Morning, babe! It's the big day!

Hopefully performance gets better. I have Perfect Dark and it seems to run fine. Never played it on the 64 though and it really doesn't hold up as well as most Nintendo games.

Bet your bottom dollar they are going to advertise X1 this holidays as backwards compatible*. Then at the bottom of the commercial in tiny unredable font for half a second, *Some games and even less work at a playable level.

The moral of the story? Keep your 360 folks. MS opened a big can of worms promising 100s of games, and then having to spend a lot of time tweaking them all to run in emulation properly might prove to be insurmountable.

While the virtual machine code will of course improve, the later in the gen the games were released, the more demanding they are, so it makes me a bit sceptical to how, for instance, Halo 4 would run.

What could be really interesting though, would be if next gen, MS releases an official 360 emulator for PC (considering they are likely to ditch xbox next gen). Sell the software (the emulator) itself for 60$, and games for anything between 5 and 10 dollars a piece.

Essencially its an emulator.

Yes, the performances of the emulator will get better. But also the games will become much more demanding. Skyrim is on the top 5 (?) of the wish list. I wanna see that one emulated.

Oh, and as long as the v-sync is engaged the drop in frame rate will be there for the game which were tearing.

Clearly the words ''Beta'' escape VG community.

Its good to see that there still is potential for games to play / look better through BC.

Can't wait for the service to roll in November. 

Its a beta. The point of them is to find what's wrong and report. Which we are doing as preview members.

I think some people need to remember that it's not finished yet. It's hard to imagine how they'll be able to introduce significant improvements from this point, it's incredibly impressive that they've managed to get this far, but it'd still be best to wait until we have the finished feature in our hands before lamenting it with criticism.