Downloading Original Xbox Games to the Xbox 360

On Microsoft's end, the download should be flagged as "Xbox Originals" game, not "Xbox 360 game". If an original Xbox game is coming up as "Xbox 360 Game" in the download list or Xbox Live Marketplace, it'll corrupt. Hopefully this'll be resolved
for good, it's been happening on and off for many of the titles from the October and April 2018 batch of games.

I know. Mine shows as xbox 360 game.

I don't think that GTA San Andreas will work when downloading to a flash drive since it's an original Xbox game. Original Xbox games require an original Xbox 360 hard drive to play.

Is it giving an error message saying you need to download the game or is it asking you to download an update?

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An update is needed in order to let games designed for the original Xbox to run on the 360, for this you'll need a Live connection and an official 360 hard drive.

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Here is the official page about Xbox Originals support
support.xbox.com/.../play-original-games.

Hi ,

Thank you for posting on the XBox forums. The Xbox backwards compatibility program is intended for the Xbox One, so the digital downloads for Xbox Original backwards compatible games can only be downloaded on an Xbox One console. You can probably still
play Xbox Original games on the Xbox 360 if you have the discs and if they were backwards compatible back when it was available on the Xbox 360.

You can purchase directly on Xbox 360 and commence the download. Around 80%-near the end, the download will give an error. The licence is for both Xbox 360 & Xbox One platforms.

It's a known recurring issue, happened with the last batch of original Xbox games in April 2018 and October 2017. It occurs when the download is flagged as "Xbox 360 Game" server side/download list & game page on the Xbox 360 console. It's supposed to be flagged
as "Xbox Originals" in order to download correctly to Xbox 360 consoles.

I apologize for the wording, not really asking a question or for support, just letting know the issue so it can be resolved.

No sorry mate, thanks for the reply but that vid there isn't the issue i'm talking about. Be easier if you just look at this thread because this is the exact thing i'm talking about and explains it to a t.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...will-not/daba48a4-56e3-41e0-a85f-678022e194c4

That video won't work because i can't fully download the game i want to play to begin with. Every time it gets to exactly 80% downloaded, it then stops and an error message comes up saying "Unable to download this game" The problem is, as it says in the thread,
confusion because how they made digital copies of Original Xbox games available to play on the Xbox One was by re-branding them as Xbox 360 games (that’s why if you go on a 360 now and search for an Xbox Originals game, it’ll actually come up with 2
results – one that says it’s an Xbox Originals game and another which says that it’s an Xbox 360 game)



You can only buy and download the one that says it’s an Xbox 360 game though and that’s where the problem is coming from… as it’s downloading on the 360 it’s getting mixed signals of being both an Original Xbox game and an Xbox
360 game.