[Help] Emulation on Xbox

I don't know about a compatibility list, but don't expect too much. When I think of the great emulators for XBOX, I think of the ones for much older systems. The SNES and Genesis emulators work pretty well, for example.

The PS1 emulator works with some games, but definitely not with the majority of titles. You'll find that depending on what you want to play, it might be acceptable. Definitely not a substitute for a real PS1. Even when you can get a game to work, there could be sound glitches, framerate drops, other issues.

The N64 emulator is better, but still only works with some games rather than with every game. I've found it very usable for some games, not so much with others. It's definitely a viable emulator, but don't be too surprised if one of your old favourites won't work.

Neither of them are being updated anymore.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Shin

That said, it's not too difiicult to turn an Xbox into a linux workstation and you can then install a PS or N64 emulator over the top of that. That's certainly what my housemate has done, he uses his old xbox as a media centre running linux and installed a PS emulator on to it so he can play those old games on it and it seems to work pretty well.

Don't ask me to explain the technical ins and outs of it though. He started explaining it to me once and lost me after about ten minutes. He assures me it's dead easy though.

Eh. Maybe he got lucky with the choice of games, or maybe there's another emulator I don't know about. As for how it's done, no doubt he tried to explain the details instead of the practicalities. From your point of view, ya put a memory card in the XBOX, ya copy the hacked save to your drive, ya start Splinter Cell (or one of a few other games) and then load the hacked save. Instant GUI installer for the basic Linux/Dashboard application, then you can FTP other apps to the hard drive.

You can make or buy a USB adapter for the memory card, to load it up with the hacked savefile, which is essentially a security exploit with a Linux installer payload. The hard part is finding an XBOX memory card these days.

There's nowhere I can't reach.