Microsoft moves to ban users who install emulators on Xbox Series X|S
Microsoft moves to ban users who install emulators on Xbox Series X|S
Microsoft moves to ban users who install emulators on Xbox Series X|S.
Tech geeks can always come up with more ways to take advantage of their consoles, but Microsoft seems unhappy with their attempts to install unauthorized emulators on Xbox consoles.
According to reports, Microsoft has begun to impose a 15-day ban on users who exploit a bug to install emulators like RetroArch on Xbox Series X|S consoles.
A group called UWeaPons Store has discovered a way to install unauthorized emulator apps onto Xbox Series X|S consoles in retail mode.
The group only offers this method to Patreon subscribers who pay $2 a month.
However, a staffer at the Xbox Emulator Center called GoldenSky recently stated that “retail mode is dead” and sees these 15-day bans as “a warning from Xbox.”
“Please take my advice and don’t start trying to upload retail mode emulators.
Microsoft is banning people who upload retail mode emulators, don’t take the risk, and don’t risk it for others, it’s not worth it, use the dev mode is fine.”
Players can still use the Xbox Series X|S developer mode to use the emulator on the console, but this mode has significant disadvantages, because there is a one-time fee of $20, and users have to switch back and forth, because the developer mode Cannot run user’s retail game library.
