Why exactly is that? Well, emulation of complex gaming-oriented system is not an easy task. Some of the few successes in this field are PS2 and Xbox emulators. Though even then results obtained are not without their drawbacks. Slow, buggy gaming experience is achieved with some portion of games. Other games don’t run at all.First you must discern between actualXbox 360 emulator and emulation on Xbox 360 i.e. executing applications on the actual game station.
And while we must tell you that the former is still in the initial stages of development, latter is actually doable.
Every now and then you will hear questions like: will I be able to play my latest favorite awesome badass Xbox 360 shooter on the PC? And how long will I have to wait for the piece of software that will enable me to do that? Well, the short answers are: “no” and “not for another two to five years”.
The problem of such endeavors is that every time company releases a new game station (be that Sony with its Play Station series or Microsoft’s Xboxes) they completely change hardware layout, effectively changing instruction set used, so emulation software must be created practically from scratch. Being enormous task in itself, emulation is further complicated by the fact that emulation will always result in the performance penalty to the system, because general-purpose computer can’t handle those graphics-heave computations as efficiently as gaming-oriented one, such as Xbox 360 emulator. Games written for it will always try to utilize unique features of it’s architecture to treir advantage while emulating such procedures in ordinary computer results in inefficient routines being used. Alleviation of this gap requires significant amount of reverse engineering.
The practical result is that running the same game on the native hardware and through an emulator on a PC of roughly the same power would result in a tenfold decrease in a frame rate. So even if we got this emulator today you would be forced to be content with frame rates of around 5-10 fps on your latest i7.
So for now you should refrain from downloading any shady programs promising you to run your favorite games for the sake you your antivirus
Regarding executing code on Xbox 360: there are several solution to this ranging from running application written on the native code to not-so-eagerly encouraged hardware and software hacks.
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