The latter of which is still just as confusing as it was when I first jumped into the Leonard Nimoy-voiced fish Tamagotchi. Seriously, it’s bonkers to pull out my Sega CD copy of Night Trap and play that with no problems (and by playing, I, of course, mean dancing around the room to the theme tune).Īlmost as crazy is spending the entire evening getting my strategic game on with Metal Gear Acid, followed by getting them throwback feelings on Super Mario Sunshine on the Gamecube and Seaman on the Dreamcast. There are occasional crashes, some games play a little weird (for example, SSX Tricky runs at half speed for me) and it can be a bit of a pain to get some ROMs running.īut 90% of the time, games have run flawlessly for me - even games on platforms that have been legendarily hard to emulate are capably handled. Thanks to the extra horsepower of the Series X/S’ custom AMD 8-core Zen 2 CPU and custom AMD Radeon RDNA 2 graphics architecture, old games absolutely fly. What do your efforts get you? In my opinion, one of the best emulators around. Gran Turismo 3 running on an Xbox Series S (Image credit: Future) On first inspection, you will get access to a few emulation cores, but any that aren’t immediately available will need to be legally sourced and uploaded from your own console. That can be done either remotely via the IP address site used above, or via a memory stick and the My Files Explorer app. Now, it’s a case of downloading a UWP version of the Retroarch emulator onto your computer and installing it via the online tool.Īnd after some tweaks to make sure Retroarch runs smoothly (changing program type to “game” rather than “app,” updating assets, controller profiles and BIOS files), you’ve got a stable emulator ready to add games to. Once set up, you’ll see an IP address for local area network access to your Xbox that you can use to remotely install apps onto your console via your PC.

From there, it’s just a case of signing up for a Microsoft Developer Account for $19, connecting it to your Xbox and boom - you have developer mode on your Xbox. To tee things off, you need to search for “Dev Mode Activation” on your Xbox app store, then install and open it.

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