This week, Microsoft started enforcing their policy more strongly, and through some kind of signature check, now prevent people from running emulators on their console.
In other words, if you managed to get an emulator to install on your (retail mode) XBox, it was yours to keep. Those folks were “stuck” with an older version of Retroarch, but could still run it, update its emulation cores, etc… (and very reminiscent of how we did our VHBL releases for the PS Vita back in the day). What changed this week for emulators on XBox – And how you can still run themĪlthough Microsoft would always take down these abuses of their appstore policy, in the past, people who had managed to download and install emulators such as retroarch, were able to access them and play them as long as they didn’t delete them themselves. In another case, developer tunip3 managed to find a way to get retroarch downloaded by thousands of people on their Retail Xbox, leveraging some loopholes in the distribution system of the XBox store, marking the app as a “private” build.
Some devs have found ways to slip through the cracks of the review process, getting emulators on the appstore for a few days or weeks before Microsoft took it down.
Nonetheless, developers have found ways around this restriction.
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