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XNA SharpNES - the first NES Emulator for Xbox 360 and XNA
>> 'Lone Coder' released the first 'indie' emulator for the Xbox360. No, the Xbox360 is not 'hacked' to run unsigned code (yet) ... 'XNA SharpNES' is made with 'XNA Game Studio Express', the Microsoft dev tool released last month aimed at helping students and hobbyists build games for Windows and the Xbox 360. While the tool is developed to program indie games, and not really made/optimized to make other stuff/applications, it looks like 'Lone Coder' managed to use it to port a NES (8-bit Nintendo) emulator :)
Note that to run this on your Xbox360 you will need a 'Creators Club' account ($99/12m or $49/4m) on your LIVE subscription and both Visual C# Studio Express (free) + XNA Game Studio Express (free) installed on your Windows PC. The emulator will also run on Windows, if you have the XNA Framework installed.
From the readme/nfo:
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XNA SharpNES the first NES emulator for the xbox 360 and XNA.
If you'd like to talk about this project my gamer tag is Lone Coder or you can email me at bryanlivingston -AT- gmail.com
This is a conversion of SharpNES by Jonathan Turner. Converting it only took a couple of hours.
It runs at 60% or 70% of normal speed on the 360, so it's playable but slow. There's probably some very easy optimizations and cleanups to be done still.
Right now there is no ROM loading menu, so to switch ROMs you have to include the ROM in the SharpNES360 project and set it to "Copy to Output Directory", then edit the filename in Program.cs.
This requires a creators club account which runs $99 a year or $49 for four months. You'll also need Visual C# Studio Express which is free.
Buttons: A = A ; B = X or B ; Start = Start ; Select = Back ; Up, Down, Left, Right = D-Pad ; Exit Emulator = RB (Right Shoulder Button)
What's Missing:
* Second Controller
* Sound
* Saving or State Saving
* Rom Loading Menu
Supported Mappers: Mappers 1 (mostly), 2, 3, 4 (mostly), 7 (partial), 9 (mostly), 10, 11 (partial), 22 (partial), 34, 64 (partial), 66
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Official Site: http://code.google.com/p/xnasharpnes/
Download: here (latest release) (subversion rep. (latest code))
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