A new system for managing the "whitelist" of supporter's addresses has also streamlined the process for those reuploads, SirMangler said, so supporters can be re-added to the new versions' list and the emulators can "be back and running in a few hours of us knowing without too much trouble." AdvertisementĪ ModerVintageGamer video shows how the new emulator package looks on a retail console.īut despite the continued availability of that option, which hasn't faced any pushback from Microsoft in all this time, SirMangler says there's still value in challenging Microsoft's enforcement of a longstanding prohibition on emulators distributed to "Retail mode" consoles through the Xbox Store.
"Short of Microsoft enforcing manual reviews for every upload, I can't think of any countermeasure they could employ that I couldn't work around."ĭespite the precautions, SirMangler recognized that "eventually find out about the apps and terminate the account." When that happens, though, he added, "hopefully that won't last too long" before a new version is uploaded. But he said that reorganizing and rewriting the entire "manifest" from the ground up, and grouping the emulators into a single download, should help mask some of the structural details the package reports back to Microsoft and make it "a little more interesting for Microsoft to detect." SirMangler declined to talk in too much detail about those "identifiable elements" to ensure the package would continue to avoid detection. "We wrote a new package from scratch and stripped as many identifiable elements as possible, including all the emulators into one download," he told Ars in a Discord chat. That new unified distribution package is partly designed as a way to avoid the algorithms that were automatically flagging and blocking previous attempts to distribute UWP emulators through the Xbox Store, according to emulator developer SirMangler. Subscribing to the group's Patreon for $2 per month puts supporters on an email "whitelist" that allows access to "Le Bombe," a package that can install Dolphin (GameCube/Wii), XBSX2.0 (PlayStation 2), Xenia (Xbox 360), and RetroArch (multiple older consoles) on a standard Xbox console. The newly accessible emulators come courtesy of the "UWeaPons Store," a name that references the Universal Windows Platform program that allows generic Windows apps to be distributed to Xbox consoles in the first place. But that crackdown hasn't stopped the Xbox emulation community, which this weekend launched a new version of those "retail mode" emulators that they're confident will be able to evade Microsoft's automatic detection and removal tools.
Further Reading Microsoft crackdown disables emulators downloaded to Xbox consolesIt's been about three months since Microsoft cracked down on a number of emulators designed for Xbox consoles and distributed via a loophole in the Xbox Store.
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