It was introduced last gen actually. MS is continuing it with current generation. It's a method to allow unsigned apps for testing and debugging purposes. You need to pay a 20 buck one time fee and you'll need reboot to switch modes. When in dev mode, you cannot play commercial software.
They can't ban it without turning off the ability to turn any Xbox into a dev kit....
WiiU is still packing native (i.e. perfect accuracy) Wii and GC capability while this relies on software emulation, so no.
Be extra fun if you can use original discs too and not have to rip to pc first
ah well, totally forgot about this gem. Need to play this with my boy.
This is probably the shittiest part about the Xbox ecosystem. I used to be fine using Xbox dpads for 2d games but after using other older console dpads more in recent years I remember what I'm missing out on. It's also a damn shame that Microsoft partnered with 8bitdo for an amazing branded Xbox controller and it isn't even usable on Xbox, only on Android, PC and other Bluetooth enabled devices.
The Series X CPU runs at 200MHz faster on single threaded mode (which this use) and the memory bandwidth is higher which Zen2 CPUs benefit from so performance might be indeed better.
It's a shame...that's a deal breaker for me. I just thought about the 8btido controller as you mentioned...but why on earth would they prevent using a xbox branded controller on a xbox console.
Dev activation will say you need an update, however, your Xbox will not update - THIS IS NORMAL! Don't panic. Now you will be able to go to Console info in settings and press this combination on your controller: LB, RB, LT, RT. Developer settings will then appear. Go there and activate developer mode from there.
Someone needs to make a UWP build or it needs to be added into Retroarch and then we good
You just need a web browser to install it retroarch. So you will be fine.
No you have to switch between dev mode and retail, on the One this took 20min, on the Series systems it only takes 5min
