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?

Re:Oooookay...

[stratjakt]

When your harddrive is full of 9 gig xbox images that you "fair use legally" backed up after you rented them from blockbuster, this gets to be a pain in the ass.

Also, you have to make an ISO on your PC, then ftp to the xbox, copy it over, then play it (maybe).

That's a lot of work to avoid paying 25 bucks for a modded PSX.

Re:Thanks for the Warez update

[wo1verin3]

This project may not interest you, but as an XBox and original PSX console owner this is extremely cool for those times I want to play Twisted Metal 2 and my PSX is being flaky because the plastic piece containing the laser assembly has warped slightly giving me problems reading discs.

You are talking about a tool. All tools can be used for good or for bad. A hammer can be used to damage a car, or to fix a house.

I'll be choosing to fix my house with this tool.

Re:Oooookay...

[Hast]

A modded XBox can handle a 120GB IDE drive. So you can fit quite a few games on it.

site is down already..

[tomanator]

PCSXBox - PSX Emulator for XBox v1
>> Xport did it! , the first PlayStation emulator working on Xbox.

From Xport on forums.xbox-scene.com:
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What's New :
- Emulates Playstation
- Memory Card manager (select from 10 memory cards)
- Save states (LTRIGGER+BLACK and LTRIGGER+WHITE)
- Cheat code searching
- Gameshark code-compatible
- Gameshark cheat code database with codes for over 1700 games
- Remappable PSX buttons
- Throttle/speed-up
- Supports BIN files or GZIP'd BIN files. (GZIP is not the same as ZIP)
- Background - Thanks to CandyISO for the background image
- True Type Font - Thanks to CandyISO for this PSX font
- MP3 support
- XPort's Configurable PlayThing

This version does not support real CDs. There are a different set of technical hurdles involved with PSX cds than with SegaCD and PCE CD/SCD. I was finally able to get the XBox to read XA sectors, but it reads them much too slowly for anyone to want to play games using it. (Reads about 2.5KB per second)
For now, create BIN/CUE's of your PSX games and either copy them to your HD or burn them to DVDR/CDRW. Your BIN and CUE files should have the same names.

When you select the BIN file to load, you will be presented with an options menu. You can start the game using one of two different BIOS methods. Using an actual BIOS file for the emulation is the most compatible, however it's a little slower than HLE. Try both and see which one works best for the game you're playing.
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Official Site PCSXBox: http://xport.xb-power.com
Official Site PCSX: http://www.pcsx.net
Download: n/a (built with XDK)
News-Source: forums.xbox-scene.com
Posted by:: XanTium
May 11 18:14 (GMT+1)

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.

Re:Thanks for the Warez update

[stratjakt]

I'm talking about a piece of software that was developed using stolen code from microsoft, and is a port of open source code (GPLed, IIRC).

Sure makes the OSS community look grand, doesn't it?

So fine, you don't respect MS's IP in the XDK, but you respect the IP of every PSX devloper. I'll buy that.

But I'd bet the next step is to use the same reasoning as the kazaa users. "Why should I pay 20 bucks for a game with only 1 good level?"

I already said that technically I think emulation is really interesting.

I used to follow the develoments closely a couple of years ago. I watched NES and GameGear, then SNES and Genesis, then N64 and PSX emerge from the works of skilled coders.

By then it had all changed 100%. It was about 0-day r0mz and free games, not about mastering a piece of hardware.

Watch the emu community now, this "preservation of hardware" stuff, which used to be the driving mission, is now mostly lip service. Lots of work emulating popular stuff like GBA or PSX, little to nothing on Jaguar or Saturn or Dreamcast (the platforms in need of "preservation").

So this is just another step. Free 0-day r0mz for your xbox. Very little skill created this. It's a port of some open source using stolen libraries. It's written for a community that cares nothing at all for IP, and feels entitled to free games.

Wonder of Wonders

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally I can make a 733 Mhz CISC CPU operate as well as a 33 Mhz RISC CPU! Oh wonder of wonders!

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."

What's in it for Microsoft?

[RatBastard]

What's in it for Microsoft?

• How would they benefit from this?
  They wouldn't.
• What aspect of their business interests would this serve?
  None.
• How does letting people modify their console to play their competitor's products help them?
  It doesn't.
• Do they get any money from those $10.00 PSX titles?
  Nope. Sony does. (And since you have to use .ISO's, that's not really true, either.)

I don't see any business case for Microsoft not stomping this into the ground. Hell, they might even get Sony to help them out with this one as the need for .ISO's could be seen as an invitation to pirate PSX games.

Re:Who cares?

[badboy_tw2002]

Doesn't being geeky also involve having some fun and playing with your toys in a non-practical way?

I hope so. There has to be some benefit in exchange for women.