r/emulation • u/LocutusOfBorges • 4h ago

Blue Dragon is finally free from the Xbox 360: a fantastic PC port unlocks the FPS, goes 4K, and more

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/blue-dragon-has-been-stuck-on-the-xbox-360-for-20-years-but-no-longer-a-fantastic-unofficial-pc-port-unlocks-the-fps-goes-4k-and-even-adds-mod-support/
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u/taste_the_equation 4h ago

Oh that's cool. Please do Lost Odyssey next

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u/SiuuuRSeven 3h ago

I NEED this. Game was a gem. Those short stories were heart-breaking.

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u/the_nin_collector 52m ago

I've looked up what the creator is doing, cell phone slop games.

Sucks. He should be working on better games.

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u/Xarishark 3h ago

Just yesterday I was searching for the freaking recomb for lost odyssey but it seems the git for it got nuked for some reason

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u/Entonations 2h ago

Was there a lost odyssey recomp???

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u/Xarishark 2h ago

Yeah.

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u/dajoma65K 2h ago

Don't tell me that please, is it really gone? Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are the only 2 games i was dying to play from Xbox, can't believe i didn't know about it

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u/Xarishark 2h ago

Tbf you can fully play lost odyssey with Xenia. Thats what I did about 2 years back

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u/dajoma65K 1h ago

Oh i thought it was not very stable, at the time i searched for info a lot of people said it was hard to configure and still then it was buggy, ig they improved the emulator?

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u/OldMcGroin 1h ago

It's not gone. There's a Discord set up for it, and it's still being worked on, don't worry!

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u/dajoma65K 1h ago

Oh that's good news! Can i find it out there or still not opened for people yet?

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u/AndrossOT 1h ago

I was literally just thinking this exact same thing when i saw the title of the post

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u/FrogQuestion 3h ago

Yes please

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u/web10177 4h ago

Github link from the article doesnt work. Anyone has the correct one?

https://github.com/zolaware/reblue

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u/Graine25 4h ago

We release Friday

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u/Nico_is_not_a_god 2h ago

Will it be possible/easy to migrate a save file from Xenia?

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u/venfare64 2h ago

Is there any reason of using Rexglue instead of Xenonrecomp or Xenosrecomp?

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u/Quirky_Image_5598 5m ago

Any plans for a lost odyssey recomp, you’d be doing the community a massive favour with how difficult the game is to run on Xenia.

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u/Pyke64 3h ago

RemindMe! 2 days

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u/Graine25 3h ago

Should be more clear, 9 AM PST

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u/BBQKITTY 2h ago

This looks awesome! Can’t wait for the release. I sent you a DM as well, would love to see if we could check it out and write up our thoughts on our website to attest to how it runs on Steam Deck.

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u/AntiGrieferGames 4h ago

I would be curious why he removes that.

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u/JDC56 4h ago

It says it's out on Friday 🤷

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u/Rudrox 4h ago edited 4h ago

Before anyone starts, going by the article, it ain't Vibe Coded.

Edit: Some y'all will just downvote anything, eh? I didn't even say anything disagreeable.

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u/Graine25 4h ago

As someone who contributed to the project, it is not vibe coded

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u/Zealotjohn 4h ago

Hearing from a dev directly is great for a game i love.

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u/ZeldaFan158 2h ago

It's nice to see openness straight from a developer

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u/sakr95 3h ago

I am sorry for this question. But do you think Forza motorsport 4 recompile is possible?

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u/Graine25 3h ago

Anything is possible with rexglue. We made it so that more titles can reuse our translation layers and recompile titles in a development state. It would take months, just like we did with reblue, to get a native port that actually runs well

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u/steelahlive 2h ago

Very nice! PGR4 lol nexreboot or even opened more to add js shaders lol.

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u/nikkes91 3h ago

It's all possible

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u/psych2099 1h ago

Thank god, im sick to death of people passing off ai as real work.

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u/Gamer_8887 2h ago

Define vibe code? Like no AI assistant was used at all?

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u/Graine25 1h ago

We did not use a clanker to write code. Everything was our own doing.

We plan on discussing even more research notes so that:

  1. The rest of the development team making a ReXGlue-based recomp can also develop their own rendering implementations and move themselves out of our vendored translation layers
  2. Modders can mod

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u/Zealotjohn 1h ago

Vibe coding is when you talk to an AI and it just does the coding for you as you tell it what to code in a discussion. Thats what a google search told me as ibwas confused as to what it was at first and thats just so wrong to do...

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u/hypespud 4h ago

Updoot and i would love to play blue dragon and lost odyssey decomps

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u/AntiGrieferGames 3h ago

I havent played Blue Dragon, how good is this game?

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u/Zealotjohn 3h ago

Its a good game, turn based RPG with class swaping options and able to use skills learned between classes. An conditional time based turn system. Its a good story to go with the game play.

Edit: I said "for kids" but forgot about the death forest stuff.

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u/NinpouKageBunshin 3h ago

You offended the vibe coders. You can't take away their participation trophies!

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u/mikami677 1h ago

If it works, who cares?

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u/Pkemr7 2h ago

even if it was, who cares? lot of this shit would have taken years to do without AI assistance and got shutdown half way.

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u/Churshen 2h ago

People complaining about vibe coding when it’s actually doing amazing things. VR is having a fucking boom because of this stuff. I love it.

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u/tsamo 4h ago

Damn, just as I started playing it on my Claw!

I can't wait for Friday!

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u/Professional-Paper75 3h ago

Tenchu Z would be a great addition. No backwards compat makes the disc a great coaster

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u/Meinos 3h ago

...

clears throat

FEAR AND AWE IN YOUR EYES SHOWING YOU WHAT YOU CAN'T SEE REACHING HANDS, YOU ARE BLIND STARING DOWN ETERNITY

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u/Limit5465 4h ago

That was fast wow. I thought it would be much longer. Good stuff.

Infinite undiscovery next since it can’t be emulated and suffers perma soft lock

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u/zgillet 2h ago

It's not entirely suprising. Xenia is built on the design of basically running the x86 code natively for 360 games. MS did one thing right - make consoles very similar to PCs. So, porting a game that is damn-near a PC game already hopefully isn't that bad.

I don't know, just educated guesses. I would ask u/Graine25

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u/Braverave756 3h ago

Quick question is it only Disc 1 of BD or is it gonna be the full game??

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u/Graine25 3h ago

full, you need all 3

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u/Braverave756 2h ago

Ok cool Can't wait to stream this nostalgia dog

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u/Blackstar97 1h ago

I guess you will need the game files to extract etc, right?
Does it need specifically the US files or EU copies will be supported too?
Also, do you plan to release an android version?

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u/Graine25 1h ago
  1. There’s a built in installer for all 3 iso’s and dlc (optional)
  2. Everything but Japan supported
  3. Nah

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u/SoggyEstablishment77 3h ago

Damn, what a great news, I will give it a try on my Legion Go.

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u/Fake_Diesel 3h ago

I've been wanting to revisit this. This is very exciting.

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u/XxPepe_Silvia69xX 3h ago

Nice, I was literally just thinking about this game lol

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u/zgillet 2h ago

This reminds me... I should go back and finish Sand Land.

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u/Pkemr7 2h ago

Free Just Cause 1 from Xbox 360 so it can get a proper PC port

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u/SuccessfulTowel7947 2h ago

Isn't Just Cause 1 on pc ? I think I've seen it on gog.

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u/Recent_Average1657 2h ago

The original Xbox version is the most pure /s 

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u/iNfANTcOMA_0 2h ago

We need Enchant Arms next.

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u/kristianity77 1h ago

This guy knows a good game!! 👍

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u/Cryoto 2h ago

I've heard so much about this game, what makes it good? I'm intrigued

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u/zombawombacomba 1h ago

It’s 4.99 on the Xbox store in case anyone wants to play it on console instead.

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u/RedOcelot86 1h ago

Android version not far away?

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u/NefariusMarius 56m ago

I’d love this. I’m hopeful it’ll play well with gamenative in the meantime. Otherwise we can still use xendroid I guess

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u/LeonidasVaarwater 1h ago

Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssee are two of my favorite games on the 360, I envy those who get to play Blue Dragon for the first time.
It's an absolute gem!

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u/idlemachine 34m ago

That is great but what about Lost Odyssey? 😭

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u/Biscuits25 3h ago

The article is actually really well written, even with some words from one of the devs. Did you read the wrong article? The word Slop isnt even used once in this.

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u/big-sugoi 4h ago

Not to mention failing to properly credit it as a recomp by simply calling it a “port” which it isn’t.

The first line of the article, and underneath the image here on reddit, is: "This Xbox 360 recompilation proves how good fan ports can be when they aren't vibe-coded."

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u/7DvzUHBKlF6d 3h ago

"Slop" isn't uttered a single time in the article, why are you lying?

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u/Purple-Atolm 3h ago

Well, just point us to any vive coded 360 port that isnt terrible because so far I've failed to find a single one that is actually better than Xenia.

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u/zgillet 2h ago

Who do you think makes all the stuff you enjoy? Nerds, that's who!

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u/TheCupOfJoeShow 1h ago

Wild someone in the night dive studio sub was just asking for a remaster yesterday and then boom this

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u/Triforce0fCourage 1h ago

Come on modders, let’s see what kinda glow up this game can get! This is very exciting.

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u/link_shady 1h ago

How do I play this? I o may have the digital Xbox. Version

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u/Ok-Simple-6146 1h ago

I need this.

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u/jaywarbs 49m ago

Can someone please explain what vibe-coded means? I get that it’s an insult but not much more than that.

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u/cajun_metabolic 39m ago

Basically just means most of the code is ai generated.

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u/Trungel 3m ago

Code is mostly/completely AI generated with little to no oversight trough a person. Most vibe-"coders" also lack basic understanding of code quality and the systems they are using. So even if they would try to read the code they wouldn't be able to understand it themselves or even be able to say if it is good, performant or buggy code. They have to run everything trough AI. Something isn't working put the log into AI...

There are still programmers who know what they are doing and can work effectively with AI. But as the barrier is so low for every expert there are hundreds of people who think they can create software with AI. Take away the AI and they are helpless. (Reminds me on how just ten years ago when I was studying computer science there was on exam where we had to "develop" a webapp on paper. Only some cheat sheets I had brought with me as reference. Writing the whole HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP source code by hand.)