Emulators running on Xbox360/PS3 status?*

[assen]

Software renderers usually drop precision of various things to greatly reduce the computational demands. Texture filtering quality, for example, often takes a big dive.

To take a big dive from N64's texture filtering quality you'd need to start digging.

There was a breakthrough in the last few days - check the ps2dev forums, if you are interested. IronPeter, who seems to be spearheading the effort, has managed to draw a triangle through RSX. Pray for his safety from the Sony ninjas

 

[Arwin]

I've been checking that out earlier today, and it does look promising ...

 

[I.S.T.]

There are some .net NES emulators out there, and as such there some for XNA

eg:
http://allenthinks.com/nopxk9/xna.html

It's still a legal grey area though (at least as far as I'm aware) just provided you own the original games I think it's ok.

Legally, no. You must make the copy yourself, even if the game you want is a 30 year old Atari VCS game that has never been re-released.

It's this way in the US, at least. Don't know about other countries.

 

[Kaotik]

Legally, no. You must make the copy yourself, even if the game you want is a 30 year old Atari VCS game that has never been re-released.

It's this way in the US, at least. Don't know about other countries.

I think it's pretty much the same in every country - if there's any laws for it in said country - to play emulators legally, you'd need to own the machine (to take the ROM from it) and the game you're playing.

 

[Arwin]

There's one exception, basically, and that is the Atari ST. Noone claimed the operating system (TOS) for it when the company went belly up, so that is now freely available, and there are no companies known to protect their games released for that platform. It's got a surprising amount of excellent games though, and some really good emulators too.

 

[DJ12]

I don't know who has the ultimate say on the issue, but the DMCA pretty much gave emulation and Romzzzzzzzz the thumbs up a while ago.

2. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2006/11/new-dmca-exemptions-granted

 

[StefanS]

Keywords being: for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive.

Playing stolen roms on emulators at home is definitely not covered by that, apart from the fact that this would only apply to the US of A.

But there's indeed some grey area surrounding the roms of games you actually own. Apart from that special case, things are pretty clear-cut (read as: in most countries).

P.S.: The emulator & legality question is could be extracted to the Tech & Ethics forum if there's considerable interest. Pm me or another mod of your choosing in that case.

 

[swaaye]

To take a big dive from N64's texture filtering quality you'd need to start digging.

There was a breakthrough in the last few days - check the ps2dev forums, if you are interested. IronPeter, who seems to be spearheading the effort, has managed to draw a triangle through RSX. Pray for his safety from the Sony ninjas

Yeah I've reconsidered what I said there. I'm sure Cell could handle N64's simple scenes just fine. After all, the impressive software renderer in the Unreal engine ran on Pentium IIs quite well.