Porting PC game to Xbox Original?

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Porting PC game to Xbox Original?

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So, I've been looking on the internet for a little bit, but I can't find a credible tutorial anywhere. Does anybody know how to port over a PC game to Xbox original? I understand it takes a lot of work, and a working source of the original game. (as well as a working knowledge of direct x programming :) )
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This is possible?
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Well if you have the source code yea...but its not something a tutorial can tell you how to do...
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Yeah, I've been poking around the source code for RTCW for a bit, and can't quite make heads or tails of it, is there anybody who has ported games over before and could provide me with a bit of insight?
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cain532 wrote:Yeah, I've been poking around the source code for RTCW for a bit, and can't quite make heads or tails of it, is there anybody who has ported games over before and could provide me with a bit of insight?
If you have no idea what the first thing to do is when it comes to this then it 100% is not for you. Don't mean to get your hopes down but this is way beyond your current level and you are only wasting your time.
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If you have no idea what the first thing to do is when it comes to this then it 100% is not for you. Don't mean to get your hopes down but this is way beyond your current level and you are only wasting your time.
Appreciate the insight, however if I don't start from somewhere, how am I to learn? Maybe I did get a little overly ambitious with this particular project, but maybe there is a better place for me to start at so I can build myself up to this? I'd really like to broaden my horizons and figure out how to do this.
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You're trying to do Calculus before you learn how to add and subtract. There are so many things that go into porting a game that I don't know where to begin to explain all that you would need to take into account. I would recommend getting a book on programming if you're interested in programming. I don't really have any that I recommend, but I would suggest learning Java or C# as your first language, although a scripting language like perl or python might be a good option as well.
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@Ownz joO

Thanks for the advice :) I'll go and start learning C# because I've had a touch of experience with it in the past (editing some PS2 homebrew applicatioins, never made any myself, just poked around )
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