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Re:Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator by stordoff on Monday January 15, 2018 @12:59PM (#16152139)
> I believe I heard that the xbox360 contains an Xbox emulator for backwards compatibility. If it wasn't the Xbox360 it was some other console.

The Xbox One uses emulation to play a (growing) subset of original Xbox and Xbox 360 games.

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Re:Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @03:19AM (#16156591)
The original Xbox was x86 and the XB360 is 3-Core PowerPC - but the Xbone is x64. I’m curious how they were able to emulate PowerPC with acceptable levels of performance (my guess is high-level emulation by reimplementing the XB360’s APIs) - I’m also curious if the Xbone’s original Xbox emulation is just CPU virtualisation - or actual emulation.
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