Back in March, we informed you about RPCS3 running a commercial PS3 game. Well, here is some good news for X360 fans as Ben Vanik has released a video for Xenia (a working Xbox 360 emulator), showcasing his emulator running a commercial game for the first time.
According to Ben Vanik, Xenia is using his debug interpreter, something that explains why it is extremely slow for now. And the first game that was showcased running on Xenia was Frogger 2. Yes yes, it is not much for most of you but this is a big success and a huge step in emulating X360.
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Hooray! 😀
So…..for let’s say….2016 ,will any of those two be able to run Red Dead Redemption and Marvel vs Capcom? or at least The Last Of Us and Halo4/reach?
Let’s hope so.
Looking forward to it! i have a ps2 but i only use it for Spider-Man 2 because that game doesnt work well in dolphin or pcsx2.
God of war ,shadow of the colossus ,dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi 1,2 and 3 i have them all on retail but i rater play it on a emulator ,the upscale is awesome.
Let’s just hope you don’t need monstrous hardware to run it. Probably will though 🙁
But we’ll be ready for it Mr. Cat 🙂
Will we really? What if only the highest end components at the time would be able to get the emulator running?
With a two Titan Z ,no problemo xD
Nah make that 4.
You cant Quad SLI a dual GPU card
You can but obviously not 4 actual graphics cards. That would be 8 GPUs. I meant quad sli in the sense that two Titan Zs are 4 GPUs.
oh okay, but its not called quad SLI in that case
Since they’re too different arquitectures ,you probably will ,but not because of lack of power ,is because of differences of languages.
thats why i always say : “The ps4 emulator will most likely come before the ps3 emu”
I’m not sure if sarcasm or not… there’s no way there are going to be a playable ps4 emulator in the next 5-10 years with the hardware we have today also considered that a very early state ps3 emulator just surfaced last month and that console was released in 2006. The ps3 emulator itself is going to require a beasty PC to be able to run, I imagine.
Not sarcasm at all ,and im not sure if you’re a console fanboy (or what is worst a $onytard) or you’re terribly missinformed.
Arquitecture is what maters friend ,if program for power pc is VERY different from program for X86 also ,the ps4 has only 1 single pool of shared ram and a gnc based gpu.
If you still don’t believe me then lets use our memory ,on the 6º gen the ps2 was the weakest console and the gamecube just raped but since the ps2 had a VERY dificult arquitecture it took a long while to make most of its library smooth playeable.
The dolphin emulator on the other hand has always been good ,it runs the games much better than the pcsx2 and the console that dolphin emulates is way more powerful than the ps2 ,in fact ,the REmake looks almost 7º gen.
So yeah ,there will be a PS4 emulator and since its arquitecture is JUST THE SAME as an standar pc ,it will most likely get released before the ps3 emu.
but for that to happen devs have to hack ps4 to know more about hardware and firmware…….so no hope until they got jailbreaked.
Not sarcasm at all
the nintendo gamecube was way more powerful than the ps2 and it was better emulated (and earlier if im not wrong)
if you test dbz tenkaichi 3 pcsx2 it will run much slower than how it does on dolphin
so NO ,arquitecture and program laguage is what mater ,dude the ps4 and x1 have a standar pc arquitecture ,with a gdc based gpu and the ps4 has only one pool
HAVE YOU ANY IDEA OF HOW DIFFERENT POWER PC TO X86 IS?
you want to aply logic with the ps3 emulator
why don’t you aply logic with the 6º gen emulators?
im not sure if you’re a console fanboy (or what is worst a $onytard) or you’re just terribly misinformed.
Sorry i forgot the ps4 ran of x86 and not PowerPC like it’s older generations, when that’s said yes i do know the difference from PowerPC to x86, I’m not sure why you are trying to insult me with your fanboy crap talk.. I’m a retro Console/PC enthusiast. Why are you bringing Gamecube vs pcxs2 up in this context? The gamecube is using a RISC based PowerPC cpu, the ps2 is using a sony’s own Emotion Engine CPU, The architecture of those CPU’s are completely different but is not entirely to blame the performance comparisons from the GC and PS2 emulator and program language doesn’t really matter that much, it’s the developer/programmer that creates the magic, not the engine (it depends… but is most likely not to blame). PCSX2 has always been a horribly unstable emulator while the Dolphin emulator runs very smooth indeed and while you’re right the Architecture is one of the reasons, it’s still about emulating the cpu the best and in this case the PowerPC CPU was way easier than the Sony CPU. I do however admit that it’s more likely we’re going to see a ps4 emulator sooner than a stable ps3 emulator
im sorry if you felt insulted but i tought you were trolling me.
Yep that’s why you need hardware that’s exponentially more powerful than the PS2 to run PCSX2 smooth. I also think the PS4 emulator will probably come out first because of the X86.
Why will you need that when we have PlayStation Now?
LOL have you play Shadow of Collossus on PCXS2? And playstation sucks, I just want to play Red Dead Redemption. Im not going to buy a damn console for a game.
I don’t see why people get hyped about emus ,lets be honest guys ,we all want them to play only 3-5 games
in a xbox emu i bet you guys will only play halo ,gears and rdr …..an thats it.
in a ps3 you guys will most likely play mgs4,tlou and uncharted ,beyond two souls? pls.
personally i would play journey and mgs4 in a ps3 emu and rdr ,halo 3,reach, 4 and Red Dead Redemption on a xbox emulator.
Because I’d rather not buy a PS3 for a couple games?
psnow is only for tvs ,mobile devices and ps devices ,not for pc altough it might come to linux or mac someday.
but you need to have a pretty good conection ,maybe 5MB/s is meh for U.S. but for the rest of the world ….
I’m curious about the One and PS4. Since they are essentially running on modified PC hardware, is it possible a ripped PS4/One game could be patched to run *natively* on PC? Not emulation, just modded/patched into a regular PC game.
In theory, yes just like you can run OS X on a PC with modifications, though Macs don’t have custom architecture. Not sure how you’d get by the custom CPU/GPU features though.
But the question is : What else is there to play on Xbox 360 .? There was only one game I was interested in , and it is already on PC now (Alan Wake) . Still this is great news , another victory for PC and I’m sure lot of folks want to play Halo and Gears trilogy but none of those games excite me .
I kinda wanted to try Red Dead on PC as well lol! I think it would be a perfect western great game overall!
I second that. Red Dead is one of the only console-exclusive games that I really wanted.
For some reason I never got interested in Rockstar games . GTA 3 was the
only one that I wanted to play . I do play GTA games at some point , but is not something that have ever awaited . I didn’t even watch single dev diary
or trailer of RDR except few random gameplay clips I came across by
chance . Strange but true. I know there are a lot of people that want to play RDR and few other games , so I’m glad that emulators are returning .
I agree. I never really have so much hype for the GTA games and Rockstar games in general. RDR is an exception. I don’t know of any other good games that has captured the western theme so well.
I tried it, 480p, barely 30 fps , target lock and horribly borring missions and story, if you like western and like to hear cowboy dualogues, the game is good, but its not a “fun” game like say GUN or call of juarez, its too focused in its western themes, so if you dont care much about the setting you wont enjoy it.
Well i kinda ment like a proper PC port more than using this emulator but im glad im not missing out on a whole lot then i guess lol.
I guess Final Fantasy X3 is on Xbox360 too.
Kind of agree, there aren’t too many exclusives on the PS3/360 that I’d even want. Otherwise you’re just better off getting the PC version.
But it’s still interesting from a tech standpoint, and the sooner those systems are emulated on PC the sooner we can claim their libraries for the PC Gaming Master Race mwahahahahha! 😉
These are some good news. Now there are two things let. These emulators(x360 and ps3) to become playable and for us to buy a nuclear fulled PC to run them :). Joking aside these will probably need a monster pc to run…
Why bother with emulators? You can get used X360 and PS3 for the price of average video card and still have some money left. Heck, I’ve seen used X360-s cheaper than my empty PC case.
If it’s efficient and you have a powerful PC you can run emulated games better than the original systems. Wii games look beautiful on PC at 1080p with nice anti-aliasing etc. Adding those two things, and perhaps a slightly more even framerate, would be a nice improvement to existing PS3/360 games. Though tbh, we’re probably a long way away from that since the hit from running in emulation would bring most PCs to their knees.
Stop complaint! Go away.
wake me up when xbox 360 emulator are working …..
Good job!
GAMBARAN Terlalu lambat kemungkinan xbox 360 belum tentu working tetapi harus di kembangkan terlebih dahulu semoga saja lebih lancar seperti xbox pada umumnya.