For most cases, it was simply easier to use a Raspberry Pi, a seldom used laptop, or even your phone. While I did have positive thoughts on using RetroArch on my console last year, it really wasn’t my preferred method of emulation. If it isn’t the limited space you had to put up with, it’s the cumbersome way of managing emulator files on a system that was never really designed to give you freedom to do what you want with it.

If it isn’t accuracy issues with the emulated software, you’re constantly crashing back to the dashboard. Naturally, when you have the specs of the most powerful console on the market, performance for hobbyist emulators years in the making would be the last thing you would expect to worry about! So, it is just that-instead of performance, you have plenty of bugs to deal with. For the most part, 3D retro games ran fairly well, and smashed everything out of the park where performance was concerned. When I first tried out RetroArch on the Series X, I was impressed. YouTube and the rest of the World Wide Web is your friend! Is the Sun Shining Any Brighter Now? Not because emulation is illegal (it is not), but because guides can go out of date quickly and making one goes beyond the scope of this article. Just a heads up, this is not a guide on how to get RetroArch or other software on your Xbox console. And although I do not primarily use my Xbox console for emulation, I did want to come back and see how the small emulation scene on Xbox has grown, and what better way to do that then to load up RetroArch once again, a year later, and see if the hoops to emulate games on my Series X are worth it.

Despite bugs and some frustrations, the Series X proved to be a viable option for running hobbyist emulation software through this nifty program. A little over a year ago, I got around to trying RetroArch, a frontend for numerous game emulators, on the Xbox Series X.

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