• Space Invaders clone source code
• Dead Babies X v0.1 source code - A game made with the XDK that has lots of moving things, and is extremely simple (only one screen that doesn't scroll, only one background, etc.) but otherwise looks as well as a commercially produced 2-D game running on SNES hardware (parallax scrolling in background, approximate resolution, accurate-sounding sounds, etc). The Readme.txt file that comes with this program says the source code is available from the Lead Programmer Chris Friesen if a request is E-Mailed to him.

XSelect 0.9

Extremely small, can run any executable from the hard drive, and looks in the current directory for a configuration file pointing to a preferred executable to run by default. One of the challenges of XSelect may be to resist temptation of adding too many features and making it larger than needed, as its small size is very useful.

Visual C++ source is available, but porting this may be a challenge because its menus seem to rely on DirectX (and so I'm thinking the infrastructure may require the XDK). That part may need to be re-written, and once it is, the entire rest of the simplistic program may be easier to re-make from scratch rather than figuring out how to integrate with new code.

I may tackle this myself if the OpenXDK develops further as described above (namely support for the Gamepad input, but GCC support would definitely be nice).

• Useful tutorials to help make this happen:
  • File Output (and I'm guessing configuration file reading would be similar)
  • XbeLauncher
  • Gamepad usage
    • I've been told the example on this site doesn't work. I haven't had an opportunity to try it myself yet.
    • Caustik has said all OpenXDK "needs to be revitalized is a USB stack for controller input."
    • I could understand if someone hacked together a tutorial thinking the code would work, but even if this example doesn't work, I'd have to guess that the Space Invaders clone has working controller input!
  • 2-D Graphics output which I hope would be as compatible as XDK apps, and not so likely to fail on any Xbox revisions the way some text mode apps have. This would be nice so that in-program configuration can be done.
  • Basic Compression Library v1.0.6 to help achieve the goal of keeping stuff small.
• Libraries (stuff already done for you)
  • Basic Compression Library v1.0.6 to help achieve the goal of keeping stuff small.

From what I can tell, the only things not listed right above, but which would be needed to get a fully working completely legitimate clone of XSelect without using the official XDK would be:

• Support for filefind/filenext, so that a list of files in some directory on the hard drive can be obtained. This is likely supported by the major compilers (namely VC++ and GCC) and the only issue would be if the XFAT file system can be used. Since there is a tutorial on file output available, I'm guessing that the OpenXDK supports this, so this is probably already done too.
• Freely obtainable font file

NKPatcher 0.6

Defeats signature checking. (Perhaps make running code that does this an option built into a clone of XSelect.) Asm source is available.

FTP Server

At minimum: Ability to upload a file, and for remote user to specify the exact path this gets uploaded to.

File Manager

Ideas on how to make this:

• Implement this in an XSelect clone. XSelect 0.9 does have support for this, very primitively. I can imagine some use of copying files and then running them, and so simplistic capabilities for this may not be bad as long as it doesn't make the executable too large.
• Remote file management would likely be a part of an FTP server beyond any first simple version (unless the FTP server is intentionally kept limited in order to keep it extremely small).
• A file manager likely isn't going to be very difficult to make Perhaps this would be nice/useful to put into an XSelect clone, so files can be copied and then run. XSelect 0.9 has this built in, very primitively. Remote file management would likely

Wanna make an emulator? Several have source code available, like MAME.