PCEngine360 Alpha v0.1 Emulator Released for Xbox 360!

Yoshihiro has just released a new emulator for Xbox 360 Homebrew. PCEngine360 Alpha v0.1 is a Nec PCENGINE emulator for the Xbox 360.

This is an alpha release, the first one written and coded for the xbox 360 so this emulator has been only coded in big Endian. It can emulate every Nec PCENGINE games and only the hardware mouse is missing.

This emulator is not a port but a full written emulator for the xbox360 based on every docs and patterns about PCE hardware and i used hugo for the arcade Card support.
supergraphx doc , pce sound generator , CDROM io , pads ,VDC , VCE ect.. .

How to use this emulator:
put every games pce , sgx , Arcade CD , cdrom images inside the pceroms folder dont forget to put the bios rom inside the bios folder renammed as syscard.pce
This emulator needs the SuperCD Card 3.0 bios to play CDROM games .
supported formats for Hucard zip , gz , pce , sgx .
supported formats for CD game images : .iso and .bin.

PC Engine History / The Beginning
On the 10th October 1987 the Japanese electronics giant NEC launched a powerful video games system which they named the PC Engine HE System. It was the centre (or engine) of a much larger entertainment system incorporating keyboard, disc drive and a printer. However, in the 1st few months the system did not appear to be very popular. NEC shelved the idea of making the machine the centre of a home entertainment system and concentrated their time and resources in marketing the machine as a games only system.

Still, it took time for the new machine to be widely accepted in Japan. The Nintendo Entertainment System was still the market leader with 3 in 5 Japanese homes owning one.

It was not until game companies such as Hudson Soft and Irem started to produce quality software that the Japanese public started to take notice. Games such as Chan & Chan and Dragon Spirit were now being produced. In particular it was a game called R-Type which started the now tremendous popularity of the system. From the beginning of 1988 the PC Engine became the second most popular games system in Japan.

A year later NEC released the CD Rom drive. From this point the popularity of the system was assured with many other software companies such as Namco and Taito producing games on both card and CD format.

360-Hq Homebrew Database: PCEngine360 Emulator for Xbox 360