Xbox Emulator Plays Retail Game

Ryan M. Pamplin writes "The critically acclaimed Xbox Emulator, CXBX, has made its way into Xbox history. Caustik has announced that "Turok Evolution" is now playable at real-time speed with comparable graphics to the Xbox while utilizing nearly the same graphics hardware found within the Xbox itself. The development of CXBX will continue to advance at rapid pace. Expect many additional titles to become playable upon the release of the next binary in the near future. A DivX video, binary, and GPL'ed source is available at the website."

Comments

Piracy concerns

[Space cowboy]

With the games possibly (depending on how good the emulator gets..) now having a far wider audience, there'll be a far larger demand for P2P downloads. I wonder if the MS anti-piracy protection will be up to the job - it certainly seems pretty simple to run games on 'modded' xboxes - I wonder if they've been depending on the fact that the games are designed for the console only to protect them from rampant copying...

And I bet that new releases will have to pass an internal 'breaks the emulator' test before they're let out into the wild (it'll only mean the emulator has to cope with the differences, of course...)

Simon.

Re:Piracy concerns

[WNight]

God you're an idiot. Sorry for the flame, but your post just screams it. You just don't see the problem with the way the world would be if we all played along like the sheep you think we should be.

Just because a way of reading a disk may violate a law that your country may have does not mean that a whole activity is illegal.

As far as the law in my jurisdiction is concerned, that disk is just a collection of copyrighted ones and zeros. I can do anything to it that doesn't involve another copy, except in such a way as is required to use the product.

Note though that the game company doesn't get to dictate the use, the courts do. Microsoft may say that the intended use it for an XBox only but the courts have struck down similar product-tying restrictions for a long time. Ford isn't allowed to require you to use Ford tires, or tie your warranty to your using Ford tires. And while Ford could encrypt the radio's output signal so only Ford radios worked with the stock speakers, they couldn't stop anyone else from reverse engineering the encryption, and producing a radio that would work with Ford's 'protected' speakers.

I'm sure this pissed off Microsoft, and Ford, but really, why should we care? We pay them a fair price (they set it, we choose to agree) to purchase a product. Why should they get control over future use of that product just because it comes on a CD instead of being a tangible product like a chair? Why is there this assumption that a piece of paper in the box that you don't get to see until a legal sale is finalized is some kind of binding contract?

Fuck man, open your eyes!

And surely...

[Tuxedo Jack]

MS is going to pull the DMCA on this as soon as we get done with their server.

Talk about misery loving company.

It would be cool if it did

[daveodukeo]

Run on the xbox itself.... it could serve as a nice piece of game backup software - you could back up your games and play with the back up copy using the emulator on your box!

Re:Microsoft's gonna be mad!

[WormholeFiend]

If Microsoft actually released an approved Xbox emulator, it could have a win-win situation...

Sure, there would be some piracy, but I think there's still a big market for Xbox games and PC users who dont want consoles.

Re:Microsoft's gonna be mad!

[WormholeFiend]

Because with Xbox games, the same game can be sold to two different kind of people:
The PC owner, and
The Console owner.

Whereas at the moment, no PC owner will buy an Xbox game if he doesnt also own a console.

One development cost for two different platforms = huge savings.