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Maybe it's packed with the download? since you need to download for every game.Where is the app for the emulation?
Maybe it's packed with the download? since you need to download for every game.Where is the app for the emulation?
Here's the Interview video on backward compatibility:
so Xbox 1 emulating Xbox 360 emulating Xbox Original
ah! yeah it will be better to directly emulate X originalThat would be so inefficient.. considering how both the original XBox and the XBone use x86 CPUs.
Here's the official MS Backwards Compatability site: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/backward-compatibility
There isn't one. The game download itself comes with it.Where is the app for the emulation?
Ironically, Xenia begs to differ.I'd wager the most "tweaking" for this EMU resides on the CPU side of the house given the lineage of the GPU side. Moving to the PC would probably put a very specific set of requirements on for the GPU likely limiting to one vendor and specific architectural requirements.
Yes, basically bringing universal Xbox emulation, like a PC of sorts. That would make it into the headlines.Now if they can back port the Xbox 1 emulator so I can get Rallisport Challenge 2 running, I can ditch two Xboxen at the same time ....
This is the kind of technology transparency you expect these days. PS Now does the same thing, the PS3 game icon appears along with the PS4 games with the clever stuff hidden from the user.There isn't one. The game download itself comes with it.
Yes, basically bringing universal Xbox emulation, like a PC of sorts. That would make it into the headlines.
Now make a PC DirectX wrapper, fool PC games into believing they are running on a PC and play Steam and GoG games and stuff. Best console ever. Full Xbox and PC compat.
Maybe developers wouldn't allow it, trying to read it from your point of view. Microsoft on the other hand would be very happy selling boxes like pancakes.That will never happen,not for technical reasons but rather if you could buy Mass Effect: Andromeda for $20 less from Origin/GOG/Steam and still play it in your living on XB1 why would you ever pay MS for a game again (I don't just mean buying from XBL here rather the licence fee on every XB1 game sold)?
Besides which the API for PC is huge and unwieldy with base assumptions that differ radically from those on console, for example until very recently most PC games piled most logic onto one core because even a modest PC offer huge levels of IPC on a single core but cannot be relied upon to have more than two cores. Everything on consoles is heavily threaded so it's much easier to work out how to spread 3 cores worth of work over 6 physical cores than 1 monster cores worth of work over 6.
MS have clarified that they are using emulation and the d/l is basically 'EMU + Xbox360 O/S + Game', man I hope Digital Foundry get a nice in depth interview on this tech
Now if they can back port the Xbox 1 emulator so I can get Rallisport Challenge 2 running, I can ditch two Xboxen at the same time ....
You could clone a BC HDD onto third party / home bodged HDD and get BC that way, if you wanted to.