• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    It’s crazy that you can now play 360 games which used a Power PC CPU but still can’t play most original Xbox games which was a regular X86 PC and Nvidia GPU.

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      16 hours ago

      Xbox emulation is mostly bad because there wasn’t much need for it. Many Xbox games got either a ps2 or pc port. For the few exceptions, Xboxes are very hackable and were pretty cheap for a long time after the 360 released.

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        10 hours ago

        There are over a hundred Xbox games that never got a port. Virtual Boy had only 22 games and got an emulator. There are obscure arcade games, that by their nature are a single game, and have been emulated.

        Being hackable is why I would have expected ports to be easier.