DuckStation is a new PlayStation 1 emulator running on Xbox Series X|S through UWP with DX12 support and it’s quite impressive.
The PSX emulator has been around longer, but recently, the creator of the emulator added an Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and Xbox build, allowing original PlayStation games to be played on Xbox Series X and Series S in developer mode.
What’s impressive about this project is that DuckStation supports internal resolution scaling up to 16 times (equivalent to 8K), allowing for a highly improved and smooth visual output on both of Microsoft’s next-gen consoles. A video of the emulator in action running on the Xbox Series S can be found below:
A “BIOS” ROM image is required to to start the emulator and to play games. You can use an image from any hardware version or region, although mismatching game regions and BIOS regions may have compatibility issues. A ROM image is not provided with the emulator for legal reasons, you should dump this from your own console using Caetla or other means.
We already reported on the Xbox Developer mode last year, and there are plenty of guides out there on how to enable this mode. Xbox Series X|S owners interested in emulation of older titles will surely be interested in this promising PSX emulator and we highly recommend checking it out.
