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Emulation issues
==Emulation issues==
<span style="color:red;">'''NO EMULATORS ADVANCED ENOUGH TO RUN COMMERCIAL GAMES PROPERLY EXIST YET. <br/>THAT YOUTUBE VIDEO IS PROBABLY A SCAM.<br/>YOU CAN GET THE REAL HARDWARE OR A TIME MACHINE.'''</span> Halo got a wrapper application (Cxbx and Dxbx) that could get it to a perfectly playable state on PC. That said - that wasn't a proper emulator. The common misconception with the focus was on trying to link Xbox is that due instructions to being Windows x86-basedcalls, it should be easier not recreating the hardware. Nothing else was emulated. A proper attempt to emulaterecreate the hardware came with a later heavy revision for Cxbx, and XQEMU. This  Due to a lack of interest, or in some case very toxic behavior or potential legal threats towards devs, and the misconception that all Xbox games got PS2/PC/GC ports (that couldn't be more wrong <ref>farther from the truth), the Xbox 1 emulation scene is almost dead at the moment.  Compounded to this is the high level entry for the effort involved: emulating a complex (and partially undocumented) x86 CPU from scratch, undocumented NVIDIA graphical and sound components, obscure BIOS for each hardware revision posing problems with lots of stuff including video rendering. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130517194502/http://www.ngemu.com/forums/showthread.php?t=132032</ref>. While the x86 architecture itself is fairly well documentedMore]) There's progress nevertheless, but it 's slow and interest is HUGEvery low.  Compatibility is very low at the moment, as well as the fact that the specific hardware components within the Xbox are not very well documented around 61 games boot at allin cxbc, especially the Nvidia components. This has meant that overall compatibility of emulators for Xbox have been extremely low, supporting only with around a dozen in a playable state ([http://shogun3d-cxbx.blogspot.com/2009/11/cxbx-compatibility-list-updated.html a handful of gamesList]) but BIOS emulation is progressing somewhat.
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