Questions tagged [xbox360]
The Xbox 360 is a video game console made by Microsoft and is the successor to the original Xbox. Development languages include C#, C and C++.
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UI library for XNA
I'm working on a small and simple XNA game and I'm noticing I'm spending way too much time implementing basic UI functionality like menus, (rich) text rendering including wrapping and basic UI lay-out ...
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How do I get input from an XBox 360 controller?
I'm writing a program that needs to take input from an XBox 360 controller. The input will then be sent wirelessly to an RC Helicopter that I am building.
So far, I've learned that this can be done ...
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Xbox programming [closed]
I am learning the language c. After c I will probably move onto objective c and develop some iPhone applications. Then I was thinking about learning c# and xna.
How long do you guys think it will ...
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QuickStart on Xbox 360 application development
Everywhere I found the buzz about Xbox 360 games. However I want to know how I can develop normal application for xbox 360. Mostly silverlight based.
Also I am not sure what this homebrew stuff is ...
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Does using a delegate create garbage
I'm working on a game for the xbox360, using XNA. On the Xbox the garbage collector performs rather badly compared to the one on a PC, so keeping garbage generated to a minimum is vital for a smoothly ...
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Java using Xbox controller [closed]
What library would you recommend to hook up my Xbox 360 controller to Java, and be able to read key inputs into keyPressed Event as a KeyEvent.
So I would like something like this
private class ...
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Professional Development Tools for Xbox 360 and PS3
I was curious to know what development tools do Xbox 360 and PS3 game developers use (I know that there are expensive SDK's to access professional development on these consoles).
So, do Xbox 360 devs ...
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PC XNA Game converted to Xbox 360 - Huge Performance Issues
So I wanted to convert my PC game to work on the Xbox 360. It ran damn fine on the PC, with a Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.40Ghz and a Radeon 4850 512MB.
I ported it to the Xbox, and right off the bat, ...
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GPU programming on Xbox 360
I'm looking for some insight into XNA on Xbox 360, mainly if its possible to run vector-based float mathematics on its GPU?
If there's a way, can you point me into the right direction?
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Difference between winsock and linux sockets
I'm developing an FTP-like program to download a large number of small files onto an Xbox 360 devkit (which uses Winsock), and porting it to Playstation3 (also a devkit, and uses linux AFAIK). The ...
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How can I learn about cross platform game development?
How do companies like Valve manage to release games to all three major gaming platforms? I am interested in the best-practices regarding code sharing specifically between Windows, Xbox360 and PS3, ...
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Programming with Microsoft Kinect
Does anyone know if an end user purchases the Kinect sensor, he can program using it to make own games. Or is the API only for professional game studios?
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.NET XBox Live Account API
Is there a .NET API available to get data from your XBox Live account?
All I'm really interested in is who's online, but messages would be cool too. And some sort of event driven notifications of ...
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.Net Framework 4.0 - Opcodes.Box present in Dictionary with int key
I'm trying to investigate whether dictionaries with enum keys still generate garbage in newer versions of .Net (say >= 4)
See Shawn Hargreaves blog post here for details on why I'm even fretting ...
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Programming Games and Applications/OS [closed]
I am interested in programming for games. I am currently building an iphone game with Shiva using Lua as the scripting language. After that, I am not sure what I should do or what languages I should ...
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Get a users Xbox Achievements list?
Is there a way to get a user's achievements list from Xbox without dealing with screen scraping etc.?
How do sites like http://www.trueachievements.com do it? (they're definitely not screen scraping ...
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How can I buy the XBox 360 and PS3 SDKs?
Does anyone know how I can purchase the above SDKs? Calling the standard Sony / Microsoft Sales numbers does not seem to get me anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
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Is there a way to verify that code will work on the 360 while doing XNA dev?
I'm working on a casual game on XNA with the intention of deploying to the Xbox 360. I'm not going to have access to hardware for a few weeks and I'm on a tight deadline, so I'd like to test that a ...
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Using the Xbox 360 Controller in a WPF application
I'm currently trying to use my Xbox 360 controller in my WPF application but all the tutorials online refer to using XNA in a game environment. I was just wondering if there is an easy to get my ...
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Is "indie" app development for Xbox 360 possible?
Microsoft has introduced App Hub as a publishing portal for WP7 and Xbox 360. However, for the Xbox 360, there only seems to be support for adding and Xbox Live Indie Game project. Given the recent ...
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XNA Platformer (2D) - Framerate/FPS fluctuations
I'm new to C Sharp, and writing a game w/ the XNA Framework. I've created a project that's a heavily modified version of the "Platformer" XNA starter kit.
I'm seeing (seemingly) random fluctuations ...
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vibration api for xbox 360 controller
Is there any way to get the Vibration API to work with the xbox 360 controller? Or any other way to get it to rumble with javascript? It is for a firefox extension written in javascript and the ...
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Opening XNA Xbox 360 assemblies in Reflector
I'd like to get a look at the differences between the Xbox 360 and Windows XNA assemblies. I know the 360 runs the .NET Compact Framework and I was under the impression that Reflector could read CF ...
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If Steam can map the guide button on the Xbox 360 controller why can't I
I want to map the Xbox Guide button on the Xbox 360 controller.
I've been searching for a possible solution for some time now and from the looks of my google results it seems that the only way to do ...
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How to get the keycodes from the controller in javascript?
I did buy a cheap controller (windows thinks it's a xbox 360 controller) and I want to get some javascript keypress events from the controller. I did try some keycode testers online like http://...
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Manual control over when to redraw the screen
I'm trying to make a turn-based roguelike engine thing for XNA. I'm basically porting the game over from a previous work I did using an SDL-based roguelike library called libtcod. How can I modify the ...
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Commercial video games
What language are ps3 and xbox 360 game written in? Are the games written in the same language for both systems? Also is the code something you could run on a computer?
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Run a XNA compiled game from DVD or CD on XBOX 360?
Is it possible to run a XNA game compiled for XBOX 360 from a DVD or CD, or does it have to be copied onto the HD?
Is it possible to include a library which is not a part of the .net compact ...
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debugging an Xbox 360 game?
What is the correct Visual Studio setup for developing/debugging an Xbox 360 game under Windows?
I don't have an Xbox at hand all the time, so I have to be able to debug the game under Windows and ...
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Xbox 360 vibrate rumble?
I have managed to find a script that starts the xbox 360 controller to rumble(vibrate) however I can't get it to turn Off. Is there a way to set it so after 5 seconds the rumble stops?
import ctypes
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Protocol buffers on Game Consoles
Have anyone tried google protocol buffers on game consoles? I'm more interested in High End consoles such as PS3 or Xbox360 than handheld systems.
Things I'm interested in hearing about are:
Does it ...
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Xbox Application Development using C# and Visual Studio
I have been investigating into application (not games) development on Xbox but i could not find any help or tutorial which i could use as a starting point for my project like a basic template.
I have ...
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Tools & Environment for Professional Xbox 360 development?
just a general query. I've tried to research the tools and environment used for professional 360 development but there's not much available that isn't covered by NDAs.
(Please note that I'm not ...
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Cross-(console)-Platform development frameworks / libraries?
What kind of frameworks / libraries are used to develop cross (console)-platform games, like ones that get released on Xbox 360 / PlayStation 3 at the same time? Or similarly, Xbox Live / PlayStation ...
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The primary reference XXX could not be resolved because it has an indirect dependency on the framework assembly
I have created a simple XNA Windows Class Library with XNA 4.0 called "NivekGameEngine". I have created a simple game for the Windows platform, and I can access all contents of my dll just fine.
The ...
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Is there an Android equivalent to XInput? [closed]
I'm basically curious as to how support for the Xbox 360 controller is implemented in Android?
Is there a way to fire specific functions/commands to the paired controller when using it with Android? ...
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JXInput tutorial or example?
I want to use an Xbox 360 controller as an input to my Java program. After searching for a while, I came across the JXInput library. I tried their test program, and it worked. But I'm having trouble ...
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Emulate Xbox 360 controller with mobile
I'm developing an app for symbian phones to emulate an Xbox 360 controller.
I have made all the necessary connections, and I'm using SendInput() to emulate the mouse, because, AFAIK SendInput can ...
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error: 'uint8_t' has not been declared [closed]
I'm trying to use an xbox360 controller as a joystick in openSUSE 11.2. When attempting to compile xboxdrv (http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/) I get the following errors:
g++ -o src/...
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How to alias Xbox 360 buttons in C#?
I'm new to C Sharp, and writing a game w/ the XNA Framework.
I'm trying to establish variables for the buttons on the XBox 360 controller, so I can reconfigure the buttons' game functions in one ...
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XNA C# Controller Input Structures
I have looked all over the net and need some assistance. Is there a link somewhere to example code of all the buttons for the Xbox 360 controller. For example:
if (GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.One)....
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Optimizing drawing calls in a basic XNA engine
I want to optimize my basic XNA engine. The structure is somewhat like this: I've a GameWorld instance and more GameObjects attached to it. Now, in every frame I do a loop between GameObjects and I ...
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I need some help to understand USB Game Controllers (HID devices)
I apologize for the weird title but it is the best that I can come up with right now. So I have a project where I am building a HID device that will act as a game controller. I am thinking to emulate ...
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Confused with PowerPC's Registers's Value(s)?
So, I've been going along learning PowerPC for simple reversing projects for Xbox, but I always get tangled up on things like this.
lwz r11, 0(r29) # Loads 0x34 from 0x10710 and stores in ...
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How to convert mkv movies to mp4 for streaming to XBox 360
I recently purchased a Synology Diskstation DS412+, and I have a number of .mkv movies which I would like to convert/transcode to mp4 files, so that I can stream them directly to my XBox 360. I use ...
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Xbox 360 for linux programming
somehow I got an xbox 360 4gb as a gift. I am not interested in videogames, I just wonder whether some linux version could be installed on it, and then use it at home for programming, using the same ...
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HRESULT of 0x806D0005 from Microsoft's Dia2Lib
I'm trying to read a PDB file into a C# application. When I call loadDataFromPdb or loadAndValidateDataFromPdb with a file that I know exists, I get an HRESULT of 0x806D0005. Unfortunately, I have no ...
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Does anyone know if there a .NET API for Project Natal?
I have just discovered Project Natal from Microsoft, it looks pretty cool and was wondering if there was any starting points for developers to get into it?
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Mp2t video internet explorer
I cannot get xbox-360 Internet Explorer to play a mpeg-2 ts (h264/AAC) file from an html5 video tag within a browser page. Do I need to install a plugin or something to get IE to play it?
I can get ...
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Skyrim Creation Kit with Xbox 360 [closed]
I posted this on the Bethesda forums, but the thread was locked before I could get responses (the moderator said it wouldn't happen, here's a link to the thread: http://forums.bethsoft.com/topic/...
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