The achievement sweeper
- by Ben Kerry
Microsoft Rewards throws up its fair share of weird objectives and strange bugs on Xbox. This one might take the cake though, as Microsoft's recent 'Animal Antics' punch card is asking us to earn an achievement in... Blinx: The Time Sweeper.
That's right, the official MS Rewards app is tasking us with earning an achievement in a game that doesn't support them. No original Xbox games support achievements, so this is a weird objective indeed.
Thankfully, the punch card features nine other games that do support achievements, so at least it's not completely broken like the recent Forza Horizon 5 punch card. Still, why such an objective exists in the first place beats us!
Although, if Microsoft wants to consider adding achievements to Original Xbox games, we certainly wouldn't complain at that. Unlikely, we know, but achievements added to Blinx: The Time Sweeper among others would be fantastic!
Would you like to see achievements in OG Xbox games? Let us know in the comments.
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About Ben Kerry
Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin' in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he's not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that's far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.
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Definitely would love achievements on original xbox games I'd happily replay through many of them
Maybe there's a hidden achievement? Either way anything that gets people to give more love to poor old Blinx is good. Even it involves a few white lies.
Glad someone else noticed this too. It would be nice to have achievements on OG Xbox games.
Sony already has a patent on just this kind of thing. They were able to add trophies to their “PS2 on PS4” games by comparing memory addresses to pre determined values. This is why those trophies are all pretty basic. Now, given that the OG Xbox games are completely emulated, there is nothing to stop them from going back in and hard coding achievements. However there will probably be nobody that will deem that amount of effort to make that happen to be worth it.
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