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by IntelMiner 1920 days ago
There is one emulator currently that does do that, the "XQEMU" emulator for the original Xbox https://xqemu.com/

It's in its infant stages at the moment according to the "Emulation General" wiki and focuses heavily on "accuracy" over performance

Other emulators such as CXBX-Reloaded have made larger strides, currently emulating roughly 10% of the software library

It's also worth stating, while the Xbox seems like an "easy" target, being based on an ia-32 (Pentium III) PC with an Nvidia GeForce chip (somewhere between a Geforce 2 and 3 at the time) it is an absolutely monstrous beast with minimal documentation about its hardware and numerous "gotchas"

It also has a very small library of 'exclusive' content which detracts from gaining many developers

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Your information on xqemu is dated. xqemu was forked to xemu a while back. Development of xemu is very active now: many games are now playable with accurate graphics and sound with performance up to native framerates. Improvements to speed and accuracy are coming in on a regular basis. xqemu is basically dead, with its discord shut down and the main developer off the project. Now is a good time play around with xbox emulation if it is of interest to you.

https://xemu.app/

https://github.com/mborgerson/xemu/commits/master

Interesting, I used to keep up with xqemu but stopped a while back. Do you know what lead to the fork? I can't find it on their website.