Emulators

This is a list of known Xbox emulation projects

Status	Approach	Name	Links	Initiator	Platform	License	Notes
Maintained	LLE	XQEMU		espes	Windows/Linux/Mac/Others		XQEMU supports hardware-acceleration for the CPU emulation on Linux through KVM.
Maintained	HLE	Cxbx-Reloaded		SoullessSentinel	Windows		At the time of writing Cxbx-Reloaded is almost purely HLE. LLE GPU emulation is planned, but currently not implemented.
Dead	HLE	Cxbx		Caustik	Windows
Dead	HLE	Dxbx	[1][2]	ShadowTj	Windows		The project was started on March 23rd 2008. It is an improved port of Cxbx to the Delphi programming language.
Unknown	Unknown	Dirtbox			Windows
Unknown	HLE	IronBabel		daeken	Unknown		This seems to have been a generic portability framework
Unknown	HLE	Steelbreeze		daeken	Unknown
Unknown	LLE/HLE Hybrid	Zookeeper		daeken	Unknown
Unknown	Unknown	XbeNext		LoveMHz	Windows
Dead	HLE	Xeon			Windows
Unknown	Unknown	XProject			Windows
Unknown	Unknown	xbem			Windows
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.
Unknown	LLE	kvmbox		phire	Linux
Unknown	HLE	XboxHLE			Windows
Unknown	Unknown	boombox			Windows
Unknown	Unknown	vxb			Windows
Unknown	Unknown	exciplex			Windows
Maintained	LLE	MAME/Chihiro		MAME Team	Windows/Linux/Mac/Others
Unknown	LLE	MAME/Xbox		MAME Team	Windows/Linux/Mac/Others		Does this exist yet?[citation needed]
Dead	Unknown	XBVM			Windows
Dead		Xenoborg		blueshogun96	Windows
Dead	Unknown	Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility		Microsoft	Xbox 360	Proprietary

References and links

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