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X-Box Emulated (Not)
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.
Not really supprising that it got emulated. All it takes is time --theKiyote
Working
StarWars Starfighter
UFC: Tapout
NHL 2002
Partially Working
Halo
The Simpsons Road Rage
Arctic Thunder
Kabuki Warriors
F1 2001
Not Working
NASCAR Heat
Hardware Requiremens
At least 1GHz Athlon/Duron/P3/P4
Nvidia Geforce Video/ATI Radeon only
256MB RAM
DVD ROM Drive
Known Bugs
Video flickering in some Games
Sporadic crashes.
Slow Performance on P3 Systems
General Problems with Intel CPUs
Not compatible to Kyro graphics
No Joystik support yet
OpenGL support only for nvidia gForce 2/3
No Gamepad Support yet
Hogsback
If people just buy X-Box games to play with this emulator (without buying an X-Box), then won't Micro$oft get more money? Remember, they lose quite a bit on the hardware, and try to recoup their losses with the software.
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Welcome to the XBox Emulator by Linar
Here you can download the latest beta of our XBox Emulator. Most of the Games will work, but there is still much work to do.
News
11.01.2002
Version 0.35 is out. Some minor bugs are fixed
9.01.2002
We now have some sponsors, and we search for new members to join us.
7.01.2002
We had some Hardware Problems, so the release of the patch will be later, but check out the current version it should work well.
There will be an update to version 0.35 soon. It fixes the "Insert DVD" Error Message.
Screenshots
Here are some Screenshots, more will be added soon:
What, you expected pictures in a
Download
Download the file here: XBox Emulator Beta 0.34 (3MB)
Game Compatibility List
Working
StarWars Starfighter
UFC: Tapout
NHL 2002
Partially Working
Halo
The Simpsons Road Rage
Arctic Thunder
Kabuki Warriors
F1 2001
Not Working
NASCAR Heat
Hardware Requiremens
At least 1GHz Athlon/Duron/P3/P4
Nvidia Geforce Video/ATI Radeon only
256MB RAM
DVD ROM Drive
Known Bugs
Video flickering in some Games
Sporadic crashes.
Slow Performance on P3 Systems
General Problems with Intel CPUs
Not compatible to Kyro graphics
No Joystik support yet
OpenGL support only for nvidia gForce 2/3
No Gamepad Support yet
Contact
When you find any Bugs, or when you have questions about the Emulator, feel free to contact us: linarstudios@gmx.net
It is a hoax, look at the pics, its the official screens from the games, wit a photoshopped title bar and menu ... :P
Welcome to the XBox Emulator by Linar
Here you can download the latest beta of our XBox Emulator. Most of the Games will work, but there is still much work to do.
News
11.01.2002
Version 0.35 is out. Some minor bugs are fixed
9.01.2002
We now have some sponsors, and we search for new members to join us.
7.01.2002
We had some Hardware Problems, so the release of the patch will be later, but check out the current version it should work well.
There will be an update to version 0.35 soon. It fixes the "Insert DVD" Error Message.
Screenshots
Here are some Screenshots, more will be added soon:
----snip couple of photoshop gifs----
Game Compatibility List
Working Partially Working Not Working
StarWars Starfighter
UFC: Tapout
NHL 2002 Halo
The Simpsons Road Rage
Arctic Thunder
Kabuki Warriors
F1 2001 NASCAR Heat
Hardware Requiremens
At least 1GHz Athlon/Duron/P3/P4
Nvidia Geforce Video/ATI Radeon only
256MB RAM
DVD ROM Drive
Known Bugs
Video flickering in some Games
Sporadic crashes.
Slow Performance on P3 Systems
General Problems with Intel CPUs
Not compatible to Kyro graphics
No Joystik support yet
OpenGL support only for nvidia gForce 2/3
No Gamepad Support yet
Contact
When you find any Bugs, or when you have questions about the Emulator, feel free to contact us: linarstudios@gmx.net
What I don't fathom is why people release these game consoles where they lose money on the hardware to make up for it on the licensing. I mean heck, just release some VM for a broad base of PC hardware and charge people license fees to publish for it. Then sell
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You have all been trolled by Slashdot.
I just downloaded it and tried to run Halo, no luck. I meet the published reqs: P3 1Ghz, GF3, SbLive, WinXP, 512MB ram, DVD player, so there's no reason for the software not to work. The program didn't even attempt to access my DVD drive.
Running strings on some of the files revealed a bunch of QuakeIII/Team Arena/Wolfenstein strings, and on another of the files a whole bunch of Microsoft Messenger/Trillian stuff.
This made it appear as though the software was a hoax of some type, and some of the files were just filler.
I tried logging connections at my Linksys while running the software but didn't see anything going on. At all.
I'd suggest to every interested party that they download the software - just in case it is proven to work later and Microsoft goes ballistic and forces people to take it down - but don't run it until someone posts a proper disassembly of the program. Please also keep in mind where this is coming from - some random site in Russia. Not to say anything bad about our frozen neighbors, but there's been a lot of scams from that area.
Caveat Emptor.
JackAsh
Appears. The problem is that is DOES none of those things. The dlls and vxd are bogus files, copied from other software and renamed. The rest is just a simple VB application that shows menus and fails to initialize the video, so you can't run anything.