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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 gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 2, Funny

      But you're missing the important part. You can play NES in 480p!!! You haven't seen anything until you've seen 256x224 *upsampled* to 480p. It brings out details you never knew were there.

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    2. Re:PC required by Mitaphane · · Score: 2, Informative

      Better yet, if cost isn't much of an issue, buy an original XBox and modify it(or buy it premodded if soldering scares you). For $150(retail XBox) + $50(a nice modchip) + $100 (hard drive upgrade) = $300 you can get a gaming console that can do more than the XBox360. Granted it's not as pretty as an XBox360 in a number of ways, but the stuff you can do with it makes up for that. XBox Media Center(which will play almost any computer video/audio/picture format) + emulation of almost any popular old video game console turns the XBox into a media box that really has no rival out there.

      Back to the topic, people have already figured out how to stream non-supported video formats(e.g. DivX,XviD,etc.) to the XBox360. I guess this is another extension of that. Outside the ass backwards way to set it up, it also seems like lag would be an issue as well. Of course, that's just my intial speculation. To me, until some figures out how to get unsigned code on the 360 it's just not worth the effort to do stuff like this when there's cheaper(and better) alternatives out there.

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    3. 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. check this out by Dance_Dance_Karnov · · Score: 5, Funny

    if you take a NES and hook it up to your tv, via RF or RCA cables, you can actually play NES games on your TV. The best part is, it has native support for NES controllers, and the sound works too. Imagine that. It even runs in 244i. :P

  4. Don't forget the Revolution! by ProppaT · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Nintendo Rev will be able to play NES, SNES, N64, GB, GC, Genesis, and TurboGraphx games out of the box. Big deal. I think I can wait :)

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    1. 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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    2. Re:Don't forget the Revolution! by dividedsky319 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      "I believe most people won't care about emulation, perhaps buying 1-3 games at most. I would guess most people interested in the old games already have emulators running on other machines and would be unwilling to pay to do the same on a revolution, unless it was really cheap, as in 0.99"

      First, I do think NES games will be this cheap. They won't be able to get away with charging 5-10 dollars for a 3k file of a 20 year old game. I'd be willing to bet it's a few dollars per NES game. I'd guess maybe it'd be something like 2 dollars for NES, 5 for SNES, and maybe 7 or 8 for N64.

      And second, if my first statement is true, I'd definitely buy a lot more than two or three games. Just becuase they're old doesn't mean the games aren't fun anymore. And I haven't played them in years, becuase there isn't enough room for all the systems, and most of my older systems I've since sold anyway. But, eventually the nostalgia sets in and you wish you hadn't sold them...

      I've downloaded emulators and roms on the computer, but it isn't the same. I'm really looking forward to easily downloading and playing the back catalog of NES games on my tv.

    3. 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.