Xbox Games in a Playstation 2

[Kiwi Man]

I doubt this thread will go anywhere, there's not much to say in reply to this, but I'll go on anyway.

I remember a fair while back I got a demo disc for the Chronicles of Riddick game, and what I didn't infer from the vague packaging was that it was for Xbox. I chucked it in my PS2 and everything worked, in black and white, until I was at the menu and it didn't respond to me pressing things. It worked fine at my friends house afterwards, who had an Xbox, and I got an idea.

We got one of his old Xbox games that he didn't really care if it got damaged, and put it in my PS2. Surprisingly it worked in black and white and the Xbox splash screen came up, with the X in the middle of the screen, followed by the Xbox error message saying the disc could be damaged or the disc wasn't a correct Xbox disc or something.

As I said this thread probably won't go any further, but I got reminded of this the other day and I was just wondering how it worked. PS2 and Xbox are completely different yet the PS2 still ran games for the Xbox, to some extent. And the Xbox error message coming up on the PS2 suggests that the message is stored on the Xbox disc, but why would that be there?

Does anyone have any ideas?

[Splush]

That's some wacky shit. I suppose it's possible that xbox discs have a dvd video layer that plays when you put them in non-xbox dvd players (such as a PS2) which just shows the xbox logo and then a warning message. That doesn't explain the chronicles of riddick thing though.

When you put a dreamcast disc into a cd player you get a lady telling you "This is a dreamcast disc" in several different languages.

In vaguely related matters, chronicles of riddick was a such a badass game.

[White Tiger]

It reminds me of a video of some guys putting a 360 disc in a ps3 and it coming up saying ''Please put this disc into an xbox 360'' they all laughed their asses off. I didn't get it, it was simply being kind and saying it won't work and this is how to make it work.

I did put the rainbow six vegas disc into my pc and in windows media player it was some form of Micheal Jordan video, I then discovered most games released around that time were Micheal Jordan videos. They didn't play obviously but I thought I found something cool.

[the last sheika]

Dead or Alive 2 in a PC is good

I'm not as tech-savvy as a lot of people here, but since both Xbox and PS2 use DVD disks, could it just be that a small amount of their programming is the same, to cause flukes like this?

Ugh. Now I'm tempted to put my Wii Sports into my DVD player.



In vaguely related matters, chronicles of riddick was a such a bad ass-game.
Hur hur hur. XKCD.

[eidderf]

When you put a dreamcast disc into a cd player you get a lady telling you "This is a dreamcast disc" in several different languages.

In vaguely related matters, chronicles of riddick was a such a badass game.

I remember reading somewhere that one of the old tomb raider games plays music from the game if you put it in a CD player.

[Boyinabox]

The best games for CD player related easter eggs are Worms 1 and Earthworm Jim. Worms has a hidden soundtrack including a dramatic war song about Boggy B avenging the death of his comrade Spadge whilst Earthworm Jim had a hidden track where Earthworm Jim actually reads the Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on earthworms. Fun times. :D

I can't remember any incidents of cross console shenanigans though.

[Splush]

I did put the rainbow six vegas disc into my pc and in windows media player it was some form of Micheal Jordan video, I then discovered most games released around that time were Micheal Jordan videos. They didn't play obviously but I thought I found something cool.
A bit like how if I put a burned CD with one long audio track into my computer, itunes automatically thinks its a mix by Daft Punk & DJ Sneak, even though it never is?

Hur hur hur. XKCD.
Huh? I don't get the reference, and chronicles of riddick was seriously awesome.

[Haroshi]

I remember putting the disk of the playstation version of theme park into a CD player,

it plays the theme tunes from some of the rides.

[the last sheika]

Huh? I don't get the reference, and chronicles of riddick was seriously awesome.
My hobby: Mentally moving the hyphen one space to the right whenever anyone says "bad-ass ___"

[White Tiger]

I remember putting the disk of the playstation version of theme park into a CD player,

it plays the theme tunes from some of the rides.

If you still have theme park I will buy it off you.

Do want theme park!

[edit] http://www.games4win.com/games/theme-park/
Oh hell yyeeaaahhhhhh.

Also lululululul offtopic

[Youlikeyams?]

ridge racer let you play all the songs from the game
which is a terrible shame for my ears

[da-geezer]

Rotterdam Nation!

Oh yeeeah!

[Ronbert]

The Xbox & PS2 programming languages you would guess were similar if they can potentially play each others' discs. Whether they are more similar than you think but they wouldn't want you using the disc on the other console is something that we can only speculate about.

[doctor_fruitbat]

They both play DVDs, and presumably the data is roughly stored in the same place (ie. anything that needs starting up first like company credits or warning messages would be stored in the same part of the disc so that any DVD player can read them in the correct order, in the case of video DVDs anyway), and the start-up sequence is probably just a short video in mpeg-2 format. The Xbox/PS2 start-up images probably aren't 'coded', because that could potentially conflict with how individual developers like to make their games. Anything that comes afterwards would be specified by the dev, so on Chronicles of Riddick the opening credits of the game are probably just short videos, dumped on the disc in the standard way for DVDs, right up until the menu where proper coding comes into play, and on whatever other game you tried it started doing Xbox-y type things straight away and hence worked even less well. Or something, I'm just speculating here.

[Revilo]

We need some techno-super-hacker-internet-guy to work out how to make them both work, and release the Playbox Wii-60. :p

[Rabengakev]

It's a secret conspiracy, Microsoft and Sony are planning to combine into one "super-console" and take down Nintendo once...and for all!!!11

*lightning*
*evil laugh*