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Microsoft already has a pretty sophisticated Xbox emulator, deployed to both Xbox360 and XboxOne.
by thiagocesar 6y ago
Microsoft already has a pretty sophisticated Xbox emulator, deployed to both Xbox360 and XboxOne.
- als0 6y agoIt's a shame that they whitelisted such a small selection of titles (on 360).
- caseyjones29142 6y agoI think that's more of a licensing things really. Some of those old games had really wierd diels especially for music rights.
- CivBase 6y agoI never understood why music publishers care so much about licensing for old games. Are they worried people are going to put on GTA3 to avoid buying a couple songs? It makes more sense to me that playing old games would encourage those song sales.
- als0 6y agoBefore your comment I thought the more likely reason that Microsoft qualifies games is to reduce the amount of development and support effort needed for their emulator. Even Halo 1 struggled to get some good framerates, IIRC.
- thiagocesar 6y agoThat’s the reason why some games keep going in and out of Steam. Especially console ports such as Alan Wake.
- Lammy 6y agoAt least it’s easy to patch out if you have a homebrew-enabled 360.
- deelowe 6y agoIs it actually an emulator or something more akin to WINE?
- thiagocesar 6y agoConsidering Xbox360 used a PowerPC CPU, some emulation had to be done. Not sure about the Xbox One - it might be just a different aspect on the hypervisor.