Early Build Of Microsoft's Xbox Emulator Plays Ripped 360 Discs

It's an interesting time for emulation and game preservation, and Microsoft's official Xbox-for-PC emulation efforts have added fuel to the fire. Officially, the Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC program only supports a tailored selection of OG Xbox games.

Under the hood, developers have discovered that the full story is a little more interesting than that, with the new emulator releases actually based on Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility files. When combined with SlimEra, a component of the XWine1 Xbox One compatibility layer, full Xbox 360 games can even be played. This means that we're really looking at an official Xbox 360 emulator rather than simply an Xbox emulator, and official Xbox 360-to-PC ports may be available somewhere down the line.

By combining Microsoft's recently-released PC port of XeO3 with specific components of XWine1, SlimEra namely, it becomes possible to run dumped backwards-compatible Xbox 360 and Xbox Original games before they see...

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