Xqemu Emulator Mac
XQEMU is a Low-Level Emulator for the original Xbox and actually is really good! Some games got pretty g. Download: Virtual PC for Mac. XBOX 360 Emulator for Mac. As the name suggests this is an XBOX oriented emulator completely made for Mac OS. For playing XBOX games, XeMu360 emulator is the most widely used emulator. Compatibility: This is emulating Mac OS 9.2.2, released in late 2001. The emulated hardware is more or less of the same vintage, meaning software from the mid-to-late 90s will have some trouble running (as I found). The most common problem is not being able to drop down to 256 colours, although I later found a solution (link below).
You might have some of your old Xbox game CD’s laying around, do you want to put these CDs to good use? Well, you might have heard of Android emulators and how you can play Android-based games on your PC using these emulators. Well, you can also play XBOX games on your computer using Xbox one emulator for PC. All you need to do is download one of the emulators below, and you can start enjoying Xbox games on your PC.
RetroArch Xbox 360 Emulator allows running the classic games on different computers and consoles through its slick graphical interface. This is incorporated with highly advanced features like n etplay, rewinding, shaders, next-frame, response times, run ahead, and others. Also, allow running the original game discs (CDs) from RetroArch. QEMU on OS X (macOS) hosts While QEMU's main host platform is Linux, it is also supported on operating systems for Apple's Mac computers (known as OS X or macOS). The official support policy covers the last two released versions of OSX; QEMU might work on older versions, but it is not guaranteed and it might not even compile on older versions. By running Qemu on Linux, MacOS, or Windows, users can currently emulate PowerPC Mac OS 9 up to Mac OSX 10.5 (including the classic environments in PPC OSX). Community-provided Qemu builds for OSX and Windows are available through our forum. These include builds from both the official source and experimental builds.
Contents
- Best Xbox One Emulator For PC/MAC
- XQEMU Emulator
What is an Xbox Emulator?
Well, Xbox emulators are a program which creates a virtual environment to run Xbox executable file on your Windows PC. Some emulator creates the virtual environment while other converts the Xbox executable files to Windows executable files. Of course, this comes with a cost you might not get the performance on Xbox emulator which you can get with an actual Xbox.
Best Xbox One Emulator For PC/MAC
Below is the list of some of the best emulators to play Xbox games on PC.
Xenia Emulator
Xenia is one is a great emulator for Xbox. It supports more than 50 games of Xbox 360 and Xbox One. The developers are still working on this project, and you may get support for new games in the future. There were few bugs in this emulator, but with continuous software updates, it has become more stable and fast compared to other emulators.
BOX Emulator
Box emulator allows you to play Xbox 360 games on your PC with high-quality graphics and 60 FPS. It doesn’t need some special requirements you need a decent GPU to play games at high FPS. Unlike many other emulators, mice and keyboard supported for first-person shooters games. It doesn’t allow you to play pirated games (Games downloaded from internet). You need to insert your Xbox 360 CD or have a copy of ISO file to play the game. The best part is it supports lots of Xbox 360 games you can check the list of official games supported on their official website. It is one of the best Xbox 360 emulator for PC.
CXBX Emulator
CXBX is not an actual emulator as it converts Xbox one games to Windows Executable games. So basically turns Xbox games to run on Windows Platform. It works great, and you won’t face any issue or lag while playing Xbox one games on PC with this emulator.
This program uses high resources, so you need a good computer to run it. The plus point is it comes with an inbuilt Xbox viewer which you can use to browser game files.
This Xbox one emulator for pc only supports five games which are listed below:
- Smashing Drive
- Battle Cry
- Whacked
- Futurama
- Turok
XEON Emulator
This emulator only supports one commercial game which is Halo. If you’re into playing halo, then this is one of the best emulators to play Halo.
The reason it only supports halo is the development of this emulator stopped after some time. Still, the performance of this emulator is great.
This emulator can smoothly run on any modern build PC or laptop. The minimum requirement for this program is very low. To run this emulator, you need an Intel Pentium 4 processor or the higher, latest version of direct X and graphics card of GeForce FX series or Radeon 9200 Pro or higher.
DXBX Emulator
DXBX was inspired by CXBX emulator. It has developed with the same source code as CXBX but with some newly added features. You can play most of your favorite games using this Emulator. It also converts the Xbox files into executable ones to avoid a virtual environment.
The only con of this Xbox one emulator for PC is it only runs on 32 bit Windows operating system and these days you won’t find many people using a 32 bit OS.
EXBOX 360 Emulator
This emulator is similar to DXBX emulator, the only difference is DXBX runs only on 32-bit Operating System, and EX360E runs only on 64-bit Operating System which is not bad as most of the computers these days are 64 bit. As DXBX emulator inspires it, it also converts Xbox executable files into Windows executable files to avoid virtual environment. This results in smooth gameplay. Also, this emulator has a primary user interface which is very easy to use.
VR Box 360 Emulator
VR Box 360 is a newbie in the market, but it provides a lag-free experience. It is packed with some powerful features which include: Fast game load times, high fps, game save and load function, supports all newer Nvidia/Radeon GPUs (DX9 and above). It is a decent Xbox 360 emulator for pc
PCSX2
Finally an emulator you can use on Linux, Mac and Windows operating systems. It is a Play station 2 emulators which can emulate Play Station 2 games on your PC. It is quite a resource-hungry program; you can play lots of great games in high quality with high FPS. You can also scale up the games up to 4096×4096 resolution. You can use any controller which works with Windows, and you can also use keyboard and mice. The setup is quite complicated you need to get the BIOS file from your PlayStation 2 console.
XQEMU Emulator
This emulator is still in the development stage. If you are a developer and want to help to contribute to this project, then you can find the issue page on GitHub where you can see the currently open and active tasks.
It is quite slow, and buggy but the developer is continuously working on it. I highly don’t recommend this emulator; it’s only for a developer who is willing to contribute to this project.
Conclusion:
This was the list of some of the best Xbox emulators. Comment below to let us know about your favorite Xbox one emulator for PC and if you spent a lot of time playing Xbox games in your childhood then use these emulators to bring back those good memories.
(Updated Dec 11, 2018)
I recently got an urge to revisit old computer media from the late 90s and early 2000s. Growing up around that time, I remember reading a lot of MacAddict and MacWorld to learn what I could do with a Mac. Building websites, graphic design, hacking the appearance of the UI, all these were explained in the pages of magazines.
These magazines are freely available on the Internet Archive, including their cover discs. I was curious to see what applications were around back then — what about emulating Classic Mac OS to see?
Creative variations in UI design
My first instinct was to reach for VirtualBox, but that is a no go as I need to emulate a Motorola 68K or IBM PowerPC architecture. I recalled that QEMU could emulate other architectures, surely someone has already tried to emulate Mac OS 9.
Yes, many people have already written about emulating Mac OS 9, but only recently (2018) did experimental audio support come out for QEMU. Here is a short guide on how I got it running with MacOS High Sierra as the Host OS.
Note that while QEMU is available in Homebrew, it does not have the experimental audio support (yet).
Internet Archive
Magazines can be browsed right on the archive site, or downloaded as archives or PDFs (or a torrent containing all formats). Cover discs can be downloaded directly as ISO files or a torrent for the ISO. Don’t worry about seedless torrents; these ones are backed with web seeding.
Requirements
DevTools: I already have homebrew and XCode installed; because of this I was not prompted for missing command line tools. If you don’t have them, you might be prompted (by MacOS) to install them.
Hardware: I am not sure about hardware requirements, as most modern Macs will probably eclipse the power needed to run the guest OS. However if you have a low-power CPU (e.g. MacBook) then there may be some struggling.
Windows/Linux: These instructions should probably work there too, although you will probably have to substitute something else for coreaudio in the configuration step.
Get QEMU “Screamer” Fork
These instructions are adapted from Cat_7 from the Emaculation forums
I started by creating a directory for all this emulation stuff.
Next clone the fork of QEMU with experimental audio support:
Then configure the source to use MacOS CoreAudio. I have also enabled LibUSB, KVM, HyperVirtualization Framework, and the Cocoa UI. In this case I am only compiling the emulator for PPC (32-bit).
Next use make to compile QEMU. (If you have more processor cores, use make -j 4 or however many cores to speed up the process.)
This will create a binary in qemu-screamer/ppc-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc that we can use.
Xqemu Emulator Download
Optionally you can install these binaries to /usr/local/bin or wherever. I kept them in the ~/emulation directory to separate them from the Homebrew QEMU binaries.
Create HD for Mac OS 9
We will need to have a hard drive image for our guest OS. I made mine 5 GB in size, which would be typical at the time for Mac OS 9.
In our qemu-screamer directory, we will use qemu-img to create the disk image.
Get a Mac OS 9 Installer
If you have an ISO of a Mac OS 9 install disc (a Mac OS X classic install disc will not work — it must be bootable), then you can use that in the next step. If you don’t have one, you can download one from Mac OS 9 Lives: Mac OS 9.2.2 Universal Install.
Install Mac OS 9
The Mac OS 9 Lives method won’t install quite like an original Mac OS 9 installer would, but instead will use Apple System Restore to restore an image onto the hard drive.
Start up QEMU with the following options:
Xqemu Emulator Mac Os
A breakdown of that command: Outlast 2 free download.
-L qemu-screamer/pc-biossets the BIOS-cpu 'g4'emulate a G4 CPU-M mac99,via=pmuwill define the Mac model and enable USB support-m 512use 512 MB of RAM, could go lower probably-hda macos92.imguse our generated disk image for the hard drive-cdrom '~/Downloads/Mac OS 9.2.2 Universal Install.iso'use the ISO for the cdrom-boot dboot from the disk drive-g 1024x768x32default to 1024x768 resolution and 32 bit colour-device usb-kbdenable USB keyboard emulation/support-device usb-mouseenable USB mouse input, will improve cursor tracking somewhat
Once it starts up, you will be able to run Disk Initializer to format your hard drive image. Go ahead and do that, using Mac OS HFS Extended as the file system. One partition is good.
After initializing the disk, run Apple System Restore with the Mac OS 9 Lives disk image as the source and your disk as the destination. This will take a minute to restore. Once done, shut down the emulated system (Special Menu -> Shut Down).
Boot Mac OS 9
Similar to the last command, except we start up from the disk we created.
It should boot up and you will have a running Mac OS 9 with audio! I recommend saving this command as a shell script in your ~/emulation directory.
Boots much faster than it did in 2001
Tips
Backups: When the emulator is shut down, just make a copy of the hard disk image to create a backup. If something breaks your Mac OS 9 installation then you can restore the file.
Discs: You can dynamically attach CDs/DVDs to the emulated system by going to the menu bar on your host system for the QEMU application and selecting the option to attach to the CD IDE drive. It will open a dialog letting you select your ISO.
Compatibility: This is emulating Mac OS 9.2.2, released in late 2001. The emulated hardware is more or less of the same vintage, meaning software from the mid-to-late 90s will have some trouble running (as I found). The most common problem is not being able to drop down to 256 colours, although I later found a solution (link below). I have not tried emulating Mac OS 8/8.5; a cursory reading of forums has mentioned that doesn’t work yet.
Easter Egg in Finder
256 Colours
To support 256 colours you will need to add a bios driver. See the EMaculation forums for instructions; it involves replacing a file in the pc-bios directory with an older version that still supports 256 colours.
2018-12-11 Updates
I removed the extra arguments from configure as by default it will enable everything it can. make should use -j instead of -J. Using USB devices for mouse/keyboard improves mouse performance, but it still is a bit sluggish compared to the host machine. I found a way to get 256 colours working; see that section for a guide.