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Xbox organise saves player's 360-era avatar after chance Chitter encounter

(Image recognition: Gabriel Roland)

An extraordinarily thoughtful Xbox engineer has chronicled her arduous journey saving a thespian's 360-era avatar from dying a largo death on modern consoles.

Gabriel Roland's loved one Pac-Adult male ghost avatar, which he bought for a dollar game in 2006, hadn't aged well on newer platforms, shrunk down to a tiny, sad hearty at the center of a big gray rophy.

"With each passing generation, Xbox tries to shame my Pac-Gentleman's gentleman spectre embodiment by shrinking it ever smaller and littler," Gabriel shared to Twitter. "I will not yield. I bought this gamerpic for 80 Xbox Points in 2006, and I'll be fucked if it won't remain the best dollar I've always spent until the seas boil over."

Listen, I tail end't promise anything, but I'm going to do it my personalized mission to fix this https://t.co/o1zYjBBHSdAugust 25, 2021

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In time, Xbox engineering lead Eden Marie came across Gabriel's desperate plea and took it upon herself to fix the situation at whol costs. "Listen, I posterior't prognosticate anything, but I'm going to make information technology my individualized mission to bushel this," Eden pledged.

Fortunately, the Know team at Xbox, of which Eden is a portion, affords employees half a day each week in "Exploration Time" to take on random projects, so Eden decided to purpose her prison term to reunite Gabriel with his old Xbox 360 avatar. "I love that we have a go at it, and this week I absolutely chose to role it to rescue ghosts," says Eden.

Eden's first gradation was to drag her Xbox 360 and buy Gabriel's ghost incarnation, which was still ghosting around now 15 years later. Owning the avatar herself allowed Garden of Eden to try out with various methods of restoring IT to its former glory, and following some trial and error, she succeeded.

It's a great deal of sport, and sometimes, you even learn something new, like... apparently 360 gamerpics supported transparency all along?SURPRISEAnyway, what do you think, @noukon? Feel better about that dollar? pic.twitter.com/zxQx7SmHJwAugust 27, 2021

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Obviously, the issue woolly-stemmed from an unidentified "someone" deciding that altogether Xbox 360-era profile pictures would be constrained inside a 72x72-picture element box with the rest of the background being a blown-up rope of gray to fit the newly consoles' data format. "Also, most 360 gamerpics were intentional to be shown as a square and don't deal healthy with getting clipped to a circle, like Mr. Ghosty here," Eden adds.

Greatly easy, the solution involved uploading a PNG with foil as a custom gamer pic and layering Gabriel's ghostwriter incarnation over it, which resulted in the attractively renewed avatar you can see in the above tweet. In a response, Gabriel admitted that helium has "ne'er and will never feel better well-nig a dollar in my entire lifespan."

While we'rhenium reminiscing, let's rewind a second further and break down the best original Xbox games of all clock.

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