Development Kits
Development Kits are game console variations for game developers to develop, test, and debug games on before releasing them to the public.
Development Kits usually come with a development build of the system firmware/operating system that enables debugging features such as sideloading games, emulating/spoofing specific conditions, or being attached to external debuggers, but not always the capability to run currently existing commercial games.
Development Kits may also have a different hardware configuration and chassis design than a retail console for the requirements and ease of video game development.
In some cases, retail consoles could run development build of system firmware/operating system or enable debugging features, and vice versa for development kits, via either official or more commonly, unofficial ways.
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Home consoles[edit]
Xbox[edit]
| |
| Developer | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Type | Home video game console |
| Generation | Sixth generation |
| Release date | ? |
| Emulated | ~ |
Various development kits used for Xbox consoles. placeholder text
- XboxDevWiki: Xbox Development Kits
- Xbox Fandom: Xbox Development Kit (XDK)
- Xbox Fandom: Xbox Alpha Tower I
- Xbox Fandom: Xbox Alpha Tower II
You can use some of the Xbox emulators for using some of the Development Kits features such as using 128MB RAM.
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Xbox 360[edit]
- There is a specific version of xenia with devkit support for playing Halo Mega Bloks (Project Haggar prototype). You can get that build from The Reclamation Project discord group and from there see main-chat channel pinned messages or halo-megabloks subchannel.
Dreamcast[edit]
PlayStation[edit]
retroreversing: Official PlayStation 1 Development Kit
PlayStation 2[edit]
DTL-T10000H and DTL-H3000E models.[1] Also see retroreversing: PlayStation 2 Development Hardware page
- PCSX2 supports extra memory option.
PlayStation 3[edit]
See psdevwiki: non-retail SKU models.
- RPCS3 supports "Debug Console Mode" which increases the amount of usable system memory to match a non-retail console.
