I want to play as much as the og Xbox exclusives I possibly can, but emulators don't work. Is there a way to mod my Series S to be compatible with everything or should I get a 360 instead? I prefer the easiest softmod possible
>>12144816Is buying an OG Xbox out of the question? I'd just get that and a copy of Splinter Cell.
>>12144816Don't think there's a SeriesS/X mod, and every BC game, even if you own the disc, needs to be downloaded from Microsoft's servers360 is piss easy to soft mod now, but its emulation for OG Xbox isn't the best(look up a compatibility list)I'd just buy an OG Xbox if you want to specifically play its exclusives, or a 360 if you're also interested in 7th gen stuff.
>>12144816You're better off getting an OG Xbox and modding it or get the fastest CPU you can and hope emulation eventually improves. The Series S/X can only run the same emulators you already have on PC. Back compat OG Xbox games are recompiled by Microsoft so you can't mod it to play everything. OG Xbox games on the 360 often have performance and graphical issues even for the officially supported games and it gets worse when modding to play unsupported games. Some work ok but plenty don't.
>>12144816>og Xbox exclusivessuch as?
>>12144853there's only 112 and most suck lol
>>12144850>OG Xbox games on the 360 often have performance and graphical issues even for the officially supported gamesi personally don't care at this point in time. Maybe that meant something back in the day like how DS games look on 3DS, but I just want something easy with the bonus of playing 360 stuff that got lost when that store shut down.>>12144850>You're better off getting an OG Xbox and modding it Is that easy though? I heard you have to solder something, and that's not something im into
>>12144816>I want to play as much as the og Xbox exclusives I possibly can, but emulators don't work.Wtf?How can the emulators not work after 23 years?Wth is the emulation community doing?
>>12145071emulating x86 on x86 architecture is not easy
>>12145071Apparently microsoft made it so hard to crack. I don't think that's an excuse, but then I think about all those untranslated games we still dont have
>>12144816you should buy the real thing while they're still relatively cheap, youtubers thankfully haven't moved their grift to the Xbox yet
>>12145069you don't need to solder anything to softmod an og xbox, you don't even need a game at this point just an adapter and compatible usb.you'll definitely want to swap out the hard drive though, and that involves opening the console and buying some shit watch a video
>>12145082>you'll definitely want to swap out the hard drive though, and that involves opening the console and buying some shit watch a videoand im out. I just want to slot in a USB/SD card and that's it
>>12145093I'm a gigaretard and managed to do it
>>12145093Your attitude really sucks, especially considering other anons are spoonfeeding info to your useless ass.
>>12144816can you play steel battalion on emulators?
>>12145074>emulating x86 on x86 architecture is not easyI don't know whether to laugh or cry
>>12145131Why would you want to? The game sucked, the controller was the only good thing about it.There has never been a good mech game.
>>12144858>there's only 112 and most suck lolYou'd know a lot about sucking (and truckstops)
>>12145174Do both
>>12145314i've never been to a truckstop, but i can go out any saturday night in Minneapolis and get sucked
>>12145071I assume it's mostly lack of interest.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Xbox-only_games
>>12145370That is false
>>12145390source?
>>12145485Because autism
>>12145071It's a combination of three things:>lack of interest>current state of Xbox emulation is considered "good enough" by normalfags>"LoZ, xBoX sUcKs HuRrRr"
>>12144816The backwards compatibility on 360 really depends on which games you want to play; some play great and others play crap. With modding you can improve the compatibility: https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox_360:Original_Xbox_Games_Compatibility_List
>>12145071>Wth is the emulation community doing?They should:>chatgpt, gemini, copilot, cluade, grok made me a proper and functiona xbox huge emulator and fast.
>>12145671>current state of Xbox emulation is considered "good enough" by normalfagsDidn't OP say that Xbox emulation doesn't even work?
Not OP but are there any good sites to buy an already modded xbox or is my best bet something like ebay?
OP here>>12146187>Didn't OP say that Xbox emulation doesn't even work?I only tried Blinx and Halo, and games look like a broken mirror or something>>12146241also a good idea
>>12146241I used to buy modded consoles off forums like isozone and assemblergames but I can’t think of any that exists atm
>>12144816OG Xboxs are still cheap as shit, just buy one and rip the clock capacitor out before it leaks acid all over the motherboard.The Xbone/Series can only play like 50 OG Xbox games before Microsoft gave up on backwards compatibility and even the 360 emulation isn't perfect
>>12146434If I had to choose, id rather get a 360 that plays everything at less quality than have to do messy hard mods
>OG Xbox thread>Hurr durr only games are Halo and Fable>Seething quakefags>Muh capacitors>Controller too big>Penny Arcade comics from 2001>Old DoA nostalgia>Muh Rareware>Hey guys does anyone remember this hidden gem (Jet Set Radio Future)>Emulation when??>No one actually talks about what games they're playing or the depths of the library.
>>12146596>No one actually talks about what games they're playing or the depths of the library.Then make a thread about that dipshit, stop complainingResponses are in relation to OP's post
Gaylo sucks and HL2 was better
>>12145184Just answer the question
>>12146241you can't buy modded Xbox's on ebay, because reasons, you can try facebook market place. I have close to 30, that I have disassembled cleaned fixed and modded, but have not got around to putting them up for sale.
>OG XBOX RGB has a bad reputation>Turns out setting the console to NTSC-U limits the color space to 16-235 but if you set it to NTSC-J you get the full 0-255 color spaceThis console is packed with weird stuff such as this.
>>12144816Series S/X can't be softmodded. If I remember correctly you can create a dev account and use Xemu but all the same disadvantages and shortcomings of the emulator's functionality on PC apply on the Series X/S.You could softmod an Xbox 360 and use the updated version of the Fusion emulator used for Xbox Series S/X, but still not every game works.
>>12146596I just want to play Tork and the Loons. I also want to jump into a pool of random games like i used to
>>12147221I got really bad news for you if those are the two games you're interested in...
>>12146241>buy an already modded xboxModding an Xbox is so incredibly easy that I would pay somebody to let me mod theirs
>>12147234what is it?
>>12146249I played Halo and Red Dead Revolver on XEmu, they seemed to work just fine for me
>>12146643I'm retarded, will this make darker games more readable/visible on my HDTV? I'm using an HDMI adapter for the console.
>>12146643I thought this was related to the console?Like 1.6 was better at RGB but worse at VGA
>>12144816>>12145071>>12145074>>12145075>>12145174>>12145370>>12145671>>12145720>>12146187Why is everyone on this board for retro games always 15 years behind on their idea of the current state of emulation? I would have thought out of everyone else on the internet the people here would at least know a little better given retro games and emulation go hand in hand but I swear I still see people that think Saturn and N64 emulation is bad when that shits been solved for years now and is practically at 100% if you simply just get the right emulator.Anyway, Xbox emulation is doing great right now with Xemu and supports many, many games. A lot are fully playable with no issues, some still have graphical issues, but a ton of stuff works just fine especially the exclusives. Halo 1 and 2, Ninja Gaiden Black, DoA, all the Sega games, etc, it works perfectly fine and even Xbox Live works and you can play online with people that are playing on real hardware through Insignia. Updates are frequent with genuine real progress being made to fix or support new games almost weekly.Its not the early 2010s anymore guys, emulation is reaching the point for most consoles where it's indistinguishable from real hardware and consoles that never had any support before now do and are good and getting better at a rapid rate. Some still have some catching up to do, ironically enough I'd say Dolphin needs to catch the fuck up it sucks compared to what PCSX2 is doing and Xemu is even on pace to beat it out. Just do 2 seconds of research to find what the current best emulator is for whatever you're trying to play and you'll have a good time. Stop living in the past.
>>12147939please don't exagerate
>>12147939>Why is everyone on this board for retro games always 15 years behind on their idea of the current state of emulation?This thread here tells you everything you need to know about the dipshits on /vr/: https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/11088001We have imbeciles still using 12+ yo builds of PCSX2 because they think "updooting" is for "troons"; then they complain about how shit PCSX2 is. This board is full of retards who think emulation ontologically just is inherently broken and can never improve over time. They think emulation is ZSNES, they think emulation is Yabause, they think emulation is Project64, and they think emulation is PCSX 1.1 which they refuse to update from, and they think NONE of this is even possible to change.
>>12147945I'm not exaggerating, emulation is fucking incredible in the current year and it was good enough to convince me to sell my entire collection and just invest in a good PC. I have massive hard drives with fullsets for every system up and through 6th gen, Xbox included. I can't tell you the last time I had a major or even minor emulation problem of any kind whatsoever, outside of Xbox which is still evolving and I admitted that not everything works on it yet. But my point was that it's pretty good as it is right now, so many games work perfectly and that's not an exaggeration. Anyone complaining about certain systems having bad emulation support either hasn't tried it recently, is trying to play on a potato, or is using an outdated or bad emulator, simple as
>>12147954>Xbox includedIt's average at best right now, which is why I tell you to stop exaggerating
>>12147958And the average emulator is excellent, lol.
>>12147958>Anyway, Xbox emulation is doing great right now with Xemu and supports many, many games. A lot are fully playable with no issues, some still have graphical issues, but a ton of stuff works just fine especially the exclusives. Halo 1 and 2, Ninja Gaiden Black, DoA, all the Sega games, etc, it works perfectly fine and even Xbox Live works and you can play online with people that are playing on real hardware through Insignia. Updates are frequent with genuine real progress being made to fix or support new games almost weekly.>outside of Xbox which is still evolving and I admitted that not everything works on it yet. But my point was that it's pretty good as it is right now, so many games work perfectly and that's not an exaggeration.Convinced you can't read because I didn't exaggerate anything and even specifically said not everything is working yet. I have played a lot of games on Xemu to completion and there were no issues whatsoever. All I'm trying to say is that its a good option for plenty of games and that it's only getting better. You just sound mad that you got called out or something.
>>12147972>You just sound mad that you got called out or something.LMAO, the wall of text response is the one calling others mad, look, if you're fine with playing games with subpar emulation, that's fine, just don't go exagerating on here about how well it plays
>>12147980I'm actually a stickler for accuracy when it comes to emulation. If it really was subpar, I would have just not played anything and continued waiting for updates. Cry about a wall of text as much as you want, I'm just sick of retards like you poisoning the narrative on the state of emulation. It's people like you that prevent progress from being made and stop other people from using something that in reality is actually good. Games I played that had literally 0 issues on Xemu:Azurikall of the Dead or Alive gamesConker Live and ReloadedBreakdownShenmue 2(Doesn't work on newest build something broke it, but it did work before)Jet Set Radio FutureOutrun 2HaloHalo 2(I'll admit it had some occasional stutter but other than that it was fine)SSX3Red Dead RevolverNinja Gaiden BlackPanzer Dragoon OrtaBlinxBlinx 2Kakuto ChojinToejam and Earl 3Burnout 3And that's just the games I've bothered to try, I'm sure there are plenty more that work just as good. Yes, there are games that have graphical issues. Yes, there's plenty of shit that doesn't work at all. But that is a large chunk of games for the system, many exclusive, that work perfectly. So please shut the fuck up and learn what you are talking about next time, thank you.
>>12146617>a pc turd was better than a console turdTHRILLING!
>>12146743Xemu is not available on dev mode for Series consoles.
>>12146643wtf @grok is this real?
>>12148251Yeah, I don’t believe it either
>>12148067All console games are turds
>>12147463Tork is unfortunately a really good game and feels great to play and has amazing visuals so you'll be sad when most people don't talk about it outside of precanned mascot platformer opinions on a game being not mario and the review score not being 9/10.
>>12144816the majority of worthwhile exclusives (halo CE + 2, Panzer Dragoon Orta, DOA1/2/3 and Ninja Gaiden black) all work well with xemu provided you have a "decent" PC.my RX6600 / 5600X combo runs it fine.
>>12147939Then why can't it run Tork?
>>12147843Limited/Full RGB only really matters in how you set your TV. If the TV is set to limited and it's being fed full RGB then you'll get black crush and blown out highlights. If you are sending limited and the TV is set to full you'll lose contrast.The big wrinkle is your HDMI adapter. If it's passing the data straight through you're fine, just set the TV to whatever is the right one, usually limited, but if it's being retarded and automatically expanding limited to full, then if it's not limited at source it will black crush and white out the shadows and highlights and you can't fix it.
>>12147939Different opinions on what "working" is. I think it's PC vs. Console users mostly. Console users expect their games to run identically to the original hardware, PC gamers are used to dealing with slightly broken jank in even their native games so a bit of texture breakup, hedgehogging and z-fighting is "perfect" as far as they are concerned.Xemu is what I'd call a 50/50 emulator. For any given game you can name it's about a 50/50 chance you'll be able to play it from start to finish with no major breakage. But EVERYTHING will have some amount of "wrongness" to it. Be it graphical issues, incorrect sound or wonky game logic. If you've never played that game on real hardware you might not even notice there's a problem, but if you have, you'll notice. You'll notice right away.
>>12148069You're right, I was thinking of Xenia. Xbox Series is a waste of time for OG Xbox then less than 100 games are back-compat.
>>12148589>Xbox Series is a waste of time for OG XboxThis is such a fucking ridiculous thing to say. Yes, the library is limited, but the way it handles the emulation is fucking flawless, lightyears ahead of XEMU, and the games that *are* on there include some excellent ones:>Ninja Gaiden Black>Dead or Alive 3>Dead or Alive Ultimate>Panzer Dragoon Orta>Blinx the Timesweeper>Crimson Skies>Conker Live & Reloaded>Grabbed by the Ghoulies>Fusion Frenzy>Gunvalkyrie>Otogi 1&2And many other solid console exclusives like the Timesplitters, SSX3, Destroy all Humans etc. Calling it a "waste of time" is retarded if you're at all interested in any of those games. You don't even need an Xbox Series console, just get a cheap Xbox One from eBay or FB Marketplace.
>>12148608Why not just get a 360 and softmod it instead?
>>12148558OP here. I don't want accuracy, I just want it to work
>>12150129If Halo is not working, check your graphics card's drivers.
>>12150192They're bad. I already have gamepass, and id rather buy a modded console instead of doing all this pc mess
>>12150231Yeah modded consoles are the way to go. Check sites like mercari and whatnot, less annoying than ebay. If you really want to do zero work, get one that at you can see has a modern hard drive in it instead of some ancient IDE shit that'll die in 2 months.
>>12148550Anyway to check each of the parameters? I am assuming if xbox is set to NTSC-M/U its limited by default, PAL/NTSC-J is full but what about the adapter? How to check if it just passes straight through or expands?
>>12148672Because its emulator runs significantly worse? If you mean for playing 360 games, sure, but it's barely tolerable at playing original Xbox games. Even with the latest version of the emulator hacked to boot any game, some games just don't run.
>>12150361>but it's barely tolerable at playing original Xbox gamesHalo works great.
>>12147954>emulation is fucking incredible in the current yearHell, I do most of my emulation on a damn Wii. It plays 99% of the PS1 library flawlessly.
