This page is for the first Xbox system, not the series of consoles. For this, see Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox One, and Microsoft Xbox Series X and S.

Whether these emulators support operating systems for these consoles is unknown; it must be looked into further. Consoles without meaningful OSes are not included.

http://xbmcxbox.blogspot.com/2013/03/complete-list-of-emulators-for-original.html

3DO Comp. 3DO – 3DOx Alpha

Atari 2600 – Stella Xbox, Z26X

Atari Lynx – LynXBox, mednafen, HandyX

Bandai WonderSwan (Color) – rarch, WonderSwanX

Coleco ColecoVision – AdamX, KolekoX

NEC TurboGrafx-16 – HuGoX v10, MednafenX-PCE, XPCE-X, rarch

Nintendo 64 – Surreal64, PJ64-X, Daedalus X

Nintendo DS – DesmumeX 0.87

https://www.1emulation.com/forums/topic/35774-desmumex-v087-new-update

Nintendo Entertainment System - FCEUltraX, NestopiaX, MednafenX, Nester X, XNES, rarch

Super Nintendo Entertainment System – ZsnexBox, xSnes9x, Snes9Xbox, Snes9x X, rarch

Nintendo Game Boy (Color) – XBoyAdvance, GBAX001, eXtremeGB, Gnuboy, rarch

Nintendo Game Boy Advance – XBoyAdvance, ARM2x86/GBA, U-VBAx, GBAX001, rarch

Nintendo Pokémon Mini – PokemonMiniX

Nintendo Virtual Boy - XVBoy

Sega Genesis – NeoGenesis, Xenesis, Dgen, Gens_xport, Gens-x, rarch

Sega Master System – DegaBox, MekaX, Dega-X, Centipede, Kaster-X, SMSPlusX, rarch

Sega Saturn – Yabause Community Edition

https://digiex.net/threads/yabause-community-edition-public-a1-0-download-sega-saturn-emulator-for-xbox.13685/

Sony PlayStation 1 – PCSXBox

patches and binaries currently support Darwin 8.0.1 only

Levels of function unknown, but it boots and has text interfacing.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090219230924/http://xbox-linux.org/wiki/Darwin

working directly from the CD without the need to install or change

A liveCD based distro with official Xbox support, among others.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090312061622/http://dynebolic.org/

This device runs an operating system which is known to emulate various devices with EOPs. See the AmigaOS, Classic Mac OS, DOS, MSX, and SHARP x68000 series pages.

Fedora Core for the Xbox.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbox-linux/files/Fedora/

http://web.archive.org/web/20090308005358/http://legacy.not404.com/XFedora4

you can fetch patches for FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE and 6.0-BETA1

In a state presumably more developed than OpenBSD.

https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/xbox/

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/16ff7n/xbox_i386_still_supported/

http://web.archive.org/web/20081216090905/http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/FreeBSD/Main_Page

Gentoo now officially includes support for the xbox via an x86 system profile

Non-tailored Gentoo install that was “official” from the Gentoo project.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080910213128/http://gentoo-wiki.com/Gentoo_for_Xbox

/experimental/x86/xbox/ on 2006-8 gentoo mirrors

a patch system created from the ground up

The “other” seemingly prestige linux distro for Xbox. Custom tailored for Xbox.

https://gentoox.shallax.com/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbox-linux/files/Gentoox/

Hard to find much about this, but some files remain.

http://ftp.riken.jp/NetBSD/misc/jmcneill/xbox/

The project is finished now (the port is not completely finished)

Not utterly finished, but all important functions are available except an X server.

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070706150902

http://web.archive.org/web/20081211183250/http://tobias.schroepf.de/doku/doku.php?id=xbox:porting_openbsd_to_the_xbox

Whether these emulators support operating systems for these computers is unknown; it must be looked into further. PCs without meaningful OSes are not included.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IePzKSqLKcY (past 31:00)

http://xbmcxbox.blogspot.com/2013/03/complete-list-of-emulators-for-original.html

Amstrad CPCs - ArnoldX 5, CoinOPS

https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Emulators

Apple IIs - kegsX V5, Apple ][ soul captor

Atari 8-bits - AtariXLBox V8.05b

Atari STs – WinSTonX

CHIP-8 – Chip8X

https://digiex.net/threads/chip8x-v4-download-chip8-superchip8-emulator-for-xbox.13730/

Commodore 64 - Vice64 XV11, Frodo-X

Commodore Amigas - WinUAEx lite v19, UAE-X

Commodore PETs - VicePETX

Commodore VIC-20 - Vice20X

MSXs – BlueMSXBox, FMSXbox

Sharp X68000s - X68000X v6

Sinclair ZX Spectrums - DidntXSpectrum 5, FuseX, DreamSPEC, SpeXtrum

x86 – DOSXbox, Bochs

Mandrake Linux 9.0 as a host operating system and ran Windows 2000 within a virtual PC

Anything you could run on such old hardware with QEMU, like Win98 and Win2000.

http://www.psphacker.com/run-windows-98-on-the-xbox/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-make-xbox-into-a-windows-pc/

ReactOS can be either installed to your Xbox or started via Live CD

Got a lot of work done in the mid 2000s, and has now been revived in the past months.

https://reactos.org/wiki/Xbox_Port

https://reactos.org/wiki/Xbox_Port_Tests

https://reactos.org/wiki/Xbox_Port_Roadmap

https://reactos.org/wiki/Install_ReactOS_on_Xbox

Not much to see here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7hRb2BXL1A (better vid)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfEK7j7fOGQ

It is based on the SLAX LiveCD

Slackware SLAX-based similarly lightweight variant of Linux.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sxb/

http://web.archive.org/web/20051211210329/http://www.keckstar.com/nuke/html/index.php

a version of GNU/Linux for the Xbox

The source of all these distros, being the project started for kernel ports and such, plus a compatible dual boot BIOS.

https://xboxdevwiki.net/Main_Page (OG wiki mirror)

https://github.com/XboxDev/cromwell

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbox-linux/

http://web.archive.org/web/20090314115049/http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page

A tiny Linux distribution that basically only runs rsyncd” (2nd link only)

Recent attempts of bringing back contributions to Linux on the Xbox, including experiments with porting 3.x and 4.x kernels.

https://github.com/XboxDev/xbox-linux

https://www.antoneliasson.se/journal/xbox-linux-pc-bios-xbox-hybrid-bootable-iso/

small (currently about 50mb) but fully functional Linux distribution

A variant of DamnSmallLinux for the Xbox, that seems quite fully featured for it’s size.

http://xbmcxbox.blogspot.com/2013/09/install-linux-xdsl-on-original-xbox-via.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20090517073749/http://www.x-dsl.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=566 (best vers?)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbox-linux/files/X-DSL/

Xebian comes as a bootable live CD which is used for installing the base system

Similar to other distro variants, this is customized for the Xbox. SSH and X available.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbox-linux/files/Ed_s%20Xebian/

http://web.archive.org/web/20090311005221/http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Xebian

Hard to load info on this, but it does work for the classic Macintosh Systems.

https://digiex.net/threads/xmac-beta-v0-2-download-macintosh-plus-emulator-for-xbox.13765/

https://web.archive.org/web/20081018234456/http://www.darcelf.tk/ (glitchy site)

Xbox-enabled version of Ubuntu

A custom tailored version of 2008 Ubuntu for the Xbox. Unrelated to lightweight Xubuntu.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbox-linux/files/xUbuntu/

http://web.archive.org/web/20090130045047/http://xbox-linux.org/wiki/XUbuntu

Things listed on the reddit linux wiki page.

https://www.reddit.com/r/originalxbox/wiki/linux

None of these were very good, considering the functionality of internet browsing on the linux installs.

https://digiex.net/threads/linksboks-v0-99-download-xbox-web-browser.13825/