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ishiki on 27 February 2013
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walsufnir said:
ishiki said:
walsufnir said:
ishiki said:

Yeah, like others in this thread, imo it's highly more likely we'll see, a PS4 emulator before a PS3 emulator. That doesn't mean easy. There's still many issues with PS2 emulator,

The other big thing, is that there has to be an active community wanting a large amount of games for it to be worth it. For instance, Dolphin and PS2 has many many many games, PC doesn't have that are desired. While the Xbox, particularly the first one, has a few, panzer dragoon, ninja gaiden, etc. But not to the extent wii, gc, or PS2 have.


First, again, there will never be a PS4-emulator but there could be software that enables a PC to run PS4-games. I know the difference is hard to see for people but there is a difference.

Your "other big thing": So you say that there is no XBOX-"emulator" is because of the games? Then why is there an ATARI Jaguar emulator? A 3DO emulator? Even a Virtualboy emulator has been written. The API-Wrapper for XBOX is just a huge amount of work and would require to know the dev-tools by MS completely.

Read here, for example: http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/xbox/cxbx.html

"Cxbx
This may not actually be an emulator to some people but everyone considers it one. Cxbx's goal is to convert a game from an Xbox executable to a native Windows executable.
This may sound bold but it's already happening and in theory it's quite possible." While not exactly true (convert means wrapping the calls at runtime in this case) you should get the idea.

Because those are much simpler in architecture.  The community is much bigger. For instance, there were xbox emulators like http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/xbox/xeon.html, that could partially play halo, but they never evolved. While the PS2 ones did.

 

It wasn't the software part that was complicated, it was the software part.

what that part makes no sense?

EDIT: Much more succinct

also http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthread.php?s=655632c9be938743c0c471a2c3f1242c&t=132032