How long for an XBox emulator?

[Deeko]

Seriously....how long do you think it will take for someone to come out with an emulator for the XBox? Not how long until a computer can run it smoothly(not that that should take too long), but considering the fact that the XBox is basically a PC...it can't be that difficult to emulate. I bet Randy Linden(coder of Bleem!) could do it in a day.

 

[A5]

The actually coding might not take long, but it'll probably be at least a year or two until there's systems with enough muscle to run it.

 

[NeoV]

the geforce chip in the xbox is more powerful than the current geforce 3 cards for PC's...perhaps when the next iteration of those cards comes out it will be more likely, but I wouldn't look for an Xbox emu for quite some time....certainly the hacks that made Bleem aren't skilled enough to do it...the PS and the Xbox are worlds apart..

 

[Deeko]

Well, usually it takes awhile before current PCs can run it, but considering that there isn't a whole lot of emulating to be done, since its a P3 and a GF3, I'd think like an Athlon Xp2000 and a GeForce 4(lets say whatevers good in the spring) should be able to do the trick quite nicely.

 

[LAUST]

I wouldn't say long, same hardware basically, whatever the Geforce 4 is it'll pass the vid up, processor was already passed in the dirt

 

[randomlinh]

i don't think there will be much trouble w/ emulation.. cause well, it's just a pc really w/ one kick ass subsystem. it's win2k based, and aren't they directx based?

Anyway, i think by middle next year, something will surface....

 

[Deeko]

<< certainly the hacks that made Bleem aren't skilled enough to do it >>


Why do you say that? Bleem was a great product, if only they hadn't dropped it in favor of the Dreamcast version. Which, by the way, is flawless.



<< the PS and the Xbox are worlds apart.. >>


yep....PS uses all propretory parts, XBox uses stuff that's already in a PC and thus doesn't really need to be emulated much....

 

[UberNeuman]

About 6 months or so until you see a emu - about a year until you see a working emu that allows you to play x-box games as the systems does... That is if you start with a PIII/GF3 base...