MEMegaDeKay·Apr 30, 2021
Good news! Upscaling is in work but buggy right now.
https://github.com/mborgerson/xemu/tree/feat/surf-scale
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xemu
Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)
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3Mentions
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19GitHub stars
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What it is
Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)
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Observed mentions: 2020-06-27 09:56:07 UTC to 2021-04-30 14:07:07 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jun 2020 | 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 2020 | 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2020 | 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2020 | 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2020 | 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2020 | 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2020 | 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2021 | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2021 | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 2021 | 2021-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesYour information on xqemu is dated. xqemu was forked to xemu a while back. Development of xemu is very active now: many games are now playable with accurate graphics and sound with performance up to native framerates. Improvements to speed and accuracy are coming in on a regular basis. xqemu is basically dead, with its discord shut down and the main developer off the project. Now is a good time play around with xbox emulation if it is of interest to you.
https://xemu.app/
https://github.com/mborgerson/xemu/commits/master
In Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#A few tidbits not included in the article:
* Some emulator do exists. The earlier attempts were just API translation layers that work a bit like wine: translate the function calls to native system APIs on windows. As time went, tricks and workarounds were piling up, especially as some games used lower level HW functionality (writing in registers, etc), which provided difficult to emulate, and game executables had to be patched, thus making the emulators a collection of special cases. Such emulators include Xenia, Cxbx (and derivatives such as shogun's version, dxbx, etc).
* More recently, efforts turned to low-level emulation, with complete emulation of the Xbox GPU, using a codebase derived from QEMU: XQEMU, and more recently XEMU (mborgeson's fork, focused on trying less-proven tricks and workarounds to maximize compatibility). Both are
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being developed in the open (XQEMU's development process might be slightly more open), and reverse-engineering is ongoing.
* There is also an ongoing effort to port ReactOS to both the Xbox and XQEMU (probably using the official nvidia NV2A driver): https://reactos.org/wiki/Install_ReactOS_on_Xbox
* Big names (among others) on the emulation scene: mborgeson, JayfoxRox, Espes, Shogun
* Bunnie Huang’s Hacking The Xbox was mentioned by another commenter, but 17 Mistakes Microsoft Made in the Xbox Security System is also an interesting read about working around the Xbox security mechanisms: https://xboxdevwiki.net/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xb...
* I cannot stress enough how https://xboxdevwiki.net/ is a great resource for information. Other links: https://xqemu.com/ https://github.com/xqemu/xqemu/ https://xemu.app/ https://github.com/mborgerson/xemu/wiki#content-top https://shogun3d-cxbx.blogspot.com/
* There is a big discord community, some rooms are bridged with IRC on freenode, I also bridged #xqemu on Matrix: https://xboxdevwiki.net/Main_Page/Header