xbox emulation

compare a pc to a playstation and yet we have Bleem.

more a case of if anyone will risk the lawsuit... and damned microsoft will only release some sort of update that will block the thing. well maybe.

have you seen the size of xbox? that thing is stoopid. i have seen a panasonic (i think) dvd system with N-Cube inside it (some Jap only thing, in return for providing some tech) that looks like the sexiest toaster i ever saw

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bleem is a playstation emulator on the pc... my point was if they can do that they certainly can emulate xbox. no doubt theres some copyright protection theyll have to get past, but unless theres something secretly special about the cddrive no doubt theyll get around it.

personally i cant see why sony (or in this case microsoft) tries to stop the emulators, the consoles themselves dont make much profit (sometimes actually are loss leaders), its the games that do it. if people are buying the emulators that wouldnt buy the console, surely it can only be good for business - assuming of course, that the emulator only works with genuine games...

"Bring out the dead..."
"I'm not dead yet!"
"Yes you are!"

It'll only be a matter of time before an emulator becomes available for Xbox. I think that emu's represent a minor threat to the Microsoft's profits though, at least for now. Emu's are only a hack of the actual console's system, and are never as efficient as the real thing. I'm not sure if a PC even exists right now that could hope to run Xbox games as fast as the Xbox itself.

That, and Microsoft vigorously prosecutes IP infringers.

Methinks its running an incarnation of Windows CE (*smirck*).

So its really a 32 bit platform with a 128 bit graphics pipline (so is this false marketing or what?)

Charlie

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I think is a Win95/98 like OS.

You can always try getting a 4-in-1 from VIA that's XP compatable.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

the difference with emulation of the xbox and emulation of the playstation isn't even remotely similar. Not only does the xbox use pc architecture in it, the system calls are the same as those in windows (for the most part). The Xbox uses Direcx (at least im pretty sure it does) for its graphics routines. What this means is A: porting a game from the xbox to the pc won't be much of a problem at all, and B: You don't have to make your pc emulate an xbox. All you need is a wrapper application that will read the data off the dvd and mimic the OS behind the xbox so that it thinks its running on an xbox. Of course MS will try and stop emulators, but I wonder if there will be too much market for an xbox emulator considering most of the games will probably be released for the pc, as its not that hard to port it over. The only thing that will delay ports would be A: licensing arrangements with MS, and B: many games just aren't good pc games. Too hard to play, or they're inherently multiplayer games. However; most people don't really emulate those games much to begin with.

Philip

i never said it wsa going to be difficult because of hardware! i said that it'd be easy... reading the column in THG, someones taken it apart and it actually is LITERALLY a medium pc with no differences other than a few copy protection gizmos. if you want it to play just like the xbox, you ARE going to need a machine that is at least as powerful as a P3 750 and a geforce 3 (well maybe not quite for the newer games as they wont utilise its full power anyway), with a margin to allow for the emulaton/wrapper program, other windows resource hogs (whats sitting in the taskbar etc) and possibly xbox has benefit of gf3 being direct.

AMD 1ghz + GF3? i'd expect that to be no problem, just need someone to make it and post it for free on the web. and to do it again when MS try to block it somehow. the only undefeatable block to copy is if the CD Drive reads differently, or whatever, which it seems not to.

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"Yes you are!"