Xenia - Xbox 360 Emulator that already boots and plays games

[Oniros]

Before starting, I just want to highlight this section from the forum's TOS:

No ISO trading, ROM begging, copyright infringement, or assistance with any of these – for example torrent links. It doesn't matter what is legal in your country, although discussion of emulation is not a problem.

Just to be clear to not get the thread locked. I am actually surprised to be the first one in making this thread, as it seems that the project has been around since March of last year. I recall seeing a video of Caladrius running with some missing effects and stuttering and didn't really think twice about it. The dev recently has uploaded tons of footage of the following games already running, some to some decent levels of playability: Deathsmiles, DFK BL, Under Defeat HD, Bullet Soul, Otomedius Gorgeous (glitched sound effects), Espgaluda II, Raiden IV, Eschatos (missing audio).

What are you guys' thoughts? Personally I'm pretty excited. I know that my console won't last me forever, and if this allows me to play my favorite shmups decades from now I would be quite happy in the retirement house lol.

Links to website, github, youtube channel.

[Milspex]

looks interesting!

[BulletMagnet]

Always good to see another console's library "preserved", so to speak, though I wonder how beefy a computer you need for this stuff to run successfully even in an incomplete state - not a huge deal at the moment, since physical 360 consoles are far from rare at this point, but especially considering its iffy reliability and how quickly MS abandoned it for its successor (not to mention the region lock), it's still nice to see progress being made on this front

[pbsk8]

DDP Saidaioujou looks like is working good as well!

I hope they release this emu soon.

[cave hermit]

For the record you'll need windows 8.1 or higher in order to use the emulator.

This seems like it'll be really nice in the future when microsoft drops support and 360 units start to fail. Not to mention that I'll be able to buy region locked cave games and play them through this!

For the time being though, my computer is just a laptop with a decent nvidia card; it can run 360 era games with better performance than the 360 port equivalents, but I doubt that it would be able to run 360 games through an emulation layer.

Or maybe it runs natively given the nature of modern game consoles? Regardless, for the time being it shouldn't be needed (although it would be nice for those region locked games).

[Blackbird]

Personally I feel that this is still a bit "too soon" considering that new X360 units are still readily available and Microsoft has plans to introduce backwards compatibility with some X360 games. Would be nice to wait a bit longer until the console is fully off the market.

[mariusrhpsd]

BAHAHHAHA why would you buy an xbone to play 360 games tho

[SapphireDensetsu]

Personally I feel that this is still a bit "too soon" considering that new X360 units are still readily available and Microsoft has plans to introduce backwards compatibility with some X360 games. Would be nice to wait a bit longer until the console is fully off the market.

Vulkan, DirectX 12, and high system requirements preclude wide adoption for a few years, so this shouldn't be a problem. It's just an impressive tech demo at present, really.

[TransatlanticFoe]

Personally I feel that this is still a bit "too soon" considering that new X360 units are still readily available and Microsoft has plans to introduce backwards compatibility with some X360 games. Would be nice to wait a bit longer until the console is fully off the market.

Wii emulation was pretty spot on before the console was ditched (it had the advantage of basically being a Gamecube though). This probably has a while more to go and the 360 is basically gone - backwards compatibility on xbone is only going to be for the really popular and/or really easy titles. I doubt it'll have a much larger library than original xbox on 360.

[finisherr]

I just discovered this recently myself. When this becomes more stable I'll definitely be purchasing Mushihimesama HD. Maybe even Ketsui.

Also, I'm very intrigued by the reverse engineering process. Might be an excuse to dabble in C++ a bit more.