You'd think an Xbox emulator would be easy to make...I mean, it's PC hardware. Apparently it's not that simple.
Well maybe somebody can reverse engineer the one that plays JUST halo. Windows NT kernal Nvidia GPU PIII It really shouldn't be that hard. Then again not even microsoft got all the XBOX 1 games emulated/running on the 360.
My longest standing memory of the original Xbox? Having to tap the tray every time you wanted to change a disc in the sod. Game wise there were no exclusives that really 'wowed' me to be honest but I did love the Xbox version of Burnout 2 because it came with the extra 15 ''Crash'' levels over the PlayStation 2 and Gamecube versions. Still got on sitting on top of my DVD player under the TV but it's only used for MAME or FBA these days and then not very often. Still, it's something to sit my white Japanese Saturn on if nothing else
The Xbox had some good games. My favorites are probably Panzer Dragoon Orta and Outrun 2. I enjoyed Halo and Halo 2, although I think they're a bit overrated. I lost my copy of Halo a long time ago. Perhaps I'll get the remake one day. Theoretically, it should be easier to emulate the Xbox on a PC than on a 360. The Xbox was basically a PC (x86 based), whereas the 360 is PowerPC based, like older Macs. For whatever reason, there doesn't seem to be much of an interest in Xbox emulation.
Last I knew the project wasn't to emulate the XBOX but to convert an XBOX game into a Windows EXE. I could be mistaken though good article (for once) on Kotaku http://kotaku.com/5859934/the-xbox-was-as-close-as-we-got-to-a-dreamcast-2
Ah the Xbox! I remember those days, when I was just starting highschool and the entire world went to SHIT due to 9/11 How much money did MS lost on the Xbox? in 2005 some said 4 billion but now some say its over 7. Thats a fuckload of cash, in hindsight it would have been cheaper for them to buy Sega, after all the Dreamcast was still selling well, problem is that as ol' chap moore said it wasnt selling in the insanely high numbers needed to pull the entire company from the hole SOJ and the Saturn digged. There were some really underrated games on that console, IMO mostly because there was a lot of hate towards MS at the time. Remember, those were the days of windowsMe, the antitrust case, BSOD all the time, etc... Halo I think its the only reason why the Xbox wasnt a complete failure and just a "partial" one. Granted, a lot of the crap that bigass chunk of plastic had to go through was due to MS being too cheap to make their own hardware and using stock PC stuff on it. Its actually funny how Intel fucked MS with the CPU, considering those assholes owe their monopoly to MS and Windows. Without gates everybody would be using RISC processors back in the 90s About an Xbox emu, I wonder if it would be possible to cripple a X86 CPU and an nVidia board and then boot into the WinNT the Xbox had. It wouldnt be the same but then again it might be easier than emulating those components.
Oddly, it seems that the average person doesn't realize that the original Xbox was really the most powerful console of the last generation. In fact, it seems that it's been almost completely forgotten. Gamestop doesn't even carry original Xbox games anymore, even though they carry both PS2 and Gamecube games.
The Xbox launched my gamer career. I was an Xbox-only owner between 2002 and 2004 and enjoyed all the blockbuster titles as a mainstream gamer before I started to look for what else there is in the world of gaming and got into import gaming, shooters, arcade stuff. I have very fond memories with the Xbox to this day. Halo 1, Midtown Madness 3, Splinter Cell, Oddworld, Project Gotham Racing 1, SSX 3, Riddick, Doom 3, GTA Doublepack, Halo 2, KotoR, Fable, so many nice games.... Steel Battalion being one of the most impressive. Unfortunately I don't own it (yet), but I played it a couple of times at a friend's house.
After I complete my Dreamcast collection I'm going to start on XBOX I think right now I only have maybe 15 XBOX Games I used to have 40+ Most of them landed in a trade pile.
There's a reason why team Ninja made the original DOAX so you could play it with one hand... Word I recall "someone" on this forum saying the gamecube-based Wii is more powerful than the Xbox. Riiiight, that one could run HL2 and Doom3, what about that? On gamestop not carrying Xbox games I think it has more to do with how MS stopped all production on the months leading to the X360 Seeing how much money they were bleeding then it doesnt surprises me
I don't know who that "someone" is, as it certainly was not I. If I said that, then I was in error. Also, I've never played the Xbox version of Doom 3, but the Xbox ran HL2 very poorly. It had terrible framerate issues. I wouldn't say that the Wii is "more powerful" than the Xbox, but it's not merely a Gamecube. Look at a game like Super Mario Galaxy and you'll see what I mean.
