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Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation

124 points by tetrisgm

by giancarlostoro

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by wesfenlon

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Hey, that's my newsletter -- thanks for sharing! :D
Some exciting stuff has already happened in the week since I wrote the interview. Here's Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kih42KlocII

by cosmic_cheese

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Very nice. It’d be interesting if recomps of some games that were originally for both 360 and PC become the superior experience… Fable 3 and the whole Games for Windows Live nonsense the PC version had come to mind.

by Venn1

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These projects are really neat. Last week, I was able to build (and play) the Xbox 360 release of Sonic Unleashed on a couple of ARM SBCs using Sonic Unleashed Recomp.

by rendaw

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Years ago I was searching for why emulators don't recompile to native bytecode and it seemed like the consensus at the time was that JIT etc was faster. I can't find it now, but IIRC I remember replies from maintainers saying it was a bad idea.
What changed since then, since this seems to be a trend? Is this more for more modern systems that have more static code?

by triangleman

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by andrewstuart

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by asdff

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Crazy that it has taken so long. I understand these are small teams trudging off in the dark but you could have imagined there would have been more eyes on this and hands tinkering in the time when the Xbox 360 was being sold than today. Right at that same time in history the iPhone was getting cracked basically every iOS release, sometimes by teenagers. Seems like there were a ton of hackers around back then.