GameEx on XBox

[hobosapien]

I'm wondering if anyone has successfully put the gameex front end on a modded xbox, or if it's even possible at all.

I've been looking into softmodding my xbox, and i'd love to have the wonderful gameex there as well.

[bkenobi]

If you check out the requirements for GameEx, you will see that it requires Windows with DirectX 9.0c and .NET 2.0 (among other things). If you look at a hacked xbox, you will see immediately that it is not running one of the listed Windows systems, the DirectX that is included is not the standard DirectX, nor is it 9.0c, and it does not have .NET 2.0 (since .NET didn't come out until well after the XBox was released and hacked). Also, I'm not sure that the CPU and ram are sufficient on the XBox for GameEx, although you could probably disable a bunch of stuff to get the requirements down (alpha blending, etc.).

Now, on the other hand, Tom had mentioned at one point (a long time ago) that he planned on a Linux release of GameEx. There hasn't been any mention of that since the initial mention, so I don't know where it sits on his priority list (probably pretty low). If there were a Linux release of GameEx, then you should be able to run XBoxLinux and GameEx. Short of that, it would probably take a LOT of hacking to get it working if it were even possible.

As of today, I would say it's very unlikely that you could get it working without quite a bit of effort.

[hobosapien]

If you check out the requirements for GameEx, you will see that it requires Windows with DirectX 9.0c and .NET 2.0 (among other things). If you look at a hacked xbox, you will see immediately that it is not running one of the listed Windows systems, the DirectX that is included is not the standard DirectX, nor is it 9.0c, and it does not have .NET 2.0 (since .NET didn't come out until well after the XBox was released and hacked). Also, I'm not sure that the CPU and ram are sufficient on the XBox for GameEx, although you could probably disable a bunch of stuff to get the requirements down (alpha blending, etc.).

Now, on the other hand, Tom had mentioned at one point (a long time ago) that he planned on a Linux release of GameEx. There hasn't been any mention of that since the initial mention, so I don't know where it sits on his priority list (probably pretty low). If there were a Linux release of GameEx, then you should be able to run XBoxLinux and GameEx. Short of that, it would probably take a LOT of hacking to get it working if it were even possible.

As of today, I would say it's very unlikely that you could get it working without quite a bit of effort.

Just the sort of reply I was looking for, thanks bk.