The Best Non-handheld Console?

[Axeman]

The xbox scene is pretty quiet now, mostly becasue most systems up to and including Ps One and N64 are all emulated well as far as I can see. I got Amiga, N54, Genesis, SNES and loads more running perfectly!

Xbox is the best emu scene bar none.

 

[bast525]

Did they ever solve the problem for the PSX emu so that you could actually play off actual PSX discs (or backups)? Last I checked you HAD to load the game onto the harddrive to play which sux for guys like me who are two cheap to upgrade it.

 

[spaceboygp32x]

Did they ever solve the problem for the PSX emu so that you could actually play off actual PSX discs (or backups)? Last I checked you HAD to load the game onto the harddrive to play which sux for guys like me who are two cheap to upgrade it.

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the xbox costs hundreds

the DC is pocket money retro fun - games on ebay are about £2

no comparison

 

[finty]

WTF has that got to do with what Bast asked? We get it, you like the DC, now shut up.

 

[Dozer]

Did they ever solve the problem for the PSX emu so that you could actually play off actual PSX discs (or backups)? Last I checked you HAD to load the game onto the harddrive to play which sux for guys like me who are two cheap to upgrade it.

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You don't have to have in on the HDD, you just need to have the cd ripped to a bin/cue. You can then burn that to a cd and play it off that.

But I don't think you can put in origionals at the moment. I'm having troube getting an iso of tekken 3 converted and playing at the moment.

Edit: I just checked and if you can play the game directly from a cd, I can't. Thanks to you though, I now have to get my psx out to play speed freaks. Thanks...

 

[bast525]

oh wow see I didn't even know you could play them as bin/cue from a CD though now that I think about it it makes sense that you should be able to. Unfortunately my Xbox will only read CD-RW's not regular CD-R's... well i guess that's not that big of a deal. I assume you can load a whole bunch of PSX bin/cues onto a DVD-R and play them off that as well? I NEED to get a DVD burner....

 

[toxibunny]

oh wow see I didn't even know you could play them as bin/cue from a CD though now that I think about it it makes sense that you should be able to. Unfortunately my Xbox will only read CD-RW's not regular CD-R's... well i guess that's not that big of a deal. I assume you can load a whole bunch of PSX bin/cues onto a DVD-R and play them off that as well? I NEED to get a DVD burner....

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your xbox will play CD-RW's, but not CD-R's?

I'd nott be so confident it will play playstation bin/cue's off a dvd-r if I was you... just saying...

 

[bast525]

yep, mine wont play regular cd-r's.


Lots of Xbox's are like that... very finicky some of the DVD drives in some of them are.

 

[xboxit]

I got the samsung drive so i can play off cd, cdr, cdrw and most dvd's. Has anyone seen the remake of that flash game Madness, Madness x.

Looks realy good.

 

[declaration]

yeah mine has issues with cd-r too.

Fortunately I just use a big hardrive instead and FTP the PSone games across.

I prefer the xbox to a cheap PC because I prefer not to have to use Windows for the emulation as its cumbersome to control with a control pad and slow(er) to boot.
I also dont think I could have bought an entire PC capable of PS1 and n64 emulation for less than £100. And if you could it'd be bigger and less portable than an Xbox (which I frequently carry around in my backpack).