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XBOX 360 Emulator for Mac OS X

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GimmeSlack12 said:
mattfick12 said:
I'm guessing its possible to put mac os x on a 360...how would one go about doing this? and if i do this, would i still be able to play games and use it as an xbox?
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Dude, I was pretty much joking on putting OS X on the 360. I have zero faith in that being possible.
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I dont know. I just got my acer MacBook pro up and running, I know, two diffrent beasts, but the hackontosh society is ramping up...
 
robbieduncan

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belvdr said:
Do you realize you're commenting on a thread that is almost 1.5 years old?
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And badly at that as my post pointed out that a) the CPU is not actually a G5 in the XBox 360 and b) I was well aware that Apple shipped Macs with G5s it was the rest of the system architecture that was radically different.
 
belvdr

belvdr

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robbieduncan said:
And badly at that as my post pointed out that a) the CPU is not actually a G5 in the XBox 360 and b) I was well aware that Apple shipped Macs with G5s it was the rest of the system architecture that was radically different.
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Yeah, get your facts straight! Oh wait, they are straight already, so mess them up so I can correct you. :D
 
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sneezymarble

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Realistically, the only chance anyone has of playing 360 or PS3 games on a PC is via some sort of streaming technology (ex. OnLive), whereby the audio/visual output is sent over the net to whatever machine one happens to be on at the time (laptop, desktop, whatever) and the inputs for the game are sent from the user over the net to the console. Console game streaming is significantly more likely to appear than emulation, at least for the current crop of consoles.
 
iYellow

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Pretty funny how the nerds give a 7 paragraphed explanation for why the answer is a simple two lettered: no. ;)
 
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old-wiz

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Regardless of the hardware differences, trying to run xbox games on OSx would incur the wrath of the Microsoft legal team. Microsoft would not sit around and let someone market anything like that; whoever tried to market someting like that would be sued so fast.
 
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thegreatsage41

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Greetings from the future

So today is January 9th, 2013. Crazy, I know. But, I was looking around for an Xbox 360 emulator for Mac, just for the hell of it, and the giggles too. And now, half a decade into the future, I have a response:

No. There still is not an emulator for Mac, and as far as I can tell, PC.
 
TwoBytes

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Interesting. I wonder If today's mac specs still isn't powerful enough..
 
marsmissions

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Even if there was an emulator there would be no way to read the discs, first they are not DVD's so your mac couldn't read them anyway and second they are protected with a ton of DRM.
 
AlphaDogg

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thegreatsage41 said:
So today is January 9th, 2013. Crazy, I know. But, I was looking around for an Xbox 360 emulator for Mac, just for the hell of it, and the giggles too. And now, half a decade into the future, I have a response:

No. There still is not an emulator for Mac, and as far as I can tell, PC.
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Thanks for bumping a 5 year old thread just to tell us that nothing has changed. We really appreciate it:rolleyes:
 
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Vuyebyo

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thegreatsage41 said:
So today is January 9th, 2013. Crazy, I know. But, I was looking around for an Xbox 360 emulator for Mac, just for the hell of it, and the giggles too. And now, half a decade into the future, I have a response:

No. There still is not an emulator for Mac, and as far as I can tell, PC.
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2014 update -> the same :p Spent about a hour trying to find one, but there is definitely no XBOX 360 Emulator for Mac. Probably there are some PC emulators (like this), but idk if they work well anyway.
 
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