The physical media is easily read with liteon drive though.
XBox 360 Emulators for the PC
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It's not about only reading the media, it's about having exactly the timing and angular differences on the sectors required to pass the security checks.
Official, wow, Is that still going? I'd love to play some of my Xbox games again.
It's not afaik. It was part of the Xbox 360, many games of the first Xbox worked. I played Fable, Ninja Gaiden Black and the original Forza on it.
Put your original Xbox disks on the X360 and maybe you can play one of these games.
http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-on-other-devices/original-console/play-original-games
Original Xbox games playable on Xbox 360
- 2006 FIFA World Cup™
- 25 to Life™ [1]
- 4x4 EVO 2
- AirForce Delta Storm
- Aggressive Inline™
- Alias™
- Aliens versus Predator™ Extinction
- All-Star Baseball™ 2003
- All-Star Baseball™ 2005
- America's Army®: Rise of a Soldier™
- AMF Bowling 2004 [1]
- Amped®: Freestyle Snowboarding
- Amped 2
- APEX™
- Aquaman: Battle of Atlantis
- Arena Football™
- Armed and Dangerous™
- Army Men®: Sarge's War™
- Atari® Anthology™
- ATV: Quad Power Racing 2™
- Auto Modellista
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Bad Boys 2
- Baldur's Gate™: Dark Alliance™ [1]
- Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
- Barbie™ Horse Adventures™ Wild Horse Rescue™
- The Bard's Tale™
- Bass Pro Shops Trophy Hunter 2007
- Batman Begins™
- Batman™: Rise of Sin Tzu™
- Battle Engine Aquila
- Battlestar Galactica™
- Big Mutha Truckers
- Bionicle®
- BLACK™
- Blade II
- Blinx™: The Time Sweeper™
- Blinx® 2: Masters of Time & Space
- Blitz: The League [1]
- Blood Omen 2
- BloodRayne™ 2
- BlowOut
- BMX XXX™
- Breakdown™
- Brute Force™
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer™: Chaos Bleeds
- Burnout
- Burnout™ 2
- Burnout® 3: Takedown™
- Cabela's® Big Game Hunter™ 2005 Adventures
- Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts™
- Cabela's® Dangerous Hunts™ 2
- Cabela’s Outdoor Adventures™ 06
- Cabela's Deer Hunt™ 2005 Season
- Cabela's Deer Hunt™ 2004 Season
- Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth™
- Call of Duty™: Finest Hour™
- Call of Duty® 2: Big Red One
- Call of Duty 3
- Cars
- Casino
- Catwoman™
- Championship Manager 2006 [1]
- Chicago Enforcer
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
- Circus Maximus
- Close Combat: First to Fight
- Colin McRae Rally 4
- Colin McRae Rally 2005™
- Combat Elite: WWII Paratroopers™
- Commandos 2: Men of Courage™
- Conflict: Desert Storm
- Conker: Live and Reloaded
- Constantine™
- Counter-Strike™
- Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
- Crash Nitro Kart™ [1]
- Crash Twinsanity™
- Crime Life Gang Wars
- Crimson Skies®: High Road to Revenge™
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon™
- Dai Senryaku VII: Modern Military Tactics™
- Dark Angel
- Darkwatch™
- Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2™
- The Da Vinci Code™
- Dead or Alive® 3
- Dead or Alive Ultimate
- Dead to Rights®
- Demon Stone™
- Deathrow
- Destroy All Humans!
- Digimon® Rumble Arena® 2
- Dinotopia [1]
- DOOM 3®
- DOOM 3®: Resurrection of Evil™
- Drake™
- Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
- Drive to Survive
- Dungeons & Dragons®: Heroes™
- Dynasty Warriors 4
- EA SPORTS™ Fight Night Round 3
- Egg Mania™: Eggstreme Madness
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind®
- ESPN College Hoops
- ESPN College Hoops 2K5 [1]
- ESPN Major League Baseball
- ESPN MLS ExtraTime 2002
- ESPN NFL 2K5
- ESPN NHL 2K5
- Euro 2004
- Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick
- Evil Dead: Regeneration
- Ex-Chaser
- F1 2001
- Family Guy
- Fable®
- Fable®: The Lost Chapters™
- Fairly Odd Parents: Breakin' da Rules
- Fantastic Four
- Far Cry: Instincts
- Fatal Frame™
- Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly DIRECTOR'S CUT
- FIFA Soccer 06
- FIFA Soccer 07
- FIFA Soccer 2003
- FIFA Soccer 2004
- FIFA STREET
- FIFA Street 2
- Fight Night 2004
- Final Fight Streetwise™
- FlatOut™
- Ford Mustang
- Ford vs. Chevy
- Forza Motorsport™
- Freaky Flyers
- Freedom Fighters™ [1]
- Freestyle Street Soccer™
- Frogger Beyond™
- Full Spectrum Warrior™
- Full Spectrum Warrior™: Ten Hammers
- Futurama™
- Future Tactics: The Uprising
- Fuzion Frenzy®
- Gauntlet®: Seven Sorrows™
- Genma Onimusha
- Goblin Commander™: Unleash the Horde
- Godzilla®: Destroy All Monsters Melee
- Godzilla: Save The Earth
- GoldenEye: Rogue Agent™
- Grabbed by the Ghoulies™
- Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas™
- Gravity Games Bike: Street. Vert. Dirt.
Part two, it didn't fit before (there is a Jurassic Park game even 
):
):- The Great Escape
- Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball Max'd
- Grooverider: Slot Car Thunder
- Guilty Gear Isuka
- Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
- The Guy Game [1]
- Half-Life® 2
- Halo®
- Halo 2
- Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets™
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone™
- He-Man: Defender of Grayskull
- High Heat™ Major League Baseball® 2004 [1]
- Hitman: Contracts™
- Hot Wheels: Stunt Track Challenge
- House of the Dead 3
- The Hulk™
- Hunter: The Reckoning® [1]
- I-Ninja
- IHRA Drag Racing Sportsman Edition
- IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005™
- The Incredible Hulk™: Ultimate Destruction
- Incredibles
- The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer
- Indiana Jones™ and the Emperor's Tomb™
- Indigo Prophecy
- IndyCar® Series 2005
- Intellivision Lives
- Jade Empire™ [2]
- JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future
- Judge Dredd®: Dredd vs. Death™
- Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis
- Justice League Heroes
- Kabuki™ Warriors
- Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer
- kill.switch
- King Arthur
- The King of Fighters Neowave
- The King of Fighters™ 2002 & 2003
- Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders™
- The Legend of Spyro™: A New Beginning
- Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
- LEGO® Star Wars®
- LEGO® Star Wars™ II: The Original Trilogy
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events™
- Links® 2004
- LOONS—The Fight for Fame
- The Lord of the Rings™: The Return of the King™
- The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age™
- Magatama
- Magic: The Gathering™—Battleground
- Manhunt
- Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
- Marvel vs. Capcom 2
- Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX™ 2
- Max Payne
- Max Payne® 2
- Maximum Chase
- MechAssault® 2: Lone Wolf
- Medal of Honor European Assault™
- Medal of Honor™ Frontline
- Medal of Honor™ Rising Sun
- Mega Man® Anniversary Collection
- Mercenaries™
- Metal Arms™: Glitch in the System
- MicroMachines
- Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing
- Minority Report
- MLB SlugFest 20-03
- MLB SlugFest 20-04
- MLB® SlugFest®: Loaded [1]
- Monster Garage™
- Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
- Mortal Kombat® Deception™
- MotoGP
- MotoGP 2
- MTV Music Generator™ 3
- MTX: Mototrax™
- Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit
- MVP Baseball™ 2003 [1]
- MVP Baseball 2004 [1]
- MX Unleashed
- MX vs. ATV Unleashed
- MX World Tour™: Featuring Jamie Little
- Myst III: Exile
- Namco Museum™
- Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Arcade Collection
- NASCAR Thunder™ 2002 [1]
- NASCAR Thunder 2003 [1]
- NASCAR 2006: Total Team Control
- NBA® Ballers™ [1]
- NBA Inside Drive 2002
- NBA 2K3 [1]
- NBA Live 2002
- NBA Live 2004
- NBA STREET V3
- NCAA College Basketball 2K3
- NCAA March Madness 06 [1]
- NCAA® March Madness™ 2005 [1]
- NCAA Football 06
- Need For Speed™ Underground 2
- NFL 2K2 [1]
- NFL 2K3 [1]
- NFL Blitz 2002
- NFL Blitz 2003
- NFL Blitz 2004
- NFL Fever 2004
- NHL® 2004
- NHL 2005
- NHL 2K3 [1]
- NHL Hitz™ 2003
- NHL Hitz Pro
- NightCaster
- Ninja Gaiden®
- Ninja Gaiden Black
- NTRA Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships [1]
- Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
- Open Season
- Outlaw Golf 2
- Outlaw Golf: 9 More Holes of X-mas
- Outlaw Tennis
- Outlaw Volleyball
- Outlaw Volleyball: Red Hot
- OutRun™ 2
- OutRun 2006: Coast to Coast
- Over the Hedge™
- Pac-Man World™ 3
- Pariah
- Panzer Dragoon ORTA™
- Phantom Crash™
- Phantom Dust™
- Pinball Hall of Fame™
- Pitfall®: The Lost Expedition™
- Playboy The Mansion
- Predator Concrete Jungle™
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time™
- Pro Evolution Soccer 5
- Pro Race Driver™
- Project Gotham Racing®
- Project Gotham Racing 2
- Psychonauts
- Pump It Up™: Exceed
- The Punisher™
- Pure Pinball
- Puyo Pop Fever [1]
- Quantum Redshift®
- RalliSport Challenge
- Rainbow Six Lockdown
- Rapala Pro Fishing
- Rayman Arena
- Raze's Hell™
- Red Dead Revolver
- Red Faction® II
- RedCard™ 2003
- Reservoir Dogs
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Richard Burns Rally
- RLH
- RoadKill
- Robin Hood Defender of the Crown®
- Robotech: Battlecry
- Rocky™ [1]
- Rocky Legends
- Rogue Ops
- Rogue Trooper™
- Rugby 2006
- Rugby League 2
- Samurai Jack
- Samurai Warriors™
- Scarface
- Scooby Doo!™ Night of 100 Frights
- Scrapland
- SEGA GT™ 2002
- SegaGT Online
- Serious Sam
- Shadow The Hedgehog™
- Shadow Ops™: Red Mercury
- Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures
- Shark Tale
- Shattered Union
- ShellShock: Nam '67™
- Shenmue II
- Shincho Mahjong
- Shrek® Super Party!
- Sid Meier's Pirates!®
- The Simpsons™ Hit and Run™
- The Simpsons™ Road Rage
- Sims™ 2
- Silent Hill® 2: Restless Dreams
- Silent Hill 4: The Room
- Smashing Drive
- Sneakers™ [3]
- Soccer Slam
- Sonic Heroes™
- Sonic Mega Collection™ Plus
- Sonic Riders™
- Soul Calibur 2
- Spawn® Armageddon
- Speed Kings™
- Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy™
- Spider-Man™
- Spider-Man® 2
- Splat Magazine Renegade Paintball
- Splinter Cell: Double Agent
- SpongeBob SquarePants™: Battle for Bikini Bottom
- Sponge Bob Square Pants: Lights, Camera, Pants!
- The SpongeBob Square Pants Movie
- SpyHunter® 2
- SpyHunter:® Nowhere to Run™
- Spyro™ A Hero's Tail
- SSX 3
- Stake™
- Starsky & Hutch
- Star Wars® Battlefront™
- Star Wars Battlefront™ II
- Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith™
- Star Wars Jedi Knight®: Jedi Academy™
- Star Wars Jedi Starfighter™
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic™
- Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic® II: The Sith Lords™
- Star Wars Republic Commando™
- State of Emergency
- Street Fighter® Anniversary Collection
- Street Racing Syndicate™
- Stubbs the Zombie™ in Rebel without a Pulse™
- The Suffering
- Super Bubble Pop
- Super Monkey Ball™ Deluxe
- SX Superstar™
- Syberia II
- Taz Wanted
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles™
- The Terminator™ Dawn of Fate
- Terminator® 3: Rise of the Machines
- Test Drive [1]
- Test Drive®: Eve of Destruction
- Tetris Worlds™
- The Thing™
- Thief: Deadly Shadows™
- Thousand Land
- Thrillville™
- Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® 07
- TMNT™ Mutant Melee™
- Tom and Jerry: War of the Whiskers
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon™ 2
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon™: Island Thunder™
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® 2 Summit Strike
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® 3 Black Arrow™
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® Chaos Theory™
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® Double Agent™
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® Pandora Tomorrow™
- Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater™ 4
- Tony Hawk's Underground
- Tony Hawk's Underground 2
- Torino 2006™ Winter Olympics
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- Toxic Grind
- Transworld Surf
- Trigger Man™
- Trivial Pursuit® Unhinged ™
- True Crime: Streets of LA
- Turok: Evolution™
- Ty The Tasmanian Tiger™
- Ty The Tasmanian Tiger™ 2: Bush Rescue™
- Ty the Tasmanian Tiger™ 3: Night of the Quinkan
- Ultimate Spider-Man
- Ultra Bust-A-Move
- Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict
- Urban Freestyle Soccer
- The Urbz™: Sims In The City™
- Van Helsing™
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- Wakeboarding Unleashed: Featuring Sean Murray
- WarPath [1]
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From brief memory there are a couple of measurements taken which for pirates are stored on disk, to try and fake a legit disk you need per disk extraction and randomness added to simulate real life and avoid detection via xbox live.
That is not a concern here and a single "valid" responce could be baked into the emulator i would think, the least possible to execute the code. That would allow you to play your own dvd games.
That might explain why the XBLA games are all demos... Interesting. I wonder if you can create an ISO of a downloaded game and make it work in the emulator.
Yup, however from my memory (now its been a long time since using kreon firmware and injecting my own security sectors) there were multiple version of the valid response sectors. I dont remember if they were backwards compatible. I do remember having to pull down updated versions for newer games and using those values instead of the older values.
And there was also the yearly forced update of the xbox optical drive firmware to cope with newer security measures, but that shouldnt be impacted here.
Its just a large task in and of itself to tackle, that I doubt they really covered it. Then again maybe they had to in order to get anything able to test and run.
And there was also the yearly forced update of the xbox optical drive firmware to cope with newer security measures, but that shouldnt be impacted here.
Its just a large task in and of itself to tackle, that I doubt they really covered it. Then again maybe they had to in order to get anything able to test and run.
Xbla purchased status is a flag in the executable when you buy a game you download a new patched ver, this has a signature so on retail manual tinkering would break it, how the emulator handles this is a mystery but you could patch a demo to test, there where some file explorers released i think but no doubt there is an automated tool from the dark side but thats less educational.
I assume they have to emulate the drive to just make it work,the hacked firmware is probably easier to get than the retail and i believe one of the very early drives did not actually do the later security so emulating that would mean you could ignore the more complicated security anyway. Also i think quite a bit was inforced by the dash / live so again not an issue here. First game playing on the last dash etc.
I suspect a very basic single security sector for one disk used for all games might even work unless you can skip the lot somehow as the console reboots into the game as controlled by the dash, if there is no dash and the emulator is controlling state perhaps the games do not self check or that was the later security method....
Interesting conundrum
Playing a Xbox Live Arcade game in demo version was like an unpatched version and the full game was patched.. If there was a way to "intercept" the patch that is being downloaded that would be an advantage, but Live being a closed network makes that difficult.
One of the first AAA games of the X360 working on Xenia!
(odd polygons at times, but it works)Phantasy Star Universe: :smile2:
Can't the emulator always say the check is OK? Basically it's like playing game with custom dash. Check is disabled.
Or they can use the custom DVD firmware rom as a base. Since ixtreme version 3 or something it works fine with checks even online, as long as you use it with proper source and burning techniques. Or at least that what the release note claims.
Or they can use the custom DVD firmware rom as a base. Since ixtreme version 3 or something it works fine with checks even online, as long as you use it with proper source and burning techniques. Or at least that what the release note claims.
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It's too soon, but it could be able to launch official Xbox emulator.
That emulator was part of the Xbox 360 OS, I think, I wonder if they have the entire updates, if so and if they manage to get the X360 emulator to work 100% properly the built-in one should work without a hitch. That could help to finally have proper emulation for the original Xbox, which was a PC. I think the hardest part to emulate from the original Xbox is the excellent sound chip.
TNT Racers, a bit foggy but working
Yup, the original xbox emulatorr on the x360 is actually on your hard drive as partition 2 (?) and has a large slew of data files and executables.
Most aftermarket hdd for x360 actually never included this partition so you couldn't play original xbox games unless you copied it from an authentic hdd. Though some aftermarket sellers did things right and included it. Most didn't care, because the price for unofficial 250gb hdd was $60 versus the $150-$200 official 250gb MS hdd.
Most aftermarket hdd for x360 actually never included this partition so you couldn't play original xbox games unless you copied it from an authentic hdd. Though some aftermarket sellers did things right and included it. Most didn't care, because the price for unofficial 250gb hdd was $60 versus the $150-$200 official 250gb MS hdd.
So do you think they just copied that partition content -without the dedicated 6GB stuff- into Xenia and we could have original Xbox emulation "for free"?
Funny thing is before Xenia some of the emulation developers were so emphatic and absolutely certain in their knowledge that xbox 360 games would take 20 years to have the hardware to emulated xbox 360 games, that they'd need 3-8 cores running at 15-20ghz or more to emulate. Certainly not be like that Dragonball fighting game running by overclocking to a i5/i7 to +4.5ghz.
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I don't blame them, it's a myth from emulators which we always took for certain. You needed an awful powerful machine to run the SNES on an emulator as it ran irl, same for Neo Geo and so on.
The most accurate SNES emulator emulates the console to such a extent that it uses a lot of power to run the games, because there were "timings" for certain things that are missed in other emulators. I watched that working on a youtube video comparing emulators, but I don't remember which video was it.
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