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X-Box Emulated (Not)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the surprised-it-took-this-long dept.

evilpaul13 submitted linkage to news about an X-Box Emulator. It requires a pretty high end video card and a DVD player, and doesn't yet support joysticks, but it does emulate 3 of the X-Box games (which is what, half the games available for the system yet? :) Todays PS2 Addiction: Tony Hawk 3. But I still am tempted to get an MSX-Box if only to handle my DOA addiction. UPDATE by HeUnique:Is this emulator a fake? according to these messages in the XBox Hacker web site - this is a fake one. Could someone actually try it? Update: 01/13 by J : The consensus in our comments is that this is a hoax, and the paranoid would do well to treat it as a trojan or virus. Sorry.

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  1. Hmmm... by Outlyer · · Score: 5, Interesting


    If Microsoft is smart, they'll ignore this. Why? Well, they're losing around $150 USD per console, and they make the money from the games. If you buy your own high end PC, pay full sticker, and then buy their games, you're saving them money, and they're still getting their cut from the development fees for the game.


    Best of all, since no method for copying DVD games exists (well, not for under $5,000) it's not like piracy will be the issue.


    By the way, for those of you who think Apple Superdrive or the HP DVD+RW machine will help, think again; they don't have a capacity to store most of the XBox games; as they only support 4.7gb DVDs, and the majority of XBox games are dual-layered (i.e. 8gb+)

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  2. It's Fake by bparrish · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The included xbox.vxd in the program is just a renamed Quake file

    The xboxkrnl32.dll is a file from the Trilliam messenger program.

    I'd run a virus scanner if you ran this fake emulator.