Why do you think Xbox emulation isnt doing so well?

[blueshogun96]

I was just wondering on your opinions. Why do you think Xbox emulation is not doing so well now adays? I understand that Caustik and _SF_ don't have time to work on the emus anymore, but these are some reasons why I think that coders arent willing to work on an Xbox emulator.

1. Fear of being sued by microsoft.
2. They hate Xbox with a passion.
3. There isnt enough documentation.

Your opinions please.

[SWAT_Marc]

I think that most XBOX games went out for PC (Halo2 is coming in a near future) or had their PS2 or GC version, though I'd love to run Conker:live and reloaded in my computer.

[flowrent]

There are a lot of games that don't show on PC .
Xbox is really similar to a PC and a 3Ghz cpu could handle an Xbox emu.
I think the fighting games are the ones PC gamers want the most : Mortal Kombat,Soul Calibur,Dead or Alive,Kof,Fight Night etc..But there are also good titles like Burnout,Ssx,Ninja Gaiden,Forza Motorsport,Conker,Black...
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I've seen Xbox 360 hacked firmwares released so i guess it's not a matter of guts .
Why no one wants to do it? I really don't know the reasons..
I'll throw a party when i hear even a rumour of an Xbox emu

[_Zack_]

I think it's surprising that we hav'nt had a xbox emulator. The reason :
not enough interest??

[synch]

The simple answer would be:

-Why don't you start one?

The long one, imho, would be: Too likely to a pc, emulating the rest of things becomes a hack job rather than emulating, and the more important, many of the titles were ported to PC or ported from pc.

Sincerely, I'd really like to emulate Panzer Dragoon Orta, but I'd stop there, there're not any other xbox titles that catch my attention...

[_Zack_]

I think caustix came the closest with cxbx. i think he was onto a good idea there. Converting xbe to windows exe. of course he managed to fully emulate turok evolution with full speed.

[WhiteX]

I´d like to play Ninja Gaiden but i can live without it.

[_Zack_]

the only game i would want is halo 2. But thats coming to the PC soon anyway.

[Sirmatto]

the only game i would want is halo 2. But thats coming to the PC soon anyway.

Unfortunately it's going to cost you close to $200 to play it, and that's if you don't have to do any hardware upgrades...

[flowrent]

What about that Xbox emu inside Xbox 360 ?
As i understand there's an app that can read/write the contents of the hdd.
Would it be easier to reverse engineer that one or make it from scratch ?
But first ,is that possible now or the 360 has to be hacked some more ?