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Emulator Lets You Play PlayStation Games on the Xbox Series X|S

Emulator Lets You Play PlayStation Games on the Xbox Series X|S - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 September 2021 / 2,971 Views

PlayStation emulator, DuckStation, has been ported to the Xbox Series X|S and lets you play PS1 games on the new consoles at 4K resolution. 

The PS1 emulator isn't available on the Xbox Digital Store and requires access to the Xbox Series X|S Developer Mode, which you have to pay a fee to Microsoft in order to enable. After you have Developer Mode you will need to manually install the emulator. 

The goal for the DuckStation emulator is to be as "accurate as possible while maintaining performance suitable for low-end devices." This does allow PS1 games on the emulator to run up to 16 times their original resolution. 

Youtuber Modern Vintage Gamer has showcased the PS1 emulator running on the Xbox Series S and at native 4K resolution and a locked 60 frames per second. 

The Xbox version of DuckStation along with upscaling games to 4K resolution will also let you turn on the True Colour Rendering mode. This disables the dithering effect used in the original PlayStation hardware.

Texture Filtering is also available, which smooths out how blocky textures are on 3D objects when they get larger. There is also the ability to to fix texture warping, which is an issue seen in many PlayStation games. 


A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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18 Comments
Zippy6 (on 18 August 2021)

I have retroarch on my series s without dev mode. GameCube games run great, with the odd graphical glitch, even PS2 works.

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Azzanation (on 18 August 2021)

Tech head's have been calling these systems emulator beasts

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Barozi (on 18 August 2021)

Looks like the emulator runs well and has some nice features (getting rid of texture warping for example).
Shame the dev mode can only be unlocked by paying $20. That's really not worth it for me as I know myself well enough. I would test some games for like 5 minutes each but never seriously consider playing them for longer periods.
It would only get insteresting for me if we get some newer emulators on the console.

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KLAMarine Barozi (on 18 August 2021)

There's a charm to the texture warping. Not sure I'd get rid of it.

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3sexty (on 17 August 2021)

These emulators seem to be popping up everywhere. Android and Xbox seem to be the target for this. Why cant Sony, Nintendo and Sega take legal action to stop this from happening?

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Pemalite 3sexty (on 18 August 2021)

Emulators themselves are legal. (Various by country to country of course.)

It's the Roms, which is often pirated dumps of original copies that tend to be the illegal area.

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scrapking Pemalite (on 21 August 2021)

The roms for sure, as you say. Also the system BIOSs in some cases.

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victor83fernandes 3sexty (on 18 August 2021)

If you own the games you are in your legal right to play them on emulators. Its basically a digital backup of your original, just like you can make a copy of a cd you own, for personal use.

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Dante9 (on 18 August 2021)

Xbox haz no gamez so PS1 to the rescue.

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HoangNhatAnh Dante9 (on 18 August 2021)

PS5 can't even run ps1 games by that logic

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LivncA_Dis3 (on 18 August 2021)
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