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A few days ago, Microsoft surprised the gaming world when it announced that four original Xbox titles were getting a PC release via the Xbox Store. To ensure the games run properly on a computer, Microsoft bundles the games with an emulator. However, dataminers have since dug through the code, and they discovered that Microsoft actually used an Xbox 360 emulator to get the job done, opening the door for more potential releases in the future.
Officially supported Xbox 360 titles on Windows may be coming soon
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As spotted by True Achievements, the news broke when X user TheLunarixus made a post explaining the situation. After they took a look at how Microsoft got original Xbox titles running on Windows, they discovered that it used an Xbox 360 emulator running Xefu. Xefu is what the Xbox 360 used to emulate original Xbox games, so it's basically an emulator running within an emulator.
But if Microsoft emulated original Xbox games through an Xbox 360 emulator, what's stopping it from running the Xbox 360 emulator as-is and emulating Xbox 360 games with it instead? As it turns out, not much. The XWineOne X account posted that, with a bit of tinkering, you could leverage the emulator to play Xbox 360 games instead. It does come with "varying degrees of success," but it's possible.
Is this proof that Microsoft will also release Xbox 360 titles on PC? Nothing is confirmed right now, so we can't say for sure. However, we do now know that the technology to do that is already on people's Windows devices, and all it'd take is for Microsoft to actually use that tech to bring the Xbox 360 catalog to PC. So, things look promising, at the very least.
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