Players can customize graphics settings, including up to 4x resolution upscaling, VSync support, Fullscreen and Windowed display modes, anisotropic filtering, enhanced anti-aliasing, and more. These games also include customizable language and audio settings.
Based on the language of this being an early release, I’m assuming there are more titles in the works.
$10 a piece also seems like a reasonable price, I’d probably pirate them anyway but for paying customers that seems good.
Goes without saying, don’t give Microsoft your money. If you absolutely must play OG Xbox games on PC, use XQEmu or CXBX-R.
Can personally attest to you all the Blinx is not worth it, having played it originally.
No offense to the developers but the state of Xbox and Xbox 360 emulation is light years behind PS2 and Gamecube/PS3 and Wii&WiiU
Decompilations/recompilations are increasingly making this a non-issue.
We recently got a decomp of DoDonpachi Saiaidoujou for 360, that’s the level of niche we’re at right now.
This is true, for e.g. the 360 version of Deadly Premonition is still busted (both rendering and game progress) in Xenia and has been since 2021. Using Microsoft shit won’t help you with that however, since their official selection is so limited. You can’t play Otogi or Jet Set Radio Future on MS consoles…
This was a few years ago so it’s not the situation now, but at one point there were only two original Xbox emulators. One ran a few popular games flawlessly, but had 0 audio. The other had audio, but games had slowdowns and generally ran poor. I always wondered why they don’t just steal each others ideas or, you know, work together instead of creating two competing pieces of software that do the same thing but are both equally terrible in their own unique way.
CXBX-Reloaded and Xemu also use different ISO formats so I hope you like converting them back and forth or keeping two sets of beefy DVD images on hand. Because of that I mainly just stick to XEMU since that seems to work better. I boot XEMU a few times a year, let it update and check if Dead or Alive 2/3 still turn into slideshows on half the stages. The answer is always yes. Then I hop into Xenia and try to run Deadly Premonition and the game’s textures are still broken however many years in. Come onnnnnnnnnn
That said I did successfully complete Gears of War 2, 3, and Judgment on Xenia and only GoW 3 was severely hampered by emulation issues. Even then, they weren’t graphical issues or crashes, just the game’s scripting breaking completely under emulation, softlocking you constantly. Sadly the user experience is very spartan when you’re used to the slick UIs of most modern emulators. Again, not the devs fault as I understand there are only a few people plugging away at Xbox and Xbox 360 emulation where other consoles have much, much bigger scenes
If it counts for anything, Deadly Premonition is fuckin’ poor and not worth playing
That’s a weird way to spell “pure cinema and an undisputed classic”
The queerphobic copaganda that is also just twin peaks??
Swery well and truly shat the bed with the sequel whose dialogue and cutscenes are often physically painful to sit through and ALL OVER the fucking place with its messaging. One moment York is lecturing the audience about how we should respect and celebrate diversity, then something horribly racist or transphobic happens. How the character of Thomas is handled in the first game mostly comes off as dated. He’s portrayed in a much more sympathetic light than like, Albert Ashford from RE:CV or whatever which helps
also just twin peaks
Swery explaining how DP1 isn’t just overtly ripping off Twin Peaks and is a totally original creation whose similarities to it are purely coincidental:
Literally yes.
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Wait, why? I mean they’re a money grubbing billion dollar mega corp of course but I forgot if they did something specific. I feel like I vaguely know of them being on the bds list.
Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Microsoft’s complicity in Israel’s apartheid and genocide is well documented, exposing its strong ties to the Israeli military, its collaboration with Israeli government ministries, and its involvement in the Israeli prison system, which is notorious for systematic torture and abuse of Palestinians. Microsoft knowingly provides Israel with technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), that is deployed to facilitate grave human rights violations, war crimes, crimes against humanity (including apartheid), as well as genocide. In light of the International Court of Justice’s legally-binding rulings to prevent Israel’s plausible genocide in Gaza, as well as its July 19 Advisory Opinion affirming Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid system, Microsoft has failed its corporate obligation to prevent genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Microsoft, as well as its boards of directors and executives, may face criminal liability for this complicity.
Microsoft provides the Israeli military with Azure cloud and AI services that are crucial in empowering and accelerating Israel’s genocidal war on 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip. Microsoft’s extensive ties with Israel’s military are revealed in investigations by The Guardian with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, demonstrating how the Israeli military turned to Microsoft to meet the technological demands of genocide.
Thank you for educating me, apologies for my ignorance
Yes, Microsoft is the subject of boycott due to enabling & supporting the genocide in Gaza, primarily. Them and Amazon both have the sort of role in that that IBM did in the third reich, shall we say.
My opinion is that the boycott is in most cases the least anyone in the imperial core can do for the people of Palestine, literally just not put money in the pockets of corps with involvement in a genocide…
however
I know scolding people isn’t super productive but it bugs me constantly seeing people give money to M$. Shit company anyway, haven’t used any of their stuff in years.
ms games division is a BDS target
WOrth noting that OG Xbox emulation seems to be in a good state.
I’m hoping they hack these releases and copy the MS emulator
Also, the wording is kinda’ ambiguous but isn’t this cloud streaming?
Edit: might be native on console + PC + cloud streaming. The hardware specs seem insanely high on PC if it’s just cloud streaming.
Seems hight for native too. DirectX 12? Weren’t these games made for DirectX 8?
That’s probably just because Microsoft wants to force people to use DX12 since they made it and probably pushes up the required OS version to run it. PCSX2 has support for DX12 too, so maybe there’s some benefit to it.
I boycott micrslop
Can’t wait to pirate these!
I’m so tired of the nostalgiabait
Cool, I guess. Aside from Microsoft being bad official projects like this are subject to the same copyright and license shenanigans any regular game release is. Hope the game you want to play isn’t in legal limbo or that the modern IP holders are willing to play ball.
With emulators you can just grab the rom and play it. Or you could if Xbox emulation wasn’t so fucking bad
Compatibility lists for CXBX-R and XQEMU respectively.
Big games like Jet Set Radio Future and Panzer Dragoon Orta are playable. Wreckless, Gunvalkyrie, Group S Challenge and Otogi are “ingame” status. Needing a Xbox HDD image is annoying but both emulators work, albeit they require different game formats.
I wish they would release burnout 2 and 3
Edit: Wreckless too
We’ll see but I don’t think any feature here can improve the visual/audio perfection of JSRF
JSRF is likely in purgatory over soundtrack licensing.
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I heard GTA4 is part of the BC list on XB1, etc. but they patched out the music. So even if JSRF released it’d likely be the same.
JSRF without the soundtrack, what is the fucking point anymore lmao.
Leaning in really close to you and whispering “the gameplay.” You smell a faint whiff of my Prada Luna Rossa Black clone scent as I draw back.
presumably you could load in the songs yourself if you named the files a certain way and put them in a specific folder
fusion frenzy was fun for a minute… had more fun with the demo of that with friends than the actual game once it came out.
dunno bout the other ones
