NES: NesterDC does a great job at playing NES games on your Dreamcast. MAME: MAME4ALL seems to be the most capable emulator for MAME. Considering those limitations, however, it certainly may make your dusty unused Dreamcast useful for something. The downsides are that 1) the console has very limited power, so it is very limited on what games it can play correctly, 2) you have to burn the games to CD, so it's not easy to just add and remove games like you could with a hard drive based console and is very limited in space, 3) there is very limited support for emulation on Dreamcast these days with much better options on other consoles, and 4) you have to find the ROMs for the old version of MAME that DC emulators use.
The good thing about playing emulators on the Dreamcast is that you don't have to mod the console in any way.
The PlayStation 2 console will require a modchip or softmod to play emulators. The PlayStation 3 requires a mod to take place which will inhibit you from ever getting any firmware updates, which also means you won't be able to take it online. Many people have had their consoles banned, and have turned them into emulation machines. If you hack your Xbox 360 console at all, you will not be able to take your console online at all anymore, you will get banned. Original Wii consoles also have GameCube support, so you can also use the GameCube emulators on the Wii with full-size DVD disks. The Nintendo Wii has many emulators which can run on a disk or from an external hard drive, giving you plenty of space for your games. To use emulators on the Wii you will either need a modchip, or you will need to do a softmod. It can, however, run several console emulators and MAME. If modded you will have to put your games on the very limited 1.5GB disks it can read, which makes it pretty limited. The Nintendo GameCube requires a modchip to use emulators. This will require your Xbox be soft-modded or have a modchip in it. It even has trackball support for the X-Arcade Tankstick, you will just need a USB-Xbox adapter cable. Here is some basic information to on emulation on game consoles.ĬoinOps is the ultimate emulator for the original Xbox console! It plays MAME arcade games and a whole host of console titles as well, all with a gorgeous frontend. This usually requires the console to either have a modchip or to be soft-modded (software-hacked). You can now play many emulators including MAME on nearly every game console.
There is a reason anybody seriously looking into original xbox homebrew will be told to get an original xbox, hack that, maybe source some nice component cables and go from there rather than use a 360.Solution home Classic Gaming & Emulations Guides Emulation on Consoles and Other Emulation on Game ConsolesĮmulation isn't only for PC anymore. Moreover, it is one of the best emulators that lets you play Xbox 360 games. Can Xenia play Xbox games Yes, it can play Xbox games. You can use this console on Windows, macOS, and Linux devices.
I believe xbox 360 homebrew itself has a measure of N64 emulation that is almost worth speaking of so that might be an option. Are there any original Xbox emulators Yes, Xemu is a free and open-source emulator which is the original Microsoft Xbox game console. I also don't know what goes with current hacked DVD firmwares and original xbox games - originally there was some support for burned 1:1 (which was anything but most Scene releases - there is a reason there were a bunch of redumps when the 360 was well and truly current) xbox rips but various 360 banwaves and subsequent hacked DVD firmware updates made that far trickier, if not impossible with some setups.
Imagine trying to do that on the wildly different 360 when the xbox was still relatively current as these things go.īasically install the hacked original xbox emulator onto your homebrew capable 360 if you want hacked original xbox games to run in it (trainers, hacks, ripped scene releases.) or maybe to toy with different regions (though even then if it is not officially supported in another region it is still going to be a bit iffy for some of them). *it is only the last few years that the PC has started to treat xbox emulation seriously. I don't have a current list of those to hand though. Even the unsupported commercial games (which also can be attempted to be booted) don't have much to recommend here over what the official list says. Obviously the devs doing said big hack job are not going to focus on homebrew, or indeed non supported games, which means final results are wanting there.
However you will probably be very disappointed - most of the original xbox emulator on the 360 was a big hack job on the part of Microsoft to support specific games* and patch out bugs with those to make them work better on the 360. You will need a JTAG/RGH machine AND you need to install the hacked version of the xbox emulator - it is kind of a separate setup within the 360 that is not bothered by the JTAG/RGH tweaks of the 360 kernel/dashboard. Going to have to go with the "yes but" answer.