Backyard Baseball ’97 Isn’t On Xbox Because It’s “Not Working Properly”

Developer Playground Productions has hit a snag when releasing Backyard Baseball ’97 to Xbox, leading to the console being left on the bench. They are working on it, though.

While the game is out on PS5 after a Trophy list appeared, the Xbox version is giving them trouble by “not working properly,” according to them on Twitter. The team has to reverse engineer and rom hack to get the game working in the first place, as they don’t have the original source code.

We are trying our best to get Backyard Baseball on Xbox. We don’t have the original source code for this title. We’re brining this game back through reverse engineering and CD rom hacking. At the moment, it’s not working properly on Xbox. We’re trying our best to make it…

— Backyard Sports (@_BackyardSports) June 20, 2025

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