Xbox Emulator Why Is It So Hard?

[mangee30]

Why is it so hard to make an working Xbox emulator im not a programmer but i understand the basics.I mean there are working emulators for completly different systems Mac Os and Gamecube and so on.Xbox and Pc are pretty much the same.So why is it so hard?I been looking for one for a long time but there are none.

[donkeyknob]

read the "configure you xbox emulator here" topic. another fact is that windows/linux/any OS can not interpret the xbox disc because it is burnt as "fat-x" format whereas windows uses "fat-32" and i dont know about other OSes. also, the chipset hsa to be emulated, along with a harddrive which doubles as 3 RAM drives and that xbox games are essentially programs. the xbox reads a cd, searches for "default.xbe" and executes it. im not sure on the progress of xbox emulation, but i would pin a consistantly working emulator as nearly impossible and useless without an origianl xbox to begin with