Well maybe if you had actually explained that along with that other blanket statement that just seemed to indicate that you were bragging about a cheaper way of doing things...
It's pretty good for the most part. It can play most PS2 and GC fine and everything under that threshold. If possible, don't use Retroarch. The cores are outdated. Use the native emulators.
cool
But Nintendo Land...
unironically this, nintendo land is too fun for me to toss it. Same reason I still own an atari.
Don't you DARE throw away a Wii U without playing Wind Waker HD.
if I don't like wind waker then will it make me like it?
No shit, its a fricking handheld
this and DS both shocked me, seeing 3D that looked good on a handheld blew me away. Same for when phones started doing it a few years later. That resident evil game based on the movie in the airport amazed me that a phone could play a decent game.
Well this thread seems pretty cool, maybe I'll buy one of these shitboxes if I see it on sale. Though it makes me wonder, does the xbone X do as well as the SeS?
This is the most accurate answer here, once people began forking emulators the sexbox is now able to run things better than even a 2080. Every PS2 game I've tried so far I've done at 1440p upscale just fine, except for Ape Escape 2 and 3 but they do fine at 1080p.
There is no whole-system softmod for Xbox 360 consoles. Ways were found to modify the firmware of the DVD drive of the console. This allows the system to play games from "backup" game discs. No one's gonna release a softmod while the Xbox 360 still has Xbox Live support and still can receive system updates that would patch it.
It's pretty good for the most part. It can play most PS2 and GC fine and everything under that threshold. If possible, don't use Retroarch. The cores are outdated. Use the native emulators.
Pretty damn good up to PS2/Wii, honestly. Even Saturn works great with Beetle Saturn. Laying in bed while playing your nostalgic game with a CRT shader is super comfy.
There's no fast dynamic recompiler for Power PC unlike for ARM architecture, that's why PCSX performs better on Vita despite being weaker.
I only use it for Dreamcast, but it does that and every DC-adjacent arcade board except NAOMI 2 with no issues
Standalone Flycast performs better than the RA core, especially for NAOMI 2. Virtua Fighter 4 Final Tuned works flawlessly to me.
>Standalone Flycast performs better than the RA core
That's what I've been using, but I was getting stuttering and glitched textures with Initial D Arcade Stage specifically. Is it possibly a config issue, or is it just not supported by Flycast?
How much better is the standalone flycast? I haven't had many problems with the retroarch core, atomiswave, naomi 1 and 2 are for the most part pretty good and the only dreamcast game I've came across that didn't emulate properly was Jeremy mcgrath moto x. I'd happily install the standalone version if you could explain the improvements for me please?
I had an x purely for emulation and it was decent but I ended up selling it and getting a half decent pc instead. The x was good but a bit restrictive and you've got to jump through some extra hoops compared to pc when it comes to getting everything working and how many different emulators you have access too
I'm assuming the s and x emulation wise are basically the same, the reason I upgraded to pc was basically that I had standalone duckstation and retroarch on my xbox and everything worked well apart from the pcsx2 core on retroarch was a bit hit and miss as it was the old alpha core and having to link the xbox through dev mode to a laptop was a bit of a chore ( I think there's now a standalone pcsx2 core now). I also wanted access to rpcs3, xemu, xenia, yuzu ,ryujinx and the sega model 2 and 3 emulators so I had to go pc but for a console that costs 250 and can emulate so many things you can't go wrong with the xbox but I just wanted a little bit more
Yeh, the S is pretty much the same as the X when it comes to emulation. The X is technically the better system but you don't need it all if it's just for emulation.
PSP is basically a toned down PS2 but with some smart modernizations which technically put it ahead of the PS2's specifications, just not in every way. In a sense it's a portable PS2ish tier console which is a little insane to fathom for the mid 2000s.
My mind was blown when I got Liberty City Stories. It was, for the most part, superior to GTA III.
Not to mention Vice City Stories, which is easily my favorite PSP game.
It sure was impressive compared to what nintendo (severely underpowered hardware as usual) and nokia (literal phone hardware with no graphics accelerator) had to over, but compared to a console released in 2005 (Xbox 360) it was really slow and looked like shit.
Spec-wise it should be fine. I can run everything up to Dreamcast (except Saturn) on a $100 Android device so the latest generation game console should be fine. I don't emulate except on the go, but if I was looking for an emulation setup for in my home it would absolutely be the Series S.
I played all of Gungrave on it and also tested a bit of Metroid Prime. Both ran pretty much perfectly, though the standalone Dolphin fork is still a pain in the dick to configure.
Honestly it's a really good value given you can always find a $50 off deal for a SeS
it's apparently amazing. so much so that it outclasses every comparable new pc at the price.
too bad you are stuck with what they only allow on the m$ app store though
Terribles
the specs say it shouldn't be that bad.
Indeed. I was expecting problems with maybe Dreamcast and up but it sounds like it should be able to do the rest.
I can run Dreamcast on a 10 year old laptop. How would this have problems with it?
I run Dreamcast on a $30 raspberry pi
We're talking about emulation on the Xbox Series S in this thread.
Scan up the reply tree, autism-kun. My reply bears on the thread. If it runs on pi of course it runs on xss
Well maybe if you had actually explained that along with that other blanket statement that just seemed to indicate that you were bragging about a cheaper way of doing things...
dumbass
I run Dreamcast on the Dreamcast browser.
extremely good
it will run pcsx2 fork at 1080p+ and fast forward
played dq8 no problems, god hand, outrun 2006, etc
standalone duckstation, flycast, dolphin. all good
cool
unironically this, nintendo land is too fun for me to toss it. Same reason I still own an atari.
if I don't like wind waker then will it make me like it?
this and DS both shocked me, seeing 3D that looked good on a handheld blew me away. Same for when phones started doing it a few years later. That resident evil game based on the movie in the airport amazed me that a phone could play a decent game.
Well this thread seems pretty cool, maybe I'll buy one of these shitboxes if I see it on sale. Though it makes me wonder, does the xbone X do as well as the SeS?
>if I don't like wind waker then will it make me like it?
No, probably not.
Load times on the One are pretty shitty.
This is the most accurate answer here, once people began forking emulators the sexbox is now able to run things better than even a 2080. Every PS2 game I've tried so far I've done at 1440p upscale just fine, except for Ape Escape 2 and 3 but they do fine at 1080p.
Can you just put homebrew on it or do you have to pay that extra developer fine?
What about emulating on Xbox 360? In my experience, NES, SNES and GB/GBC work pretty well, but I don't know how good it is at emulating arcade games.
Is there a softmod for 360 yet?
I know modded consoles are cheap tp buy but the 360s getting closer to 20 and even the ps4 can be softmodded now
No
There is no whole-system softmod for Xbox 360 consoles. Ways were found to modify the firmware of the DVD drive of the console. This allows the system to play games from "backup" game discs. No one's gonna release a softmod while the Xbox 360 still has Xbox Live support and still can receive system updates that would patch it.
It's pretty good for the most part. It can play most PS2 and GC fine and everything under that threshold. If possible, don't use Retroarch. The cores are outdated. Use the native emulators.
Very good, honestly one of the best budget options if you need something that can emulate 6th gen. On par with a Steam deck but not portable.
Nah it's more powerful than the 'eck. It's not a handheld but actually is portable.
Wasn't Microsoft disabling dev mode because of this?
They never did, but now you could emulate without the dev mode. There's a native PS2 emulator that performs much better than the dev mode version.
Wait, so I can finally toss my Wii U?
But Nintendo Land...
The Wii actually does 240p, it's the better emulation option.
but the Wii U can't
Yeah, the Wii U doesn't even have a decent PS1 emulator. Wii U's CPU is kind of crap. CPU is extremely important for emulation.
Flycast PC only recently got NAOMI 2 support, gotta imagine it'll get worked on. There's some great games on it.
Pretty damn good up to PS2/Wii, honestly. Even Saturn works great with Beetle Saturn. Laying in bed while playing your nostalgic game with a CRT shader is super comfy.
There's no fast dynamic recompiler for Power PC unlike for ARM architecture, that's why PCSX performs better on Vita despite being weaker.
Standalone Flycast performs better than the RA core, especially for NAOMI 2. Virtua Fighter 4 Final Tuned works flawlessly to me.
>Standalone Flycast performs better than the RA core
That's what I've been using, but I was getting stuttering and glitched textures with Initial D Arcade Stage specifically. Is it possibly a config issue, or is it just not supported by Flycast?
How much better is the standalone flycast? I haven't had many problems with the retroarch core, atomiswave, naomi 1 and 2 are for the most part pretty good and the only dreamcast game I've came across that didn't emulate properly was Jeremy mcgrath moto x. I'd happily install the standalone version if you could explain the improvements for me please?
Series S supports 4k/1440p so it can have pixel-perfect scaling.
Don't you DARE throw away a Wii U without playing Wind Waker HD.
How long until this gets killed by an MS firmware update?
Microsoft kills emulators now if they are a separate app; thing is, developers are not that dumb and find loopholes, like using the browser.
There's no way that happens. They pretty much incentivized it up to this point.
zero chance, if they cared they would have done it already, besides most emulators are for Nintendo/Sega/Sony consoles
>besides most emulators are for Nintendo
you know, because nintendo is always really cool about this kind of thing
You'd have to get rid of the ability to run all unsigned code. Devs wouldn't like that.
This isn't a new feature, it's been around for years already at this point. Xbox One had a dev mode. It's not going anywhere.
Does anyone have an S just as a dedicated emulation machine?
I had an x purely for emulation and it was decent but I ended up selling it and getting a half decent pc instead. The x was good but a bit restrictive and you've got to jump through some extra hoops compared to pc when it comes to getting everything working and how many different emulators you have access too
One great thing about the S is it's the size of a mini-PC, but has the performance of a desktop PC and price that beats both.
I'm assuming the s and x emulation wise are basically the same, the reason I upgraded to pc was basically that I had standalone duckstation and retroarch on my xbox and everything worked well apart from the pcsx2 core on retroarch was a bit hit and miss as it was the old alpha core and having to link the xbox through dev mode to a laptop was a bit of a chore ( I think there's now a standalone pcsx2 core now). I also wanted access to rpcs3, xemu, xenia, yuzu ,ryujinx and the sega model 2 and 3 emulators so I had to go pc but for a console that costs 250 and can emulate so many things you can't go wrong with the xbox but I just wanted a little bit more
>I think there's now a standalone pcsx2 core now
Yes there is, I think S is worth it as an emulation box now.
Yeh, the S is pretty much the same as the X when it comes to emulation. The X is technically the better system but you don't need it all if it's just for emulation.
Wait, so I can play PS1 and PS2 games on an Xbox S but not PS5?
Yes. Funny, isn't it?
Dunno what kind of jacked up PS5 you have.. already played PS1/PS2/PS3 and PSP games on my PS5
Yeah, a select few that you have to pay for again even if you own them already, you fricking cuck.
Holy shit, it does PSP.
It still amazes me how good PSP games look for a handheld released in 2004. Like, how?
PSP is basically a toned down PS2 but with some smart modernizations which technically put it ahead of the PS2's specifications, just not in every way. In a sense it's a portable PS2ish tier console which is a little insane to fathom for the mid 2000s.
My mind was blown when I got Liberty City Stories. It was, for the most part, superior to GTA III.
Not to mention Vice City Stories, which is easily my favorite PSP game.
It sure was impressive compared to what nintendo (severely underpowered hardware as usual) and nokia (literal phone hardware with no graphics accelerator) had to over, but compared to a console released in 2005 (Xbox 360) it was really slow and looked like shit.
No shit, its a fricking handheld
It's great. I use mine mostly for emulation.
It's pretty damn cool being able to switch from Halo to Persona 3 and then onto Mario Kart Double Dash all on one console.
Are you able to video capture with the S?
Yes, depending on if you have a USB stick/external HDD in it. If not, expect 1-2 minutes of gameplay to be saved onto internal storage.
I only use it for Dreamcast, but it does that and every DC-adjacent arcade board except NAOMI 2 with no issues
Spec-wise it should be fine. I can run everything up to Dreamcast (except Saturn) on a $100 Android device so the latest generation game console should be fine. I don't emulate except on the go, but if I was looking for an emulation setup for in my home it would absolutely be the Series S.
I played all of Gungrave on it and also tested a bit of Metroid Prime. Both ran pretty much perfectly, though the standalone Dolphin fork is still a pain in the dick to configure.
Honestly it's a really good value given you can always find a $50 off deal for a SeS
Great. Ps2 games run better than on pc. You can basically emulate anything on it
How can that possibly be true? A newish half decent pc running the latest nightly build of pcsx2 would stomp all over either xbox
how well does the Xbox Series S emulate the Xbox Series S
Probably a stupid question but can you install vlc on it?
Use Plex, is better.
Or Kodi. The Xbox version of VLC is crap compared to PC.
I would assume Kodi is kind of what you want on the xbox considering the entire project was started on the xbox to begin with
it's apparently amazing. so much so that it outclasses every comparable new pc at the price.
too bad you are stuck with what they only allow on the m$ app store though
Is it worth upgrading to the Series X in regards to emulation?
Emulation is mostly CPU bound, and Series S has almost the same CPU as Series X, so the benefits are marginal.