Emulators

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Are there any linux emulators available for xbox/ps3 games??

:confused::confused:

[Eddie Wilson]

There are none for the Play Station 3 or for the Xbox 360. I'm not really sure about the regular Xbox. I don't believe so because of the advance hardware in them.
Eddie

[Sockerdrickan]

NO And there probably won't be a 360 emu because of the Windows/Xbox situation :P

[TidusBlade]

People still haven't even created PS2 or Xbox emulators with full playability, I dont expect Xbox 360 or PS3 emulators for another few years, that can actually do something.

[disturbedite]

Are there any linux emulators available for xbox/ps3 games??

:confused::confused:
this will never happen as long as they're still making profits/being produced for/by the companies. (nint, sony, ms).

and if they do, the companies will get them squashed asap.

[mellowd]

The 360 and ps3 are still new. Why don't you just get one if you really want to play?

[TidusBlade]

this will never happen as long as they're still making profits/being produced for/by the companies. (nint, sony, ms).

and if they do, the companies will get them squashed asap.
Not fully true, they are too hard to currently make, most probably because of limited computing power available, the companies cant stop emulators really, since I don't think they are illegal, the ROMs are though, or in that case the ISOs.

[disturbedite]

you're wrong. they can and do. and it doesn't matter what you think, or what i think, (and i agree with you about their legality), but through color of law they enforce it as if they are illegal. (just like the RIAA & MPAA).

[CSMatt]

I think that patents might make an emulator illegal, but of course old-school systems whose patents were applied in the 70s and early 80s have since had their patents expire and the emulators for those systems are legal. The DMCA's protections on reverse-engineering might also factor into the legality of an emulator.

Unlicensed ROMs are almost always illegal in the US, even if you extract them from your own cartridges. See Atari v. JS&A (http://people.bu.edu/ebortman/index/atari-js&a.htm) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM_images#Legal_status_of_ROMs.

[hikaricore]

omfg not this arguement again...

[Sockerdrickan]

lol laws

[Ferrat]

you're wrong. they can and do. and it doesn't matter what you think, or what i think, (and i agree with you about their legality), but through color of law they enforce it as if they are illegal. (just like the RIAA & MPAA).

Emulators produced by "virgin" programmers are not illegal and AFAIK this has been proven in court, it's not illegal to make a program that can read other peoples software unless they have a 100% legal ownership of the standard and even then it's a gray area due to free market laws, it is however illegal to use any of their code or people that have initmate knowledge about the code when making it.
This is the reason for ex. you need a Playstation BIOS that you own when using pSX and other playstation emulators and pSX itself is not illegal.

Making profit from Emulators however sometimes thread on to trademark laws and opens the door for legal action, you could probably win but the legal fees are often to high to continue,

But in short, an emulator or any program for that matter that doesn't use any code too similar to the original product and doesn't intrude on the original products trademark, produced by people that have no prior connection to the product is legal, this is the reason why wine and pSX ect. doesn't get "killed" even if they can pretend they are the original and give similar functionality.

[dfreer]

Can I get a emulator for the yet unreleased PS4? What's that you say, it's not possible? Eh, must be because linux sucks!

I'm probably going to hell for this worthless comment :(

[inversekinetix]

I doubt there will be a ps3/xbox emulator that works for many many more years, mame can't even emulate all the games in its database, try ome of the chds and watch them crawl, even on my specs they crawl.

[slavik]

so, you want to emulate 3 PowerPC 970 CPUs? or a 7 Core version of the PowerPC 970 (aka Cell) on an x86 CPU?

I'd like whatever the OP is smoking. ^^