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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."
Now you can play XBox games on a Windows machine! Think of all the lost revenue!
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!
Underling: Sir, there's a situation. I have good news and bad news.
Bill Gates: Alright, let me hear it.
Underling: The bad news is, someone has created an XBox emulator capable of playing a commercial game, and the public has become aware of it.
Bill Gates: Oh no! That's horrible! This could undermine H&E's entire business model! What's the good news?
Underling: The game is Turok Evolution.
Bill Gates: *Whew*
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So...when they get Halo to run on this thing, which one will run better: the PC version or the emulated X-Box version? I only say this because the current PC release runs like it's emulated already.
Gentlemen...BEHOLD!
-Dr. Weird
Well, I've got my Xbox running Linux right now. The emulator will let me play my Xbox games on my PC while I'm coding stuff on my Xbox.
Hmm... something seems weird about that. Oh well!
"There's companies that are just so cool that you just can't even deal with it," - Bill Gates, about Google
What I expect is the Microsoft legal team serving them with papers before the next binary release.
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
Now that I have finished turning my Xbox into a PC I can turn my PC into a Xbox! Hooray!
Hey, this is slashdot. You have to pretend that everyone goes out and buys an XBox after "sampling" some games using the emulator, OK? ;^)
Here's a
Are there any recommended tracker sites for files such as this? (non-copyright, one-off dl's)
-- In Soviet Russia, radio listens to YOU!
Xbox incorporates a non-standard DVD format that requires the DVD-ROM drive, at the firmware level, to handle reading the Xbox portion.
PCs only see an 11MB video that basically says "look, dumbass, this is an Xbox game so go stick it in your Xbox". (Maybe not in quite that harsh of language - I'm paraphrasing here)
You can't hook an Xbox Drive up to a PC, either... because the system won't recognize it as a valid DVD-ROM drive. Again, this is an issue with firmware (oddly enough, some standard DVD-ROM drives can be used on modded Xboxes to read backup discs).
This is why you have to use a modded Xbox to back up an Xbox game - the game material has to be read from the Xbox itself, then transferred to a PC.
This was intentional. It was meant to stymie hackers from simply reading the disc in a PC, or slapping an Xbox DVD-ROM drive into a PC and using that to read from.
The Xbox can handle games loaded from a DVD-R in UDF format, or even it's special Xbox DVD FAT format (burned as a "normal" disc image) - once it's modded. Why? Because it makes things easier for development. Developmnet Xboxes can be thought of as "half-modded" - developers can sign aps with a developer's key FOR THEIR XDK CONSOLES ONLY. Thus, they can test their releases with burned media (saving the expense of mastering a secure DVD and generating a signature).
So legitimate games cannot be used on a PC. Microsoft has locked themselves out of that market (albeit in the interest of copy protecting their software).
Care to point me to "the rule" that states I *must* have an XBox to play a game? Just because it says it on the box doesn't make it so. After all, UT2003 never said you could play it on Linux on the box.
The Xbox controller is essentially a USB device with a fruity plug. All it takes to get it running on PC is either cutting the end off and splicing on a male USB end or buying a 5-6 dollar adaptor that hooks into where the break is in the controller cord, plus appropriate drivers.