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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Keith Stuart

Xbox 360 now plays NES games

If you've accidentally taken your eye off the homebrew development scene for a couple of days, you may have missed the news that someone has written a NES emulator for the Xbox 360. A coder known as Xexter placed a link to his creation on the Xbox-scene.com forum (here) two nights ago.

You'll need Media Center 2005, and there's no sound or working ROM menu, but judging by the feedback beneath Xexter's forum post several gamers have got it working.

So that's Mega Drive, SNES and PC Engine games on Revolution and NES titles on Xbox 360. Apparently some new games will be available on Next-Gen consoles too...

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