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Good shaders for stuff like retroarch: https://github.com/RetroCrisis/Retro-Crisis-GDV-NTSC

https://docs.libretro.com/shader/crt_royale/

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https://r-roms.github.io/ Get all your games here, retro and up. r/ROMs reddit community's game link aggregator.

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Myrient is shutting down unfortunately :( You can read about it here and about the rescue mission fan torrents:

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https://www.readonlymemo.com/emulation-101/

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https://git.ryujinx.app/Ryubing/Canary/releases

Switch games (Use adblock for the love of gods):

https://nxbrew.net/

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For more fiddly emulators, their wiki sites provide tweaks/fixes/hacks, and explain any bugs that are still known issues.

https://wiki.pcsx2.net/Category:Games

https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Category%3AGames

https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Nintendo_GameCube

https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Wii

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DIY ROM/ISO patches: https://romhackplaza.org/

Browser based ROM patchers: https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/

https://www.hack64.net/tools/patcher.php

https://www.ff6hacking.com/patcher/

Good Programs

The good (standalone) N64 emulator: https://github.com/Rosalie241/RMG

Quick and Dirty shaders in a window you can overlay on other windowed emulators: https://github.com/mausimus/ShaderGlass

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Are the games for the OG Xbox on Win11 emulated? (thebrainbin.org)
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Are the games for the OG Xbox on Win11 emulated?

#xbox #emulation

Saw someone post this article elsewhere: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/22/xbox-backward-compatibility-on-pc/

In short, BLiNX: The Time Sweeper, Conker: Live and Reloaded, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge and Fuzion Frenzy were made available to "purchase" (likely a glorified rental considering Microsoft's history, thus the quotation marks).

But also saw someone commenting "will be interesting to see if they're native ports or if this is the emulation thing that was rumored", this rumor of which I am not familiar with.

Still, in the possibility of that, I ask, is it?

I don't have Win11 myself to check. But if someone's digging to do it, from my experience with the Microsoft Store on Win10, people may need to mount the Windows install as a file partition on Linux to see the files Microsoft Store installs, so it may be needed on Win11 too.

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[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is a pretty good question, and I can't really tell. Based on some research, it looks like the OG Xbox was actually based on Windows 2000/NT, and modern windows is based on NT as well, so it could theoretically be a translation layer. It could also even be a straight port with no emulation.

My guess is that it's a translation/compatibility layer + game specific optimizations/fixes. If it was a solution that worked more generally, then why wouldn't they put more games on there?

Or, it could be that those games are easiest to support under the emulation/translation layer, and maybe it will be expanded to all games shortly like Wine is?

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 week ago

Asked a friend to check since he subscribes to Gamepass. Though he was busy, he could at least do a quick check, and while he saw no ISO or xISO files, he did see some suspicious files in the data folder of one of the games. Without further findings, another conjecture is that it's some sort of decompilation, like some other ports to PC such as the most recent release of Gunbird 1 & 2, the Mega Man Collection, and No More Heroes 1 & 2.

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I also don't know the answer, but adding to the list of educated guesses:

Unless the xbox was doing dynamic shader compilation I would think some level of emulation needs to be done for the graphics?

For example even though the switch 1 and 2 are using basically the same OS and CPU architecture (and both systems use Nvidia SOCs), the switch 2 needs to do GPU shader emulation to get games for the original switch running (which leads to some games not working perfectly)

[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Probably a port of Xenon Fusion I'd imagine so similiar if not identical compatibility would be my assumption:

Community made a compatbility list: https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox_360:Original_Xbox_Games_Compatibility_List

XEMU fares much better: https://xemu.app/#compatibility

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