Then I went on the Internet to get some information, after all, that's why the Internet was created ( besides for porn ). What I learned was how to successfully make the 360 play most old xbox games. The 360 still is not compatible with all old games. From my experience, about two-thirds of my old games work on the new console.

You have three choices on how to update your new Xbox 360 to play old games. Please note that your xbox 360 needs a harddrive in order to play old games.

Your choices are:

1. Use an ethernet cable to hook-up your xbox to the internet. Place your old game inside the unit and your xbox will automatically connect to the microsoft xbox site to download an update which will let you play that old game.
2. Download an xbox update and burn a cd or dvd to place in your xbox 360 tray. You can dowload the file here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/backwardscompatibility.htm
3. Order an xbox update cd patch from microsoft. However, the official xbox site says that this disk is not yet available for order. So in effect, you may only have 2 choices.

The method which I elected to use was option 2. I burned my own cd-rom with the xbox patch, put it in my xbox 360 and fired it up. The xbox prompted me to install new patch. The process was very easy.

What I can't understand is why they don't include this patch cd-rom with every xbox 360 unit that they sell. Why make everyone go through so much trouble?

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