So the XBOX 360 has just been launched. It feels like yesterday when I got my XBOX so I was a bit surprised to hear that the next iteration of the box would come out so soon, even before the year was over.
Two years before the XBOX came out I was playing with the idea of making an emulator console. A simple PC mounted in a console style case with TV-output and a front-end program enabling me to choose roms and emus.
There where three problems at the time.
1.) There was no easy (cheap) way of getting output from a PC into a television in the resolution of the emulators.
2.) There was no front-end program that worked with emulators and enabled the user to quit back to the front-end program from an emulator.
3.) The XBOX was coming, and everyone was predicting it would be hacked and emulators would be released.
The XBOX did get hacked and lots of emulators appeared for it. At first emulators where rushed out but suddenly things slowed down and not many new emus were released anymore. But the idea of having a single console emulating other consoles was real. But that didn’t make things easier. When you have over 10.000 roms, how do you know which one to play?!
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