Xeina (360 emu) - Halo 3 Starting To Become Semi-Playable - General

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVYlBl8ap8g 4:00 and onwards for campaign footage Still going to be a good while before its playable but its great considering just a few weeks ago the graphics were completely fucked iirc We're in the golden age of emulation lads

I'm really glad the emulation of last-gen consoles are really starting to pickup now. RPCS3's major advancements and now Xenia gaining some traction is really great. The next 2-3 years (maybe sooner) are gonna be really exciting for emulation.

I recorded a video myself of me playing Halo Reach firefight on Xenia. Runs okay for what it is, I wouldn't say you should go out downloading it so you can play the games right now. And I have a 2700X and GTX 1060 with 16GB of RAM, so it's no ease to run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNKvqVJvI4A

If only i knew how to rip my 360 discs, I'd be all over this.

This huge update was made by some guy called Triangel who made a new DirectX 12 backend, or how do you call it. It's fascinating how much difference only one person can do. Reminds me of last year when kd-11 made major improvements on RPCS3.

Being crossplatform and all that is great, but you need to have actual people who can do it, it even says on their web page they need a Linux developer, and also don't forget Apple not supporting Vulkan and slowly killing OpenGL support. The few developers who work on Xenia are simply more familiar with Windows environment and this Triangel person is more experienced with DirectX. It's fascinating to see people spent their free time figuring out and making this, I can't really ask for them to learn new APIs and operating systems if they are not up for it.

The emulator is still in its early days and can't a lot of that change if they decide to? Its open source as well so if it ever gains more devs who knows what could happen in the future. Far too early to assume cross platform and other APIs aren't going to be a thing.

as far as i know the Xbox consoles can’t even use GL. Not to mention the special shader hardware the 360 and One have.

It's more pragmatic to use already available API and libs from Microsoft to properly emulate a console made by Microsoft, don't you think?

God this gets me so fucking excited, especially that halo reach video. I can already imagine playing it now, halo reach was by far my favorite halo game of all time.

Oh thats exciting, can you play multiplayer through some hosted servers?

I think getting games to be playable is more important at the moment

You are really ignorant aint ya. The directx 12 backend was wrote by a single guy with the reason being directx 12 is far easier to debug than vulkan, after the directx 12 backend is finished and the changes to the kernal are also finished the move back to vulkan will start. Directx 12 is not the end, not by a long shot. Vulkan and OpenGL will be options eventually.

I'd imagine if this TriΔng3l guy knew how he would of done just that, but you can only work with what you have. You can't get mad at the plumber when you wanted someone to wire up the lights first in a new house but he's the only one there.

oh jesus christ if you somehow run any kind of 360 code on there you may just be crowned emperor of the universe because that's fucking insane on the other hand, Dolphin's PPC emulation code runs at about 20-25 FPS on the Switch. If Nintendo gave a hand at it they could probably get full speed.

Not mad per se, but your making a fuss over how a guy who knows how to program one thing isn't programming other things instead.

I mean, if you want to add vulkan/opengl support, why not go add it yourself? Im sure they would appreciate the help. and also, the xbox (from the first gen to the current xbox one) share many similarities to windows itself. heck, I think it was called "xbox" to show off "directx." there may be reasons why its easier to develop a xbox emulator on windows first

Some guy finished the whole Halo 3 campaign in Xenia. Not everything is rendered correctly and it crashes, but it's doable. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpCX3syyl18]

The PS3, original Xbox, and now the 360 are all starting to get decent emulators, and I've never been happier.