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XPSemu Alpha 3.1

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XPSemu Alpha 3.1

The original Xbox, and now Sega Chihiro arcade games, running natively on a PlayStation 5.


What's new

  Sega Chihiro arcade games

Thanks to XPSemu-Chihiro by tattoohanz for the base board, drive board and card reader work, and to Cxbx-Reloaded for the method of starting Chihiro games without a BIOS.

  • A new Chihiro tab for Sega's Xbox-based arcade board. The games run on the same native core as Xbox games.
  • No Chihiro BIOS and no media board flash needed. Only your game and the 3 base board files.
  • Games are read in place: nothing is unpacked first, and no extra space is used.
  • Controls made for each game: driving games on the sticks and triggers, gun games with a crosshair on the left stick.
  • Gun games also work with a USB mouse.
  • Steering wheel force feedback comes through as controller rumble.
  • After the first start, games skip the SEGA boot screen and start directly.

Playable so far:

  • OutRun 2 (with force feedback)
  • Crazy Taxi: High Roller
  • Virtua Cop 3
  • Ollie King
  • Ghost Squad
  Better dashboard
  • Each game shows its region and languages, for example "USA - En, Fr".
  • Game language: Auto (the new default): games use your PS5's language when the disc has it, else English.
  • The same disc in two places is marked Duplicate, with the other copy's path.
  • Delete game saves in a game's settings.
  Vibration
  • Xbox games now rumble the DualSense, on all 4 controllers.
  • Turn it on or off in Settings > Controller (the button under the controller), or in the quick menu. One setting for every game.
  Updates from inside the app
  • System > Check for updates finds the newest XPSemu on GitHub, installs it by itself and restarts.
  • When a new version is out, XPSemu tells you when it starts.
  • 3.1 is the first version with this: from here on, there's no need to copy files by hand to update.
  New Anti-aliasing: SSAA + SMAA
  • A new top choice: SSAA draws at x6 and averages it down, then SMAA smooths the edges once more. The smoothest picture XPSemu has, and the heaviest.
  • In Settings > Video > Anti-aliasing, per game, and in the quick menu.
  More disc formats supported
  • CHD (.chd): compressed images.
  • CSO (.cso): compressed images, including ones split in two (Game.1.cso + Game.2.cso).
  • Split XISOs: Game.1.iso, Game.2.iso... (up to 9 parts) play as one disc.
  • All of them work in Games and in the Browser.

Chihiro games: which files

Put your games in /data/xpsemu/chihiro/games/, or in xpsemu/chihiro/games/ on a USB drive.

Format Keys needed?
Netboot image (.bin) No Best choice. Already unlocked and opens fastest. 512 MB and 1 GB images both work.
CHD (.chd) MAME GD-ROM Yes Compressed, the smallest on disk.
GD-ROM dump (.gdi or .cue) with its tracks Yes

Keys (CHD and GD-ROM only): the game's security key as a .pic or .data file, beside the game or in /data/xpsemu/chihiro/. A MAME key .zip works too, with no need to extract it.

Important

3 base board files are always needed, in /data/xpsemu/chihiro/:

  • ic10_g24lc64.bin
  • pc20_g24lc64.bin
  • ic11_24lc024.bin

The Chihiro tab shows "Base board files: OK" when they're found.


Installation

  1. Download PPSA97358.zip, extract it, and copy PPSA97358/ to /data/homebrew/.
  2. Copy your Xbox games to /data/xpsemu/games/ and your Chihiro games to /data/xpsemu/chihiro/games/ (or xpsemu/chihiro/games/ on a USB drive).
  3. Launch XPSemu from the home screen.

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