It appears that the team behind the best Xbox 360 emulator, Xenia, has made incredible progress lately. YouTube’s ‘Emulators for PC’ has shared some videos from its latest version, showing Blue Dragon, Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST and more running on the PC via this emulator.
Emulators for PC used an Intel Xeon e3-1240 V2 @ 3.6 GHz with 8GB of DDR3-1866MHz RAM and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050ti. Obviously, a Xeon CPU is not powerful enough to run this emulator so don’t get discouraged by the framerates your are about to see in these videos.
Furthermore, it appears that Halo 3 and Halo 3 ODST can be played but they are not perfectly emulated yet. In fact, and with the exception of Condemned, Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker and Blue Dragon, pretty much all the other games suffer from major graphical glitches.
Still, we believe that it is really amazing that this Xbox 360 emulator can even boot/run these triple-A games. Not only that, but users with really high-end CPU may be able to run these games at 30fps (I know, not ideal but they can be considered to be running at full speed as they were locked at 30fps on Xbox 360). Here is hoping that the developers will be able to resolve all these graphical glitches in the next future releases!
![XENIA DX12 [Xbox 360] - Halo 3 [Gameplay] DirectX 12 api #2](https://www.dsogaming.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FFL5mixU7RTk%2F0.jpg)
![XENIA DX12 [Xbox 360] - Halo 3: ODST [Ingame] DirectX 12 api #2](https://www.dsogaming.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FJr747FZhjig%2F0.jpg)
![XENIA [Xbox 360] - DirectX 12 [MGS. Blue Dragon. GTA4] Multi Test #3](https://www.dsogaming.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fz4mMZUIH8jM%2F0.jpg)
![XENIA DX12 [Xbox 360] - Def Jam: Icon [Gameplay] DirectX 12 api #2](https://www.dsogaming.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FdSzYsOeAGhQ%2F0.jpg)
![XENIA DX12 [Xbox 360] - Far Cry Instincts: Predator [Gameplay] DirectX 12 api #2](https://www.dsogaming.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fv-zidGllj7E%2F0.jpg)
![XENIA DX12 [Xbox 360] - Rumble Roses XX [Gameplay] DirectX 12 api #12](https://www.dsogaming.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FklrMVGDCS6Y%2F0.jpg)
![XENIA DX12 [Xbox 360] - Condemned: Criminal Origins [Gameplay] DirectX 12 api #1](https://www.dsogaming.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FDPBL7Xp_QDI%2F0.jpg)
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Amazing progress.
It truly is some impressive progress. I assume this emulators, like most other ones, has only been making this sort of progress because of an influx of donated money coming in. Great to know I one day might be able to play all these console games since I haven’t owned one for quite some time now.
Money doesnt make an emulator better, it’s the skill, knowledge and patience of the programmers that give us emulators.
Jezus, I bought 2 ps3, they are cheap as f, one jailbroken, play any game you want easy.
This is Xbox news
Does it matter, xbox360 is cheap as f too
Then you should buy one and send it to me
I have one 😀
Emulators is about preserving those games long after those consoles wont be available to be purchased
tripped out with blue dragon, my all time favorite exclusive on xbox 360, next to lost odyssey, gears and Kameo.
I hope in the future this emulator can play DOAX2 smoothly…
and doa4 🙂
From a true FF fan 😀
This is progress… though very very slow progress…
The new layout for this site looks like cancer.
Downloading right now. Lets see how it run
Wake me up when Red Dead Redemption is ready and playable.