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Banjo-Kazooie (1998)

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Banjo-Kazooie XBLA game (still only playable via the Xbox 360) gameplay using the xenia Microsoft Xbox 360 emulator (version canary / fadc8d5a4 / 12/04/2024) for Windows.
http://www.freeemulator.com/xenia-xbox-360-emulator/

Official xenia website: https://xenia.jp/

I plan on testing out games that are still only available on the Xbox 360 via the xenia emulator on my Windows PC. With my specs (see below), games I have tested so far run well at 2x resolution (3x resolution, i.e. 4K, maxes out my GPU to 100% usage and causes slowdowns).

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Want to keep up with my xenia gameplay progress notes and links to the videos I've done so far? All you have to do is click the Google Spreadsheets link below!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15x0w0FjqMrBcVLe2rJGzL5vtqZu0TR8oGAjR_A-1qkc/

My xenia YouTube Playlist link:

http://bit.ly/1litJCW

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MY PC SPECS:

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G CPU (24,689 multithread / 3,286 single thread PassMark score)
NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB GPU
32GB DDR4 3600MHz (PC4-28800) CL18 Desktop Memory
2TB Samsung 980 Pro SSD
Windows 10 (I tried Windows 11 shortly after it released and found it to be too buggy for what I mostly do on PC, so I reverted back to Windows 10)

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SETTINGS:

There's not much GUI configuration that you can really adjust with this emulator. You can, however, make some adjustments to a config file located under your computer's "Documents\Xenia" folder (if using the "master" builds--if using "canary" builds then it is located in the emulator's install directory). Open the file named "xenia.config.toml" in a text editor, such as Notepad, and you'll see a lot of things you could adjust... although I don't mess with anything besides two options:

license_mask = 1 -- This unlocks XBLA games (no more "demo" only mode!)

draw_resolution_scale_x = 2 -- You can try 1 (native), 2, or 3 here. 3 renders in 4K, but as noted earlier it maxes out my GPU to 100% usage and causes slowdowns.
draw_resolution_scale_y = 2 -- See above.

I am using my Xbox One controller, and everything is mapped/just works out of the box with xenia.

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This video is meant for educational purposes. Classics, Rare/4J Studios, and Microsoft are the authors of this game for the purpose of copyright. All rights reserved.

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