14th April 2005, 12:36 PM
For saving, X-Box 2 will have memory cards... XBox1 has them too (there aren't two ports on top of the controllers for nothing... well, one's for the microphone, but the other's for the memcard.), but most games just save to the harddrive.
As for emulation, yes, the best way is to have the physical hardware from the previous system inside. The PS2 did that. The GBA does as well (with the GBC CPU in it). The DS too, with the second CPU being the GBA one. The X-Box 2's problem is that it does NOT have an X-Box CPU or videocard in it. Not only that, but both the CPU and videocard are coming from different manufacturers (IBM and ATI, not Intel and NVidia...). That makes it hard to emulate the past system.
Software emulation is what emulation on the PC is. It's harder to do and, more importantly, much more processor intensive... it's not clear if the X-Box 2 would be able to emulate X-Box 1 at full speed...
As for emulation, yes, the best way is to have the physical hardware from the previous system inside. The PS2 did that. The GBA does as well (with the GBC CPU in it). The DS too, with the second CPU being the GBA one. The X-Box 2's problem is that it does NOT have an X-Box CPU or videocard in it. Not only that, but both the CPU and videocard are coming from different manufacturers (IBM and ATI, not Intel and NVidia...). That makes it hard to emulate the past system.
Software emulation is what emulation on the PC is. It's harder to do and, more importantly, much more processor intensive... it's not clear if the X-Box 2 would be able to emulate X-Box 1 at full speed...
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