forgive me if this is a silly question i am having problems finding sites that are creating xbox emulators and vcd player ability

cheers a lot

No such thing as an XBox emulator, and probably won't be for many many years.

he means emu's that run on the xbox methink!

indeed i do mean emulators that run on a xbox apologies if i got people a bit confused well if there are no emus out for it yet i bet there will be loads and loads soon


kindest regz folks tangy

MAME is on it's way on X-Box

wow please tell me more about the new mame for xbox or any links would be really cool cheers dj

and divx apparently!

They will, Divx, I know they can, because an Xbox has the HD, and if we can program stuff to the HD, then we can tell it to read them and update them....VCD's too

Someone will do, if they can do with dreamcast, they can do with Xbox
The PS2 is a waste of time doing this stuff for, all it can do is play games
We want a real machine

MAME isn't gonna be on XBox, the guy made it on his Devkit and is afraid MS will tear him a new one if he releases it.

Originally posted by brandonbooth
No such thing as an XBox emulator, and probably won't be for many many years.

I disagree, I think a PC emu of XBOX will be much easier to create than say a PS2 one, since the XBOX is so similar to a PC..:tup: I won't be suprise if some one comes out with one in a year..

I wanna see n64 on the xbox.

Brandon. One of us needs to check our facts.. Heres what I know..

September last year - He was working with the XBox Dev kit and was determined to do MAME on it..
January this year - there was rumours that he wouldnt do it because of licensing and arguments with MS
NOW... the chips have come out and unsigned code can be played on the XBox, and I think he can do it with no troubles at all. In fact I know he can, a late news release dated April 2002 (last month says it is done and ready to go) please see

http://www.xboxevolved.com/news/archives/00000093.php

he now talks about porting most other stuff across as well such as:
genesis, snes, nes, saturn, psx, dreamcast, and possibly early ps2 games.

where is the news report saying that he ISNT releasing MAME Brandon? I have a feeling it was before the enigmah came out.???

Also yes, DivX and VCD players will be out, they just need the software readers. Also a CD is coming out that allows the user to set the default frequency and region of the XBox (you can work in 50 or 60 MHz, region1 or 2) and it stays set until this CD changes it again.

there is going to be quite a few new gadgets coming out on this now, because if unsigned code can be run as has been proved, then any teccy can write a little gizmo or trippy thing for it and put it out on a shareware site. I think porting Winamp with 3D dancers / beat recognition on music CD's would be a good thing to have.

There not going to be and emulators for X-box for a while cause the console just got cracked. Mame is probably going to be on the X-box and so will Divx-hopefully. Mame WILL be on the PS2 and since PS2 has released Linux and a harddrive will follow soon, Divx will be there too.

Where are your sources Jaice?? Did you even read the link I left on my post??
Its good to hear some news about the PS2 although I would like to see a source saying about MAME on that, because I know the PS1 had very little RAM (2 MB I think) and would be surprised if the PS2 had enough RAM to emulate it comfortably.

Div X is being written by Enigmah, and actually was finished by enigmah a while ago, they have just been tweaking the sound recently..

Emulators such as MAME on the XBox were being ported a while back as well, and porting it from a PC System (ie: Pentium 1, 2, 3, or 4) to an XBox (Pentium 3)... Hmmm now porting it from a pentium to a pentium system, would take months then I reckon ay??? MAME is being ported by Otuku (or Otuku-san), so unless he says he has been halted by MS or unless there are other articles saying they have stopped him I would think he is still going.

Hmmm now then I see a lot of speculation, I see a lot of rumour being repeated, and half truths getting heard and then being put up here as gospel.

Perhaps sources of this information should be posted as well, so people arent mislead that an expert opinion is actually a guess.

now, are there any sources (news reports) to contradict my article that MAME isnt coming out soon? I would be interested to see it.

I never said X-box didn't have MAME. I guess you didn't do any research on the X-box hu, its got 733mhz, but not a P3, I read it was a Celeron.

oh yeah, heheh you're right.. They hit a design flaw in the Intel motherboard didn't they form the stories I have just read.
So its to be AMD chip for the XBox 2 then..

Anyway!!! This is starting to turn into a petty argument and we are losing site of the original thread.. With proof and references and articles, is it known then that MAME development has been stopped, or is it still going ahead? I have to say I havent seen evidence yet that it has been stopped and all evidence I have shows that it will be released soon.
Actually a side question I wanted really to get answered once we had got past this was going to be is the Modeler (Rad mobile) arcade machine, or the Final Burn (Powerdrift) arcade emulators under way for console emulation? or is there still a project I can get my teeth into?

The PS2 can run linux, therefore it can run MAME, and play Divx, but only after buying the linux kit. I'm sure it can run most of the other emus for linux as well. Not WINE cuz Wine Is Not an Emulator. It runes native code and maps function calls. WINE would probably be possible on an xbox if anyone can get it to run standard x86 code.

Originally posted by Badidoh
They will, Divx, I know they can, because an Xbox has the HD, and if we can program stuff to the HD, then we can tell it to read them and update them....VCD's too

Someone will do, if they can do with dreamcast, they can do with Xbox
The PS2 is a waste of time doing this stuff for, all it can do is play games
We want a real machine

What does having a HDD have anything to do with watching DivX? There will be a boot disc for DivX (if it is by software, mod if it is hardware which I do no think will happen).
The HDD does not have anything to do with this stuff! The big thing that the XBox is getting this developed software is because of the developer kits and that XBox is ran on a VERY cracked version of Windows 2000, making it easier to program for for some people.
HDD does not matter about all these hacks.