NES Emulator for Xbox 360? 88
jayintune writes "2old2play is reporting on a new Nintendo emulator for the Xbox 360. Someone has apparently figured out a way to stream emulation via Media Center to the 360 in 480p. At this time sound is not currently available, but they are said to be working on a fix as well as other emulators including GEN and TG16. You can check out the emulator in action from this link to a YouTube video."
Talk about overkill... (Score:2)
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Still? (Score:1)
atleast they will have better proof but, (Score:1)
Re:atleast they will have better proof but, (Score:1)
Re:atleast they will have better proof but, (Score:1)
it's prickish but then again it is microsoft, plus if you get the right lawyers nintendo could sue microsoft fot allowing it to happen (another company did this).
Re:atleast they will have better proof but, (Score:2)
They only screw their customers if it either:
1. Helps them
2. Screws their competitors.
If customer demand and screwing a competitor happen to coincide, as it does here, they are most likely to select the option which makes them the most money.
In other words, just because they are evil doesn't mean they are randomly mean. They are perfectly happy to be nice if it serves their evil purposes.
PC required (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:PC required (Score:1)
That's what I got from the summary.
Seems to me this is pretty useless. So someone set up an emulator, and has it stream the video to the 360. Whooop-dee doo.
Correct me if I'm wrong aswell, but I don't recall my NES being able to render games in 480p, so yet another null point.
Re:PC required (Score:3, Funny)
Re:PC required (Score:2)
Re:PC required (Score:3, Insightful)
Nestopia (Score:1)
But you're missing the important part. You can play NES in 480p!!!
I can beat that: Nestopia for PC supports hq3x, which scales NES graphics up to 720p. And I don't need an Xbox to do that.
Re:PC required (Score:2)
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Re:PC required (Score:1)
The only downside of that route is that you can't use Live.
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I don't get it (Score:3, Insightful)
Why not just take one of the XBox 360's PC-compatible USB controllers, plug it directly into your PC, and play the game there?
Re:I don't get it (Score:2)
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Or a TV with VGA in.
I have one of the Samsung DLP jobs. It's nice, because my HTPC sees it as a 1280x720 digital monitor. Looks waaaaaaayy better than s-video out on a video card.
Get a Mac mini or Mini-ITX PC (Score:2)
Because some people would rather play on a comfortable couch with their big screen TV rather than at a desk with an office chair and a small monitor?
Then use your television set as your PC's monitor. Many PC video cards have composite, S-video, component, or DVI outputs, and many HDTVs have VGA inputs. If you fear that an ATX/BTX case would look too out of place in your living room, get a nice Mac mini or Mini-ITX PC. In fact, a Mac mini is perfectly sized to fit under your GameCube.
Re:Get a Mac mini or Mini-ITX PC (Score:1)
Who is the crazy one again?
Re:Get a Mac mini or Mini-ITX PC (Score:1)
Youre bashing the idea of this emulator streaming thing
Wasn't bashing. But I'd like to see you try to play some of the more difficult NES games such as Ninja Gaiden through the latency of this kind of solution.
and suggesting that instead they buy a new computer?
I prefer not to support computer hardware that restricts what its owner can do with it. Otherwise, imagine a PC that won't let you boot anything but Microsoft signed apps.
Re:I don't get it (Score:1)
Re:I don't get it (Score:1)
If I have my roms on my Media Center PC in my Office, and an Xbox 360 in my living room, Why would I want to buy another PC to play the NES games in my living room when I can just stream them over with the addition of a small and simple MCE app?
Chances are if you're looking forward to a NES emulator on your 360 then you already have some roms and another machine somewhere where you can play them. there's no point in duplicating your rom set if you can use a single emulator and pla
Re:Pointless (Score:1)
Big Deal! (Score:1)
Re:Big Deal! (Score:1)
Re:Big Deal! (Score:1)
check this out (Score:5, Funny)
Re:check this out (Score:1, Flamebait)
Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:2)
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:2)
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Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:1)
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:2)
When the Revolution HD+ comes out, you'll have to buy Super Mario Bros. again to enjoy it in 1080p like Miyamoto truly intended.
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:2)
Whether or not this is true (and I don't think it is), it's not as if such behavior is unique to Nintendo in the current gaming industry.
How many FPS sequels and "Sports Game $CURR_YEAR" titles are on the sales charts at any given time, for ALL consoles?
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:2)
"Finally, a way to purchase and play old video games on my television using a controller!"
I envy Nintendo.
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:1)
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Pot, meet kettle.
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:2)
Super Mario Bros. (NES), Super Mario All-Stars (SNES), Super Mario Bros. DX (Game Boy Color), and Super Mario Bros. Classic NES Series (Game Boy Advance) all contain the same Super Mario Bros. game. Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo Revolution will, too.
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:2)
I suggest you shut down the computer, and get some fresh air.
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:1)
(I own all 4 Super Mario Advance games and Super Mario Bros. DX, having spent $150 in software alone to play five old Mario games. I suck.)
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what would rock is if I could buy GB games and put them on a blank DS cart so I could take them with me.
As of right now, you can dump (or pirate) Game Boy games and put them on a blank GBA cart. See Goomba Color [pocketheaven.com].
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:3, Insightful)
The Gameboy line was superceded by the Gameboy Advance line years ago.
Neither the GB Micro nor the DS is capable of playing games for the original grayscale Gameboy, nor the Gameboy Color. I don't think it's unreasonable to beleive that some of those older Z80-ish-based games could show up on the Revo.
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:1)
Neither the GB Micro nor the DS is capable of playing games for the original grayscale Gameboy, nor the Gameboy Color.
Nintendo still sells the Game Boy Advance SP with brighter screen.
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:2)
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Precedent (Score:1)
I doubt that any company would sell an emulator, especially after Bleem got sued out of existence over their PSX emulator for DreamCast. (I think Bleem won the law suit but went out of business fighting.)
Unless the Connectix and Bleem cases have resulted in a binding precedent in at least one federal circuit. Once one defendant achieves a pyrrhic victory, the rules of precedent under the common law let another defendant in a similar situation win more easily.
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:1)
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Now, if you could download GC games, that would be sweet, but I don't see how that would be possible with the limited flash memory of the revolution.
I'll probably pick up the revolution and playstation 3, if it comes out by c
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:3, Interesting)
First, I do think NES games will be this cheap. They won't be able to get away with charging 5-10 dollars for a 3k file of a 20 year old game. I'd be willing to bet it's a few dollars per NES game. I'd guess maybe it'd b
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:2)
And as a pre-emptive rebuttal to anyone about to cite the $15-20 sales prices of the "NES Classics" series for Gameboy Advance, the difference there was that physical distribution expenses were still involved. Producing a cartridge costs money, packaging costs money, shipping pallets full of game boxes around the country costs money.
For that matter, paying bitmap artists to subtly tweak the original graphics to lo
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:1)
Riiiight.
The other companies re-releasing classic hits are generally putting them out in collections. "Midway Arcade Treasures," or "Sega Classics Collection" or "Capcom Classic
Re:Don't forget the Revolution! (Score:2)
Royalties (Score:2)
After all, the virtual console games are almost pure profit for Nintendo (they have to pay for bandwidth).
Unless some of the exclusive right holders involved get residuals, as may likely be the case for sport-league-related and movie-related titles.
Re:Royalties (Score:2)
All the less incentive for Nintendo to include such titles of ephemeral interest in the downloadable game library.
I don't see why anyone whould be clamoring to play the SNES game John Madden Football '93 or Acclaim's NES adaptation of Total Recall today, anyway.
The exception proves the rule on N64 (Score:1)
I don't see why anyone whould be clamoring to play the SNES game John Madden Football '93 or Acclaim's NES adaptation of Total Recall today, anyway.
One word: Goldeneye.
Re:The exception proves the rule on N64 (Score:2)
Easily the better game.
Where's the frame rate? (Score:1)
Two words: Perfect Dark
Two words: Slide show. Two more words: Xbox 360.
Re:Where's the frame rate? (Score:1)
Viva la Revolution baby! (Score:1)
Not only that, but if you use the xBox360 solution, you still have to buy a Windows box to play Windows Media Center output and broadcast it to the xBox360.
However, it may be easier to crack. The xBox360, that is.
Decisions, decisions. I think I'll wait two years and enjoy my GameCube and xBox just a tad longer. I still haven't completed Sims2 (xBox)
Re:Viva la Revolution baby! (Score:1)
You can always complete the Sims.
It depends on how you look at winning.
If you mean One King To Rule Them All
But if you wanted to play one character to the logical conculsions, then yes.
Regardless, as I said originally, I'm still waiting for a reason why I should rush and buy an xBox360 and not be happy with my GameCube and xBox that I do have. I still haven't heard that story yet.
When I saw the games titles for the Sony PS3 and the Nintendo Revolution
Not really emulating on your 360! (Score:2)
First, who the hell has Windows Media Edition? People who use Windows because they have to use Windows XP Pro or something like that, low end home users use XP, and everyone else uses Linux / OSX... but really, Windows Media Edition is for Media PCs that you hook up in your living room, and why not then just run your emulator directly.
A NES emulator on Xbox 360 would be cool, but th
Re:Not really emulating on your 360! (Score:1)
Re:Not really emulating on your 360! (Score:2)
But even assuming it is the case that everyone is running XP, XP or XP Pro isn't enough to run this mod. You need Windows XP MEDIA EDITION. No-one is running Windows Media Edition. Only a few lame boxes that are supposed to be set-top PCs or
Love (Score:1)
How they really hacked it (Score:2)
"Not very fine at all! Our japan sales are terrible!"
"What do you want me to do about it? Those japanese love their Nintendo games."
"Wait a minute I have an idea."
"Whats that Mr. Balmer?"
"We punch a hole in our highly proprietary and expensive desktop product and one in our highly proprietary 360 console then pay some paid 'hacker' to release a Nintendo emulator for it."
"Sir, itsn't that illegal?"
"No such thing. We own the technology end to end so we can do whatever we want with them. Just