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Nesbox developer creates HTML5 workaround for XB1
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barneystuta83
Member
Uh oh. Hello!
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
Its working now?
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
So the app didn't get through?
purseowner
Member
Works great, tried it earlier. (Hope you like Chip & Dale)
Here's hoping Onedrive support works.
Here's hoping Onedrive support works.
Altered Juice
Member
tried earlier. would rather have a fullscreen app to be honest. going to need that dev mode emulator file asap.
kids on twitter are already porting GBA for their own personal use.
kids on twitter are already porting GBA for their own personal use.
James Scott
Banned
Does it come preinstalled with Chip & Dale or something?
SinCityAssassin
Member
It was removed by Microsoft and they told him to relist it for Windows 10 only with no xbox one functionality. So he did this instead.
purseowner
Member
It's built-in to the Web emulator. They're hoping to add Onedrive support for further ROMs.
John Caboose
Member
For anyone who missed it they cited "games need to go through ID@Xbox" as their reason for blocking the app on Xbox One.
Wtf.....
Why allow it for Win10 but not xbox? It's the same store.. Any legal issues should apply to both not just one?
SinCityAssassin
Member
Probably because a lot of NES games from Third parties are released on the store on Xbox as collections. I don't really know.
LordRaptor
Member
Seems pretty idiotic to me to integrate a Capcom made Disney licenced game instead of a legitimate freeware NES rom
James Scott
Banned
Wouldn't that make it illegal? Pretty sure the only legal work around emulators is that the user needs to provide roms. Might get him in trouble
so he's providing 1 ROM illegally out of the gate then? A licensed game at that?
RowdyReverb
Member
This works surprisingly well. Hopefully the dev doesn't get a C&D too quickly
Can you use it with the pad?
I'm not sure why people thought it would get through so easily, it might be the same store but I imagine Nintendo see the app on a general device PC store and an app on a store for a dedicated gaming device differently, I wouldn't be surprised if the guys at Xbox see it the same way and don't want to step on each other's toes in that sort of way.
RowdyReverb
Member
RowdyReverb
Member
Odd choice of words
Correct. There are 16 slots, all containing Chip and Dale for now
Thats what I thought, I find it a bit odd whoever made this even did it like this. Why not wait till OneDrive support is added and not include this Chip and Dale game, seems like he'll just catch flak for it.
Kinda BS as an emulator isn't a game. Going through ID@xbox means It would never see day light I presume.
It's not exactly the same store. They've always maintained that Games would need to go through id@xbox
I'm pretty sure one drive was always going to be the method for loading ROMs. He's changing how to access the emulator so that he can circumvent the store. He's using chip n dale to test.
Assuming the letter of the law, you're telling me that there's a demand for a NES emulator for people who dumped their cartridges and have no other way to play those games other than on their several hundred dollar console in the web browser. I'd say that's desperate on part of the developer and the users.
Someone in another thread also said it like this which makes a decent amount of sense. If you couldn't download it from the App store on Win10 most users would just download it from another source. By keeping it out of the Xbox Live Store they are keeping it off Xbox altogether.
RowdyReverb
Member
Yeah. It's clear that the dev is seeking publicity for the project before it's achieved full functionality, but I'm not sure to what end. It seems like it'd be a better strategy to just wait until users had to provide their own ROMs at least
It was wording in such a way that included emulators in that it was gaming related at all
Nintendo can't do a single thing legally to stop an html5 NES emulator. Emulators are legal.
Capcom and Disney might have something to say about that built-in ROM, though.
panama chief
Member
Hype. I like this.
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Deleted member 284
Unconfirmed Member
Fixed that for you
OneDrive support is live:
https://twitter.com/nesboxcom/status/776050865094483968
https://twitter.com/nesboxcom/status/776050865094483968
Not working for me, it gives me a certification error and then give me a blank page.
GankzyMcfly
Member
Well the emulator worked perfectly for me with snes games...its happening...what a brave new world!
Edit : only tested super mario world and i loaded the chrono trigger rom into the emulator...for later...without issue.
Edit : only tested super mario world and i loaded the chrono trigger rom into the emulator...for later...without issue.
As this allows you to play these nes roms on any device that has a HTML5 browser, not just the Xbox I'd say yeah? Probably is demand for it. It doesn't have to be their only way to play the games for this to be an interesting option.
Either way if you hate piracy of these games so much (not sure if you hate it just talking in general) probably should focus more on sites that are actually offering the games rather than emulators which are perfectly legal.
Political reasons more so than legal.
LordRaptor
Member
What, like the site in OP linking to a Chip & Dale ROM?
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