X1 Box App Brings Classic Xbox Games To Android, But There's A Caveat

Xbox emulation is now available on Android, albeit in a limited and somewhat controversial form. The app is called X1 Box and it is available in Google's Play Store for $7.99, as of this writing. Eagle-eyed users, however, have noticed that X1 Box is a fork of the free, open-source Xemu emulator, and the developer has already posted the source code for X1 Box on Github. The Xemu team is actually in the process of working on its own dedicated Android fork and app release as well, and yet another developer went ahead and made an APK of X1 Box available too, for users with the ability to side-load apps on their devices. All of that is to say, don't pay for X1 Box.

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