This will likely not last long, and they probably already don't work anymore. If your currently installed retail mode apps still work. You can either pay the stupid $20 / €20 fee, or you can simply make a new account set to TURKEY and pay $2 / €2, literally 1/10th the price. So what are our current options for emulation on Xbox? Take it to Twitter, take it wherever you can and complain to Xbox about this decision.

If you want any hope of Retail Mode emulation ever making a comeback NOW is the time to fight them on it. 'This game or app can't be launched as it violates the Microsoft Store Policy.' The developers have shared the recent news on the Xbox Emulation Hub Discord server with the following:Īs of today, it looks like Microsoft finally decided to fight back, and that faster takedowns weren't good enough. However, it seems like Microsoft got tired of this game of cat and mouse, and has finally decided to disable and prevent running any type of emulator application from running on any Xbox console altogether, with any attempt to launch an emulator app throwing error code 0x87E1002D. Some might have seen some threads going around about RetroArch running through Retail Mode on Xbox consoles, and while RetroArch did end up in the store from time to time, the people in charge of the port had to constantly deal with Microsoft taking down the application constantly.

Microsoft has been dealing with a lot of iffy applications and software running amok in their stores since they enabled almost anyone to get a hold of development access to their systems starting from the Xbox One console (done mostly as a detriment to avoid their systems getting hacked, like what happened with the Xbox 360).ĭue to that, there has been a constant fight between devs and Microsoft to get rid of those unauthorized applications from appearing in their store.

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