How To Upload Xbox 360 Saves To The Cloud

How to Transfer Xbox 360 Saves to Xbox Ane

Microsoft'southward Xbox 1 is getting backward compatibility as part of its big November. 12 update, meaning that more than 100 of your Xbox 360 games will exist playable on your shiny new system. Playing your quondam games will be as simple as popping in the disc or re-downloading them from Xbox Live. Fortunately, transferring your salve data is also pretty painless.

Since your Xbox I essentially emulates an Xbox 360 while playing older games, all you really have to practice is move your saves to the Xbox 360 cloud to employ them on your new system. Microsoft provides a generous 2GB of online storage for 360 users, which should be enough to store nearly of your game saves, but you'll need to be a member of Xbox Live Gold ($60 per twelvemonth) to take advantage of the feature.

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Whether you never quite managed to beat one of your old games or want to ensure that all of your created characters and levels survive the jump to your new console, here'southward how to copy Xbox 360 data to Xbox Ane.

1. On the Xbox 360 dashboard, curlicue all the way to Settings.

two. Select Organization.

iii. Select Storage.

4. Select difficult bulldoze.

five. Select Games and Apps.

half-dozen. Choose a game with information you'd like to copy. You tin press the Y push button to copy all of your game's data at once, or printing A to select individual files. For this tutorial, I used Mass Upshot, a game already working on Xbox I for those in the Preview Program (and i that you lot really should play if you haven't).

7. Select Re-create.

ix. Select Cloud Saved Games. Your files will now begin uploading to the cloud.

ten. Fire upwardly your Xbox 360 game on Xbox One. Your cloud saves will exist downloaded at the starting time screen.

11. You're now playing your old games on Xbox One, saved games and all! When playing your one-time games, yous can accept advantage of Xbox Ane-specific features, such equally screenshots, GameDVR and Twitch streaming. But seriously, play some Mass Upshot, will yous?

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Mike Andronico is Senior Writer at CNNUnderscored and was formerly Managing Editor at Tom'south Guide. When not at work, you can usually catch him playing Street Fighter, devouring Twitch streams and trying to convince people that Hawkeye is the best Avenger.