When someone is looking to get into game emulation in this day and age, RetroArch is likely the most common suggestion. It's a front-end that utilizes Libretro cores that open up the ability to ...

Console makers have a love-hate relationship with emulators. On the one hand, they hate the piracy it empowers. But on the other hand, some of them have actually used them to power their own mini ...

Microsoft shut down classic game emulation on the Xbox Series X/S on April 6 and a small but passionate community of retro enthusiasts, preservationists, and homebrew devs are up in arms. They’re ...

It’s hardly a secret any more at this point that today’s game consoles from Microsoft and Sony are essentially AMD gaming rigs packed up into a custom package and with tweaked system software. So it’s ...

Developers have now made it possible to emulate PS2 games on the Xbox Series X and S using the RetroArch emulator — something that the PlayStation 5, a successor to the PS2, can’t. Thanks to the Xbox ...

The past few years have seen the rise in popularity of retro consoles. Nintendo has seen plenty of success with their NES and SNES Classic consoles while Sony's PlayStation Classic, while imperfect, ...

The PlayStation 2 is the best-selling console of all time, but many of its best games are now much harder to access, partly because of a lack of backwards-compatibility with modern systems, and partly ...

Hackers are always looking for more creative ways to use their video game consoles, but it seems that Microsoft is not impressed with their efforts to install unauthorized emulators on Xbox consoles.

Legally, the realm of console emulation is a bit murky. Due to various challenges and legal complexities, some emulation tools may not always deliver consistent results. Nevertheless, RetroArch stands ...

Back in 2020, we reported that emulator developers were using a hole in the Xbox Store’s app distribution system to get around Microsoft’s longstanding ban on emulators running on Xbox consoles. This ...