It' s from IGN mailbag and it kind of sux :

Half Life 2 Emulated
Mr. Perry, don' t know if you' ve had a minute to experience the wonder of Half Life 2 emulated on the 360. if you haven' t, let me fill you in on the greatness that is. during the " water hazard" mission with the air boat, almost all walls and are able to be driven through allowing for a view of the under side of the map and then total blackness, making that section of the map a tiptoeing adventure, as to not fall into the dreaded sideways 8 of source code. Then during the " we dont go to ravenholm" mission any and all physics don' t apply to inanimate objects that can be manipulated with the gravity gun. Desks, tables, barrels, and saw blades don' t respond to any collision detection, physics or gravity for that matter!!!

What?!?

you' re familiar with the game and the car on the crane puzzle in Ravenholm, yet once the switch is thrown the cars float upward into the atmosphere and the out of sight...literally. making advancing beyond this point impossible. Seeing as though i tried stacking every piece of furniture in the level to reach my destination, but to no avail.

So here' s my question, do you know if Microsoft is doing anything to fix any of the emulator problems out there? HL2 looks damn good in 720p, and the game to this point was incredible, but glitches, man...glitches. Thanks

I think Microsoft rushed these backward compatible games and they' re in the process of trying to fix them -- perhaps with downloadable patches. I would hate to think MS would be so bold as to ignore them completely.

--Douglass

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs
Just wondered if you folks were aware of problems with games that Microsoft CLAIMS are backwards compatible, but only are in a limited fashion. As far as I can tell from several tests, games like Forza, RSix3 and RS3:Black Arrow, work in the 360, but only if you don' t try to do System Link to older Xboxes...then it all falls apart...hangs, failure to connect, failure to see games created on the Xbox consoles, etc.

If you haven' t seen this, can you look into it?

If you' ve seen this, could you please REPORT on it to give Microsoft a nudge to ensure that games touted as b/c are really b/c in all modes?

I' m collecting data on issues like this. Thanks for the heads up.

--Douglass