA STREET

FIFA Street 2

Fight Night 2004

Final Fight Streetwise™

FlatOut™

Ford Mustang

Ford vs. Chevy

Forza Motorsport™

Freaky Flyers

Freedom Fighters™2

Freestyle Street Soccer™

Frogger Beyond™

Full Spectrum Warrior™

Full Spectrum Warrior™: Ten Hammers

Futurama™

Future Tactics: The Uprising

Fuzion Frenzy®

Gauntlet®: Seven Sorrows™

Genma Onimusha

Goblin Commander™: Unleash the Horde

Godzilla®: Destroy All Monsters Melee

Godzilla: Save The Earth

GoldenEye: Rogue Agent™

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.

The Great Escape

Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball Max'd

Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder

Guilty Gear Isuka

Guilty Gear X2 #Reload

The Guy Game2

Half-Life® 2

Halo®

Halo 2

Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets™

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone™

He-Man: Defender of Grayskull

High Heat™ Major League Baseball® 20042

Hitman: Contracts™

Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Challenge

House of the Dead 3

The Hulk™

Hunter: The Reckoning®2

I-Ninja

IHRA Drag Racing Sportsman Edition

IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005™

The Incredible Hulk™: Ultimate Destruction

Incredibles

The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer

Indiana Jones™ and the Emperor's Tomb™

Indigo Prophecy

IndyCar® Series 2005

Intellivision Lives

Jade Empire™3

James Bond 007™: NightFire™

JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future

Judge Dredd®: Dredd vs. Death™

Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis

Justice League Heroes

Kabuki™ Warriors

Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer

kill.switch

King Arthur

The King of Fighters Neowave

The King of Fighters™ 2002 & 2003

Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders™

The Legend of Spyro™: A New Beginning

Leisure Suit Larry: Magna *** Laude

Legends of Wrestling™

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

The Lord of the Rings™: The Return of the King™

The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age™

Magatama

Magic: The Gathering™—Battleground

Manhunt

Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects

Marvel vs. Capcom 2

Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX™ 2

Max Payne

Max Payne® 2

Maximum Chase

MechAssault® 2: Lone Wolf

Medal of Honor European Assault™

Medal of Honor™ Frontline

Medal of Honor™ Rising Sun

Mega Man® Anniversary Collection

Mercenaries™

Metal Arms™: Glitch in the System

MicroMachines

Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing

Minority Report

MLB SlugFest 20-03

MLB SlugFest 20-04

MLB® SlugFest®: Loaded2

Monster Garage™

Mortal Kombat: Armageddon

Mortal Kombat® Deception™

MotoGP

MotoGP 2

MTV Music Generator™ 3

MTX: Mototrax™

Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit

MVP Baseball™ 20032

MVP Baseball 20042

MX Unleashed

MX vs. ATV Unleashed

MX World Tour™: Featuring Jamie Little

Myst III: Exile

Namco Museum™

Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection

NASCAR Thunder™ 20022

NASCAR Thunder 20032

NASCAR 2006: Total Team Control

NBA® Ballers™2

NBA Inside Drive 2002

NBA 2K32  

NBA Live 2002

NBA LIVE 2004

NBA STREET V3

NCAA College Basketball 2K3

NCAA March Madness 062

NCAA® March Madness™ 20052

NCAA Football 06

Need For Speed™ Underground 2

NFL 2K22

NFL 2K32

NFL Blitz 2002

NFL Blitz 2003

NFL Blitz 2004

NFL Fever 2004

NHL® 2004

NHL 2005

NHL 2K32

NHL Hitz™ 2003

NHL Hitz Pro

NightCaster

Ninja Gaiden®

Ninja Gaiden Black

NTRA Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships2

Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee

Open Season

Outlaw Golf 2

Outlaw Golf: 9 More Holes of X-mas

Outlaw Tennis

Outlaw Volleyball

Outlaw Volleyball: Red Hot

OutRun™ 2

OutRun 2006: Coast to Coast

Over the Hedge™

Pac-Man World™ 3

Pariah

Panzer Dragoon ORTA™

Phantom Crash™

Phantom Dust™

Pinball Hall of Fame™

Pitfall®: The Lost Expedition™

Playboy The Mansion

Predator Concrete Jungle™

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™

Pro Evolution Soccer 5

Pro Race Driver™

Project Gotham Racing®

Project Gotham Racing 2

Psychonauts

Pump It Up™: Exceed

The Punisher™

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

Reservoir Dogs

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Richard Burns Rally

RLH

RoadKill

Robin Hood Defender of the Crown®

Robotech: Battlecry

Rocky™2

Rocky Legends

Rogue Ops

Rogue Trooper™

Rugby 2006

Rugby League 2

Samurai Jack

Samurai Warriors™

Scarface

s****. Doo!™ Night of 100 Frights

Scrapland

SEGA GT™ 2002

SegaGT Online

Serious Sam

Shadow The Hedgehog™

Shadow Ops™: Red Mercury

Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures

Shark Tale

Shattered Union

ShellShock: Nam '67™

Shenmue II

Shincho Mahjong

Shrek® Super Party!

Sid Meier's Pirates!®

The Simpsons™ Hit and Run™

The Simpsons™ Road Rage

Sims™ 2

Silent Hill® 2: Restless Dreams

Silent Hill 4: The Room

Smashing Drive

Sneakers™ 5

Sniper Elite

Soccer Slam

Sonic Heroes™

Sonic Mega Collection™ Plus

Sonic Riders™

Soul Calibur 2

Spawn® Armageddon

Speed Kings™

Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy™

Spider-Man™

Spider-Man® 2

Splat Magazine Renegade Paintball

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

SpongeBob SquarePants™: Battle for Bikini Bottom

Sponge Bob Square Pants: Lights, Camera, Pants!

The SpongeBob Square Pants Movie

SpyHunter® 2

SpyHunter:® Nowhere to Run™

Spyro™ A Hero's Tail

SSX 3

Stake™

Starsky & Hutch

Star Wars® Battlefront™

Star Wars Battlefront™ II

Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith™

Star Wars Jedi Knight®: Jedi Academy™

Star Wars Jedi Starfighter™

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic™

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic® II: The Sith Lords™

Star Wars Republic Commando™

State of Emergency

Street Fighter® Anniversary Collection

Street Racing Syndicate™

Stubbs the Zombie™ in Rebel