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Goes without saying, don't give Microsoft your money. If you absolutely must play OG Xbox games on PC, use XQEmu or CXBX-R.
No offense to the developers but the state of Xbox and Xbox 360 emulation is light years behind PS2 and Gamecube/PS3 and Wii&WiiU
Decompilations/recompilations are increasingly making this a non-issue.
We recently got a decomp of DoDonpachi Saiaidoujou for 360, that's the level of niche we're at right now.
This is true, for e.g. the 360 version of Deadly Premonition is still busted (both rendering and game progress) in Xenia and has been since 2021. Using Microsoft shit won't help you with that however, since their official selection is so limited. You can't play Otogi or Jet Set Radio Future on MS consoles...
This was a few years ago so it's not the situation now, but at one point there were only two original Xbox emulators. One ran a few popular games flawlessly, but had 0 audio. The other had audio, but games had slowdowns and generally ran poor. I always wondered why they don't just steal each others ideas or, you know, work together instead of creating two competing pieces of software that do the same thing but are both equally terrible in their own unique way.
CXBX-Reloaded and Xemu also use different ISO formats so I hope you like converting them back and forth or keeping two sets of beefy DVD images on hand. Because of that I mainly just stick to XEMU since that seems to work better. I boot XEMU a few times a year, let it update and check if Dead or Alive 2/3 still turn into slideshows on half the stages. The answer is always yes. Then I hop into Xenia and try to run Deadly Premonition and the game's textures are still broken however many years in. Come onnnnnnnnnn
That said I did successfully complete Gears of War 2, 3, and Judgment on Xenia and only GoW 3 was severely hampered by emulation issues. Even then, they weren't graphical issues or crashes, just the game's scripting breaking completely under emulation, softlocking you constantly. Sadly the user experience is very spartan when you're used to the slick UIs of most modern emulators. Again, not the devs fault as I understand there are only a few people plugging away at Xbox and Xbox 360 emulation where other consoles have much, much bigger scenes
If it counts for anything, Deadly Premonition is fuckin' poor and not worth playing
That's a weird way to spell "pure cinema and an undisputed classic"
The queerphobic copaganda that is also just twin peaks??
Swery well and truly shat the bed with the sequel whose dialogue and cutscenes are often physically painful to sit through and ALL OVER the fucking place with its messaging. One moment York is lecturing the audience about how we should respect and celebrate diversity, then something horribly racist or transphobic happens. How the character of Thomas is handled in the first game mostly comes off as dated. He's portrayed in a much more sympathetic light than like, Albert Ashford from RE:CV or whatever which helps
Swery explaining how DP1 isn't just overtly ripping off Twin Peaks and is a totally original creation whose similarities to it are purely coincidental:
Literally yes.
Can personally attest to you all the Blinx is not worth it, having played it originally.
Wait, why? I mean they're a money grubbing billion dollar mega corp of course but I forgot if they did something specific. I feel like I vaguely know of them being on the bds list.
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Thank you for educating me, apologies for my ignorance
ms games division is a BDS target
Yes, Microsoft is the subject of boycott due to enabling & supporting the genocide in Gaza, primarily. Them and Amazon both have the sort of role in that that IBM did in the third reich, shall we say.
My opinion is that the boycott is in most cases the least anyone in the imperial core can do for the people of Palestine, literally just not put money in the pockets of corps with involvement in a genocide...
however
I know scolding people isn't super productive but it bugs me constantly seeing people give money to M$. Shit company anyway, haven't used any of their stuff in years.