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xqemu
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why can't console games be ran natively?
These projects are called compatibility layers, or "translation layers" sometimes. I think XQEmu (OG XBox on PC) works the same.
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QEMU Version 6.0.0 Released
Yes:
https://xemu.app/
https://xqemu.com/
Are both original Xbox emulators built off of QEMU. I've only used Xemu, but performance was pretty good for the games I tried on it (it doesn't have a way to upscale rendering yet though).
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Morrowind Rebooted the Original Xbox Without You Ever Noticing
It's indeed a bit like a kexec.
On system initialization, kernel routines are copied into RAM by the bootloader[1]. Executables run in ring 0, and have a jump table to call kernel routines in their own address space (IIRC) [2].
As such, loading any executable counts as a soft reboot.
Also, there is a functioning open source emulator, Xqemu [3] (and its sibling/fork focused on speed and compatibility more than accuracy, xemu [4])
I recommend reading "17 mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox security system", which is very informative [5].
[1]: https://xboxdevwiki.net/Boot_Process
[2]: https://xboxdevwiki.net/Kernel
[3]: https://xqemu.com/
[4]: https://xemu.app/
[5]: https://xboxdevwiki.net/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xb...
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Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
There is one emulator currently that does do that, the "XQEMU" emulator for the original Xbox https://xqemu.com/
It's in its infant stages at the moment according to the "Emulation General" wiki and focuses heavily on "accuracy" over performance
Other emulators such as CXBX-Reloaded have made larger strides, currently emulating roughly 10% of the software library
It's also worth stating, while the Xbox seems like an "easy" target, being based on an ia-32 (Pentium III) PC with an Nvidia GeForce chip (somewhere between a Geforce 2 and 3 at the time) it is an absolutely monstrous beast with minimal documentation about its hardware and numerous "gotchas"
It also has a very small library of 'exclusive' content which detracts from gaining many developers
vitetris
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Show HN: A Terminal Tetris Game
In no way detracting from your awesome toy project, intrigued people might also want to check out vitetris. Very similar tetris in the terminal with ncruses, but also supports network play! https://github.com/vicgeralds/vitetris
What are some alternatives?
xemu - Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)
tetris.rs - The classic tetris game written in Rust using ncurses
Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
tritris - A redirect to tritris
box64 - Box64 - Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64 Linux devices
termtris - Tetris game for terminals
game-compatibility - Cxbx-Reloaded game compatibilty list, using GitHub issues
UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
extract-xiso - Xbox ISO Creation/Extraction utility. Imported from SourceForge.
yuzu - Nintendo Switch emulator
gust_tools - A set of utilities for dealing with Gust (Koei Tecmo) PC games files
QEMU - Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.