After a short-lived return, it appears as though Microsoft has put an end to running emulators on Xbox Series X|S consoles via retail mode for good. The developers behind UWeaPons, the workaround to loading emulators on Xbox's Retail Mode, had their consoles permanently banned by Microsoft. Additionally, users caught using UWeaPons on their system are receiving 15-day suspensions. It's now recommended that if you installed any retail mode emulators, you remove them from your console.

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[SylverReZ]

Microsoft, a bunch of corporate greedy bastards.

 

[Ricken]

I can't help but wonder if someone will be bold enough to try and work around that

 

[emmanu888]

Its things like this that makes me glad i paid for dev mode access.

 

[dudeguy2022]

I hate it when people run 15 year old games from unaffiliated companies on my overpriced game console!

 

[K3Nv4]

Well who didn't see this coming

 

[Dust2dust]

What kind of world we live in, where we can't do what we want with our stuff that we paid good money for?

 

[pustal]

I can't help but wonder if someone will be bold enough to try and work around that

Of course, at least on the try part.

 

[G33ksquad]

Get a VPN take a magical ride to Turkey, makes dev account cheaper

 

[KingVamp]

I'm sure they were losing a significant amount of money, because of these emulators.

 

[Deleted member 666353]

This Is Such bad news for modders

 

[ZeroFX]

Crappy company and crappy console, sadly this company is full of unpaid simps throughout the web.

 

[spectral]

I'm sure they were losing a significant amount of money, because of these emulators.

I'm guessing its more to do with the worry that running homebrew code in retail mode could lead to an exploit being discovered. While it sucks to lose retail mode options at least they do offer a mode that can run homebrew officially, unlike everyone else.

 

[CeeDee]

So a group of people decided to do the exact thing Microsoft publicly blocked, with the only change they even attempted to make being that the app has an obfuscated name they thought wouldn't be noticed?

No wonder they got their access removed, anyone doing this after Microsoft publicly revoked access instead of just using dev mode was taking a gamble anyways. Good thing users aren't getting permabans at least.

 

[zoogie]

Instead of playing these stupid cat and mouse games with their users, MS should just give users the option of keeping their Xbox as a game console, or wiping it and making a de facto windows 11 PC.

 

[raging_chaos]

I'm guessing its more to do with the worry that running homebrew code in retail mode could lead to an exploit being discovered.

Charging $2 per month through Patreon for access probably got a bunch of heat from MS. They are lucky the only thing being tossed around are ban hammers.

 

[Kioku]

No shit... People screwed around, broke TOS, and are now paying the consequences.. Has nothing to do with corporate greed, just consumer stupidity (as usual).

 

[Xzi]

No shit... People screwed around, broke TOS, and are now paying the consequences.. Has nothing to do with greed, just consumer stupidity (as usual).

Yeah I think they made it pretty clear what their stance was on retail mode emulators after removing them all from the app store. Not that I agree with that stance, but take the hint.

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

I hate it when people run 15 year old games from unaffiliated companies on my overpriced game console!

Well technically there is an original xbox emulator that you can run. And iirc Xenia was being worked on?

 

[Foxi4]

Yeah I think they made it pretty clear what their stance was on retail mode emulators after removing them all from the app store. Not that I agree with that stance, but take the hint.

I don’t exactly know what the big deal about running them in Retail mode even is. Just use Dev mode - Microsoft was already nice enough to provide a developer environment for end users. This is just about the best outcome short of completely unlocking the console for amateur devs.