Once again, I apologise for the lack of posts here; going forward I will set reminders and commit to bi-annually updates/progress reviews of what has happened with every project I touch; but there may be bonus posts in-between, if a single event is noteworthy.
For those who have been follow...
2023-08-01 16:21:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's start with a note: This is not a serious attempt/project yet; Insignia still has the focus as far as online service revivals are concerned.
The Nokia N-Gage actually had an online gaming service, depending on the game, it provided online multiplayer, leaderboards, etc.
This ser...
If you're following my patreon, chances are you already know this, but I know many of you are following for different projects/reasons, so just for good measure:
For the last few years, I have been working with a few friends of mine on a project to restore Xbox Live to the Original Xbox co...
Most people who follow me are likely aware by now, but the beta of our Xbox Live server, Insignia, is now available!
This restores Xbox Live functionality in 25 games at present, both on real Xbox hardware and via emulation (only xemu at present,Cxbx-Reloaded will work as soon as we can fi...
As many people are aware, Cxbx-Reloaded only scratches the surface when it comes to what projects I'm involved with. At this point it's well known that I also work on Insignia, an Xbox Live revival server but not everything I do is Xbox related.
ares is a multi-system emulator derived from ...
2021-10-14 15:11:58 +0000 UTC View PostAlthough there haven't been many code contributions to Cxbx-R in recent weeks, we have been very busy with testing. We are proud to announce that every single Xbox game in our database has now been tested.
This brings our playable games total to 162 (15.7% of the entire library), w...
2021-10-04 12:13:21 +0000 UTC View PostProgress Report (June 2021)
After many sleepless nights, I’m very happy to announce that this month we got another huge compatibility improvement: 12 new playable games! Mostly due to the major work done (and teased a lot…) with the implementation of HLSL pixel shaders....
2021-07-09 08:20:35 +0000 UTC View PostPlaying a game, having fun… oh, controller’s battery about to die? That was a very bad situation where the fellow CxBx-Reloaded user would be stuck without being able to save or really do anything else. Good news? That’s a thing of the past: you can now plug, unplug and switch controllers w...
2021-06-07 07:44:20 +0000 UTC View PostMany people probably saw ImGui being used as the main GUI in emulation projects, and this month it’s part of our own graphical interface bringing some interesting new features, including some nice debug information in real...
2021-05-11 20:52:15 +0000 UTC View PostProgress Report (March 2021)
And here we go with a quick recap of everything that improved this month: yet another global performance improvement, more rendering improvements (some that made at least two games become fully playable), another input device supported (arcade j...
2021-05-06 15:25:13 +0000 UTC View PostThat’s right, this is our first report covering 2 months at once. Depending on how much work is made that can be actually visible to most people, it’s probably for the best to cover it this way. Compatibility wise we kept our average from the last year (5 new playable games per month...
2021-03-30 15:30:22 +0000 UTC View PostProgress Report (December 2020)
~ It's late again, I'm sorry. Between lockdown fatigue and being a new parent, posting this kind of slipped my mind. Strelok wrote this up way back on January 10th, so this report covers progress made in December 2020;
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2021-02-16 17:22:25 +0000 UTC View PostProgress Report (November 2020)
Surprisingly, this month was much more scarier for me than October: the amount of changes and improvements made and their frequency (don’t even get me started on this, I couldn’t look away from Github for more than 6 hours and BANG, alrea...
2020-12-23 15:16:15 +0000 UTC View PostNOTE: This was written and ready to go by November 2nd, I apologise for the delay posting, life got in the way, anyway, here goes:
Welcome everyone, to our spooky scary October report! What is so scary about it? The size of this thing to begin with. The amount of games that improv...
Welcome to our September report! I’m especially excited to cover the changes of this month with you all since we had great improvements all around: no more annoying stretched aspect ratio while running in fullscreen, some sounds improvements, rendering improvements, debugger coming back from th...
2020-10-20 12:34:48 +0000 UTC View PostFor this month (as I’ve promised to some people), I’ve put some extra hours into testing and re-testing games until we could reach a very specific milestone: 50% of the entire Xbox library tested (check the numbers below and the long list of results at the end). Some of the improvements also ...
2020-09-18 16:19:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This month was fairly quiet progress wise, but we still have some results to show you all, the improvement that’s already been done but was not that visible due to the lack of testing (all results from the “Notable Game Improvements” were compiled from a short testing sec...
2020-08-15 12:38:15 +0000 UTC View PostAfter all the new playable games on the last report, I’m sure no one actually expected something even bigger from June, but for the sake of my sleepless nights: WE DID IT!
We’ve finally reached 100 playable games, covering 10% of the entire Xbox library. What? You want even more? Ok, wh...
2020-07-13 07:26:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the 1% Special Report™!
Ok, but what’s so special about this month? May alone had a major compatibility improvement, with CxBx-Reloaded getting 1%+ of the entire Xbox library of retail games reaching the playable status (going from 76 in April to a nice 87 total of play...
2020-06-07 16:17:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Although Cxbx-Reloaded is my primary project, it is not the only project I am involved with.
Insignia is a replacement server for the Xbox's online services and is currently in development privately.
This service will not require any modifications or patches to software and...
2020-05-21 14:44:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This was an interesting month: we didn’t have an April fools joke…but instead, we had FIVE more playable games (you were waiting for a punchline? Too bad!). Perhaps you have an AMD GPU and it’s annoyed about some games that can’t even show graphics without using a wrapp...
2020-05-03 11:10:47 +0000 UTC View PostAs usual, our friend Strelok/Literalmente{Game} has kindly written this progress report for us.
Audio (once again) was a major player in the improvements of this month. As you can see below, we didn’t have a lot of commits made, but they’re enough to make at least another exclusive game...
2020-04-05 15:55:45 +0000 UTC View PostDo you expect some exclusive game reaching in-game for the first time? What about some sound improvements that also made some games that never booted to reach in-game for the first time? World’s First (not exactly..)?! While the compatibility numbers shown below aren’t as gre...
2020-03-05 08:17:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Progress Report (January 2020)
2020 starts with several audio improvements, affecting not only issues with some games sound effects and music stuck in a loop, but also compatibility (as some games depend on more accurate sound emulation to progress beyond...
2020-02-11 10:37:28 +0000 UTC View PostWe’re having a lot of reports of users with AMD graphics hardware having issues with Cxbx-Reloaded. This usually manifests as broken graphics or missing 3D elements.
If you use AMD hardware and experience issues with games known to work, you can use dxvk wrapper as a workaround for the t...
2020-01-16 00:27:33 +0000 UTC View PostHow much everyone enjoyed the improvements from November? Since we had such a huge boost in compatibility, optimizations and general stability, December couldn't possibly be better, right? NOPE.xbe! Rendering changes improved the compatibility AND the performance for so many games that I almost d...
2020-01-13 20:20:08 +0000 UTC View PostStrelok gave me the text for this progress report a few weeks back, unfortunately I got sick and was out of action for just over a week, so I apologise to all for the lateness of this report.
Strelok here again and I hope you guys liked the amount of progress reported in the last...
2019-12-20 08:46:53 +0000 UTC View PostOur friend and tester Strelok has taken a stab at writing our next progress report. He usually collects the stats and produces the graphics/lists that I add to every report, so it only makes sense to give him a chance to write one himself, let's hand over to him.
Hello everyone, I'm Str...
Firstly, I would like to apologise for the late progress report. No excuses, just life got in the way.
So July was a very busy month for Cxbx-Reloaded, with 29 pull-requests being merged within 31 days, consisting of 86 commits. That's a lot of code, but most of the changes are minor improv...
2019-08-18 09:21:00 +0000 UTC View Post