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Perhaps I'm speaking out of ignorance, but that just seems... excessive. The game's on the disc, why not just play it instead of downloading the whole damn thin
by jjulius 3y ago
Perhaps I'm speaking out of ignorance, but that just seems... excessive. The game's on the disc, why not just play it instead of downloading the whole damn thing?
Can someone explain why this option is preferable to just playing what's on the disc?
Edit: Three immediate, simultaneous, and helpful responses - thank you! :)
- airstrike 3y agoyou'd have to emulate the 360 arch in software so just probably just easier to download a recompiled game than to solve all emulation challenges and edge cases
- chatmasta 3y agoI believe that Microsoft actually does emulate the 360 [0] [1]. But compiling the game allows them to deal with some subtleties and also provide upscaled assets where possible. [0] https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Fission https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Fission [1] https://www.ign.com/articles/2017/10/23/the-untold-story-of-xbox-one-backwards-compatibility https://www.ign.com/articles/2017/10/23/the-untold-story-of-...
- ihuman 3y agoThe version it downloads isn't the version on the disk. The disc version is compiled for the Xbox 360, not the One/Series.
- leni536 3y agoI guess it could still use the assets on the disk, in theory.
- mikerg87 3y agoXbox games are all VM images so im not it’s even sure it’s recompiled as much as emulated. All they are probably doing is ensuring compatibility . Dave Cutler said XBox is a variant of hyper-v.
- hypercube33 3y agoYep and each game comes with a weird windows os it runs the game with. XB360 was the power PC one so it has to do something to emulate it -- since hyperv doesn't emulate it may swap the OS or something
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