XBOX Backward Compatibility Launches On PC: Conker, Crimson Skies, Blinx and Fuzion Frenzy Available Now

[David_Schroth]

Conker: Live and Reloaded is playable on a Windows PC yesterday for the first time in more than two decades, and that is not a sentence anyone was expecting to type in July of 2026. Microsoft’s Jason Ronald, VP of Next Generation at Xbox, published the announcement this morning on Xbox Wire, confirming that Xbox […]

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[DrezKill]

I hope Microsoft ends up making Xbox 360 games available as well.

This would have been good to have when I bought Crimson Skies a few years ago. After testing it on my original Xbox I played through it on my XB1. Well now I can play it on PC too. Officially I mean, cuz Xbox emulation has always been an option. Same for X360.

 

[Marees]

this is the xbox 360 emulator running on xbox one ported to PC

the xbox 360 emulator in turn emulates the og Xbox

https://twitter.com/x/status/2080172284422029742

 

[Marees]

next coming up: positron — this converts your disc to digital

so get your old xbox 360 / og xbox discs, convert them to digital

now you can play it on PC / rog 'xbox' ally X

 

[Marees]

the endgame:

in 2028 AMD will release a successor chip to the chip inside rog ally x.

this (laptop) chip can be put into a steam machine like case running windows in big screen/xbox mode like the rog ally X

effectively this will act as a series S2 (or a Helix S if you will)

 

[LazyGamer]

Tried Crimson Skies, crashes on the title screen