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on the surface there's nothing remarkable about what i'm doing right now

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until i do this

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that's right ladies and gentlemen this

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xbox you're looking at can run games from almost every major console ever

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made and get this there's absolutely no

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modding involved it doesn't void your warranty and it costs just 25 bucks

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after seeing modern vintage gamers videos showing how well the series s

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works as an emulation platform we knew we wanted to try it for ourselves i mean

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it couldn't be that easy could it

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well there are some little tricky bits but after we show you the ins and outs we

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think you could be up and running in as little as 20 minutes giving you plenty

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of time to first check out our sponsor happy holidays from seasonic

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the first thing you'll need to get emulation working on your xbox one or

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xbox series machine that's right you don't even need the latest xboxes to do

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this is a microsoft developer account so

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we paid the minuscule 20 fee to be granted access and installed dev tools

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for xbox giving us the ability to load our own code into dev mode a sandbox

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where unsigned code can run the sandbox is a completely separate secure

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operating environment that requires a system reboot to access and that cannot

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run normal xbox games or applications what it does allow you to run though is

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uwps or universal Windows platform apps

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these are the same sort of packages that you see in the Windows app store and

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after downloading retroarch's app from the website and plopping it into the

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xbox web browser interface we were off to the races

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kind of some consoles particularly older ones

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like super nintendo game boy and n64

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all just ran directly off of our external usb drive without any extra

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steps but others say psp gamecube or wii

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were a bit more troublesome i'm going to allow our resident emulation guru to

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explain

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retroarch is one of those programs that's super easy to

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use as long as you already know exactly what you're doing

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the step that many people miss causing untold frustration

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is adding the missing BIOS files for each of the cores or emulators they want

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to run the reason you need them is that some of the code required to emulate say

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a wii game is copyrighted by the console maker the system menu for example

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so an emulator cannot be distributed with these pieces included not legally

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anyway fortunately there are ways to rip your own if you already own an old

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system but you want to enjoy the convenience of emulation

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so we definitely did that and didn't

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just download them from totally reputable websites yeah that's that's

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yeah once we had them it was as simple as pointing retroarch to the correct

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directories so it could find those BIOS files like so

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out of the gate playing some good old-fashioned playstation one

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i would have straight up no way of knowing that i'm not on like a powerful

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pc emulating this console there are some idiosyncrasies though uh for example we

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couldn't find an easy way to map the joystick so

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we're stuck with the d-pad which is obviously not ideal for a lot of

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playstation games that's fine because we want to play more than just this game so

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to get to the menu we're going to press both sticks at the same time let's have

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a look at what we've got here should we start with something really simple super

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super mario

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i was in control i was in control i don't believe you to be clear

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there were some challenges so let's fire up super monkey ball 2.

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cool cool i always like black screen

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simulator so compatibility ain't perfect

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and even for games that work there might be some strange behavior let's do tony

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hawk pro skater 4. now this we're expecting to work but this is a large

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game and we found that anything over about what was about a gig

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uh yeah around a gig yeah was hit or miss when loading off the external SSD

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so we actually had to copy this game over to the internal SSD to get it to

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work properly okay so this might be

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hanging which would require like a lot of this is just

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trial and error yeah sometimes it doesn't work so we're just

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going to open it up by manually browsing to it

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sort of so we'll go to load content then we go to our external drive which

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is q we go down here wait jade's colin

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it auto-populated i swear i believe you tony hawk pro skater 4. iso

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and then nintendo gamecube open file picker but

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wait normally we would like go find it

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but we're not going to do that we're going to just press cancel and then

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there's a solid chance it'll load now you saw me playing this game i did see

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you playing this game at work why don't we try some of the more

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approachable things uh psp works really well if you go into the history there oh

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hello good day i'm bruce obviously you

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know all the usual emulation bug bears exist like for example that's got like

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squares and triangles and stuff and i've got a b x y so you just got to kind of

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do your best with it i mean it's running great i mean given that nobody uses

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universal Windows apps like obviously kind of amazing it runs this

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well yay colin fixed tony hawk pro skater there was a setting in retro arch

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that made it so that changes to the renderer we selected were not applying

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uh so so we're good now oh boy i mean well we're something now

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so let's try uh yeah let's try windwaker

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oh she chugs a little she chugs the little boys talk to the little girl or

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you can try and go so see that house right there are you looking right behind

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your noggin i'm trying to go there hold on i'm trying to play video games here

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colin can i just jump oh yeah

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hey blindness ah got um

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so it works it works ish

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but even once you get the games launched

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frankly it is not all sunshine and rainbows crash bandicoot the wrath of

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cortex for example we got some weird purple flashes on loading screens and in

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mario kart 64 there are some really weirdly rendered lines in the menu but

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it's definitely playable and for the 20 dollars that this costs to do i really

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don't see why you wouldn't add it to your xbox it makes this 300 console just

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that much more appealing but

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the question is what is microsoft playing at here other than to just

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reinforce my arguments that xboxes are just pcs now why would microsoft allow

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users to run unsigned code on their consoles for the relatively paltry sum

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of 20 bucks to find out we checked out the excellent talk from tony chen from

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microsoft's security team it is worth the hour to watch guys but if you don't

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have that much time then you can still watch it but at 2x speed if that's still

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too much for you then here's the summary people have been hacking consoles ever

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since there was something to gain by doing so and that thing to gain could be

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anything from saving a buck by pirating games to just unlocking the hardware so

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it can be used in unconventional ways playstation 3 supercomputers anyone and

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i get it people don't like being told what they can or can't do with their own

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hardware that they own and they will void their warranties for reasons as

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trivial as wanting to use a different system theme on their iphone whether a

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new system will be pwned is a matter of how many hours not

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if it'll happen look at the xbox 360. people wanted to play burned discs

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straight up piracy but the firmware in the dvd drive built into the console

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wouldn't allow you to read burned discs the drive's ability to be modified was

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then locked by a grounded pin in the flash memory that was sealed inside the

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chip after manufacturing disabling the ability to overwrite the firmware well

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wouldn't you know it someone figured out how to locate exactly where that pin was

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within 0.1 millimeter on that little dime size chip then using a dremel with

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an led wired up to it they would poke a hole at that precise point on the chip

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until the led turned on indicating that they'd hit the right point that disabled

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the grounded right pin enabling the ability to flash the drive with new

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firmware that tells the console a burned disk is legitimate and will then let the

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code run this was aptly known as the

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kamikaze mod i mean man the lengths nerds will go to to gain access to their

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hardware it's hardcore just like our merch ltdstore.com

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security is so critical in the console business though due to their entire

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business model the so-called razer and blade model where the hardware is sold

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at either slim margins or even at a loss

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that is quickly recouped by selling games at much higher margins if you

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can't secure your hardware to prevent piracy you're out of business it's as

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simple as that this among other things led to the downfall of the sega

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dreamcast in 1998. within a year that

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thing had been completely pwned and developers don't want to release games

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for a console where they will be immediately pirated no new content means

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no more sales let's bring it back though why does microsoft allow just about

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anyone to run whatever code they want well they figured out that if you give

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people an easier way to run their own code they won't resort to more

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outlandish hacky ways of doing it so then

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has console hacking and game piracy been beaten so simply

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not quite but admittedly microsoft and so has sony

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for that matter has taken a lot of the reward out of the attempts between the

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360 and xbox one generation the hardware

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got much smaller and much more tightly integrated narrowing the gaps in the

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armor on that side of things and it was also during this time that system

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software updates became a normal part of the console experience

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once that happened the ability for a manufacturer to quickly break exploits

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after they'd been released or even brick your console made the risk not feel

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worthwhile for a lot of people then the last big nail in the coffin in my

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opinion is games developers have worked for years to make the online elements of

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a game like multiplayer or community level libraries an integral part of the

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experience so there's a lot of games where you could pirate them but you'll

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always feel like you're missing out combine that with better games delivery

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services like xbox game pass and it looks like a pretty killer one-two punch

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i mean valve figured out way back in the early 2000s that the answer to software

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piracy is to make the drm more convenient than the piracy and that is

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exactly what microsoft has done here for a reasonable monthly fee you've got

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access to enough games to keep you glued to your couch pretty much 24 hours a day

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and it even sorts out that whole community element of gaming i mean how

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many times have you and your buds gone to play some multiplayer

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something or other only to realize that freaking jeff doesn't own this game and

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smithy doesn't own that game and neither

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of them feels like spending 60 bucks so you can't all play together well it

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sucks but as long as you've all got game pass well now it's all good

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you liked that video why not check out the video i did with riley where we

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tried out Android on a nintendo switch yes my friends it ain't quite totally

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dead although nintendo even though that was a hardware thing they did eventually

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fix it so yeah we'll have that in the end screen for you or if you want some

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more in-depth info on emulation performance on the xbox series s go

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check out modern vintage gamers video on the subject we're gonna have that linked

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down below as well