360 BC anyone else surprised?

[c0_re]

Was anybody else as surprised as me at the 200+ list of operational BC games at launch? I mean I figured yea Halo 1,2 Fable and 10 other games or so.

They are missing some key games like NG and Splinter Cell and others but they'll possibly come later on. So has anyone herd is there some D3D cconversion trick to it or is it just a brute force solution?

 

[DigitalSoul]

Ninja Gaiden[ and NG Black} are on the list. They are missing PGR 1&2, JSRF and Panzer Dragoon Orta.

 

[pegisys]

I think it may work something like the xbox emulators that got started for the pc, which works something like a wrapper, but thats just a guess

and yeah I didn't think they would be anywhere near 200+ titles

 

[kyleb]

The size of the list is respectable, but I'm holding out to see how much better the games actually look. I was really hoping we would see games like Halo2 actually rendered at 720p, but the AA should at least be somewhat impressive. I will be very dissapointed though if games that are already 720p on the Xbox don't do the same on the 360.

 

[c0_re]

have any sources confirmed tha Halo and Halo 2 don't run in true 720p because the way bungie talked it did, I don't think anyone has the updated emu from xblive yet.

 

[LunchBox]

I'm quite surprised and i'm quite happy about the sheer amount of games listed

honestly... I wasn't expecting much but i'm glad they pulled through...

and then some

 

[stuart_r]

Good list if you live in the US from 'Computer And Video Games'

While it's nowhere near as pitiful as yesterday's Japanese announcement, it's mildly disappointing to see that we've not done quite so well as our US cousins, whose list totalled 212 games. Us Europeans will be able to play a total of 156 titles come the 360's launch (with more on the horizon, obviously) - but hey, at least it's still a couple more than 12, right.

and the japanese 12 are :-

* Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
* Fable
* Forza Motorsport
* Grand Theft Auto Double Pack
* Halo
* Halo 2
* Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack
* Jade Empire
* Ninja Gaiden
* Ninja Gaiden Black
* Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3
* The Simpsons: Hit & Run

.... Most supprising one on the american list?

Barbie Horse Adventure

How many people actually play that?

 

[jvd]

Barbie Horse Adventure

How many people actually play that?

at least once a frikken day you mofo . My little second cousin loves that game . She is on my sisters xbox everytime she comes over . Its a killer app

 

[ector]

Lots of the crappy games are probably by-products... Get one game to work and you probably get three others automatically. Such is the nature of emulators.

 

[Guden Oden]

at least once a frikken day you mofo . My little second cousin loves that game .

LAL!

The PAL B-C list is shorter than the US, but I bet that's the fault of the germans, french, spanish, italians...etc who refuse to learn english and instead demand to have the games translated into their quirky little obscure languages... Not that I really care, I wouldn't waste a new brilliant piece of technology on running games made for old, sub-standard hardware...

 

[kyleb]

have any sources confirmed tha Halo and Halo 2 don't run in true 720p because the way bungie talked it did, I don't think anyone has the updated emu from xblive yet.

Yeah they talked like it was acutally rendered at 720p but the analog captures they posted showed otherwise and then they clarified that the resolution changed happens after the rendering in their last weekly update:

How is the resolution change achieved technically?

For Halo and Halo 2, it happens in the “frame bufferâ€￾ where Full Scene Anti Aliasing is applied. That image is then scaled for the best mix of image quality and compatibility.

http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=weeklynovember11th&p=5331972