Scene news — Xbox
Homebrew, modding and emulation news: firmware updates, new exploits, tool and emulator releases, and forum news. Every story lists its sources and can be commented on.
4 stories
- Saturday 24 October 2026
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Xbox
Project Gotham Racing: the first PGR recompiled natively for PC
The first Project Gotham Racing, released on Xbox in 2001, becomes a native PC game, built at home from your disc: widescreen, wheels, achievements.
- Tuesday 20 October 2026
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Xbox
Dead or Alive 3 ported natively to PC, up to 4K
Dead or Alive 3, the original Xbox fighting game, runs natively on Windows thanks to a static recompilation: 4K, widescreen and 3D sound, in alpha.
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Xbox
xemu 0.8.138: new audio and Vulkan 1.4 for the Xbox emulator
After four months without a release, xemu ships 0.8.137 and then 0.8.138: a new audio DSP, Vulkan 1.4 and fixes for Halo 2 and Splinter Cell.
- Saturday 10 October 2026
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Xbox
Peer Pressure: the first permanent Xbox 360 softmod, no soldering required
Grimdoomer, the author of BadUpdate, releases Peer Pressure: an Xbox 360 softmod that survives a reboot, with no soldering or chip, on most models.



