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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.
Too bad there are no good games for the X-Box
I am going to hope that you are kidding.
Me paying $300+ for an XBox + games when I already have a PS2 w/a shitload more games (and better ones IMHO) and when I already have a computer (that has a freaking network connection already) and when I have already sunk 1000's into it.
Let's see. XBox or emulator. You take your pick.
As far as it not supporting the joysticks. Thank god. Let's hope it never does. I would much rather use the keyboard or some other controller (eventually) anyway. If you have read my posts before you will already know my hatred of that gawdy, god awful, torture device.
I am just surprised that the emulator came along this early. I remember that PS2 emus took forever to come out (not like 2 months like this one).
Go emus!
I'd take with a BIG pinch of salt. Why? Well, lets see: the DVDs are encrypted, and the decoding is done in hardware (as far as I know). The GeForce 3 doesn't have the same hardware capabilities as the Xbox GPU, and grinds to a halt in a 1.7GHz system when trying to do similar effects to the ones I run fairly easily on an Xbox. And those two are just off the top of my head. I think this is fake. Even if its not, it'll run like a dog when the graphics card can't do the T&L and shaders in hardware...
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