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Or, an alternative solution, why don't we just concentrate on xbox mame? I own all three modenrn consoles, and my entertainment cabnet is pretty full as it is :)

Too bad we can't say the same for xBox. I would really love it if I could also use my xBox as a MAME console.

Why can't you? Although Microsoft made this guy take down the binaries, they can still be found.

Anyway, M.A.M.E. is in the progress of being ported.

You haven't been to http://www.otakunozoku.com then, have you? Every dev console he gets he ports MAME to. I highly doubt Linux on the PS2 would fare much better than native code, though.

Slashdot has sunk to a new low. We all knew it had absolutely no journalistic integrity, but come on, you could at least use your brains before accepting this sort of submission. And the previous screw-up, 100:1 lossless compression. Yeah, right. Why the hell are people so gullible these days?

At the moment, no computer on this planet has enough juice to emulate the Xbox (No, not even the supercomputers which have 9,600 CPUs - because multiple CPUs don't make it any faster to emulate a single CPU), not to mention that nobody has been able to dump the contents of the HDs, the DVDs nor has anybody been able to crack the encryption of the Xbox BIOS. Additionally, the unified memory architecture makes it impossible to emulate the Xbox on a PC like a virtual machine. An interpretive or dynamic recompiling CPU core with everything else re-implemented is the only way, and that simply won't happen during the next decade because of the sheer complexity of such a project and because of getting sued to hell by Microsoft.

They've just renamed a bunch of common files to make it look neat. But no matter how much you want it to be true, it is just a poor fake.

In a related matter, no much how you want the Xbox MAME, you will never get it. The developer cannot release his port, because software developed on the Xbox dev kit can't be released to public domain. Just stick with the good old PC versions, which are also available for *nix / Linux. :)

Someone already made an XBOX MAME emulator that supposedly runs at 60fps. However he cant release it because of legal restrictions and it only works on the developer xboxes now. His website is http://www.otakunozoku.com/xbox/

Already done

This looked really cool, Now you can play all those old crapy games on your xbox. Sweet now I can thow away all my other consoles.

MAME on an XBOX.. super cool! http://www.otakunozoku.com/xbox/index.html

Link to the developer's site with news/pics back in June of MAME running on X-Box.

It'll be really interesting to see how far XDK priveledged people can get with this before the X-Box is released even. :)

And yeah, just to add my opinion along with everybody elses posts on here.... MAME KICKS ASS!

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