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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks 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.