Dxbx Question

Frog186 · August 5th, 2008

Hi All I just wanted to ask you all how do I load a demo rom or game into the dxbx emulator so it will work and then I can play it like set it up or something like that? thanks for your time and patience and listening too!

**patrickvl** · August 5th, 2008

Hi. Thanks for asking about Dxbx. To be honest, Dxbx is still in an early stage.

Nothing actually works yet, the only thing that you could do to show some graphics, is use the Cxbx DLL - but even that's crippled.
So you're currently better of with Cxbx right now.

However, some day in the distant future we hope to surpass the level of compatibility that Cxbx has. But for that, a lot of work is still to be done. Still, we're steadily improving Dxbx (as you can see from the steady flow of changes submitted to the source code archive).

For those interested, we do a few key operations differently :

we've got stubs for the whole Xbox kernel, which makes it easier to spot API's that need an implementation
we're using another way of detecting API's, which costs (way) more memory than Cxbx but offers complete coverage of the libraries involved
we're working on different approach for emulating Xbox threads, which will make Dxbx run faster than Cxbx, enables us to use the Delphi integrated debugger much more easily (including stack-traces of game-code) and allows Dxbx to run on Vista 64

Thanks for listening

shogun_nihon · August 5th, 2008

Cheers!!!!!!!!!

leonhart squall · August 6th, 2008

sounds awesome good luck with the emulator guys

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NexXxus · August 7th, 2008

sounds great but,
whats with that XDK thing?
i thought its required to increase the compatiblity for more games?

so you do that with those stubs now?

sorry for noob questions but i'm more in the PS2 emulation scene than Xbox.

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**shadow_tj** · August 7th, 2008

xdk stands for Xbox Development Kit

games are programmed in the C++ language.. the xdk give you the xbox compiler and some extra library functions that are specially made for the xbox.

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Frog186 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 93	Dxbx Question Hi All I just wanted to ask you all how do I load a demo rom or game into the dxbx emulator so it will work and then I can play it like set it up or something like that? thanks for your time and patience and listening too!

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patrickvl Emu author Join Date: May 2008 Location: Netherlands Posts: 55	Hi. Thanks for asking about Dxbx. To be honest, Dxbx is still in an early stage. Nothing actually works yet, the only thing that you could do to show some graphics, is use the Cxbx DLL - but even that's crippled. So you're currently better of with Cxbx right now. However, some day in the distant future we hope to surpass the level of compatibility that Cxbx has. But for that, a lot of work is still to be done. Still, we're steadily improving Dxbx (as you can see from the steady flow of changes submitted to the source code archive). For those interested, we do a few key operations differently : we've got stubs for the whole Xbox kernel, which makes it easier to spot API's that need an implementation we're using another way of detecting API's, which costs (way) more memory than Cxbx but offers complete coverage of the libraries involved we're working on different approach for emulating Xbox threads, which will make Dxbx run faster than Cxbx, enables us to use the Delphi integrated debugger much more easily (including stack-traces of game-code) and allows Dxbx to run on Vista 64 Thanks for listening

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shogun_nihon 将軍 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: 秋葉原 Posts: 303	Cheers!!!!!!!!!

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leonhart squall Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: india Posts: 13	sounds awesome good luck with the emulator guys __________________ my system specs 1.7ghz pentium M 256 mb ram intel integrated chipset 64 mb

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NexXxus Just an Emu Nerd. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Cologne, Germany Posts: 3,467	sounds great but, whats with that XDK thing? i thought its required to increase the compatiblity for more games? so you do that with those stubs now? sorry for noob questions but i'm more in the PS2 emulation scene than Xbox. __________________ My System: C2D E6700 @2.67GHz \| Asus P5W DH Deluxe \| 4GB DDR2 800 \| GeForce 8800GT Extreme My EeePC 901 white: Intel Atom 1.6ghz \| 2GB DDR2 667@533 \| 4GB Main SSD \| 64GB Additional SSD! \| WinXP Home SP3 \| 16GB Transcend SD \| Logitech NX50 Laser Mouse My FFXII GSdx Highres Screenshot Gallery (link fixed!) \| mixed pcsx2 screenshots Get the latest GSdx here and ZeroGS here If you search for pcsx2 betas, look here (but no support in the forums for it!) Tutorial: Hardware Antialiasing in PCSX2 (DX9 only)

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shadow_tj Emu author Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Netherlands Posts: 560	xdk stands for Xbox Development Kit games are programmed in the C++ language.. the xdk give you the xbox compiler and some extra library functions that are specially made for the xbox.