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Xbox's Backward Compatibility On PC Can Run Xbox 360 Games
Kotaku • • technology
Key Points:
- Dataminers discovered that Microsoft's Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC uses an Xbox 360 emulator running Xefu, the same emulator Xbox 360 hardware used to emulate original Xbox games.
- This means the emulator is essentially an emulator within an emulator, confirming that Xbox 360 games will likely be backward compatible on PC in the future.
- The XWine1 project team has successfully run several original Xbox and Xbox 360 ROMs on the emulator, though with varying degrees of success.
- Currently, Microsoft has only released four original Xbox games through the backward compatibility service on PC, but the findings suggest more Xbox 360 games will be supported eventually.
- While not surprising, this confirmation aligns with expectations that Microsoft's new Xbox PC emulator is designed to support Xbox 360 games down the line.
