To Developers: If you worked on original Xbox games, and still have *legal* access to the code, please consider sending us any .xlast or .xms files; these are metadata-only files that contain matchmaking information and can help us get your games back online faster. [1/2]
Halo 2 will launch on Insignia in Public Beta on March 15th at 20:00 GMT (16:00 EST, 13:00 PST) with the following 10 multiplayer playlists. Please ensure your console is setup, and you've signed up for your Gamertag. See you soon! :D
Our work on Halo 2 is well underway! Our testers are currently helping test the Rumble Pit playlist before we continue on to the next set of playlists. We hope it won't be too much longer!
Our progress on Halo 2 continues! We are now able to make the playlists necessary for public matches, along with the user type (spot the logo by the name!). We will now be working on the other playlists, and the Teams service which is the last expected blocker.
Just a small thing we're working on right now - we are now able to show the correct Message of The Day on the Xbox live main menu. We're still some ways off supporting Halo 2, but we are working hard behind the scenes!
Our work on Halo 2 continues! The initial work on the Teams service, necessary for Clans, is now complete. We are still missing Teams support for other connected services - but this is a major milestone on our list now complete. We hope you're just as excited as we are!
Our setup assistant is ready, and you don't need to have been accepted into the beta to use it!
All of you can now run setup assistant to get the long-missed 'green circle'.
See for both download and instructions.
One of our developers is already working on EA support for Insignia. It's still very early days and none of these EA games are playable yet, but we have at least been able to get Burnout 3 to log in!
We've seen some bragging that someone managed to get cheating tools to work. This is disappointing.
If it becomes a problem we WILL force the use of an anti-cheat solution, sadly this would require a modded system
We don't want it to come to that, please don't spoil the fun.
We've been working on Insignia for almost 4 years now, lots of stress, lots of late, sleepless nights.
A lot of time and effort went into this, but we're excited to finally see people playing.
Watching the excitement today has made it all worth it, thank you guys <3
The administrative side of Insignia has been updated tonight; we can now show a user that they have been suspended, that they need to change their Gamertag, or that they have to accept the new TOS before going online.
We've identified and fixed some issues with Insignia regarding sign-up and gameplay in Phantasy Star Online. We also now have a slightly new MOTD, which can be changed a lot faster; we thank you very much for playing and hope these issues make it easier to get online!
The following games are now available to play on Insignia:
- Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (AV-081)
- Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO (CC-008)
- Dancing Stage Unleashed (KN-029)
- Trivial Pursuit: Unhinged (IG-061)
- Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland (AV-073)
Have fun!
Insignia can now confirm our closed beta will start on Tuesday, 15 November 2022. Our website is now ready to accept registrations, and invites will be randomly sent out to users. =>
Happy 20th Birthday to Xbox Live
Celebrating this with you all by bringing back the original experience is a dream come true.
Thank you for joining us.
We're adding two more titles to new game Monday (21st Nov 2022)
The list of titles being added on Monday is now:
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Star Wars: Battlefront
- Star Wars: Battlefront 2
- Unreal II: The Awakening
Our next New Game Monday (2023-02-06) will feature the following games:
- Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (AV-081)
- Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO (CC-008)
- Dancing Stage Unleashed (KN-0290)
- Trivial Pursuit: Unhinged (IG-061)
- Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland (AV-073)
See you online soon!
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (US-056), and its Versus Mode (US-065), is now available on Insignia along with the free downloadable maps and title update. Happy playing!
Surprise! We managed to finish support early, so no need to wait until Monday.
Effective immediately, Star Wars Battlefront II and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon are available on Insignia!
When we say we wish to restore all Xbox live capable games, we mean it, the good and the bad.
Keeping that in mind, effective immediately Muzzle Flash is now available to play on Insignia.
The following games are now available on Insignia:
- Far Cry: Instincts (US-008)
- Far Cry: Instincts Evolution (US-096)
- Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (MW-052)
Far Cry is our first title using the Arbitration, with arbitrated rankings available. Thanks for playing on Insignia!
The following games will be available to play on 03/03:
- Rainbow Six 3 (US-019)
- Room Zoom: Race for Impact (JA-006)
- Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow (US-025)
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance (AV-092)
- Thousand Land (FS-003)
- Prince of Persia Warrior Within (US-059) (Leaderboards)
Xbox Video Chat [MS-124] is now available on Insignia
With this, you can make video calls with up to 4 participants on your Xbox.
Don't have the camera? ConsoleMods have published a handy guide on how to use an EyeToy, and an English Translation patch!
24hrs to go until we send our first batch of 500 invites.
We will monitor the servers and if the network continues to perform well, we will send additional batches of 100-200 invites as capacity allows.
We are very excited to see you.
Good luck, and have fun!
Now many of you are dragging your old consoles out of storage, here's a PSA to get them serviced!
Most systems will have leaking capacitors at this point, slowly corroding and destroying the circuitry.
The HDDs also past their expected lifespan.
Get them checked over, please!
And as a christmas gift to all of you, we have a surprise entry:
- Doom 3 [AV-032]
- Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil [AV-078]
These titles are available to be played right now on Insignia.
Insignia is now back online, with new and exciting features. If you have any issues, please perform a connection test. Many thanks for your patience once again!
We are pleased to announce that our beta will be available later this year, exact date TBD.
We are also expanding our launch line-up to include:
Call of Duty: Finest Hour
Dance Dance Revolution: Ultramix
Thank you for all the support, we look forward to playing with you all!
The race is on, the following games are now available to all players!
- Auto Modellista [CC-014]
- Carve [TT-016]
- Corvette [TM-011]
- TOCA Race Driver 2 [CM-017]
- Midnight Club 2 [TT-008]
We've seen a lot of love from people who never got to experience Xbox Live the first time around...
Most of our team never did either; it's all new to us too!
We're having a great time discovering OG Xbox Live
We hope it's funfor both returning players and new players alike!
The following games will be available on Insignia from Monday 5th December:
- Auto Modellista [CC-014]
- Carve [TT-016]
- Corvette [TM-011]
- TOCA Race Driver 2 [CM-017]
- Midnight Club 2 [TT-008]
We are hard at work implementing the Content and Update services for Xbox Live. Please enjoy watching the Counter-Strike update and DLC download procedure as shown. These are now available on Insignia, and will be joined by other games' content soon! (1/3)
We have sent a total of 6,500 invites but less than 800 people have signed up using their invite codes.
It’s unreal to have this many accounts already, but this is only 12% conversion from invites to gamertags.
Don’t forget to check your junk mail, you might have missed it!
We've been working hard on the next big thing, Friends and Game Invites!
We wanted to share this progress with you all and screenshots of things that have not been seen for a very long time!
There's still a lot of work to do before this can launch, however.
Stay Tuned!
After the positive reception of the PGR2 drop, we have decided to stop scheduled “new game” days.
Games will be made available as soon as they’re ready, with no delay.
We hope to have a few more games ready to go before the month is over, stay tuned!
The easiest way to contact us is support
@insignia
.live - you can attach them to the email, or provide a link. Thank you for helping us preserve this amazing online experience! [2/2]
It has come to our attention that people are selling copies of the Insignia setup assistant, both as a disc (for modded systems) and a usb key for stock.
Please don’t pay for this; they are selling above cost and profiting from sales if something they didn’t create.
Setup assistant is now feature complete.
We've added the option to view your HDD key, view credits and the build date; so it's easy to tell if you're using the latest version.
If nothing unexpected comes up, setup assistant will release tomorrow.
We have identified the issue causing some users to not see DLC such as Halo 2 maps. To resolve the issue, navigate to Settings -> Parental Control on the Dashboard, and set Games to 'RP (Rating Pending)', which is the highest setting available. We apologise for the inconvenience.
Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of Insignia! We hope you've enjoyed playing with us so far. We'd like to announce statspost support today, allowing us to support games with more conditional logic for statistics. As such, the following games are now enabled on Insignia (1/3)
New Games? Sure, why not!
The following games are now available for online multiplayer via Insignia:
Pro Evolution Soccer 5 [KN-048]
Worms 4: Mayhem (NTSC) [MJ-023]
Worms 4: Mayhem (PAL) [CM-082]
We're seeing a lot of questions about what games we plan to support in future...
The answer is: ALL of them.
The goal is to have every single Xbox Live enabled game for the original Xbox fully supported.
It will take a long time to get there, but that's where we're heading!
The following games are now available on Insignia:
- Amped 2 (MS-065) [XSN support not yet present]
- Area 51 (MW-005)
- Atari Anthology (IG-121) [Leaderboards]
- Burnout 2 - Point of Impact (AC-025) [Leaderboards, not EA]
- Midway Arcade Treasures 3 (MW-045) [Leaderboards]
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition [TT-121] and its REMIX Edition are now available to play on Insignia!
Rooms created in the REMIX Edition with Version set to "REMIX" are only visible in the REMIX Edition - rooms set to "DUB Edition" will be visible across both titles, with crossplay.
The Team Hardcore playlist has been updated with MLG 2007 settings, and Head to Head (solo 1v1) matches are now available in Halo 2! We hope you enjoy the updates, with more to come!
Setup Assistant is now even easier for stock users thanks to the new ENDGAME exploit! This new exploit by
@shutterbug20002
and
@gaasedelen
obtains arbitrary code execution right from the Dashboard - no game necessary! Existing users do not need to run the assistant again. (1/2)
Our finalized day-1 launch list is as follows:
Call of Duty: Finest Hour
Conker: Live and Reloaded
Counter-Strike
Crimson Skies (and it's online demo)
Dance Dance Revolution: Ultramix
Dead or Alive Ultimate
MechAssault (and it's online demo)
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We have collected Xbox Live usage data from a total of 360 games so far
264 of these have Online Multiplayer
212 of these support Leaderboards.
21 of these support Teams/Clans
Approx 100 use a custom server of some kind.
Looks like we still have an insane amount of work ahead!
We have now updated Friends, and Gamertags with spaces in their names will now display correctly with a space, and can be correctly added with a space in their name. We apologise for the inconvenience this has previously caused.
In case you're new here, I feel that it's important to note that Insignia is still in development and not available for public access right now.
Stay tuned for updates; we hope it won't be too much longer. There's still a lot of work to do, but progress has been accellerating.
From now on we will be adding new games every month on what we're calling "New Game Monday"
Our first New Game Monday will be Nov 21st 2022, and then the first Monday of each new month thereafter.
We're not ready to announce the games we'll add, but we know you'll love them!
The first new game Monday will be Mon 21st Nov 2022
On this date, the following titles will be added to Insignia:
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Star Wars: Battlefront
- Star Wars: Battlefront 2
May the force be with you!
An update on our Content work; we now currently offer content for the following titles.
* denotes only the free DLC if the title had both free+premium, † denotes only an update
Unreal Championship (IG-036)
MechAssault* (MS-023)
Phantasy Star Online (MS-074)
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The following games will be available on Friday, May 5th.
- TOCA Race Driver (CM-014) # Only the PAL re-release has LIVE support.
- SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos (SN-001)
- Capcom Fighting Evolution (CC-016)
- Operation Flashpoint: Elite (CM-090)
- MotoGP 2 (TQ-022)
We keep being asked “What about Halo 2” “What about Burnout 3”
We plan to support every game that has Xbox live functionality on the OG Xbox, we just needed to choose a small subset to focus on for the launch.
New games will be added at regular intervals after the beta period.
Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁
RalliSport Challenge 2 (MS-057) is now available on Insignia. The XSN Competitions functionality is not yet available (requiring work to be done on the website itself), but all other in-game functionality is working.
After running the assistant on your console, you will be able to perform a successful connection test for the first time since the servers closed in 2010.
At this point you just need to wait for your invite codes to arrive and you'll be ready to play!
The big missing feature currently is the Friends system.
As this is a major part of Xbox Live, fixing it is our next priority. We do not have an ETA for this being completed, but we're working on it.
We didn't want to delay the beta launch any further on a technicality
Merry Christmas
Effective immediately, the following titles are available to be played on Insignia
- Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows (NTSC) MW-034 [4D570022]
- Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows (PAL) MW-051 [4D570033]
We have another surprise addition to our launch line-up:
Cabela's Deer Hunt: 2004 Season
Cabela's Deer Hunt: 2005 Season
Colin McRae Rally 04
Ford Racing 2
SWAT - Global Strike Team
They don't have multiplayer, but they do have Leaderboards so you can compete for high scores!
Insignia would like to announce our launch title list - these titles will be supported once we are in our public beta.
There is still no current ETA on the beta, and it is possible unexpected issues could cause this list to change (though we would not expect this to be the case).
The following titles now have DLC (*) and/or a Title Update (+) available via Insignia.
Amped 2 [MS-065]*
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood [US-090]*
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 [US-060]+
Burnout 2 - Point of Impact [AC-025]+
Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO [CC-008]+ (1/4)
The Leaderboard only titles:
- L.A. Rush [MW-037] * Aware only
- Motocross Mania 3 [TT-021]
- Hitman: Blood Money [SC-250]
- Double-STEAL The Second Clash [BU-004]
- Championship Manager 2006 [SC-256]
- Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2005 [AV-062]
and Conan [TM-008] are now enabled.
The Phantasy Star Online server is now available via Insignia. Existing users will be able to change their server at , and new users will see it in the server list.
- Counter-Strike
- Crimson Skies, and its Live-enabled demo.
- Dead or Alive Ultimate
- MechAssault, and its Live-enabled demo.
- Midtown Madness 3
- MotoGP: Online Demo
- Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II
Sega GT Online [SE-033] is now available on Insignia! Race to your heart's content and see how you fare on the leaderboard!
PAL Users: the PAL Title Update (v205) is missing. Please check your consoles to see if you have a copy - see for more details.
Following internal feedback, we are changing our New Game Mondays to Fridays to give players more weekend playtime. This means our next release of games due 06/02 will now be available on 03/02, and the next release will be 03/03. We hope you enjoy!
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII (US-087), Guilty Gear X2
#Reload
: The Midnight Carnival (SA-006) and Guilty Gear X2
#Reload
(SA-002) are all now available to play on Insignia! SA-002 and SA-006 are able to play together. Have fun playing! :D
Project Gotham Racing 2 [MS-075] is now available on Insignia, including the Ghosts-enabled scoreboards!
** We highly recommend you use the Title Update, as Ghosts are version-locked; users making ghosts on a non-TU version won't see the TU users' ghosts and vice versa. **
Three more titles that use Xbox Live for leaderboards (but not multiplayer) have been added to Insignia:
Alien Hominid
Pure Pinball
Midway Arcade Treasures
Can you reach the top? Probably, nobody has played yet!
Another 700 invites have been sent.
approx 50% of all people who registered interest have now recieved an invite.
We didn't plan on inviting so many so early, but since we've had a low conversion from invite sent to gamertags, we decided to accellerate.
We need more players!
That’s all today folks, we have sent a total of 3000 invite emails today, in addition to the random drops on discord and Twitter throughout the day.
Hopefully most of them follow through to create gamer tags.
Please check your email, make sure to check your spam.
Don't be alarmed if your favourite game didn't make the cut.
After launch, new games will be added each month while we are able to do so.
Every OG Xbox game is on our planned list, so don't worry, we'll get to your favourites eventually.
The following Live Aware titles are now available on Insignia:
- Open Season [US-097]
- Playboy: The Mansion [AH-002]
- The Punisher [TQ-024]
- The Suffering - Ties that Bind [MW-044]
Along with Sid Meier's Pirates [TT-143], which has leaderboards. Thanks for playing!
- Star Wars Jedi Academy
- Street Fighter Anniversary Collection
- Unreal Championship
- Whacked! (and it's XBL Starter Kit Demo)
- Xbox Live Arcade
- XIII
We'd like to thank everyone for your support - we hope to share more info as soon as we can <3
We have now resolved the issue which caused new replays(/ghosts) to not be updated on leaderboards. Existing ghosts have been removed but the times themselves are unaffected.
DRIV3R (IG-056) has now been enabled, thanks to this resolution. Thanks for playing on Insignia!
We do have backup plans for most scenarios, but they will make things less user-friendly and complicate setup.
They will also take time to implement and roll out, we're really hoping we don't have to.
Woke up this morning to discover the news that overnight,
@kl0wny
has managed to add support for another game: this one has been requested a lot in our Discord channel.
Insignia now supports Dead or Alive Ultimate