So we can pretty much emulate everything after all.

SO it seems they figured out PS3 and 360 Emulation.........but you'll need Watson to run the emulators.

A few other emulators are on the way. Interesting Video

 

Isn't the 360 BC on XBONE just a recode of the actual game?

 

My understanding is that it's recompiled to x86/x64 from power pc (but exact same code) and then there's a mini 360 environment also made for x86/64 that runs it.

So its basically xbox 360 running on x86/64 natively, not emulation.

 

It is amazing that they can even do that to begin with on the XBONE. More shcoking though is that it took this long to get a working Original XBOX emulator working. Interesting times we live in.

 

To bad you can't play xbox arcade games on it.

 

as in XBLA games or Chihiro games?

 

Yeah XBLA games, the dev is anti piracy so they're automatically set to trial mode

 

I'm sure somebody will develop a work around for that.

 

I am pretty surprised that the Xbox seems to take a lot longer than the PS2 did for emulation (sure the PS2 wasn't as powerful, but it had a comparatively strange architecture).
Though in all honesty I wouldn't be surprised if in 15-20 years XB1 and PS4 emulation are a common thing.

 

There is, from what I've been told you need the source code and need to patch out the trial stuff