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by girvo 540 days ago
> then run whatever you want

Not quite. You (were? I don't know if this is changed) limited in how much of the hardware you could access: it wasn't 100% access. Enough for most homebrew, emulators and so on, but it wasn't carte blanche "replacement for a dev-kit" access.
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Narishma 540 days ago
I don't think it much different from the official games, which also don't have full access to the console.
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klausa 540 days ago
The "not-behind-the-paywall-and-NDA" GDK version is severely more limited than the invite-only GDKX.

IIRC the homebrew you can run is mostly UWP stuff? But if you want to launch a _game_, built for an Xbox, it requires to be in the program.

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girvo 539 days ago
No it was quite different (again, unless they changed it? They might've, I'm long out of this scene). UWP apps had a lot more restrictions on them, the SDK was different, and you didn't have the full consoles hardware to use, compared to the "behind the NDA" SDK: it'd run slower, basically.

Still great, and good enough for most use cases

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