Try playing your old Xbox games on a Xbox 360 and tell me how great console gaming is.Originally Posted by Pooky
Your argument is invalid.
Try playing your old Xbox games on a Xbox 360 and tell me how great console gaming is.
Your argument is invalid.
Xbox 1 is not Xbox 360. Windows is still windows. Old xbox games might not have live support anymore, but they still plug and play on their intended platform without any hotfixes, workarounds, or driver rollbacks.
http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?t=194324
When's the last time you had to do all of that to get a console game to so much as START?
Hey, let's even look at an example you posted yourself Inferno!
http://www.modacity.net/forums/showt...s-is-so-stable!
Last edited by Pooky; June 20th, 2010 at 06:30 PM.
The differences between a Windows XP machine and a Windows 7 machine. Software and (Generally) Hardware.
The differences between an Xbox and an Xbox 360. Software and Hardware.
And seriously, 90% of the xbox games I've tried to play on a 360 have broken or just plain not worked. And even the few that do work require you to go online and download patches. Also no live support.
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Also I wonder what the fail rate of the average PC is compared to the fail rate of the Xbox 360.
Last edited by Inferno; June 20th, 2010 at 09:47 PM.
Actually there's a few fixes for it... a 7+ year old game.
If your console breaks and it's too old for the company to support it... you're SOL on its games... or you emulate it on a PC.
Project 64. I still split screen SSB with my friends on my computer.
The difference is that they just released this game on OSX, and my hardware is good enough to run the game fine. I've ran it perfectly smoothly on my windows bootcamp (aside from the similar patches and shit.)
The DEVELOPER is supporting the game on my current platform, whereas xbox games aren't supported by anyone really other than M$ on the 360.... which is using an emulator to run the original Xbox games anyhow.
... and the differences between an Xbox and a PS3 are software and hardware by the way... just like the differences between a Nintendo DS and my MacBook Pro.
My point is that not only is your argument invalid inferno, but it's silly to assume that Xbox games should run flawlessly on an emulator. I have my original Xbox hooked up to play original Xbox games. Just like I have my Atari, NES, SNES, N64... etc hooked up.... all of those games can be played on the original Xbox via emulators... but they're all best played on their target hardware.
Someone asked how the game runs on OSX, so I answered... It runs like a cripple in a marathon. It WILL get to the goal eventually... but it's not pretty along the way and it's slightly sad and frustrating to watch.
Personally the PC gaming world (actually all of videogaming TBH) would have been TONNES better had Linux overtaken DOS in the consumer space.
Something doesn't work? Someone probably already fixed it. Some OS version was a total lemon? Move to an alternative and <gasp> your binaries are mostly compatible... and the ones that aren't... likely can and have been fixed.
There's room in the world for proprietary EULAs -- but as you get higher up the dependency tree -- you need to be more and more open.
<3 LGPL
I was talking about pookies example. He's expecting a game designed on WinXP (I believe) to run on W7. Which is like trying to stick a N64 cartridge into a gamecube.
I don't know shit about TF2 on the mac. I don't know shit about mac's in general. I bet Steve Jobs is an alien and they use human organs to make their processors.
Last edited by Inferno; June 20th, 2010 at 09:51 PM.
Why aren't more people unsettled by this?
They're old games. They aren't exactly priorities for any developers.
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