One of the worst kept secrets about the Xbox consoles was the fact that you could (until recently) load ROMS from other systems (PS2, etc) and play those games on your Xbox via emulators in retail mode. Unfortunately, it seems (via various sources) that Microsoft has been handing down 15 day suspensions to those that use this the past few days.
RETAIL MODE ON XBOX IS DEAD! – 15-day suspensions handed out to users of retail emulators as a warning shot from Microsoft. – Devs warning users to delete emulators – Retail Mode team disbanding and shutting down the Patreon. Sorry to bear the bad news. RT to warn others
(1) Miles on Twitter: “RETAIL MODE ON XBOX IS DEAD! – 15-day suspensions handed out to users of retail emulators as a warning shot from Microsoft. – Devs warning users to delete emulators – Retail Mode team disbanding and shutting down the Patreon. Sorry to bear the bad news. RT to warn others https://t.co/nYAQHgtow5” / X
RETAIL MODE IS DEAD
Effective immediately, we are halting any and all retail mode emulation, permanently. This channel will be deleted within the week, and this announcement will be moved to 📢｜server-announcements for preservation purposes (without pings).A significant amount of users have been receiving 15-day suspensions as a warning shot from Xbox. We STRONGLY recommend removing any and all emulator apps from your console in retail mode immediately (dev mode is unaffected). We apologise to anyone who got a 15-day suspension, we know it sucks.
‘Retail Mode’ Emulation on Xbox is now DEAD (Xbox now banning emulator UPLOADERS, Suspending USERS for 15 Days) News | ResetEra
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s been a good run. But now we’ve no choice but to
(1) 🇮🇪 gamr13 🇮🇪 on Twitter: “Ladies and gentlemen, it’s been a good run. But now we’ve no choice but to @Xbox @XboxP3 #LetUsEmulate https://t.co/K9KO1p655K” / X
Emulation can still be run in dev mode, but this is not ideal, as you cannot run normal, everyday apps in your console while in dev mode , and who knows how long it’ll take for Microsoft to disable that possibility as well
