Hacking XBOX emulator on 360 to work on PC

[TheCreator]

As the XBox 360 uses an emulator to run XBox 1 games, is it possible to hack the emulator and modify it a bit so it would work on a desktop PC? I ask because the 360 probably has similar hardware to the PC.

[Jale]

Not really. It's a bit early to think on an emulator, isn't it?

[onewecallgod]

you're mixed up. its the xbox that has similar hardware to a PC, the 360's parts are nowhere near the same.

[TheCreator]

would it be difficult to port it then, or is that again a case of no-one knowing trhe 360 programming?

[Kromsligo]

Originally Posted by TheCreator

would it be difficult to port it then, or is that again a case of no-one knowing trhe 360 programming?

the 360s hardware is so diffrent to a normal pc that emulation inside windows is years off if it can be done at all
take the cpu of the xbox 360 to quote wikipedia "The CPU, named Xenon (Microsoft) or Waternoose (IBM) is a custom IBM triple-core PowerPC-based design."
now try emulating something that can do 3 processes in the time it takes most pc cpus to do one and to add to that the graphics card is considered top of the line even for a pc today
these specs alone would send most programmers running for the hills

[TheCreator]

Remember, I'm not at all talking about an XBox 360 emulator for PC, but taking the XBox emulator from the 360 and porting it to work on the PC, to play normal XBox games on a PC. Or is it just the fact that the XBox emulator for the 360 has been designed for completely different hardware that it wouldn't be worth porting over and too difficult to do?

[onewecallgod]

writing a program to run the 360's xbox1 emulator is no different than making a 360 emulator itself

[metalheadjc]

Well, I sort of disagree. It's like saying that when Bungie made the Xbox port of Halo, they ran PC emulation. Or that in making a Linux version of a game, they emulate PCs. Not so. The question is not whether the 360's Xbox emulation can be emulated, but rather can it be hacked/patched in such a fashion that a PC would view it as native software.

This is the same as how it works when you try to put NES games on GBA. You can either emulate the NES, or you can use a patching program to make the GBA understand it.

But, there are multiple problems:

1. Nobody understands the Xbox better than Microsoft.
2. Nobody understands the 360 better than Microsoft.
3. Even the 360 Xbox emulator can hang up in system-link games, and the 360 is insanely powerful.

So, if the creators of both systems cannot get Xbox games to run glitchlessly on incredibly powerful hardware, attempts to port what they have created to the PC would result in even glitchier, as your PC is slower and we know the hardware less...

So, a better idea would be to figure out how to take Xbox games and patch/hack them into ports for PC I dunno how to do that. Dunno if it's possible. And if it's not, then it's certainly not possible to port the 360 Xbox emulator to PC either.

[ViperXL2]

Getting this emulator from the 360 would be quite a feat as the system protection is so well placed out that even some firmware hacks have turned up bad after just a few seconds of using it. The 360 uses a emulator to run xbox games and yes it is possiable to get it but getting throught the security is impossible at the moment maybe in a few years or so when you hear the news about homebrew being runned on the 360 maybe then we could get it.

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