![]() ![]() The standard x86 architecture made is VERY easy to port AND Windows or Linux software for the original XBOX, which is why so much is available. You could run Windows on it and a vast variety of Linux variants. The original XBOX was essentially a standard Intel x86 PC with very standard interfaces. ![]() This is why Linux on the PS3 actually works and why you see more homebrew. The PS3 also has a weird pseudo-PowerPC architecture but it IS well-documented, they provide low-level APIs, and they use standard interfaces like Bluetooth. The main reason we haven’t seen a lot of mods for the 360 isn’t “security” but because of it’s weird pseudo-PowerPC architecture (Xenon) that isn’t fully documented and it uses a proprietary controller interface. This is less than useful for most people. Which means (per this demo) his 360 probably BOOTS to the emulator and that’s all it can do. ![]() Well, it did not.Īs for why there is no details on this it’s probably because he has to rewrite the bootloader to get this to work. I did the video because people were bitching “it will take ages until we see real homebrew”. Snes9x is just a random app which was ported to that library. So the real thing here is libxenon, a free library with xbox 360 hardware support. Most people don’t seem to believe that xbox software development can be done without Microsoft’s support, and my snes9x port (it could really be any other program as well) is basically the proof that it can be done. This has been a major problem on the original Xbox homebrew scene, where most scene releases were “illegal” because they contained XDK code. I believe hat this is the wrong way for several reasons: First of, acquiring and using the XDK software is illegal, as well as all produced binaries. Well, to understand why this is such a “big deal”, you have to understand that a lot of people apparently don’t believe in free software (as in speed) as much as in “free” software (as in beer but really, it would more be stolen beer), and rather want to see the Xbox Development Kit coming to a hacked xbox360. ![]()
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