Cxbx-Reloaded
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| Developer(s) | PatrickvL, Luke Usher |
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| Latest version | 0.1 |
| Active | Yes |
| Platform(s) | Windows (7 and later) |
| Architecture(s) | x86_64 |
| Emulates | Xbox, Sega Chihiro (Arcade, WIP) |
| Compatibility | 16% playable (10/2022) |
| Website | cxbx-reloaded.co.uk |
| Support ($) | Patreon |
| License | GNU GPLv2 |
| Source code | GitHub |
Cxbx-Reloaded is an open-source Xbox and Sega Chihiro (WIP) emulator for Windows.
Only 16% of the Xbox's library is supported as of October 2022.[1]
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Overview
"The Xbox kernel doesn't address many hardware devices. It interacts with a clock, listens to a few hardware interrupts, but otherwise mainly implements hundreds of API's that user code can call for various tasks. There's not much hardware involved with that, and thus [our] current kernel is for the most part just another, replacement implementation of those Xbox kernel API's. That's why the kernel is best not described as "HLE" or "LLE", but simply as "kernel", because it's not patching Xbox software, nor emulating Xbox hardware devices, it's merely an alternative implementation."
-PatrickvL[2]
Cxbx-Reloaded reimplements each of the Xbox's components so that the XBE files can run directly on Windows. This process is akin to Wine or TeknoParrot, only the complexity has expanded greatly since the developers have to account for the Xbox's memory map, a very purpose-built graphics card, and the other custom hardware components.
- Official compatibility page
- game-compatibility GitHub repository for tracking game bugs
- Web-based compatibility list based on the game-compatibility repository. Covers games, demos, disc content, homebrew like emulators, XDK samples, etc. You'll want to allow some time to load all the entries.
History
Development of Cxbx-Reloaded in its current form began on April 1, 2016 when Luke Usher tried to revive Cxbx for a second time. His first attempt stalled as he lacked the requisite skills at the time, but his efforts were promising. In late April 2013, he was able to get Futurama and Turok: Evolution running on 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and 7.[3]
On the two year anniversary of the project, a lower-level implementation of the GPU called "LLE-GPU" was introduced.[4] However, the option to enable it was removed from the GUI a year later because it was deemed "too slow to play games at acceptable speeds".[5] Work then began to wrap the Direct3D 8 API around Direct3D 9,[6] and later Direct3D 11 in a separate branch.[7]
References
- ↑ https://www.patreon.com/posts/progress-report-53482583
- ↑ PatrickvL (Jan 10, 2021). Pull Request: Add Pull Request Labeler Support. GitHub
- ↑ SoulSentinel (Apr 28, 2013). Thread: Fixing 0xC000007b error on 64-bit Windows (64-bit Cxbx-Reloaded fork). ngemu.com
- ↑ https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/Cxbx-Reloaded/pull/1018
- ↑ https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/Cxbx-Reloaded/pull/1761
- ↑ https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/Cxbx-Reloaded/projects/2
- ↑ https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/Cxbx-Reloaded/tree/dx11
External links
- GitHub Wiki
- Official Discord server
- YouTube playlist maintained by Luke Usher
