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Xenia - An Xbox 360 emulator

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Re: Xenia - An Xbox 360 emulator

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Post by joshuapants »

memsom wrote: post #67
brigade wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope on Connectix VGS not emulating the CPU - PSX and PS2 both used MIPS CPUs, vs. PowerPC in Mac. It very much was the exact same thing as PCSX or derivates. The only platform a PSX emulator might have not done full dynarec/interpretation would have been the PSP, and that's unlikely to actually exist for various reasons.

you mean like the POPS emulator that the PSP used to run PlayStation 1 games (to correct the common mistake, the PSX was a completely different Japanese console, which only had the PlayStation as one of its parts).

PSX was a codename for the PlayStation. They decided to reuse the name for their failed entertainment center, but the name predates it by almost a decade.

Re: Xenia - An Xbox 360 emulator

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Post by chinpokomon »

brigade wrote: post #50
chinpokomon wrote: post #43

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Most VMs aren't full architecture emulation. Instead they use a trap to prevent some instructions from executing, but the rest are passed through as native instructions. Breaking out of this virtualized environment could potentially pose a security risk, and it is possible to detect that you are in a virtualized host because timing wasn't as exact as for these intercepted calls as they are on actual hardware. Intel a…

Nope on Connectix VGS not emulating the CPU - PSX and PS2 both used MIPS CPUs, vs. PowerPC in Mac. It very much was the exact same thing as PCSX or derivates. The only platform a PSX emulator might have not done full dynarec/interpretation would have been the PSP, and that's unlikely to actually exist for various reasons.

I was unaware of that. I thought they were both PowerPC designs.

Re: Xenia - An Xbox 360 emulator

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Post by rezaprima »

noxa wrote: post #57
fidz wrote: post #55

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A little bit OOT, why do you use .jp for the domain?

All the other TLDs (xenia.com, etc) are squatted/taken. And .jp is cool :)

Interestingly, Xenia is a brand of Daihatsu car. At least in Indonesia. http://www.daihatsu.co.id/products/highlight/xenia

Re: Xenia - An Xbox 360 emulator

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Post by dikei »

grecy wrote: post #38
Natsu wrote: post #33

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While there are other ways to screw up, like promoting illegal ROMs, emulation itself is legal thanks to Sony vs. Connectix.

I wish Connectix had stuck around and continued making Emuators. Virtual Game Station was awesome.

It was awesome, but EPSXE and others surpassed it years ago :).
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