Panzer Dragoon Orta - patched and fully working on PAL Xbox 360 in 2018!
1,902 views · Published 17 April 2018 · 50:55 · Indexed 6 November 2026
Channel: MrThunderwing · 2018 · Gaming
So, I'm sure this has got to be an unintended benefit of the fact that Panzer Dragoon Orta has just been added to the XBone original Xbox backwards compatibility list, but if you're playing on Xbox 360 a new update for the game (in 2018!) has finally fixed the issue that would cause it to crash after the third level if you tried to play it on a PAL machine. Found out about this at the weekend from a Panzer Dragoon Facebook group I liked, so gave it a try and sure enough, when you load the game up a tiny update happens (I think it was literally about 6MB) and boom! No more crashes after the third level. If you're an NTSC 360 owner this won't mean anything to you, as the game always worked just fine for people in North America and other NTSC regions. For those of us in the UK, Europe and any other PAL region, however, we can finally play through the game properly without it crashing after the third stage. There was a workaround that let you access the later levels of the game in the PAL version on 360 by unlocking the level select option in Pandora's Box, which I've previously shown a video of here: https://youtu.be/rrCc4Fp68Xo it was a bit of a faff to get working though as it involves having to leave your console on for hours whilst a certain stage plays out ad infinitum. The original advice for this was from here: https://community.eurogamer.net/thread/140345 handy to know if you want to fully unlock everything in Pandora's box without having to do all the hardest challenges. So, anyway, here's the second, third and fourth levels of the game working properly as they should be. I'd forgotten this game can actually be pretty hard. I play through the second level and through the boss stage in one take, so-to-speak, but in the third and fourth stages I died several times on the bosses, so I've edited those attempts out. The Dragonmare Squadron boss after the statue was particularly kicking my arse and everytime you fight them you've got to redo the big statue boss first. Arrghh. Not really a criticism though, this game is still chuffin' awesome!
