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[Baron]

Considering the lineage of the Xbox, i.e. its Wintel-centric PC architecture, how long will it be before the Xbox is amply emulated on a PC? One would think it would be far easier to emulate the Xbox than, say, for example the Saturn, or PS2.

This becomes an even more pertinent question if the successor to the Xbox fails to be backwards compatible with the first machine. This whole Nvidia angst fandango Microsoft is dealing with is really unfortunate. I would hate to be relegated to the Xbox 1 forever whenever Panzer Orta or Outrun 2 calls. Though I will admit that the Xbox seems to be the friendliest system out there for do-it-yourself fixes, like replacing the HD or DVD-ROM.

 

[ourumov]

Never understood why the emulation of this system is progressing so slow...GC has progressed much better...even PS2. Weird.

 

[The End]

Supposedly, a couple guys got Halo-Xbox running on a PIII/Gf3 Pc a while back, but i'd imagine MS sent them a nasty letter for breaking the Xbox access controls.

 

[Baron]

So...fear of, or the result of, cease-and-desist orders from Microsoft, is the driving force keeping Xbox emulation down? Man, I'm really crossing my fingers for backwards compatibility now. Strange how now I expect such a feature from game systems...five, ten years ago it would have been unheard of.

 

[TheDuce22]

I remember people saying it would be emulated within a couple months.

 

[Littleberu]

I remember people saying it would be emulated within a couple months.

It... was.

 

[sol5377]

Never understood why the emulation of this system is progressing so slow...GC has progressed much better...even PS2. Weird.

because most Xbox games are available on the PC anyway hardy har har
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I think partially, the Xbox would take even more PC power to emulate anywhere close to stability than the PS2 would.

 

[LakeEarth]

Doesn't really matter, at least as of right now. It'll be at least 2-3 years before the emulators will be able to get it 99% right anyways, if we go by how the N64/PSX emulation went.

 

[Azih]

I think it's partly because buying and modding an Xbox is preferable to emulating it.

 

[Agent Icebeezy]

I keep all systems for nostalgic reason, no need for this or backwards compatibility for me

 

[Baron]

I keep my systems as well, but emulation is a way to...preserve the past in a more concrete way, so to say. Backwards compatibility in consoles now is, to me, another good way to preserve past games for future generations. Was there ever any mention of the PS3 still being able to play PS1 games? I sincerely hope this is so.

 

[Fatghost]

I keep my systems as well, but emulation is a way to...preserve the past in a more concrete way, so to say. Backwards compatibility in consoles now is, to me, another good way to preserve past games for future generations. Was there ever any mention of the PS3 still being able to play PS1 games? I sincerely hope this is so.

It would probably take more work to make PS3 play PS2 games but not PS1 games than it would to just make PS3 play everything.

 

[LakeEarth]

I think it's partly because buying and modding an Xbox is preferable to emulating it.

I guess that's true. A lot of the emulator community is focused more on the modding aspect of the xbox.