planeing a new emulator

[flowrent]

Maybe they can make a firmware patch for the dvd units ? Is it possible ?

[Vanit]

The code on Xbox games is on a DVD, however its written backwards. You will find if you put an Xbox game in your DVD player a menu will come up saying you can only play Xbox games in an Xbox .

[Cid Highwind]

Kinda like the secret evil messages in Michael Jackson songs when played backwards?

@ Hunyeti: I think that chankast has been able to progress so quickly because of a skilled team, but also because the Dreamcast is an easier and more accessible console than any other consoles of its generation. That, and the fact that it's less powerfull.

[Master Chief]

Originally Posted by flowrent

Maybe they can make a firmware patch for the dvd units ? Is it possible ?

Yes, there is a firmware patch out. Hell, I don't think you even need it though. You can dump data from your Xbox 360 discs now by hotswapping them out of the drive! Who says you can't do the same with Xbox 1 discs?

[Vanit]

Originally Posted by Master Chief

Who says you can't do the same with Xbox 1 discs?

Everyone probably.

And I do have one question of my own. Why is it that the Xbox emulators don't need a bios to run? All consoles that interface with a disc need software to read the disc don't they?

[refraction]

i think xbox emus do the bios functions by HLE as the XBox is basically a PC so its functions will be simular to a PC rather than containing any sort of an OS like say a PS2 or DC which have a menu system. So i imagine most things can be sorted out at a high level or may not be required, altho im not totally sure.

[magiceyes118]

shouldn't this section now be deleted? i doubt he will ever release another verson maybe something happened to him but ithink its time to ut any emus which r dead to delete their section?

[flowrent]

Lol... no.
Ngemu says :

Current status: Alive and kicking!

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And the author didn't make a statement he quit the project so it's still alive.
Xbox is theoretically easier to emulate than PS2 or GC so there's always hope.

[Vanit]

That comment is really like saying Mars is easier to get to than Jupiter. Its a valid statement, but by no means is the first that easy to do.

Writing any emulator for any system takes a lot of work.

[flowrent]

It is easier to get to Mars..lol .We'll get there .
But meanwhile i see Ps2 is headed for Jupiter and Gamecube for Uranus ..and Xbox is having trouble taking off although it could have been at half way by now.
I doubt Xbox is not interesting to people with skills,being so similar to a pc is an extra motivation to go for it but instead we're wondering here whether to close the Xbox thread or not

[refraction]

Originally Posted by flowrent

It is easier to get to Mars..lol .We'll get there .
But meanwhile i see Ps2 is headed for Jupiter and Gamecube for Uranus ..and Xbox is having trouble taking off although it could have been at half way by now.
I doubt Xbox is not interesting to people with skills,being so similar to a pc is an extra motivation to go for it but instead we're wondering here whether to close the Xbox thread or not

to be honest i think gamecube emulation is much further on than PS2 emulation, for a start there are a lot more emus about for GC than PS2, because people have found it an easier task (altho by all means not easy). I dont see much future in XBox emulation, altho you never know, we might get a suprise one day.

[magiceyes118]

lets hope becasue the source is there, i am sure someone is probably doing one in private for his/her final year project

[Master Chief]

Originally Posted by magiceyes118

lets hope becasue the source is there, i am sure someone is probably doing one in private for his/her final year project

The source has been sitting there for several years. No one has touched it. What suprises me is the fact that his entire team disbanded and left. No statement, nutin. Nothing at all. I don't know if we'll ever get a suprise. Something tells me that now that we can acsess the Xbox 360 hard drive, someone is going to reverse engineer the xbox emulator on it and learn from it. Then there gonna write their own from scratch.

[robman10e]

Originally Posted by Master Chief

The source has been sitting there for several years. No one has touched it. What suprises me is the fact that his entire team disbanded and left. No statement, nutin. Nothing at all. I don't know if we'll ever get a suprise. Something tells me that now that we can acsess the Xbox 360 hard drive, someone is going to reverse engineer the xbox emulator on it and learn from it. Then there gonna write their own from scratch.

yea, is this project like dead or something? on the homepage the news that is posted (2 posts ><) is from 2 years ago. has the team dediced to give up the project? maybe due to 360? that sux ><, but oh well I suppose. I hope they continue it.

[shadow_tj]

hope you don`t smoke and drink alcohol..

before you finist with coding the emulator you have lung cancer or are very drunk...

Caustik is a very good kernel hacker.. and has made great progress..
but if you starting a xbox emu with no experiance in emulation... i wish you good luck.

greetings Shadow_tj

[leo9986754]

I think that emulation could die from this point on, because if you read about upcoming/current consoles, they give out hecka new/cool features that I don't think anyone can copy. Either that or emulation might have to start again in the very bottom with handhelds until someone who has no life and hecka time and is married to his computer would he bring back emulation. On a side note, is there any female emulator creater...decoder...coder...person??

[Master Chief]

Originally Posted by leo9986754

I think that emulation could die from this point on, because if you read about upcoming/current consoles, they give out hecka new/cool features that I don't think anyone can copy. Either that or emulation might have to start again in the very bottom with handhelds until someone who has no life and hecka time and is married to his computer would he bring back emulation. On a side note, is there any female emulator creater...decoder...coder...person??

A heck of new features...hmm. That means something right there. You see, when a company rushes a console out the door with new features (Microsoft and the Xbox 360) there are bound to make mistakes, and the box full of bugs. On a side note, there is always somebody out there up for the challenge.

[flowrent]

Not even Microsoft can do it right !
For example ,Forza Motorsport running on Xbox 360 ...is like Pcsx2 on PC now ..extremely slow .

[leo9986754]

I know some people who goes to after school programs that teaches them anything about computers from computer language to networking to anything you name it. And I think that we should convince those after school programs to give their students a Emulation Projct as their final or something and have them make like a PS2 or XBox emulator. Also for like Advance Computer classes.

[flowrent]

Come on..that is not going to happen .
Kids have other lots of useful stuff to learn about computers,things useful for their career,while emulation comes from a passion beyond logic ,therefore it is only for the "chosen" .
No leacher(teacher sorry ) will teach his class emulation unless he is pasionate about it .
It's one of the most difficult tasks in programming ,look how even Microsoft..having all the possible info they need,still couldn't do a decent emulator .