i was just wondering, if you have a pc with dual core proccesors, would you be able to make an xbox emulator for this said pc since it has over double power?
I thougt of the same.I dont want to be the 1 to tell u this but from what ive heard the xbox is some what 46 more times powerful than ur windows pc.{i could be wrong about the 46 times more powerful}.But u never know.If u dont already know there is an emulator that can load the game turrock.
Now are we talking about an xbox emulator or a 360 emulator? The rule of thumb is we need 10X the computing power, clock cycles..ram etc to get any reasonable sort of emulation because what is actually happening is a simulation in software of the hardware of the original machine.. A P3 600 can just about manage to emulate a 486. So an xbox at 766MHz will need at least a 7GHz cpu to get anywhere close, and remember that the GPU in the xbox was awesome for it's day, and handled lots of the graphics processing saving the cpu lots of work. The thing with twin processors is we don't see anything in the way of a performance increase unless the software is specifically written for parallel processing..which the xbox games never were. Then there is the issue of the D/L reverse spiral that was used on the xbox disks themselves. PC dvd drives can't read them..The game data doesn't exist as far as the PC drive is concerned. So we will still need an xbox to rip the games to play them in the emulator. So in conclusion..If the speed of single core processors continues up to 8-10 GHz then there may be a possibility of an effective emulator for the xbox, but it's obviously going to be much cheaper to just buy an xbox than the heap of state of the art hardware that will be needed. That's as long as pc's don't go off into the multi-core ppc field.
