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NES Emulator for Xbox 360?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the old-lessons-in-the-new-skool dept.

jayintune writes "2old2play is reporting on a new Nintendo emulator for the Xbox 360. Someone has apparently figured out a way to stream emulation via Media Center to the 360 in 480p. At this time sound is not currently available, but they are said to be working on a fix as well as other emulators including GEN and TG16. You can check out the emulator in action from this link to a YouTube video."

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  1. PC required by Eightyford · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Let me get this straight. Is a PC required to play Nintendo on the xbox 360 without sound? That doesn't sound very useful to me. If you really want free (as in illegal) NES games on your tv, you should consider getting a used dreamcast with 1 or 2 rom cds. You can even use game genie codes and saved states.

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    1. Re:PC required by AnyoneEB · · Score: 2, Insightful

      ZSNES (and I assume SNES9x) supports those and a few other similar techniques, but it also has an option for high quality mode 7 and can play the sound at a higher quality than the SNES (although a lot of people say that it is not perfect emulation).

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  2. I don't get it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So basically you're running a game on your PC, and using the XBox 360 as a thin client to remotely display the PC's screen output.

    Why not just take one of the XBox 360's PC-compatible USB controllers, plug it directly into your PC, and play the game there?

  3. Re:Don't forget the Revolution! by AnyoneEB · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Uh, only if you want to buy all of your old games again... and if you do not care about your old save files. I do like the virtual console idea, but my oldest console is a Nintendo 64, so there are plenty of older games that I do not own.

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  4. Re:Don't forget the Revolution! by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No GB support on the rev. That would encroach on the untouchable GB line.

    The Gameboy line was superceded by the Gameboy Advance line years ago.

    Neither the GB Micro nor the DS is capable of playing games for the original grayscale Gameboy, nor the Gameboy Color. I don't think it's unreasonable to beleive that some of those older Z80-ish-based games could show up on the Revo.