monkeyDluffy Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 just a quick question, do we know how this is going to be done? I think I remember them saying it wouldn't be emulatored so how? Include a shrunk version of the GC CPU and GPU in the rev or will it just use the rev CPU and GPU as they are similar in design or could it use a twin core CPU/GPU with the old and new cores on the same chip so it could switch between the two as required? what do ya think?
Colin Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 just use the rev CPU and GPU as they are similar in design Answer is there. Can't see them doing it any other way considering what we've heard so far. And doing it another way will most likely bring up compatibility problems with some games, like the 360 has with not being able to play the xbox's whole back-cat.
DCK Posted December 7, 2005 Posted December 7, 2005 Yeah, the Revolution hardware will be very, very similar to the Cube's. It seems as though every component of the Revolution is its Cube component at 2-3x the speed. The Revolution could then just boot in Cube mode. 360 emulation works differently because it has to emulate the x86 processor in the Xbox on the 360's PowerPC processor, and also translate graphics operations and such. The Xbox is pretty much totally incompatible with the Xbox 360
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