Microsoft Researching an Xbox 360 Emulator for the Xbox One.

[Mr Puggsly]

lucidium said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Go to Youtube and try looking for video of people playing games you tested.

Here's a video of someone that successfully booted Okami.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QiDTci9uMA

Looked in to it more and apparently needs a specific version of okami and an older build because newer builds introduce a bug that messes even the specific version up.

So yeah.. what we see here is exactly my point, just because it worked once under specific conditions doesnt help things if it has to be a specific version of the emulator for a specific region version of the game.

As i understand it the emulator IS still running hacked up, its just now using a game database to automatically set itself up for games when run, i.e. changing up its settings for best run scenario.

This is a two generation old sub-hd system, and its not running everything yet, theres plenty of stuff that will not run properly on ANY config, and a lot of the games have game-killing bugs that need hacks to bypass.

Does it mean a 360 emulator is impossible? no. but if they havent already been working on one for years (and they havent) then it wont be complete in time to see an xbox one release.

I didn't imply PC emuation is perfect, but the fact is most PS2 games are emulated and fully playable via a PC emulator.

PS3 first played PS2 games through hardware. Now PS2 games are playable on PS3 using software emulation.  Hence, Sony spent time making a PS2 emulator during the life of the PS3.

If MS feels a 360 emulator is financially worth while, we could potentially see a 360 emulator on X1. Perhaps that's further into development than they're leading us to believe.