[GameSpot] - Bethesda's Todd Howard Shares Ridiculous Trick That Allowed Morrowind To Work On Xbox

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Earlier this week Microsoft announced the purchase of Bethesda, bringing all the publishers' studios under the Xbox Game Studios brand. This isn't the first time Bethesda and Microsoft have had a tight working relationship, however, with a history spanning back to the original Xbox.

During a recent podcast with Microsoft's Phil Spencer and Larry Nelson, as well as Bethesda's Pete Hines and Todd Howard, the group recalled some of the history between Xbox and Bethesda's titles. Howard, longtime designer on series such as The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, mentioned how The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was a marvel to get running on the original Xbox. Turns out it featured some ridiculous tricks to do so too.

"If you're running low on memory, you can reboot the original Xbox and the user can't even tell," Howard explained. "You can throw a screen up though. When Morrowind loads sometimes you get a very long load, that's us rebooting the Xbox."

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