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https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/22/xbox-b … tibility-on-pc/

Rolling out today, XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC launches in early release, starting with four classic original XBOX games, […]
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Rolling out today, XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC launches in early release, starting with four classic original XBOX games, now playable on PC and handhelds for the first time ever. This marks the beginning of a broader effort to preserve XBOX games from the past and bring them to PC over time. And we are not just enabling you to play them on PC. We are also adding new features to make your gaming experience better than ever.

Players can jump into the following games on PC and supported handheld devices beginning today in supported regions:

BLiNX: The Time Sweeper
Conker: Live and Reloaded
Crimson Skies®: High Road to Revenge
Fuzion Frenzy®

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Make your games work offline

Reply 1 of 6, by Jasin Natael

Posted on Today, 17:12

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Interesting.
Maybe too little to late, but it sure would be nice if they would make it around to some of the 360 titles, (Fable II hint hint...)

Reply 2 of 6, by Joseph_Joestar

Posted on Today, 17:37

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I wonder if this is an official Xbox emulator for Windows PCs which runs games that you can buy from the Microsoft/Xbox Store. Or if the games have been fully recompiled to run on x86 systems. In any case, that sounds pretty good to me, especially if they add resolution and frame rate enhancements like on Xbox Series X consoles.

And yeah, bring on the Xbox 360 titles too!

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Reply 3 of 6, by wierd_w

Posted on Today, 18:58

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360 games have a different cpu arch?

Fairly sure it was a PowerPC variant?

Wikipedia seems to think so?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PowerPC … d_game_consoles

Reply 4 of 6, by Joseph_Joestar

Posted on Today, 19:17

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wierd_w wrote on Today, 18:58:

360 games have a different cpu arch?

Shouldn't really matter.

Xbox Series X has backward compatibility with both OG Xbox and Xbox 360 games. Not all of them, but a decent bunch. A modern PC should be able to do the same, since Series X hardware is x86 based.

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Reply 5 of 6, by feda

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Interestingly, an unofficial port of the 360 exclusive Gears of War 2 was also recently released: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-sh … uild-from-2008/

Reply 6 of 6, by wierd_w

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Oh sure! There's emulators for that already!

https://xenia-emulator.com/

For example.

Fable II and III work fine! (Game engine is hardcapped at 30fps, but yeah.)

Can confirm! Have played!

However, 'native executable' is not a thing, because 'wrong cpu arch, games did squirrely things to the console, like unloading parts of the os kernel'

An emulator can deal with that. A recompile wont.

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