X-Box Emulated (Not)

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday January 12, 2002 @05:26AM 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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Some info from the /.ed site by hogsback · 2002-01-12 05:34 · Score: 2, Redundant

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

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Re:Does this actually work? by Mr.+Marabou+Man · 2002-01-12 05:43 · Score: 3, Redundant

It is a hoax, look at the pics, its the official screens from the games, wit a photoshopped title bar and menu ... :P
Why not just write emulators? by sterno · 2002-01-12 05:46 · Score: 2, Redundant

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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Hoax by CaseyB · 2002-01-12 05:57 · Score: 2, Redundant

If people haven't noticed that the "screenshots" all replicate shots already published on the web, you can look at the files: The two DLLs are from MSN Messenger, and the VXD is a file from Wolfenstein 3D.
You have all been trolled by Slashdot.
WARNING: POSSIBLE TROJAN OR HOAX!!! by JackAsh · 2002-01-12 06:15 · Score: 3, Redundant

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
Re:Does this actually work? by CaseyB · 2002-01-12 06:48 · Score: 5, Redundant

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.