Emulators

This is a list of known Xbox emulation projects

Status	Approach	Chihiro	Name	Links	Initiator	Platform	License	Notes
Template:Maintained	LLE	✔	XQEMU	[1][2][3]	espes	Windows/macOS/Linux/Others		XQEMU supports hardware-acceleration for the CPU emulation on Linux through KVM.
Template:Maintained	HLE/LLE Hybrid	✗	Cxbx-Reloaded	[4][5]	SoullessSentinel	Windows		Cxbx-Reloaded supports LLE GPU emulation which was taken from XQEMU. At the time of writing, the LLE GPU is significantly slower than in XQEMU.
Template:Dead	LLE	✗	Tortoise	[6]	JayFoxRox, phire			The decision was made to create an HLE / LLE Xbox emulation project which is maintained similar to Dolphin or Citra. A key focus was on design simplicity. The project started as a continuation of kvmbox, with devices being copied from the XQEMU source code. The project was called kvmbox-reloaded, while the name was being decided. The HLE portion was never worked on.
Template:Dead	LLE/HLE Hybrid	✗	OpenXBOX	[7]	mborgerson
Template:Dead	HLE/LLE Hybrid	✗	xexec		Haxar	Linux		Xexec is an Xbox executable loader & emulator for x86/x64 Linux; handles direct execution of x86 code, executing Xbox game code directly on the CPU, in userspace Linux; All Windows kernel calls from Xbox game code are translated into POSIX syscalls, with no dependency on Wine.
Template:Dead	LLE/HLE Hybrid	✗	MacBox	[8][9]	blueshogun96	macOS		"The macOS Experiment" - An experimental VM for Macs that don't have support for the official VM framework. A simple proof of concept.
Template:Maintained	LLE/HLE Hybrid	✗	viXen	[10]	StrikerX3	Windows/Linux		A fork of OpenXBOX, which was turned into a separate project.
Template:Dead	HLE	✗	Cxbx		Caustik	Windows
Template:Dead	HLE	✗	Dxbx	[11][12]	ShadowTj	Windows		The project was started on March 23rd 2008. It is an improved port of Cxbx to the Delphi programming language.
?	Unknown	✗	Dirtbox			Windows
?	HLE	✗	IronBabel		daeken	Unknown		This seems to have been a generic portability framework
?	HLE	✗	Steelbreeze		daeken	Unknown
?	LLE/HLE Hybrid	✗	Zookeeper	[13]	daeken	macOS		Using Apple's Hypervisor.framework to run a custom kernel (NightBeliever in the repo) and then running Xbox code from there
?	Unknown	✗	XbeNext		LoveMHz	Windows
Template:Dead	HLE	✗	Xeon		_SF_	Windows
?	Unknown	✗	XProject			Windows
?	Unknown	✗	xbem			Windows
Template:Dead	LLE/HLE Hybrid	✔	Hackbox		JayFoxRox	Windows/Linux	Private	This was originally going to be a commercial emulator (but plans were dropped quickly in favor of preservation). The source code was temporarily public but then made private. The source code is still available to a selected group of developers. Hackbox was designed from scratch but re-used code from Cxbx for HLE routine detection.
?	LLE	✗	kvmbox		phire	Linux
?	HLE	✗	XboxHLE			Windows
?	Unknown	✗	boombox			Windows
?	Unknown	✗	vxb			Windows
?	Unknown	✗	exciplex			Windows
Template:Maintained	LLE	✔	MAME	[14][15][16][17]	yz70s (Samuele Zannoli) and MAME Team	Windows/macOS/Linux/Others		Focus seems to be on Chihiro emulation.
Template:Dead	LLE	✗	XBVM		monocasa	Linux
Template:Dead		✗	Xenoborg		blueshogun96	Windows
Template:Dead	LLE/HLE Hybrid	✗	Fusion[18] (Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility)		Microsoft	Xbox 360	Proprietary
Template:Maintained	LLE/HLE Hybrid[citation needed]	✗	Fission[19] (Xbox One Backward Compatibility)	[20]	Microsoft	Xbox One	Proprietary	Announced at E3 2017. Said to be working similar to the 360 support in the Xbox One [21]. The 360 support is probably ahead of time shader translation and runtime CPU translation [22].

References and links

• Discussion about Xbox emulation and technical differences between Cxbx-Reloaded and XQEMU