XPSemu Alpha 3.4 brings the original Xbox to PS5 with MSAA, turbo buttons and frame generation

How it works

The PS5 and the original Xbox both use x86 processors, so XPSemu doesn't translate instructions: the game's code runs directly on the console's CPU, and only the few instructions that depend on Xbox hardware are trapped. The rest comes from the hakuX core: its own Xbox kernel, NV2A graphics drawn through Vulkan on the open-source RADV driver from PS5_Vulkan, and MCPX sound. The project began on October 1 and is GPL-3.0.

You can pick a resolution from x1 to x6, up to 3840x2880 shown at 4K, and FXAA, SMAA or SSAA anti-aliasing. Frame generation offers Auto, x2, x3 and x4, and Auto takes games from 30 to 60 fps and from 60 to 120. It includes 60 fps patches, among others for Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, supports up to four players and reads XISO, Redump, CCI, CHD and CSO images, or folders.

The last two alphas

Alpha 3.3, from November 9, plays Xbox rumble on the DualSense's haptic motors and turns on PAL 60 Hz for every European game, with an option to go back to 50 Hz per game. It fixes the Midtown Madness 3 crash, and the game now starts at 60 fps, as well as RalliSport Challenge 2.

Alpha 3.4, from November 10, adds per-game MSAA at 2x, 4x and 8x, off by default and very heavy on big titles. It also adds per-game turbo buttons, which repeat the press while you hold the button, and box art with spines from each disc's own region.

The Sega Chihiro arcades

Sega's Chihiro board is built on the Xbox, and its eight games now run on the same core at 60 fps: OutRun 2, Crazy Taxi: High Roller, Ollie King, Virtua Cop 3, Ghost Squad and The House of the Dead III, among others. No Chihiro BIOS or media-board flash is needed, only the game and three small base-board files. With CHD and GD-ROM formats you also need the game's key.

What you need

A PS5 running kstuff, and ShadowMountPlus. XPSemu includes no BIOS, dashboard, games or other Microsoft software: you use your own games, dumped from discs you own.