MAME Ported to (Chipped) Xbox

metallik writes: "A version of MAME for the Xbox game console has just been released. This release will only run on Xbox consoles equipped with a mod chip. MAME is the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, one of the more successful open source projects out there. It emulates over 3800 arcade machines, from Space Invaders to Mortal Kombat III, many of them perfectly. This is probably only the first of many such PC software projects to be ported to modded Xboxes. At $199 (plus modchip), the Xbox will soon be an extremely attractive set-top box (if not for the reasons Microsoft wanted it to be...)" A while ago, we posted about getting MAME to run on a developer-kit Xbox, but since mod chips are now available, this sounds like a more practical approach. Update: 06/23 18:40 GMT by T : Note: Thanks to Santeri Saarimaa for a note that the project is now hosted here instead.

Comments

Re:Does this violate the EULA?

[0xdeadbeef]

MS will offer you no support at all.

In other words, there are no consequences to chipping an X-Box?

And in other news:

[wiresquire]

A press release from Microsoft stated that game developers were flocking to XBox. Xbox now has 3802 games.

Re:Dreamcast Gets No Love, As Always.

[epukinsk]

I think that person would be ill-advised to acquire and Xbox for $200, spend however much on a modchip, in the process voiding their warrenty, in order that they play MAME, when a console that can be picked up for $50 and under can do the same thing.

XBox console: $200
Modchip: $100
MAME download: $0

Forcing Microsoft eat a $150 loss for every XBox you buy: priceless

-Erik