Hacking XBOX emulator on 360 to work on PC

[UniverseJDJ]

That's total rubbish. There's no XBOX 360 emulator available at all. If you really found one, which I seriously doubt, post some screenshots or provide a link.

[DudeJustDoIT]

Liar.. There is no 360 emulator....

[spiky502]

no no no they said that the xbox 360 is unhackble the but some 145465 star tec inside of the system you would have to be a super hacker and have a lot of skill and you probly still cant get it

[Krazie kEEf]

I don't know how old this topic is but Microsoft is already way ahead of the game on this. Looking for a 360 emulator? Microsoft's answer is: we will sell you one called Windows Vista. They have already stated their future games will run in Vista as well (though they may be ports). Knowing Microsoft there will be minimal code changes (leaving most of the work to DirectX or what have you) and hackers will have their chance then. I don't know any hacking group that would try to beat MS to the punch. When they open this can of worms I'm sure there will be a backdoor or two. If not, you can just get your hands on a copy of vista and play what they offer ya on the OS. I for one will settle for playing my 360 on my media center PC with a kb and mouse til then (wireless logitech USB).

Hopefully they will include Xbox1 backward compatibility when they launch their gaming plans on Vista to get people into using thier PCs for console games.

[DudeJustDoIT]

If you would look at the date on the posts then you would know.
and if you are unsure then why even post in it?

[Krazie kEEf]

just relevant information for the original poster. chill

[Zach]

I don't know how old this topic is but Microsoft is already way ahead of the game on this. Looking for a 360 emulator? Microsoft's answer is: we will sell you one called Windows Vista. They have already stated their future games will run in Vista as well (though they may be ports). Knowing Microsoft there will be minimal code changes (leaving most of the work to DirectX or what have you) and hackers will have their chance then. I don't know any hacking group that would try to beat MS to the punch. When they open this can of worms I'm sure there will be a backdoor or two. If not, you can just get your hands on a copy of vista and play what they offer ya on the OS. I for one will settle for playing my 360 on my media center PC with a kb and mouse til then (wireless logitech USB).

Hopefully they will include Xbox1 backward compatibility when they launch their gaming plans on Vista to get people into using thier PCs for console games.

Uh... Wow...
As has been pointed out, how are you going to run 360 games on a PC or HTPC? Considering the fact that the hardware differences are drastic for one, you can't just put Vista on your PC and assume any game designed to run on a "vista/360" combo is going to work on a PC/Vista combo.

The only way you are going to see 360 games on the PC is if they are ported. When something is ported it always means code modifications, if not a completely new code base for the system in question.

As for people beating MS to the punch at anything.. Well there's nothing to beat them to in this case, and I seem to recall Windows XP product activation being cracked hours before it was released. MS is not invincible, and I don't see any way that you are gonna get 360 games to magically run on a PC.

[blueshogun96]

Heh, haven't been here in a looooooong time, but it's great to be back :P

Anyway, I'm no expert on the Xbox360's hardware or exactly how it works, but if you ask me, Xbox360 emulation on the PC is somewhat possible. You all remember Cxbx (the Xbox1 emulator that used HLE with DirectX 8) right? The Xbox360 may be emulated the same way by intercepting the Xbox360 API calls using it's native API, which is Direct3D9. The Xbox360 uses an executable file format (called .xex) that is highly similar to the Xbox1's .xbe file format. It contains sections that are nearly the same with the same names only with a few new ones including the D3D9 section. Here is a link to some really good .XEX file documentation.

http://wiki.free60.org/XEX

If you are familiar with the .XBE file format from the Xbox1, then alot of this stuff will look deja vu familiar. But like HLE for the Xbox1, HLE for Xbox360 would still require you to have an Xbox360 XDK, and M$ isn't handing those out anytime soon. Heh, imagine walking up to the M$ office and asking them for an XDK. The'd probably say, "I'm sorry, we don't give XDKs to unlicenced developers. Sooooo, we'd appreciate it if you'd get the f@#% off of our property. Thank you, and have a nice day... and don't forget to preorder Halo 3!"

EDIT: Sorry for not thinking of this earlier, but I'm not suggesting you can do Cxbx style "Direct Code Execution" for Xbox360 emulation.