Dxbx status updates

[Bobbi]

Even though it's now roughly 6 years old, emulation of the x-box console is still far from working. Now another team decided to give this tough project a try and founded the project Dxbx. Based on the C code of Cxbx, the team attempts to develop this emulator completly in Delphi!

Patrickvl, one of the team members, has recently posted a status update about where the emulator currently stands over in this thread - take a look: 

Rob has already made a signature file for all XAPI functions, and
concluded that it's possible to detect multiple XDK versions with a
single set of XAPI signatures.That great news actually, because it saves us from building detection
per version, and also enables us make a small logging-patch for _all_
XAPI's. This will give us detailed insight in the XAPI-calling-patterns
of every game we can get our hands on!

Robert also found out why some games can't be converted to an EXE : I'd
seems that the Xbox accepts more sections in an executable than Windows
XP - one game had 137 sections, which XP refused to MapAndLoad (...)

Me, I'm still busy figuring out how all the 387 Kernel API's should
look, because it's important that the calling convention, the number of
arguments, their types and type of return value (if any) matches the
Xbox version exactly (one mistake and the stack could become
corrupted). It's a mind-numbingly boring job, and even more depressing
is the realization that we'll have to do the same thing for all XAPI's
that we must patch (and the most depressing part is, that there's about
twenty times as many XAPI's then there are Kernel API's).

The team is currently looking for people who help translating the code, finding method signatures or with general coding - if this sounds like you, don't hesitate to check out the Dxbx forum to apply.

[muppets4]

Originally Posted by Bobbi

It's a mind-numbingly boring job, and even more depressing is the realization that we'll have to do the same thing for all XAPI's
that we must patch (and the most depressing part is, that there's about
twenty times as many XAPI's then there are Kernel API's).

Lol! Now that's a way to find volunteers!

BTW: really looking forward to a working emulator. It's getting too crowded around my TV-set.

[Le[x]]

Wow great news, it's good to know that xbox emulation scene is still alive!