Android emulators cover a wide range of video game consoles, but software has its limits. The early days of consoles are well covered through many emulators, but there’s more of a gap when we start looking at consoles that launched in the 2000s.
The Xbox 360 was one of those consoles that didn’t have good Android emulation until last year, when aX360e arrived. Now, there’s another 360 emulator on the horizon. X360 Mobile has allegedly been tested by YouTubers, and while it’s not available for mass consumption yet, it’s hoped to release by the end of May.
A generation of beloved games on your phone
We’ve already seen one Xbox 360 emulator hit the Google Play Store, but another one is hot on its heels. Known as X360 Mobile, footage of the emulator first started showing up on YouTube through an unknown channel, RicheieManRetro, which claimed to show footage of games running on the emulator on an AYN Odin 3.
Of course, this sort of footage can be faked, which is why it was good to see a thorough dive into the emulator appear on El Poder del Androide Verde, a Spanish YouTube channel.
The video shows us a number of games running on the emulator, through a Galaxy S25 Ultra. The interface on this video does match that seen briefly in some of the videos in the previous YouTube channel, which suggests that those videos are legitimate. In fact, the Q&A section of the El Poder del Androide Verde video appears to suggest that RichieManRetro is in fact the developer of the app itself.
As you might expect, the emulator runs slightly differently on Samsung’s hardware than it did on the Odin 3 shown in the RichieManRetro videos, suggesting that certain configurations are preferred for strong performance right now. According to the developer, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor with 8GB of RAM are the optimal specs for running the software.
Not that you need to rush out and dig an older phone out of a drawer or anything. The software is currently in a very restricted pre-alpha state, and only a handful of private testers have access. That’s your sign to not believe anyone offering access to the emulator, should any pop up.
The developer currently aims to have an alpha version of X360 Mobile ready for a release at the end of May, and eventually hopes to have the app available on the Google Play Store.
As Android Authority notes, it’s a good idea to also be wary of new software in this time of vibe-coded apps, and it’s worth being aware this project is currently closed-source. Downloading any software like that, when it’s available, may well be a risk.
But even with that warning in mind, the chance of playing Xbox 360 games on my phone is an exciting one, and more good emulators in the space are always welcome.
