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Is there a way to verify that code will work on the 360 while doing XNA dev?

I'm working on a casual game on XNA with the intention of deploying to the Xbox 360. I'm not going to have access to hardware for a few weeks and I'm on a tight deadline, so I'd like to test that a few things -- Boo and a few custom libraries -- will work properly on the 360. If they don't, I need to work around them sooner rather than later, so testing this is quite important.

With that explained, is there a way I can go into a 'simulator' of sorts to run code on the .NET Compact Framework for 360 before actually deploying to the 360?

Solution

  • Well, you could try writing a quick app for a Windows Smartphone, and run it in an emulator. Obviously, this won't work for XNA specific code; but for any runtime libraries that Boo or whatever you're using work on the emulator, they should work on the Xbox.

    For the XNA code you write yourself, just compile it against the Xbox 360 target.