{"id":783716,"date":"2026-07-25T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/783716\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T12:48:11","slug":"xboxs-backward-compatibility-on-pc-can-run-xbox-360-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/783716\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox&#8217;s Backward Compatibility On PC Can Run Xbox 360 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mere hours after Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/you-can-now-officially-play-some-original-xbox-games-on-pc-2000718406\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced its Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC initiative<\/a>, dataminers have discovered that the Xbox emulator in question isn\u2019t an Xbox emulator\u2014it\u2019s actually an Xbox 360 emulator that is running Xefu, which is the same emulator that Xbox 360 hardware used to emulate original Xbox games.<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds a bit too confusing to wrap your head around, let me put it this way: it\u2019s an emulator inside an emulator. As spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trueachievements.com\/news\/xbox-360-games-pc-backward-compatible-dataminers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">True Trophies<\/a>, this was originally revealed a couple of days ago on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheLunarixus\/status\/2079994620688093204?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a> by dataminer Lunarixus, who concluded that this \u201cprobably does confirm that yes Xbox 360 games will also be backwards compatible in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">By combining Microsoft&#8217;s recently-released PC port of XeO3 with specific components of XWine1, SlimEra namely, it becomes possible to run dumped backwards-compatible Xbox 360 and Xbox Original games before they see an official PC release, with varying degrees of success <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6eocCCT1cW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6eocCCT1cW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 XWine1 (@XWineOne) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/XWineOne\/status\/2080172284422029742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They can remove the \u201cprobably\u201d from that statement at this point, though, as the team behind the Xbox One translation layer project known as <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/XWineOne\/status\/2080172284422029742\" rel=\"nofollow\">XWine1<\/a> has already managed to run several original Xbox and Xbox 360 ROMs on Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Backward Compatibility emulator \u201cwith varying degrees of success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the \u201cvarying degrees of success\u201d part is a pretty huge sticking point, but just as Lunarixus predicted, it does mean that the emulator is more than capable of running Xbox 360 games, even though Microsoft has currently only released four original Xbox games through the Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC service.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if we\u2019re all being completely honest, this isn\u2019t exactly surprising news. It\u2019s nice to have this confirmed, but I think the majority of us assumed that Microsoft\u2019s new Xbox PC emulator was paving the way for Xbox 360 games down the line.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also nice to know that certain Xbox 360 games won\u2019t have to stay trapped on console for eternity, as classics such as Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon aren\u2019t (officially) available on any other platform. Here\u2019s hoping we get an announcement regarding Fable 2 relatively soon, as I\u2019d love to see that one become more widely playable before Playground Games drops the Fable reboot next year.<\/p>\n<p>                          <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mere hours after Microsoft announced its Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC initiative, dataminers have discovered that the Xbox&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[333619,1281,2210,74,1298,166181],"class_list":["post-783716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-backwards-compatability","tag-microsoft","tag-pc","tag-technology","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}