The "Why we are never getting a XB1/PS4 emulator" thread

[Grimm4lyfe]

I was wondering can you partition a hard drive and have boot settings give me a option of the emulator or windows 7 ?

 

[gamerk316]

Actually you should be able to play XboxOne games on your PC pretty soon. Not by emulation but by running the XboxOS on your PC.
The XboxOne uses 2 custom versions of Windows 8 and a small XboxOS. There probably wouldn't be too much work needed to get the OS running on a normal Desktop PC without emulation.You would just need to decrypt the keys signed to the Xbox XVD files, extract the contents and with some tweaking it may just work. I am not 100% sure though as i don't think that anyone has had access to the contents inside the Xbox XVD files yet and no one knows exactly how they work. But from what Microsoft has said about how the OS works, it sounds like it could be possible. There is more information about the OS on here : http://wccftech.com/xbox-one-architecture-explained-runs-windows-8-virtually-indistinguishable/

Wrong again, which shows people have no idea how this stuff actually works. The way the XB1 is handling everything is to essentially use a RTOS to drive Windows tasking, which is a significant departure from how the windows scheduler handles tasking on Windows. That alone is enough to prevent XB1 titles from running on windows. Nevermind the XB1 specific application extensions, DX calls, and other specialized HW tricks you can do because the HW is static that will NOT work on Windows.

That's the same reason you can't pop a PS4 disk and run it through FreeBSD, despite the fact the PS4 OS is FreeBSD based.

 

[Ragingfist]

And no, a PS4 emulator would be far, far harder, simply due to a much larger host OS.

PS4EMX not needs to use OS it says on the github that emulating AMD64 and as much of GPU as possible and and running just the games will do first then virtualization might come later

 

[dantethedemonkiller]

Hay man r u crazy I have a PS 4 emu in my PC

 

[tonicMagikarp22]

Hay man r u crazy I have a PS 4 emu in my PC

You might have a PS4 emulator in the foreseeable years to come. 😛 Although development of PS4EMX is almost dead; there's only one user committing to it and the code is messy as hell and needs some refactoring.

 

[huggableBunny]

That PS4EMX project is a huge complicated mess of uncommented code that apparently only the devs claim to know where they're taking it. I wouldn't expect much from it for a long time, even if just something basic like being capable of stripping header/metadata from the game discs.

 

[copypastaking]

What ever but there is a software that can play ps4 games......

No, there isn't. The only software that plays PS4 games so far is called Orbis OS on the PS4's x86-64 AMD chip. The PS4 EMX project wants to emulate the games without relying on the OS ... but also wants to support virtualization and full emulation to run Orbis OS as well.