Xbox 360 Emulation Guide

In this guide I’m going to show you how to play Xbox 360 games on your PC using the Xenia emulator. It’s actually a lot easier to set up than you may think — no special software, jailbreaking, or modding required.

Required tools

To get started, you will need the following hardware:

Xbox 360 (connected to the internet to download games, or with a working disc drive to rip disc games)
USB external hard drive or USB flash drive
PC to run the Xenia emulator (check here for system requirements)

Software

Xenia emulator – to find the downloads, go to the Quickstart and scroll down to the Master or Canary build links. For my testing I used the Canary build, which has more features and potential compatibility with games, but may also introduce bugs.

GOD2ISO – this software will convert your disc-based Xbox 360 game files to .iso files, which are easier to store and work great with the Xenia emulator.

7zip – if you don’t already have an unzipping utility, I recommend using 7zip.

Resources

Xenia compatibility list – this list will show you how well a game plays on the Xenia emulator, and be sure to read the comments to see if there are any tweaks you can implement to improve the performance.

Xenia quickstart guide – this guide will provide written instructions on some of the steps featured in this video, like ripping discs and navigating the Xbox 360 file system on your external drive. It also has some advanced tips like how to install DLCs.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s