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Xbox Emulator Plays Retail Game

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-fun-is-emulation dept.

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."

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  1. CXBX Is Good for MS by Euphonious+Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant
    The Xbox is a loss-leader, which means each one sold costs them money. They make it up on the games. This means that every game sold to play on CXBX makes them more money than if you bought it to play on an Xbox.

    What would hurt MS would be if people found ways to use Xboxes that didn't involve playing any of MS's or otherwise-licensed games. Setting up a Linux workstation -- or a whole lab full of Linux stations -- would be one such use. At $200 it was not clearly a better value than a white box, but at $150 the balance might have shifted. The next price drop (I'm guessing late September) should clinch it.

  2. Ooh Xbox Emu by Brie+Eyeball · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, I think that I'll buy it.

  3. It doesn't work on my game :( by AndrewHowe · · Score: 2, Redundant

    As an Xbox developer, I thought this was interesting. I pointed it at my .xbe... And it did nothing. I'm a little drunk right now, so I'm not up for debugging it. It just pauses straight away. :(