Resurrecting Xbox360 Live Arcade games: 360-emulation with Xenia Canary (April 2025)

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Published on April 9, 2025 11:41:30 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea-rfb9NsQY

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I'm a gaming nerd into video gaming, especially xbox 360. As this machine is getting older and Microsoft isn't keeping its promise of making all Xbox games part of a continuous platform where all previously released games can be played it seems that a lot of games on the Xbox original and Xbox360 are en-route to become extinct. The saviour of dreadful fate is the Xenia Canary Emulator. In this video I am checking out the latest build from April 6th 2025 with a bunch of games.


"The Last Controller"

The year is 2125. The world is submerged in a vast, endless ocean after the Great Meltdown. Cities are now sprawling coral reefs, highways are seaweed gardens, and the only "dry land" is rusting platforms of what were once oil rigs, now retrofitted into floating shantytowns. Civilization clings to what scraps it can find, trading cans of preserved beans, obsolete optical discs and other scavenged tech like gold doubloons. Humanity has survived...barely.
As humanity drifted on, another battle raged in the shadows of the underwater apocalypse. A war not for food or shelter, but for memory—the memory of the once-golden age of video gaming. The Xbox 360 and its vast library of shimmering treasures, forgotten in flooded vaults, were now artifacts of legend much akin to Atlantis was. Gamers whispered tales of consoles long gone, their PowerPC electric hearts silenced when the Old World fell. The old promise of "all games, all eras, one ecosystem" lay abandoned, a hollow commitment from a bygone era by a long defunct tech company.

Mark, a scavenger and self-proclaimed "Gaming Archivist," floated atop his creaky raft. His vessel, dubbed The Achievement Unlocked - the Completionist was stacked high with waterlogged manuals and shiny discs, melted consoles, red rings of death or were those Halo's?.... and one humming relic—an ancient laptop running the Xenia Emulator.
"Mark, you're chasing ghosts," muttered Cortana, his AI companion, buzzing through his headset. "You really think you'll get Halo Combat Evolved running smoothly on that antique emulator? Even if you do, no one else out here even remembers Master Chief."
Mark smirked, adjusting his salt-crusted headset. "That's where you're wrong, Cortana. This isn't just about playing games. It's about saving the past. Without these classics, how will future generations understand the meaning of a triple kill, or the glory of a perfectly timed headshot? Besides, if you're lucky, I might even get Conker's Bad Furday to run and you can critique my tricks."

Out in the open sea, Mark’s laptop hummed. The latest build of Xenia, dated April 6th, 2025, had been a miracle scavenged from an old server still churning on a half-submerged skyscraper. As waves rocked his raft and electric eels zipped past beneath him, he booted up the emulator. The screen flickered to life with the faintly pixelated logo of Minecraft. He sucked in his breath. This might actually work...
Just then, a shadow loomed over his raft. A colossal, barnacle-encrusted figure emerged from the waves—a female clad in what seemed to be an ancient superman spandex suit. Mark's jaw dropped as he realized the woman was clutching an Original Duke controller
"Who the heck—" Mark started, but the figure raised a single controller, pointing it like a sword and said NO YOU SHALL NOT SUCCEED. Thou shalt use the XEMU instead of the XENIA.
"The Archive lives,", Cortana's muffled voice echoed from the laptop "Show me what remains of the Xbox Originals then....
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Hard and software used:
PC: Windows 11, OBS, Xenia Canary Build April 6th 2025
CPU: 5000 series Ryzen
GPU: 3000 series Nvidia RTX

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