Xbox Emulation

[Iconoclast]

I hear there is a legal way to get Xbox ROMs. I have an emulator, but when it starts mentioning ISOs and XBEs (Xbox Executables), I have no idea what they're talking about. I know it's legal...I saw it before. Does anyone know a way? I think you have to get it from the game disc or something.

[Mjshl2]

Its legal if you have the game I suppose, but that doesnt matter anyway they dont work and probably wont for along while.

[Iconoclast]

Yes, I know. But I don't like to go out to the living room and use the Xbox for reasons I won't share. I also hear that the requirements for Xbox emulation on PC are very high on your PC. But I have NVidia, Pentium III, minimum requirements met. I would just like to see how I can get the ROMs...from your Xbox CD, I suppose. But when I look at its contents, I see no ROMs, but a bunch of crap files that seem to have no relevance to ROMs. So I would still like to know how to get Xbox ROMs legally.

[Mjshl2]

Well if I remember correctly there is a program that you need that helps you see the xbox discs, you will be able to rip them, but none of them are working at all.
Doesnt matter how high end your PC is so you will be waiting awhile to play them on your pc.

[Iconoclast]

Originally Posted by Mjshl2

Well if I remember correctly there is a program that you need that helps you see the xbox discs, you will be able to rip them, but none of them are working at all.
Doesnt matter how high end your PC is so you will be waiting awhile to play them on your pc.

Aw, come on. My mom plays Xbox 360 game, Oblivion, on her PC until we got an Xbox 360 just to make it easier. But my PC is relatively...yeah. You're probably right; I don't have much to brag about with this computer here. It's pretty standard for emulation...above-average, maybe. Fairly good piece of crap. So, if it seems like too much trouble, I won't insist on you telling me how to get Xbox ROMs, then.

But I will say this much. Both my parents are able to read Xbox game discs. I couldn't because I only had a CD-ROM and CD-RW compatible CD drive. But they had DVD-ROM compatible drives, so they could read it. So if that makes it easier...I don't know. I hear that it is rather complicated. Still, if it's not too much trouble, I would like to know.

[Fierce Deity]

To the extent of my knowledge, you can read both XBOX and GC games with a DVD emulator. Not PS2 though. Anyhow, get a program like Alcohol 120%, and use that to rip the ISO, then create a virtual drive and mount the ISO there. You should be able to play it with the emulator if the emulator works right. I'd give a link for Alcohol 120%, but I am having problems at home right now, so I'm not even on my own pc...anyhow, I hope that helps!

[Iconoclast]

I don't know what 'mount' means, and I have no idea how you can create a new drive. I don't know where to get any of this stuff, including Alchohol 120%. Could you give a step-by-step for me?

Example:

1. Get a life.
2. Be prepared.
3. Just DO the damn thing, already!
4. Oh, and here's a few download links...they are invisible.

[chaos master]

Originally Posted by Iconoclast

I don't know what 'mount' means, and I have no idea how you can create a new drive. I don't know where to get any of this stuff, including Alchohol 120%. Could you give a step-by-step for me?

Example:

1. Get a life.
2. Be prepared.
3. Just DO the damn thing, already!
4. Oh, and here's a few download links...they are invisible.

Ask someone to get you a link to the trial or pay through the nose for it, just get it! (Or use the free but not as good DAEMON Tools)

I have a juggernaut PC, as you may know, and it can emulate Dreamcast fairly well with a 3.5 GHz processor and 1024 MB of RAM. However, it is really not able to emulate it for hours and hours without the room being cold enough so that it won't overheat and stuff. Xbox would probably be a real challenge to emulate even with the top-of-the-line PC's, so be wary of that.

This is because the games were not meant to be played on the PC, so it is very inefficient most of the time. For example, Sonic Adventure for the PC can be run on a minimum of 128MB RAM and blah blah blah, but if you play Sonic Adventure, the same game, on a Dreamcast emulator, it will be much more difficult for your PC to do. The PC games are designed (or should be designed) to make maximal use of the PC's resources, so they are more efficient.

Anyhoo, you mount the ISO image onto a virtual drive (which is a fake drive made by a program) so that your computer thinks that the disc is in a drive where it can be read. Then, you start an executable or emulator or whatever to start it up and the PC will use stuff from its memory and the ISO, just like how you need a disc for some games you install. Making a virtual drive is easy with both programs, DAEMON and Alchohol. Your virtual drives come up under My Computer, just like physical drives.


Xbox, Xbox 360, and Gamecube discs are written the opposite way of standard discs, so I don't know how to read them without modifying a disc drive, which is kinda extreme unless you have an extra one laying around (preferably external.)

Why won't you go to your living room to play Xbox? I have to go into a dingy basement that smells funny to play Xbox (or any console, for that matter....) I DO prefer having games on my computer sometimes because my monitor display them in high definition and the games are all in one place, so I don't have to bother with CD changing much.

So, Iconoclast, do not get your hopes up just yet. You can certainly get some games, but you ain't gonna play them on your PC just yet. I think I saw an Xbox ISO for Sonic Riders before with a HUGE file size. I heard that some emulator can emulate Halo and Turok, but I don't know about it. It is on emulator-zone if you want it.


ICONOCLAST!! Was this explanation helpful? yes/no

[Kameo]

Forget about PS2, NGC and X-Box emulation, there's no emulator so far that can run these Games decently. Just creating a virtual image of those Games quite don't cut it, it's not like a PC and a X-Box have the same architecture, U still need some emulator to get it to run. Or did U think all of those people would have bought an X-Box if those Games could be run on a PC that easily??

U need a emulator, and so far there is none that actually works...

[Iconoclast]

That did not help. I am not an LA student like all of you here at CoolROM (learning ability, not Los Angeles)! I am LD, and cannot understand these instructions. Sorry, but that is my honest answer to yoru question.

1. Long explanations tend to tire and confuse people. Keep them short and mostly insocial.
2. You did not number and shorten your steps like the example I gave.
3. I already said I don't konw what 'mount' means.
4. WTH? You say mount the ISO image, and I have no idea what you're talking about. You never said how to get it or anything about it. You just skipped to mounting it, whatever that means.

Well, why do they have that crap at emulator-zone.com if they don't work? One of them converts XBEs to Windows Executables (EXEs). The other emulates it in a standard way. Yet neither of these two emulators will work properly?

Maybe I should just stick to what FD and Kameo are saying then? There's a reason that the Xbox was made, and that's to play Xbox games. Why bother playing them on my PC, then? If you truly believe this, Kameo, then I give up.