There’s a good chance you aren’t buying an Xbox Series S to play 20-year-old games. Doesn’t it make you feel better, though, that the system is capable of doing so? The Xbox Series S can play the latest titles. It can also play games from the Xbox One, Xbox 360, and original Xbox. However, as YouTube channel Modern Vintage Gamer discovered, the Xbox Series S is quite good at emulating other consoles, too.
As you can see in MVG’s video above, the Xbox Series S performs admirably when emulating most of the 8-bit and 16-bit machines out there. It does a fine job with PlayStation titles. It can even handle some Saturn, Dreamcast, and GameCube titles.
If anything, it appears the Retro Arch emulator running on the machine is hampered by the Xbox Series S’ lack of support for Bluetooth and, as a result, Wiimotes. This would likely be a killer Wii machine if someone could figure out how to get those paired up.
This trick would presumably work on the Xbox Series X, as well, but getting all this set up isn’t for the faint of heart. As Modern Vintage Gamer explains, you need to put your new Xbox into developer mode in order to get the Retro Arch emulator installed.
Still, this is a pretty cool use of Microsoft’s new hardware. So cool, in fact, that we have to wonder if somehow this will get shut down at some point. We’ll keep our eyes peeled.