Random: Here's Zelda: Twilight Princess Running On Xbox Series X

That's awesome, I'd be quite interested in doing this if I ever got a series X. Imagine having parties and whipping out an upscaled Mario Kart Double Dash or Mario Kart Wii!

Does the Dev mode app have any downsides? Does it restrict other uses of a consumer Xbox or break any Terms of Service to use it in this way? Like could you get banned from Live/GPU or anything for doing this?

@FraserG hmm fair enough, well it's very interesting nonetheless! It's been going on for a while hasn't it so you'd think something would have been done already. I'm still some years out from upgrading my One X anyway so there's some time to find out if this gets restricted in any way.

@ralphdibny Dev mode does not let you play xbox games. You have to reboot between modes constantly.

By the way there was also a way to do this in retail mode but I am not sure if it still works. Note that if you are a university student in participating universities you can use your academic email to have dev mode for free. It does not seem that possible that MS will start bans for this. I know people that did this in the OG VCR X1.

Would this muck up your guarantee?

He should try the Gamecube version instead. Runs better and controls are easier to map. Just increase the rendering resolution in retroarch setting so the game looks better than the wii.

@FraserG I don't think it's worth it. If I want to do anything like emulation, my pc is more than capable.

I have an X, and pondered getting and S just for this. Worst case I don't mess up my main console.

Then I remembered I have GamePass.. no time for more games

@belmont ahh fair enough. I imagine it's not a huge inconvenience to turn the thing off and on again to cycle modes. I guess if you are playing GameCube games then you would probably just be doing that for a few hours instead of flicking between GameCube games and Xbox games.

Unfortunately I finished uni about ten years ago 😅. My partner does work at a university though so maybe I will look into it. I can't imagine MS care that much, it's not their games that are being played. Even if it was, they are fairly liberal in giving their own classic game library out at little or no cost anyway. It seems a bit like the "Other OS" feature that was patched out of the PS3, just seems like it unlocks the Xbox so you can do a number of things you could do on a Windows PC.

Twilight Princess, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask are my favourite The Legend of Zelda games. I didn't like Breath of the Wild 🙄.

@FraserG "It's too early yet to figure out whether MS plans to do anything about stopping it"

That's not true at all.. they've been allowing this since the Xbox One. There's no downside to doing this. It runs things in a separate sandbox from the main Xbox stuff.

In fact, they're happy to give people this dev mode back door so they don't have to worry about people going out of their way to figure out how to jailbreak or crack the system to run code, since that leads down the path to easy piracy.