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Re:Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator by stordoff on Monday January 15, 2018 @01:37PM (#16152406)
> the external HDD for the Xbox 360 has the "secret sauce" / binary blobs that allows this to work and emulates certain Xbox games

IIRC, that's _partly_ because it requires Microsoft to pay a licensing fee to Nvidia for the original Xbox GPU, so baked that cost into the cost of the hard drive rather than the console itself.

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Re:Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator by MBCook on Monday January 15, 2018 @02:18PM (#16152690)
The original Xbox always had a hard drive and games expected it. The 360 had no-drive models.

I assume that’s why the drive was required.

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