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That's a great project and I'm going to dive into the source pretty soon! However I'm not sure I really like the tone used in the README.md... :/
The "I'm doing this and I don't give a damn about you" attitude I think has at least some merit. If the lead programmer is good, its better if he/she can say no. If there is a correlation between being an asshole and being successful I haven't seen it.
Time to start the cease and desist countdown.
One thing I've wondered... And this is somewhat unrelated, is why the Xbox One doesn't run 360 games. One of the core features of it's OS is the fact that everything is running in a modified Hyper-V environment. So why couldn't MS have emulated the 360 on the hypervisor?! Will be cool to see this project progress and hopefully running on an Xbox One dev kit.
The 360 ran a PowerPC instruction set while the Original Xbox and Xbox One run x86 architecture. The game would have to be rewritten to run on Xbox One. I'd assume this makes it difficult.
Things that kill you are graphics and sound; particularly texture formats (which you don't have the CPU horsepower to convert) and sound (the 360 has a ton of voices in hardware, and this is difficult to emulate in software).
Personally, I don't think it's impossible. But it'd take the right people a couple of years to make it actually work.
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The 360 ran a PowerPC instruction set while the Original Xbox and Xbox One run x86 architecture. The game would have to be rewritten to run on Xbox One. I'd assume this makes it difficult.
That's the whole point of a VM right? OS X could run PowerPC apps with Rosetta when they went Intel. I just assumed that we could do the same since the Xbox One has a beastly processor compared to the aged 360 one.
One thing I've wondered... And this is somewhat unrelated, is why the Xbox One doesn't run 360 games. One of the core features of it's OS is the fact that everything is running in a modified Hyper-V environment. So why couldn't MS have emulated the 360 on the hypervisor?! Will be cool to see this project progress and hopefully running on an Xbox One dev kit.
I'm amused by how many video game emulator devs insist that they're not for playing video games. (MAME is another big one.)
In theory, the emulation of a system, in and of itself, is not illegal. The copying or unlicensed use thereof, is.
One thing I've wondered... And this is somewhat unrelated, is why the Xbox One doesn't run 360 games. One of the core features of it's OS is the fact that everything is running in a modified Hyper-V environment. So why couldn't MS have emulated the 360 on the hypervisor?! Will be cool to see this project progress and hopefully running on an Xbox One dev kit.
The 360 ran a PowerPC instruction set while the Original Xbox and Xbox One run x86 architecture. The game would have to be rewritten to run on Xbox One. I'd assume this makes it difficult.
It wouldn't be as purely simple as a recompilation, but it's a conceivable amount of work. Probably be more work than is worth it for many titles, but I'm surprised at least the Big Games don't have support.