In short: consoles might seem to be similar enough to make running their games on computer hardware look easy at first but they are different enough to NOT make it easy to accomplish in reality Xbox one and ps 4 also use x86 CPUs but i don't expect any useable emulators out for at least a decade The original xbox used a slightly modified x86 CPU that was somewhat similar to a pentium III - so in theory it should be easy to get xbox games working on x86 PC hardware - but for some reason this seems to be not as easy as it sounds and we still do not have a good xbox emulator AFAIK.
a simple wrapper or other kind of program that would run mega drive code on a mac cpu natively simply didn't cut it The sega genesis / mega drive used a motorola 68000 CPU - so did the original macintosh (and the atari ST)īut playing mega drive games on a mac didn't happen for years to come. I assume it boils down to high level emulation vs low level emulation vs virtualisation and that cpu architecture alone isn't everything.
