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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. Cool ROMZ !!! by Average_Joe_Sixpack · · Score: 0, Troll

    Too bad there are no good games for the X-Box

  2. heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    taco masturbates to kasumi, fag.

  3. Re:Bad for the economy by garcia · · Score: 1, Troll

    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!

  4. As an Xbox developer... by MaestroSartori · · Score: 5, Troll

    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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  5. Goats are bad for your ass! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    When they're fuckin' ya, perdida!
    Goats!
    Goats!
    Goats!

  6. Re:FAKE !! FAKE !! FAKE !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I thought so at first myself, but right now I am running "Luigi's Mansion" in a window, while responding to your rash accusations. (Yes, LM is a Gamecube game! All it took was a tweak or two! This emu ROCKS!)

  7. Re:FAKE !! FAKE !! FAKE !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    I thought so to, at first, but I am presently running "Halo" in one window and "Luigi's Mansion" in another, while responding to your rash accusations in a third.

    Yes - I know LM is a Gamecube title. (It only took a few tweaks! This emu totally ROCKS! Thank you, Commander T!)

  8. Re:FAKE !! FAKE !! FAKE !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Sorry for the double-posting, I think it's the emu's fault. Interestingly, when you run any Sonic games in the emu, Sonic wears glasses and has a bad haircut. Does anybody know if there's an Xbox-enhanced version of Monopoly?

  9. Re:ANOTHER XBOX EMULATOR (NOT FAKE!) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc ... don't worry about getting me bitchslapped my daddy find out about me webcam he will spank me for being naughty on the web I will try to get him to do it in front of the pc so all my club members will enjoy please meet me in the bitchybabe chatroom and i'll giv you all detail

  10. Hey fuckhead! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
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