The Xbox 360 will likely be dead or on its last legs by the time games are actually playable in this emulator (if it even gets to that point). I don't think it's an issue in practice here. The Wii was something of a unique case due to it being underpowered hardware wise and largely identical to the GameCube for which emulation had been underway for a few years by then.
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Xenia Is A Working Xbox 360 Emulator,Showcased Running Commercial Game For First Time
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The Xbox 360 will likely be dead or on its last legs by the time games are actually playable in this emulator (if it even gets to that point). I don't think it's an issue in practice here. The Wii was something of a unique case due to it being underpowered hardware wise and largely identical to the GameCube for which emulation had been underway for a few years by then.
Valkerionseven
Member
Color me surprised, heck were still struggling with Saturn emulation lol.
There are also PSP games with fixes and Dolphin games that were once fluctuating between 30 and 60 that will lock 60 if you overclock the emulated cpu
Yep, run Smash at 2x speed and use the slow mode special brawl. it looks butter at 120fps on a 120hz monitor!
A-Train HX can now get in-game. This is somewhat notable as it's one of the first 3D games that can do so at this point.
Fahrenheit
Banned
That's actually really smooth.
RPGCrazied
Member
The day it plays Tales of Vesperia, Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, I'm upgrading my computer.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
No Hard Corps Uprising makes it useless. ;P Good to see some progress on this!
Mass_Pincup
Banned
TC McQueen
Member
Too bad it currently requires Haswell or better CPUs. With the way things are going in the PC space, I'm not going to upgrade my mobo & CPU for a long time.
I appreciate the sentiment, but that is reaaaally not the point of an emulator. If you want to play the game (whatever 360 game ) perfectly and in this decade, the console is still the best choice.
Emulators are for preservation. In 20 years, finding a working console is going to be hard, 20 years after that it might be nearly impossible if you are not a die hard collector. Emulation opens these games up for posterity.
The OG Xbox emulator on Xbox 360 worked really well. Ninja Gaiden Black being a major highlight.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Maybe we'll get Xbox emulation through that! Emulating emulators doesn't sound too great for accuracy though.
There's a good chance it will require better than a Haswell CPU if/when Xenia gets to a point of decent compatibility. You aren't going to get any meaningful system requirements at this stage.
There is no one "point" of emulation. Claiming that preservation is the only true purpose of emulation is ridiculous. There are numerous reasons why people use it.
Ivan Amiibo
Banned
you mean one of the only highlights? The list of compatible games is very incomplete and a lot of the games have issues.
Diablohead
Member
Looks and sounds just like sonic 4, real good work.
Wow thats a really big update!
TC McQueen
Member
Xbone would probably catch on fire trying to emulate 360 games.
Ivan Amiibo
Banned
Barkley's Justice
Member
Cool, thanks for letting us know. Keep us updated.
Why did they use the GBA Sonic the Hedgehog music, though?
Dictator93
Member
Corpsepyre
Banned
Can't wait to play Gears 2 and 3 on my PC.
It'll happen, right?
It'll happen, right?
Zomba13
Member
That looks like a Sonic creepypasta.
Cool to see it actually run a game in a playable state. Hope too see it improve, maybe some day, in the distant future, it'll be as good as something like PCSX2 or Dolphin.
Yeah, definitely won't be happening. Everything is playable offline one way or another though.
You might see some emulated servers emulating the Xbox Live servers so you might be able to play online. That'll probably be years down the line
Color me excited though, really want to play Lost Odyssey, RDR, and some other 360 games in 1080p, it'll be interesting to see how these games will eventually scale to 4k and such
Color me excited though, really want to play Lost Odyssey, RDR, and some other 360 games in 1080p, it'll be interesting to see how these games will eventually scale to 4k and such
Looking at the channel, a bunch of smaller games work like Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's, Super Meat Boy, and Castle Crashers work with little to no problems. Of course other games have a bunch of problems and crashes but it's crazy it has even come this far.
Excited to see how this shapes up once DX12 releases.
Excited to see how this shapes up once DX12 releases.
Braid and Puzzle Bobble Live! are now playable.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Wow, Braid looks great.
You'd need to RE the entire thing - its literally a blackbox in terms of what's known about it under the hood.
Some Havok-powered games like Sonic '06 are booting now. I tried Sonic Unleashed but it won't go past the title screen due to a system prompt disabling the controls. (It previously didn't boot tho!)
Dragon Ball Raging Blast is somewhat playable now as well. Last week it rendered pure black.
iN1njaCPFC
Member
So.. will it ever be POSSIBLE to emulate the OG Xbox? So many of my favourite games, just aching to be played in 1080p 60fps (and better)
Voodoo Vince, Legacy of Kain, Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex, etc...
Voodoo Vince, Legacy of Kain, Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex, etc...
Maybe they can emulate the X360 so precisely one day, that you can run the 360's Xbox Emulator on top of it. But that would probably never run in a stable fashion.