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Modern Vintage Gamer (Dimitris Giannakis | archive) is a developer with a YouTube channel where he talks about game development, emulation, and such things. His biggest claim to fame might be his port of SNES9X to the original Xbox around 20 years ago. He also shills some shady products from time to time.
July 2023:
"Xbox Emulators running on Retail Mode Is BACK"
Okay so, if you aren't an Xbox guy, let me catch you up to speed: Xbox One and Series X|S consoles can be put into developer mode for a fee of $19, which lets you export UWP software from source onto your Xbox for playtesting and distribution. Of course, this means you can run whatever source code you can get to work, which meshes beautifully with how emulators tend to be open source. This includes Retroarch, Dolphin, and even Xenia. The downside to developer's mode is that you aren't allowed to launch retail games while in it, and of course, the small paywall. You can switch back and forth between retail and developer mode at any time, though it's a little bit of a hassle. This method never went away.
Emulators running in retail mode have occurred in a few different ways: they're often gated off behind discords, where you send someone the email address associated with your Xbox account and get manually whitelisted, though a lot of hidden emulators have shown up in the UWP store disguised as a completely different app, or even just with muddled, unsearchable text (i.e. "Rê†rðår¢h"). Microsoft cracked down on these earlier in the year.
Xbox emulators running on retail mode are absolutely not back, or at least in the form that anyone would guess. This is a video shilling something called "UWeaPonStore" (archive), a Patreon which offers retail mode Xbox emulators for $2 a month. According to a commenter (seen below), their software was pulled 3 hours after MVG published his video.
Dimitris here is in defense mode on his own stickied post, as commenters are calling him out:
He does not condemn the paywall in the video at all. At 6:18, he mentions he has no affiliation with this group. According to the archive of the Patreon some gigachad out there made on the day the video was uploaded, they were pulling CAD$1,166 a month. (CAD$1,166 = USD$884.32). They have since hidden that figure.
UPDATE (as of January 2nd, 2024): At some point, MVG updated this video and unlisted it, with a warning that Microsoft is handing out 15-day suspensions for anyone using retail mode emulators.
November 2021:
This isn't the first time he's been shady. In November 2021, he put up a video advertising an emulator machine as a Nintendo 64 clone console, and spilled his spaghetti in the comments. I made an extensive post about it you can read here:
July 2023:
"Xbox Emulators running on Retail Mode Is BACK"
Okay so, if you aren't an Xbox guy, let me catch you up to speed: Xbox One and Series X|S consoles can be put into developer mode for a fee of $19, which lets you export UWP software from source onto your Xbox for playtesting and distribution. Of course, this means you can run whatever source code you can get to work, which meshes beautifully with how emulators tend to be open source. This includes Retroarch, Dolphin, and even Xenia. The downside to developer's mode is that you aren't allowed to launch retail games while in it, and of course, the small paywall. You can switch back and forth between retail and developer mode at any time, though it's a little bit of a hassle. This method never went away.
Emulators running in retail mode have occurred in a few different ways: they're often gated off behind discords, where you send someone the email address associated with your Xbox account and get manually whitelisted, though a lot of hidden emulators have shown up in the UWP store disguised as a completely different app, or even just with muddled, unsearchable text (i.e. "Rê†rðår¢h"). Microsoft cracked down on these earlier in the year.
Xbox emulators running on retail mode are absolutely not back, or at least in the form that anyone would guess. This is a video shilling something called "UWeaPonStore" (archive), a Patreon which offers retail mode Xbox emulators for $2 a month. According to a commenter (seen below), their software was pulled 3 hours after MVG published his video.
Dimitris here is in defense mode on his own stickied post, as commenters are calling him out:
He does not condemn the paywall in the video at all. At 6:18, he mentions he has no affiliation with this group. According to the archive of the Patreon some gigachad out there made on the day the video was uploaded, they were pulling CAD$1,166 a month. (CAD$1,166 = USD$884.32). They have since hidden that figure.
UPDATE (as of January 2nd, 2024): At some point, MVG updated this video and unlisted it, with a warning that Microsoft is handing out 15-day suspensions for anyone using retail mode emulators.
November 2021:
This isn't the first time he's been shady. In November 2021, he put up a video advertising an emulator machine as a Nintendo 64 clone console, and spilled his spaghetti in the comments. I made an extensive post about it you can read here:
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