Resources

Xbox Post-Mortems by developers

Xbox Launch

• GDC2002: Xbox Launch: Lessons Learned (Audio)

Post processing

• CEDEC2002: DOUBLE-S.T.E.A.L techniques (Japanese)
• GDC2003: Frame Buffer Postprocessing Effects in DOUBLE-S.T.E.A.L (Wreckless) (English)

HDR rendering

• GDC2004: Practical Implementation of High Dynamic Range Rendering

Deferred Shading

• https://sites.google.com/site/richgel99/index#TOC-Shrek-Xbox-and-Deferred-Shading
• https://sites.google.com/site/richgel99/home
• https://sites.google.com/site/richgel99/home/xbox-1-g-buffer-attribute-packing-pixel-shader
• https://web.archive.org/web/20171008031141/http://www.tenacioussoftware.com/gdc_2004_deferred_shading.ppt

Random resources about Xbox hacking

• Michael Steils Xbox Presentation from C3 in 2005
• https://media.ccc.de/v/19C3-399-xbox-linux
• https://media.ccc.de/v/22C3-559-en-xbox_hacking
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fOjGLCctEY
• Bunnies original Xbox page
• Bunnies "Hacking the Xbox" e-book for free
• Article about Xbox Graphics (before release) from Dr. Dobbs
• Technical article about the Xbox by AnandTech
• Reversing the Original Xbox Live Protocols presented by User:monocasa at DEF CON 30 (2022)

History

• 3 Xbox Bosses Share Secrets of the Console's Past (Video)
• Xbox Assembly Line Tour (Video)
• XBox Oral History Panel with Nick Baker, Todd Holmdahl, and Albert Penello (Video)
• Behind the Code - Interview with Nick Baker (Video) intresting xbox part starts 20:48

Background knowledge about related topics

Graphics programming

• Meltdown 2001 (Microsoft Game development conference): Presentation slides
• GDC2001: DirectX8 Pixel Shaders
• Papers by nvidia from Xbox era
• Presentation slides by nvidia from Xbox era
• Presentation recordings by nvidia from Xbox era
• Texturing tools by nvidia from Xbox era
• Tools by nvidia from Xbox era
• http://download.nvidia.com/developer/Third_Party/
• http://iquilezles.org/www/index.htm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20150408045127/http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/
• http://www.mvps.org/directx/indexes/
• https://www.gdcvault.com/play/247/CRYSIS-Next-Gen (Contains some parts which are also applicable to original Xbox)
• Publications by Valve Software
• http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/publikationen/Luft2006ImageEnhancementUnsharp/Luft2006ImageEnhancementUnsharp.pdf
• Masa's Column (DOUBLE-S.T.E.A.L / Wrecked developer)
• Blog by ryg
• Filmic Worlds
• AMD CubeMapGen tool for mipmapping cubemaps