X Box emmulation?

irishman_abroad

Is it possible to play X-Box games on a PC?

watty

Why would you want to?

X Box is heavily subsidied and the Xbox games correspondingly overpriced.

Thus there is much more interest in "modding" an X Box to be a PC and run PC games or Run Linux etc.

It is not hard to make an X-Box think it is a regular PC. Despite MS policy on this, done correctly to your own X-Box it only invalidates the Manufacturer's warrenty.

It is probabily not impossible to go the other way, but it would involve illegal use of X-Box Bios/OS (a varient of NT/Win2K/XP family, which also Windows CE is) copied only available from an X Box.

Of course lately PC games, PS2 games, GBA games, Gamecube games have also reached crazy prices, such that if the prices rise more the game players will spontanously boycott all new purchases and price bubble will burst.

I note that this may be starting to happen on CD-Audio, though the prices have fallen they are still grossly overpriced.

Ronan|Raven

ATM there is NO X-BOX emu capable of running commercial games at anything near full speed. Things are progressing, some wireframe views of Turok but nothing to the elvel of whjat I imagine you are after.

http://www.ngemu.com/xbox/ has some news on various projects which may be of interest to you.

watty

So a 2GHz 1500 Euro PC can emulate a 99 Euro (Broadband special offer) 733MHz (?) Badly.

mehinks some people have too much spare time. Still a harmless programming thing. Better than out scripting a few new Worms etc.

irishman_abroad

Thanx guys

axel90

Theres supposed to be an emulator that can emulate the ntsc version of halo for xbox. Possibly Bulls*** although a few people told me about it!

DiscoStu

its called zeon. the author has since disappeared and no updates have been made.
it was very slow and was riddled with graphical bugs and was not even nearly playable.

l3rian

ATM there is NO X-BOX emu capable of running commercial games at anything near full speed. Things are progressing, some wireframe views of Turok but nothing to the elvel of whjat I imagine you are after.

http://www.ngemu.com/xbox/ has some news on various projects which may be of interest to you.

Click that link again people, we have progress + lots of it

l3rian

i just tryed to click it and it didnt work, so heres the link to the truok movie:

http://www.ngemu.com/xbox/cxbx/Turok.zip

Ronan|Raven

Blimey, wasnt expecting to see that happen for a while. Well done to the cxbx team.

l3rian

yea it looks so smooth and stable too

LoGiE

Time for me to upgrade my gfx card

Rambo

download the program from here

http://www.caustik.com/cxbx/

watty

But I can buy TWO X-Boxes for what an "upgrade" of my PC to run that Emulator would cost!

If you are getting Broadband from Eircom anyway, the 99 Euro X-Box offer is good. Otherwise it is stunningly bad value.


Maybe in a year to two years if I get a new PC then, both it and the Xbox emulator might be good enough