03-06-2018, 10:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-06-2018, 10:41 PM by Takahashi2212.)
(03-06-2018, 08:30 PM)CLXcool Wrote: I'm kinda surprised this didn't happen sooner to be honest.
There is a severe lack of documentation regarding the Xbox and how it works, meaning people were essentially working from scratch. It even stumped Microsoft when they added Xbox emulation to the 360, since they also had to essentially reverse engineer the Xbox in software. This lack of documentation is reason the 360 isn't fully backwards compatible, and why games were added over time. This is unlike the PS2, where the PS1 was fully documented, so the PS2 can emulate it perfectly and every game is compatible.
If you remember that story where a guy found an Xbox dev kit and wiped it and people were pissed, this is the reason why. That dev kit would've been the golden ticket to Xbox emulation.
That's also why there have been several failed Xbox emulators over the years, and why this emulator is so impressive, even in it's current rough state.
Other consoles, like the Nintendo 64 or the Sega Saturn, face similar issues in emulation, but those are regarding how the consoles were built. The N64's issues are so bad that emulating the Wii emulating the N64 is actually more stable and has more compatibility than emulating the N64 itself.