Xbox Game Splinter Cell

I purchased a xbox 360 for my son for Christmas. I have tried everyway that I have seen on the internet to play Splinter Cell with no success. The internet said to buy xbox harddrive, check. The internet said download backwards compatibility file, check. I keep getting error: Game Error

The game couldn't start. Try downloading the game again.
For more help, visit www.xbox.com/support.

 

orginal xbox games require a hard drive and the xbox360 must be connected
to the internet in order to download the Backward compatibility update for
orginal xbox games to play on the xbox 360. also, not all orginal xbox games can be played on the xbox 360.

 

I have already checked & did all these, any other suggestions?

 

what splinter cell game is this ? and is this an xbox or xbox 360 game.

 

Xbox game. All it says on cover is Splinter Cell.

 

is the game scratched up ?? if so try cleaning the disc
if that doesn't work i'd say that you might have a defective disc.
what do you mean try downloading the game again??
is this an orginal xbox game or burn't disc?

 

Original disk brand new.

 

take the game to your nearest gamestop and ask them if they
could test the disc for you,to see if it is either your disc or your system.
is the game ntsc or pal

 

On the back of the game it says it is ntsc whatever that means.

 

it means the region the game is from would pay to check what region you fall under & if it's PAL then the cheapest method to play game is get an original xbox & chip it,then install game to the hdd as it will play direct without need for disc insertion after installation

 

so how do I get it to play on xbox 360?

 

where did you buy your xbox 360 at ?? what region are you in ??

 

Walmart, South Carolina, USA

 

here is the list of backwards compatable games that run on the xbox 360 -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_games_compatible_with_Xbox_360
tom clancy's splinter cell is supported. i'd say you have a defective disc.
you might try to exchange the disc for another one.

 

yea i stripped down my original xbox collection to games that where on this list i am really happy i have one cd folder full of 360 games and the xbox games that work on the 360 and the rest are with my original modded xbox's in storage

 

are you sure you have a hard drive? 4gb internal memory is not a hard drive, and also it must be an original hard drive, one made from a blue scorpion will never work!

 

Funny, mine do both work. One is made from a Scorpio Black, the other one from a Scorpio Blue, both with the Security Sectors from 320 GB Xbox 360 harddrives, both with partition 2 injected. Just played the first Mercenaries on my Slim.

 

i've never had a lot of luck with those, i've had maybe 2 over the years that will, i guess its just getting lucky!

 

I don't think so, it's just that most people forget to inject the partition 2, then the emulator for old games won't work.

 

There are 3 games that MS WONT let you play on the 360.

1) Splinter cell
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/9755/hpim3201.jpg

2) MechAssault
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V1K_GB1bg...x8/o9_V5PwK6co/s1600/MechAssault_Coverart.png

3)007
http://www.biline.ca/X-Box/007work.jpg

Each one of these games had exploits that allowed you to soft mod the original Xbox and and install custom dashboards, run burned games, homebrew apps. MS Didn't/doesnt want to make the same mistake with the 360, so they disabled certain games to prevent easy hacking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmod#Softmods_for_Microsoft_Xbox