MMF2, DVD games, and the XBOX 360?

[Maximum]

I got ahold of the old arcade classic "Time Traveler" on DVD once and discovered that it actually works on the XBOX 360. All the commands work and everything even though the game was obviously never coded to work on the XBOX 360. And, as far as I know many DVD family games work on the 360 even though they weren't coded for it.

MMF2 Dev makes it possible for us to put games on DVD, correct? So wouldn't it be possible somehow for us to take advantage of this? I mean, I realize the operations couldn't be elaborate like a lot of the standard generously budgeted games. But take the game prototype I'm working on for example, where most of the operations are just pressing one button... seems like this wouldn't be impossible to do.

Might an extension help? Or is this already inherently possible to pull off?

[variant]

It's probably possible, but I think you need a license from Microsoft to distribute them. Have you ever used Microsoft XNA?

-Variant

[DavidN]

When you play a video DVD on the Xbox 360 it's not playing as a 360 game - it's playing using the machine's DVD playback capabilities, so it's not relying on any special coding for the machine. It acts as a normal DVD player, like the software players that you get with a PC DVD drive.

I don't know a whole lot about the DVD format, but I don't think you can directly cobble an EXE into it.

[Maximum]

Right, but how is it that I was able to fully play Time Traveler using both the directional pad to move, and the buttons to shoot?

I've never played a game like that on a standard DVD player, so I don't know if it would work the same using a DVD remote control, but the fact that it worked using the 360 controller is what piqued my interest.

[DavidN]

I'm not sure as I haven't ever seen the DVD version of it (or played a DVD on a 360) - what DVD functions do the buttons usually perform?

I remember I was surprised by some video board games on DVD, because I didn't know that video DVDs had quite so much... state to them - I had thought that they were just simple menus and toggles, but there seems to be quite a lot you can do with them.