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December 17th, 2018, 21:00 Posted By: wraggster
DS4Windows v1.5.19 is released. DS4Windows is a portable program that allows you to get the best experience while using a DualShock 4 on your PC. By emulating a Xbox 360 controller, many more games are accessible.
DS4Windows Requirements
* Microsoft .NET 4.5 or higher (needed to unzip the driver and for macros to work
* DS4 Driver (Downloaded & Installed with
* Microsoft 360 Driver (link inside DS4Windows, already installed on Windows 7 SP1 and higher or if you've used a 360 controller
* Sony DualShock 4 (This should be
* Micro USB
* (Optional)Bluetooth 2.1+, via adapter or built in pc (My recommendation) (Toshiba's bluetooth & Bluetooth adapters using CSR currently does not
DS4Windows changelog:
Raised enhanced precision curve values
Fixed Start Minimized functionality
https://github.com/Ryochan7/DS4Windows
http://www.emucr.com/2018/12/ds4windows-v1519.html
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December 17th, 2018, 17:33 Posted By: wraggster
If you thought copies of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate finding their way to the public a week before launch was bad, then wait until you hear this one. While Kindgom Hearts III's January 25th launch is almost here, with the game having gone gold and finished development, some fans have their hands on the game already. Reportedly, more than 30 copies of the game on Xbox One have been stolen directly from a distribution center, making their way to Facebook sales pages for inflated prices. This means actual copies of the game are in the wild, and those that have their hands on the game have been uploading screenshots and videos to social media and YouTube. If you don't mind spoilers, gameplay footage is currently being posted on ResetEra.
via https://gbatemp.net/threads/physical...elease.526277/
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December 12th, 2018, 20:03 Posted By: wraggster
Cxbx Reloaded Git (2018/12/02) is compiled. Cxbx-Reloaded is an emulator for running Microsoft Xbox (and eventually, Chihiro) games on Microsoft Windows. The project began life as a fork of Cxbx with added 64-bit support. Work is currently underway to backport some of the improvements from Dxbx. Cxbx-Reloaded is still pretty unstable, don't expect it to run much at this point.
Cxbx Reloaded Git Changelog:
* Merge pull request #1511 from LukeUsher/debugging-hangs
* Workaround a hang when PsCreateSystemThreadEx returns too soon
* Fix a crash in Morrowind, add a test_case to notify us of the situation if it occurs elsewhere
* More tweaks
* Call SystemRoutine directly instead of bootstrap voodoo
* Stop EmuX86 spamming the log in Unreal Championship, this kills performance
https://github.com/Cxbx-Reloaded/Cxbx-Reloaded
http://www.emucr.com/2018/12/cxbx-re...-20181202.html
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December 12th, 2018, 19:58 Posted By: wraggster
Xenia Git (2018/12/04) is compiled. Xenia is an experimental emulator for the Xbox 360. It does not run games (yet).
Xenia Status:
Some real games run. Most don't. See the Game compatibility list for currently tracked games and feel free to contribute your own updates, screenshots, and information there following the existing conventions.
Xenia Git Changelog:
* Update Xbyak.
* [Kernel] Retain handle in ExCreateThread. Game closing a created thread's handle shouldn't result in its handle being freed.
* [Kernel] Simplify KeWaitForMultipleObjects.
* [Kernel] Change dummy HDD to 3GB free/4GB total.
* [Kernel] Null terminate string in XamContentGetDeviceName.
* [Kernel] Static size assert for X_CONTENT_DEVICE_DATA.
* [Kernel] Zero out device data in XamContentGetDeviceData.
https://github.com/benvanik/xenia
http://www.emucr.com/2018/12/xenia-git-20181204.html
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December 12th, 2018, 18:05 Posted By: wraggster
DS4Windows v1.5.18 is released. DS4Windows is a portable program that allows you to get the best experience while using a DualShock 4 on your PC. By emulating a Xbox 360 controller, many more games are accessible.
DS4Windows Requirements
* Microsoft .NET 4.5 or higher (needed to unzip the driver and for macros to work
* DS4 Driver (Downloaded & Installed with
* Microsoft 360 Driver (link inside DS4Windows, already installed on Windows 7 SP1 and higher or if you've used a 360 controller
* Sony DualShock 4 (This should be
* Micro USB
* (Optional)Bluetooth 2.1+, via adapter or built in pc (My recommendation) (Toshiba's bluetooth & Bluetooth adapters using CSR currently does not
DS4Windows changelog:
Removed component use for ScpVBus related classes
Loosened enhanced precision curves
Made slightly better window size saving routine
Now use local thread data for InputMethods method calls rather than a shared struct array
Changed UDP port opening routine
Updated ToolsVersion project attribute
Fixed UDP start routine to actually use wait time rather than busy loop
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December 11th, 2018, 17:02 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft wants to put its Xbox Game Pass service on every platform.
That's according to Xbox boss Phil Spencer, who discussed plans for the subscription scheme in front of attendees at San Francisco's Barclays conference.
GameSpot reports the Xbox exec mostly centred the conversation around how it might bring Game Pass to smartphones.
"When you think about reaching a customer with this content where their only compute device could be an Android phone, you think about, 'What are all the ways that person pays for content today'?" Spencer said. "So we need to make sure that we're world-class at free-to-play content, but we also look at subscription as a much lower barrier way for a customer to build a library of content.
"So we built Xbox Game Pass -- it started on console, it will come to PC, and eventually it will come to every device -- we use the flywheel that we have with customers on an Xbox to start the growth in Xbox Game Pass. But as somebody sitting back and taking a longer-term view of where our business is going, you should look at that as a business model that we think scales to billions of people not hundreds of millions of people like retail does."
The most obvious way Xbox can bring its Game Pass titles to mobile is through Project xCloud, the streaming service announced earlier this year that goes into public testing in early 2019. The initial video demo showed Forza Horizon 4 running smoothly on a smartphone, and the launch of an Xbox Game Pass app could provide access for mobile users.
However, the most interesting implication is that Microsoft might seek to bring its Game Pass service to PlayStation and Nintendo devices. Spencer's comments weren't limited to "console, then PC, then mobile" -- he instead said "every device".
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...o-every-device
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November 29th, 2018, 21:13 Posted By: wraggster
A bidding war between Microsoft and Magic Leap for a US Army contract to develop AR devices has concluded, with Microsoft emerging as the victor.
The $480 million contract is for the army's Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program, which will see the development of prototype Hololens devices that will improve soldiers' "lethality, mobility, and situational awareness."
"There is an operational need for the IVAS capability to regain overmatch against peer and near peer threats, as well as the need for improved training and simulation tools to provide the warfighter with the ability to train and rehearse using the same equipment utilized in actual operations," reads the program's statement of objectives.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...softs-hololens
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November 29th, 2018, 17:01 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft is ramping up its efforts to attract families and encouraging parents to not only buy their children an Xbox One for Christmas, but also set it up for them ahead of the big day.
The marketing campaign centres around the Xbox Family Guide, a pocket-sized leaflet that covers everything from the console's online capabilities to a brief explanation of Xbox Game Pass.
But, more importantly, the guide include sections on why it's important for parents to set up their offspring with a child's account (and how the family settings enable parents to control what this can access), how virtual currency and online spending works, and the importance of paying attention to PEGI age ratings.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...d-of-christmas
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November 27th, 2018, 16:54 Posted By: wraggster
Cxbx Reloaded Git (2018/11/27) is compiled. Cxbx-Reloaded is an emulator for running Microsoft Xbox (and eventually, Chihiro) games on Microsoft Windows. The project began life as a fork of Cxbx with added 64-bit support. Work is currently underway to backport some of the improvements from Dxbx. Cxbx-Reloaded is still pretty unstable, don't expect it to run much at this point.
Cxbx Reloaded Git Changelog:
* Merge pull request #1510 from LukeUsher/disable-ps-notification
* Disable PS Thread notification routines.
download http://down.emucr.com/v3/6327367370801152
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November 27th, 2018, 16:53 Posted By: wraggster
Xenia Git (2018/11/27) is compiled. Xenia is an experimental emulator for the Xbox 360. It does not run games (yet).
Xenia Status:
Some real games run. Most don't. See the Game compatibility list for currently tracked games and feel free to contribute your own updates, screenshots, and information there following the existing conventions.
Xenia Git Changelog:
* [Kernel] Proper size in XamUserCreateAchievementEnumerator.
* [Kernel] Maybe fix XamEnumerate, again?
* [Vulkan] Use epsilon equality for checking rectangle list form.
* Optimize SPIRV code generated via genspirv command.
* [App] Fix Travis whining.
* Clarify AVX requirement error message.
* [App] Abort out early with an error message if CPU does not support AVX.
* [Kernel] Stub XMsg app 0x000000FE/msg 0x00020021.
* [Kernel] Fix logging of app for XMsgInProcessCall/XMsgSystemProcessCall/XMsgStartIORequest/XMsgStartIORequestEx.
* [Kernel] Some titles seem to explicitly expect X_ERROR_FUNCTION_FAILED to mean no more files when enumerating content.
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November 26th, 2018, 17:39 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft has been very busy recently trying to get on top of the next-gen console battle ground, they have taken a beating recently with Nintendo's Switch, and still increasing sales of PlayStation 4, and as such the latest rumor is M$ is planning to go 'disc-less'!  In the wake of the news that Sony will not be attending E3 next year, Microsoft’s hardware plans for 2019 will likely be a huge win for the brand and for gamers. The company is planning to release an updated console next year, but this device will not be in the Scarlett family, according to people familiar with the company’s plans.
The Scarlett devices are Microsoft’s next-gen consoles and are not expected until 2020 but in 2019, the company is planning to release a disc-less console. And if this is making you nervous because you have a large collection of physical discs for your current Xbox, Microsoft has you covered.
In addition to the new console, there will be a ‘disc-to-digital’ program that, as the name states, turns your physical games into digital downloads. The idea is that you can take your disc to a participating retailer (like the Microsoft store) and trade in your disc for a digital download.
The goal with the new console is to lower the price point for the hardware. Currently, it costs about $299 to buy into the Xbox One family of devices, Microsoft is looking to lower that price by possibly as much as $100; the new console price point is expected to be $200 or less.
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Disc-Less Xbox One is Coming in 2019
NEWS SOURCE: Microsoft’s Building a Disc-Less Xbox One for Release in 2019 (via) Thurrott
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November 26th, 2018, 16:06 Posted By: wraggster
Thanks to John Lewis et al, heartwarming Christmas adverts are all the rage - to the point where even electronics conglomerate Microsoft is getting in on the action.
The company has produced a short film that highlights the Xbox Adaptive Controller, as well as pushing its strategy to promote accessibility in games with a new slogan: 'When everybody plays, we all win'.
The Adaptive Controller is a device with a variety of different customisable inputs that enables people with almost any disability to enjoy Xbox games. It was unveiled to widespread acclaim earlier this year and released in September.
While it doesn't actually appear much in the ad itself, the short film's narrative - which focuses on wheelchair-bound nine-year-old Owen - puts the controller, and accessibility, at the heart of its message.
The ad arrives at a time where accessibility is increasingly becoming a talking point in video games. Case in point, Activision came under fire earlier this week for not including subtitles in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy - thus limiting the experience for deaf players.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-accessibility
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November 12th, 2018, 20:36 Posted By: wraggster
The next Xbox platform isn't some super powerful 8K console, or a streaming box, or xCloud, or a Windows PC.
Or rather, it's all of those things and (quite possibly) more.
But it appears the real place where Microsoft wants to funnel its customers is through Game Pass - the subscription service that provides its fans with hundreds of games for a monthly fee.
This is not a new thing. We've been discussing it on Gamesindustry.biz now for months. But this weekend's X018 fan fest in Mexico was the most public display of its strategy we've seen so far. Two hours of Game Pass ads and announcements, with just a sprinkling of other AAA non-Game Pass games to satisfy the reluctant subscriber.
If Microsoft continues on this trajectory (and judging by its rhetoric and investment, it's likely it will), then the firm will care as much about which platform you're accessing Game Pass through as Netflix is bothered about which device you're watching The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on. Indeed, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that gamers will be able to play Sea of Thieves - via xCloud - on Nintendo Switch or PlayStation 5 in the not-too-distant future.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...future-of-xbox
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October 28th, 2018, 20:23 Posted By: wraggster
Xenia Git (2018/10/25) is compiled. Xenia is an experimental emulator for the Xbox 360. It does not run games (yet).
Xenia Status:
Some real games run. Most don't. See the Game compatibility list for currently tracked games and feel free to contribute your own updates, screenshots, and information there following the existing conventions.
Xenia Git Changelog:
* Merge pull request #1240 from 0x8080/Exports
* [Kernel] Define all exports for xboxkrnl/xam/xbdm
* [Kernel] Stub XamShowNuiTroubleshooterUI.
* [Kernel] Stub HidReadKeys.
* [APU] Load XAudio2_8.dll dynamically
https://github.com/benvanik/xenia
http://www.emucr.com/2018/10/xenia-git-20181025.html
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October 28th, 2018, 13:36 Posted By: wraggster
Xbox developer @mborgerson has been for a while working on neat 'project' which is building a complete working Xbox kernel for the original Xbox console, and making it completely open-source and not using any copyrighted code from the official Xbox kernel by Microsoft, currently the project still an 'work-in-progress', but its been moving along recently, so its one to keep an on eye on, check out the introduction below and how to build it in its current WIP state for running on the development version of XQEMU. XQEMU is a low-level machine emulator, which needs a copy of the Xbox system software to start and run games. Unfortunately, this system software cannot be freely distributed due to it being copyrighted material. This means that in order to run XQEMU, the user must dump the MCPX ROM and TSOP flash images from their own physical Xbox. This, of course, can be a significant barrier to entry for many users.
Though it is a goal for XQEMU to continue to maintain compatibility with the official Xbox system software, it is beneficial to also have an open-source alternative path for multiple reasons, namely licensing and performance optimizations. Fortunately, the interface between title and the kernel (API) is simple, clean, and largely documented and can therefore be implemented by an open-source alternative kernel, maintaining binary compatibility with unmodified title code.
Please note: by design, this project contains no copyrighted code from the official Xbox kernel.
Current State
Currently able to boot nxdk samples with full 3D graphics! It'll be a little while before this can boot a real game. In order to use this kernel, you'll need to use a development branch of XQEMU which facilitates loading an XBE.
What's Here
A very basic kernel that will: - Switch to protected mode
- Enable the serial port (printk)
- Perform barebones device init (PCI, VGA, etc)
- Read the EEPROM
- Poke XQEMU to load an XBE into memory
- Patch XBE imports with stub functions
- Jump to XBE entry point
- Handle a handful of kernel function calls
What's Needed
High-level list of major things that need to be implemented next:
Core Stuff:
- Proper kernel memory allocator (SLAB, SLOB might be fine)
- Proper virtual memory allocator for title
- Thread/DPC Scheduler
- Interrupt stuff
HLE Interfaces:
Other Kernel things...
- Rtl functions
- Kernel data exports
- Lots of other kernel stuff
Getting Started
How to Build
Standard build tools and NASM are needed, then make -C src.
How to Run
Check out run.sh to see how to use this with XQEMU. Please note that you'll need the dev branch of XQEMU (mentioned above). Also note that you should not provide a bootrom image when running this kernel.
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OFFICIAL GITHub Project Page: --> https://github.com/mborgerson/xqemu-kernel
via https://www.maxconsole.com/threads/w...rgerson.48934/
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October 28th, 2018, 12:41 Posted By: wraggster
It was a quiet first quarter for Microsoft's gaming division, but that didn't stop it from posting a 44% year-over-year increase in gaming revenue anyway.
The company's Q1 2019 earnings report shows that this increase was driven largely by third-party titles in a quarter that didn't see any first-party releases. Xbox software and and services revenue was up 36% year-over-year on its own, and Xbox Live is now up to 57 million MAU.
Hardware saw an even more dramatic year-over-year increase of 94%, which Microsoft attributes to early sales of holiday hardware bundles.
This increase contributed to $10.75 billion in revenue from the company's "More Personal Computing" segment, which also includes Windows OEM, commercial products, and cloud services. The segment overall saw 15% year-over-year growth.
Microsoft's overall Q1 2019 was $29.1 billion, up 19% year-over-year.
Next quarter looks to be slightly noisier on the gaming side of things with the release of Forza Horizon 4 factored in, as well as the Xbox Adaptive Controller and Microsoft's console subscription service, Xbox All Access.
Update (25/10/2018): Speaking during an investor call, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that Xbox Game Pass will be fully expanded to PC.
Currently PC gamers only receive access to the latest first-party titles through Game Pass, but now Microsoft intends to expand the offering to include older titles and third-party releases, reflecting the offering on Xbox.
"Xbox has the key gaming community and the monetisation capabilities," said Nadella. "Whether it's first-party games or third-party games, we are best-in-class in that monetisation and that's what's reflected in the results.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-quiet-q1-2019
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October 15th, 2018, 16:55 Posted By: wraggster
Dubbed Project xCloud, it’s designed to work across consoles, PCs, and even mobile devices. “Scaling and building out Project xCloud is a multi-year journey for us,” explains Microsoft’s cloud gaming chief Kareem Choudhry. [/b]“We’ll begin public trials in 2019 so we can learn and scale with different volumes and locations.”[/b]
Microsoft has built custom hardware for its datacenters, as The Verge previously exclusively reported, so that existing and future Xbox games will be compatible with the services. Games will be streamed to devices, and Microsoft has been testing the xCloud service with Xbox wireless controllers connected to consoles, mobile devices, and PCs. Microsoft says its research teams are “creating ways to combat latency” via advanced network techniques combined with video encoding and decoding. This should make game streaming viable on 4G networks, too.
Public trials of the service will begin next year, and Microsoft’s Xbox game streaming service will face competition from a variety of existing services. The most popular include GeForce Now, PlayStation Now, Shadow, and Liquid Sky. Microsoft’s xCloud unveiling comes just days after Google announced its own Project Stream service that will let testers play Assassin’s Creed Odyssey through its Chrome browser on a laptop or desktop. Microsoft isn’t revealing exactly what it’s doing differently than the competition, but we’ll find out more details when public testing starts in 2019.
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October 15th, 2018, 16:35 Posted By: wraggster
It goes without saying that Microsoft has had a tough time of it this generation - the kind of tough time that leads inevitably to a certain kind of commentary where each bit of positive news is placed under the microscope to see if this time, finally, it might be the long-awaited sign that things are "turning a corner" for the embattled platform.
This kind of discussion hovered around the PS3 in the last few years of the past generation; it was conspicuous by its absence from the ill-fated Wii U, which nobody ever really expected to turn a corner, or indeed to do any manoeuvring that didn't involve running into a wall.
Lately, it's the turn of Xbox; after a woeful start to the generation and a couple of years coughing on the dust kicked up by PS4 as it raced ahead, Xbox now seems to have made enough solid, good moves for people to start thinking in corner-turning terms."The resuscitation of the Xbox brand will come as the result of many, many positive decisions and morsels of good news, not as a single turning point"
Console platforms don't turn corners, though - not in the snappy sense that phrase conjures. Console platforms are like giant seafaring tankers; they don't spin on a dime, they ponderously and carefully change course, manoeuvres that must be carefully plotted and which take a very long time to execute. The resuscitation of the Xbox brand will come as the result of many, many positive decisions and morsels of good news, not as a single turning point - and progress to that end needs to be measured as a summation of a host of things about the platform, not assumed from a single hit title or high-profile studio signing.
Where, then, does Xbox stand right now - as we reach the point in the generation where companies actually start to talk openly about plans for future hardware, as Sony did this week? Well, a fair assessment of everything that's happened of late would conclude that Microsoft seems to actually be succeeding in turning the tanker around.
In this week's news alone we saw great performance for Forza Horizon this week, reports that hugely respected studio Obsidian might be added to the already impressive line-up of first party developers announced earlier in the year, and updates to a few more slow-burning stories like the very solid expansion of the back-compatible library that's been happening for quite some time now.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...ker-is-turning
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