The first site we’re going to look at is located at With that in mind, here are some of the websites we’ve seen claiming to offer up functional versions of seventh and eighth generation consoles starting with the Xbox 360.
#Xenia emulator progress slow how to#
You’ll notice emulators of newer machines are conspicuous by their absence – Microsoft themselves are still looking at how to emulate the 360 on the Xbox One, and this really isn’t something you can just conjure up out of the blue. Here’s how the current system specs stack up for the most recent gen of hardware.
Nobody is going to have GTA5, Modern Warfare or Halo 3 running on an emulator anytime soon. Someone spent four years of their life on an emulator called “Xenia” to get a slow version of Frogger running on a PC. The Xbox is by all accounts an astonishingly difficult thing to emulate.
With so many old games now available on services such as Steam, Xbox Live and PSN, attention has shifted elsewhere for some and we’re seeing a desire for emulation of the most recent batch of games consoles – Xbox One, 360, PS4 and so on. As a result, consoles now include official emulators, developers re-release old games and in many cases add new features to the occasional masterpiece. Such was the desire for older titles that manufacturers saw the opportunity to let people buy legal versions of many long-lost classics. Without a digital download infrastructure in place on non-internet connected video game consoles, old games died with their generation until coders came up with ways to emulate the old tech and allow people to play legally dubious, rips of old games on their PCs.
Back in the day, an obsolete video game console tended to equal dead games tied to the platform and unless you scoured flea markets or your attic it meant no more old games for you.