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walsufnir on 16 June 2015
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HollyGamer said:
walsufnir said:


We don't know exactly why you need to download them. Perhaps it's a restriction of the VM they use. Perhaps it doesn't work with discs or the drive is not good enough to stream DVD content but is more targeted at Bluray streaming. Either way, we could compare how big the games are on 360 and how big they turn out to be on Xbox One to make educated guesses if they recompile while we don't know if every game will ship with an additional binary for translation, of course.

Thats why everything it's still in specualtion and theory, even if they able to emulate that, it will be a hell of jobs there, I am not saying it's imposible but making one games work on stable frame rate is a hell of work, so i am just make some assumptions. But then again only some portion of games work for now. But nevertheless i am applause Microsoft for doing this. 

I really think it is emulation as I said before. There isn't another possibility technically. And again - we have to forget what we know about emulation from other systems. These emulators are made by hobbyists who do a great work but of course can't provide the same performance as professionals who have all the documentation.

Example? Sega was able to emulate Sega Rally Model 2 with a PS2. The system was more powerful than Model 2 but it was amazing what they achieved on PS2 with it. Or Rosetta which Apple used when they switched to x86 and left ppc behind.

Edit: btw, Rosetta is made by the same company as the company mentioned by the neogaffer I linked.

Edit 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_%28software%29

Well, given by this it's not exactly "emulation" as we know it but you can still call it though, I guess.

Edit 3: http://archive.linuxgizmos.com/transitive-demos-arm-mips-ppc-x86-binary-translation/ There is amazing stuff coming from this company. I guess we can be sure that they are using a Transitive product.