Emulators

This is a list of known Xbox emulation projects

Status	Approach	Chihiro	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		MAME Team	Windows/Linux/Mac/Others		Focus seems to be on Chihiro emulation. Does Xbox (non-Chihiro) emulation 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