Win XP games -- do people still use them?

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I've got many popular, pricey older XP/ME games that my kids played years ago. I haven't tried to load them in Win 7 in compatibility mode to see if they work. Are they worth anything? If I bundle them and sell on eBay, what would you ask? Will they run on newer systems?
Diablo II, Rome Total War, Warcraft, Medieval, Halo, First Strike, Medal of Honor, Special Forces, SimTown series... prob 30 games in all.
...and what about his old X-Box and those games? I thought I read they were not compatible with newer systems.
 
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Some games are 16-bit and may not install or run properly on 64-bit systems. Dos games have the advantage of being able to use something like dosbox.

Older Lucas Arts games all used 16 bit installers leading to issues with 64 bit operating systems.

You can try to sell them, but do not expect to get much.

This is what a 16-bit game will do.
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Now more popular games will have updates or 3rd party engines(modified or made from scratch) to solve these issues. You can get so many versions of the quake engine that run on anything.
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There is no such thing as "incompatible games" since you can run DOS games in Windows 8.
People will buy anything, won't pay as much as you are expecting but someone will buy them
 
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Some games are 16-bit and may not install or run properly on 64-bit systems. Dos games have the advantage of being able to use something like dosbox.

Older Lucas Arts games all used 16 bit installers leading to issues with 64 bit operating systems.

You can try to sell them, but do not expect to get much.

This is what a 16-bit game will do.
20uom0m.jpg


Now more popular games will have updates or 3rd party engines(modified or made from scratch) to solve these issues. You can get so many versions of the quake engine that run on anything.
 
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PC games are nearly always compatible with new systems; I personally still play several games meant for Windows XP on Windows 7. A few aren't possible to get working, but the vast majority will work perfectly with minimal additional effort. Once a game gets so old that it has nothing in common with modern hardware or software (such as DOS games), they can still be run with a variety of well-developed emulators.

Xbox games, however, are often not compatible with newer systems. Original Xbox games can work on the 360, but only certain ones and they can encounter bugs and crashes. The Xbox One is also not backwards compatible at all.
 
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If the game was popular, it's not valuable.
You games haven't gained value over time or anything.
And most people don't feel bad about pirating old games, as they are usually abandonware and no one is losing money by them being pirated as they aren't for sale (by the creators) anymore anyways.

Or they just download them from www.gog.com because they actually work on their newer systems without them having to jump through any hoops.



That's just because the console developers don;t want you still enjoying your old games and not buying new games.

My ps3-1000 plays all my old ps3 and psone games just fine, but if I got a non 1000 model of it, suddenly the games aren't compatible with the hardware anymore?

bs.
 
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Sony's approach to backwards compatibility was a very good one.

The PS2 played PS1 games because by that time the PS1's cpu was so simple it could be integrated into the system.

If I remember right the PS3 actually had a chip to deal with the PS2 and most PS1 games. I was just like placing an actual PS2 inside the PS3(again technology made it possible to have everything needed integrated into one part).

To save money, that part was later removed.

the Xbox 360 backwards compatibility was 100% emulation. Because of this, each game needed to be worked on to ensure it would function. This led to a rather small library of working xbox games on 360.
 
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There's a simple reason for that, and it has nothing to do with the thinly veiled conspiracy theory you're hinting at.
The PS3 hardware and OS was never compatible with PS2 games. They included a separate functional PS2 processor inside the 'fat' PS3 to handle PS2 games. In later iterations, they removed that to cut size, heat, and cost, as they didn't think enough people would still be playing PS2 games.
 
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