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Introducing XWine1, an Xbox One translation layer for Windows PCs. Currently six games are fully playable, with others reaching logos and in-game. More news to come. (x.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So is it an emulator? Or does "translation layer" mean something else?

[–] 2pt_perversion 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For those who don't care, it's an emulator.

For those that do care, it's not trying to emulate the actual hardware of the xbox one it's just translating system calls to work on normal Windows PCs. WINE, the inspiration for the name, stands for WINE IS NOT AN EMULATOR so they probably didn't want to call it one. But you could call it high level emulation if you want.

[–] helloharu 1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the explanation.

[–] Takumidesh 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So it's HLE?

[–] gaylord_fartmaster 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well the E stands for emulation, so no.

[–] Takumidesh 1 points 2 months ago

Tbh I wrote that comment moments after waking up with my eyes barely open.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That's a cool project! I'd love to see more translation layers making vendor lock-in less of an issue

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Are there even any Xbone games that aren't available on PC?

[–] Kelly 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] baatliwala 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there an "Xbox One only games not present on any other platforms" list because Halo 5 is playable on a Series console.

[–] Kelly 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If we cross reference the above list with the excluded games list here we get an even shorter list:

https://support.xbox.com/help/games-apps/backward-compatibility/what-games-are-compatible-with-my-xbox

  • Fighter Within
  • FRU
  • Kinect Sports Rivals
  • Shape Up
  • Xbox Fitness
[–] Mojave 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There are xbox360 games that aren't on PC, and if this also handles the XBone's backwards compatibility, then yes there are Xbox games that aren't available on PC currently

Namely I've been waiting to play Lost Odyssey on PC for over a decade

[–] ampersandrew 2 points 2 months ago

At the very least, there's Rare Replay and Halo 5. Plus this was like the very end of the era where some third parties didn't make PC ports, so I'm sure there are some stragglers there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Oh nice. Wonder if we will ever get to game pass on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

i feel Like you would pronounce it Like the german word Schwein. shwine chwine xwine.