Play PSX Games On Your Xbox

falzbro writes "Now Xbox owners (well, modded Xbox owners) can do what the Playstation people have been able to do for years; play PSX games on your console! PCSX has been ported to the Xbox. It's unfortunate that the homebrew Xbox development scene is stuck in a world of pseudo-legality, due to the lack of a usable Legal XDK. A compatibility list is currently being hammered out, and it's limited to only playing games stored on your Xbox HDD."

Comments

Emulation of emulation

[compwizrd]

So does this mean i can play NES games on the emulator for the PSX, under XBox?

Or does that rely on hardware tricks with the PSX hardware?

Thanks for the Warez update

[stratjakt]

PCSX is highly incompatible on a P4 2.53 with a Radeon 9500. I highly doubt any sort of extreme performance on the xbox.

Just get a PS2 - oh and mod it, because we all know this isnt about playing the games, but playing them for free.

From a technical view, emulation is really neat. Too bad the authors cant get credit for what they accomplish, as they're drowned out by some asshat who ports the source using a stolen dev kit for the sole purpose of pirating games.

XBox Modchips

[mcbridematt]

It looks like M$ will never let us mod our XBoxes without being banned from XBL. What a shame.

Well. It looks like we will still need to depend on Buffer overflows then. I wish we just used the buffer overflows to install and boot a Linux system, not use it like Knoppix.

Then again, I can't wait for *BSD on Xbox!

Microsoft shouldn't block this...

[JayBlalock]

Just talking strategy, what's one of the biggest reasons the PS2 is kicking them around in the marketplace? The huge back-library of PS1 titles that can be had for $10. Suddenly, with NO work on Microsoft's part whatsoever, all those PS1 games are playable on X-Box - removing one more reason for people to shell out for a PS2. Of course, they'll probably just sue everyone anyway.

Higher resolution like Bleem!cast?

[klui]

Site is slashdotted, but I'm curious if this emulator will play PSX games at a higher resolution like Bleem! for Dreamcast.

Uh WHY?

[kewsh]

why when you can play NES games on the NES emulator for xbox? theres an emulator for everything on xbox now except for N64 (which there is currently a contest running for however writes it first) and PS2.

Sony Missing the boat with CVGS

[adzoox]

I really think Sony missed a golden opportunity with Connectix Virtual Game Station. (I think Apple missed the boat too.) As Apple seems to be trying to get "Mac Onlyness" to the computer user, I think this would have been a perfect "switch reason". (A built in Playstation emulator) This program opened up a vast game title to the Mac and did so legally. The fact that it was Mac Only was the driving force behind my purchasing another Apple laptop instead of a desktop as my main machine.

Virtual Gamestation was flawless with the emulation it provided. It was in most ways superior to the Playstation before the PS2 came out. Before most games started being Playstation II only, I already had a transportable DVD Mp3 playing, Playstation game playing unit in my PowerBook G3 500, upgraded to 900Mhz now with 768megs of RAM and a 32x CDRW/DVD combo drive.

I was really hoping at the time Connectix faced legal concerns with Sony, that Apple would step in and co liscense it and just add the emulation to the Mac OS. After reading the article about Virtual PC , many wished Apple would have done the same thing with it or a program called Boch's.

I was hoping that Sony would make PCI cards or even PCMCIA cards that would would compliment software emulation.

All said, I'm very content playing Intelligent Qube and Puzzle Fighter on my PowerBook on Airplane trips with the Gravis Gamepad that was just a "PSX controller with a USB connection."

Re:Who cares?

[acidrain69]

Because that's $50 extra I don't need to spend on a piece of hardware if I can make something I already own do it. Also, how big is the HD in the XBox? 40 gigs? 20 gigs? You can fit a nice handful of playstation games on that. Let's see, CD swapping hell +$50, or xbox jukebox for the cost of a modchip. Checking modchip prices, the difference is very small. Like $10 after shipping. Now also take into consideration that if you have 2 systems, you have to plug them both in somewhere. Now you need an AV switchbox or you have to use valuable inputs on your TV. Add another $30 for a switchbox and wires.

Open Source SDK and Modchips

[Megaport]

Unfortunately there is no "pseudo-legality" about it. Until we have a legal SDK for the Xbox, the modding community is going to have to stay underground.

The best news in the last few days was this story about open source modchips on the games.slashdot.org site, so perhaps we are slowly getting closer to Xbox modding becoming a legitimate hobby.

Man there is some lame ass stuff going on here

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey guys...it's time you figure out that there are practical purposes for this.

I along with many people own the PSX and PS2. Well, I let someone 'borrow' the PSX so I can no longer play games on that. Of course the only game I would ever play is Castlevania: SotN...my first and favorite game on that aged console. Well, the PS2 hardware is really slow to load and just not fun to deal with, so I will be glad to be able to play SotN on the XBox. Word has it SotN works flawlessly...let's hope so. So I am lazy...its no different than people making MP3 collections for the convenience facter.

A lot of people seem to say this is inconvient.

[WhiteWolf666]

I don't really understand why?
I own an snes, a playstation, an nes, and an xbox.

I've got all my cd's ripped to mp3s on my home system, and I've got most of my dvds ripped to high quality vbr xvid.

Now, I can play all of this content through my xbox.

Nearly all of it, ('cept the playstation stuff) is shared through samba, and I can access it all through a convient, on screen menu system.

I also have in-game saves for all of my games, and it is really nice to be able to pick a playlist of a GENRE of movie you might like, and then push random.

Or TV shows, for that matter. I enjoy pulling up my Dune mini-series, or HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

All without swapping discs.

I haven't upgraded the harddrive in my xbox, but thats not a concern. I can either a) share what I need over the LAN, or b)burn it to DVD-RW, and play it that way.

What's the average playstation game size? 200 megs? 400 megs? Lets say 300, though I'm sure its probably less than that (I know that there are games that fill discs, or even span discs, but the vast majority of them don't). So 300 megs, I can fit maybe 10-12 games on a DVD-R. And if they gzip down at all, I can fit even more.

This is really cool, people. If you dump an 80 gig harddrive into your xbox, you can have a vast number of psone games on the system itself.

No more worrying about scratched discs. No more lamenting your messed up copy of FF VII which won't let you get past disc 2. No more loosing discs.

Simply navigate through the menu structure, and choose your form of entertainment.

Hell, I don't even watch cable anymore. My system simply records the shows I want to see, and saves them on my harddrive. They are recompressed to xvid, and then dumped in my tvshows dir.

South Park on tap. Final Fantasy on tap (one through eight!). Music on tap.

Life is good