Get your NES fix on your Xbox 360

by Adams Briscoe { Mar 26th 2006 at 5:45PM }

Thanks to deviously pioneering gamers like Xexter, Xbox 360 owners can get nostalgic while playing old-school favorites from the NES era right on their next-gen console. This member from the MaxConsole community scored a working NES emulator that runs at nearly full speed. The setup requires Media Center 2005 to pull it off, and sound doesn't work yet, but it speaks volumes about what we may be able to see later on.

He says this: "Found a way to add a menu for the roms list so you will have to edit the nes.htm and change to whatever Nes rom you want to play. I've included a Public Domain rom for testing but have verified Zelda1-2, Excitebike, and TecmoBowl and all worked.

Please do not ask for ROMs "

We're all law abiding citizens over here, and would never ever dream of violating copyrights, but we're sure a lot of you can take advantage of this (in a very lawful way, of course).

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

AJay17 @ Mar 26th 2006 6:59PM

Very cool. Too bad I don't have media center :(

12345678 @ Mar 26th 2006 7:07PM

just tried it, works awsome!

this is tight.

Kwak @ Mar 26th 2006 7:09PM

Original source of where author posted this:
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=500366

EatingPie @ Mar 26th 2006 8:18PM

> we're sure a lot of you can take advantage of this
> (in a very lawful way, of course)."

Is this sarcasm? If so, please disregard the following.

Okay, c'mon. How can we take advantage of this in a lawful way? Legal ROMs are in a cartridge, making them virtually (sans ripper) virtually impossible to "use in a lawful way."

Just about everyone is going to d/l the ROMs. Just be honest... or say nothing at all. Frankly, it's insulting.

Like I said, if you were being sarcastic, then I'm off-base (and throw in a smiley :) ) -- though my desire for straight-forward and honest posts holds true.

-Pie

adamsb @ Mar 26th 2006 8:44PM

Oh Pie, you're so silly =P (that was sarcasm just there, btw lol)

But yeah, try not to get insluted by something so trivial ^_~

Keef @ Mar 26th 2006 9:27PM

Iv tryed it too and i works very well, cant get it fll screen ish like on that pic tho.... i just get a small box in the top left.

should be an easy fix in the nes.htm tho.

and if this is possible then Genesis is VERY possible, just look here http://www.game-oldies.com/index-list.htm pick a game and it plays, n its Java like the Nes one.

just needs someones skill to make it work.

iv tryed gettin it to work with no luck lol i have the .js file of the emulator, just not the .class file which i keep getting errors saying i need it lol