I remember a 3rd party company (forgot the company name) was going to release some software for Dreamcast (DC) to enable it to play PS1 game in DC with bilinear-filtering and higher resolution. But didn't get full license to be released and some games didn't work properly or something like that.
Bungie said today that it is a "true emulator" so it should work....
QUOTE(boxrocker @ May 31 2005, 12:47 PM)
Bungie said today that it is a "true emulator" so it should work....
This will turn out to be some sort of a Virtual PC thing, the XBOX games are written for a x86 system... it is based on Intel system.
It will be like running a virtual PC, even if the XBOX has 512 MB RAM, and it takes what... say 128 or 256 MB RAM to give to the virtual XBOX, it will not function just like the origional. This will probably be some sort of emulation technique used.
I am a programmer, but do not know much about the xbox 360, other than I personally have doubt that it will be backwards compatible.
Think of it... there are exploits to softmod your xbox, someone might get it to work on the new xbox 360.
The XBOX 360 seems like a multimedia center. I bought a copy of Windows Media Center Edition 2005 for all of my computers, even my laptop, I know I will be watching movies, and listening to music on my xbox more than gaming.
Anyhow, I just have a feeling it will function like it does when emulating Windows on a mac.
quick question, in the recent videos we are shown what appears to be people playing Xbox 1 games on 360. Is this true ? Are these only alpha kits that they are playing on? that would suggest that with more processing power they should have no problems ?
M$ has said that the 360 can run most games well. The 360 will have some games that will not want to run just like the ps2's BC. Also I think that if there is a game that will not want to run like Halo 1 then M$ will really try to get it to run because of it's popularity.
What's with all these people debating if it will be BC or not?
MS has said THERE WILL BE BC. Plain and simple. One programmer working on the 360's BC has already stated that YES IT IS UP AND RUNNING. Didn't any of you follow MS's pre E3 press conference? That was the biggest announcement of the whole thing!
Μicrosoft has gone on record and stated that They're ensuring all the "top titles" will be fully BC with no problems and that they're going to work towards getting the entire Xbox catalog fully BC.
The programmer also stated that they are infact using emulation for BC.
IT BETTER BE BACKWARDS COMPATABLE OR IMMA KILL SOMEONE AT M$!!!
QUOTE(q3autraven @ Jun 1 2005, 12:34 AM)
M$ has said that the 360 can run most games well. The 360 will have some games that will not want to run just like the ps2's BC. Also I think that if there is a game that will not want to run like Halo 1 then M$ will really try to get it to run because of it's popularity.
:-D!
Hell I don't care. I have two tv's, two xbox 1's and I will buy two 360's. Double your gameing double your fun, that's what I live by.
If it is backwards compatible then wouldn't you be able to use the same gamesave exploits in order to boot unsighned code . Now the program being booted would have to be updated ( evox is made for the origional xbox hardware ) . But in theory wouldn't this work ?? Any experts out there??
QUOTE(Lamer123 @ Jun 12 2005, 02:05 AM)
If it is backwards compatible then wouldn't you be able to use the same gamesave exploits in order to boot unsighned code . Now the program being booted would have to be updated ( evox is made for the origional xbox hardware ) . But in theory wouldn't this work ?? Any experts out there??
Yes but the saves would also have to be backwards compatable . People would want to transfer their profiles etc. And as far as patching it I could definetly see it considering they are planning on doing software emulation based off the cpu .
QUOTE(Lamer123 @ Jun 12 2005, 06:21 AM)
Yes but the saves would also have to be backwards compatable . People would want to transfer their profiles etc. And as far as patching it I could definetly see it considering they are planning on doing software emulation based off the cpu .
yeah, im pretty sure it just wont work, and its not worth trying to get it to work, seeing as it will only be emulated, you could only operate in the Emulated world. So you can have a modded fake xbox in side your xbox 360. woot.
Though it will be interesting to see how the handle hte whole save and profile thing. How will they let you get your old saves/profiles?
i have heard talk of usb adapter to let you use xbox 1 controllers on 360 i imagine using that and a memory card will be how you will get your xbox saves and such...
at least for the games that support memory card
QUOTE(Pugilist @ Jul 3 2005, 11:56 AM)
Well since someone just made it pretty much clear to me in this thread that there WILL BE backwards compatiability I more than likely will be buying a 360.
Backwards Compatibility? Bring it on...
For example; Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Hello? Black and White buttons? Shoulder Buttons? Weapon changing? Drive-bys? GTA:SA will be better on Xbox 360, just because of controls.
Yeah, sure why not... I would like Backwards Compatibility, although I only have like 3 or 4 games to bring over to Xbox 360, and the other 20-like ones... SELL!!!