Game development kit: Difference between revisions

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=== Xbox ===

When developers were creating software for the original [[Xbox (console)|Xbox]], a prototype of the controller was used in the early development kits. This controller was slimmer, had elongated sides, and used a [[USB]] cable instead of an Xbox port-compatible cable.<ref name=":0" /> The dev kit console was shaped like a tower desktop PC, was grey colored and had a green circle in the middle of the front of the console with an X inside the circle. These are known unofficially as alpha towers. a second development kit was produced which was identical to a retail xbox however it had a clear case like the limited edition xbox and had the words Development Kit in green on the front of the unit. It uses a custom bios and system software that allows its hard drive contents to be accessed via the xbox neighbourhood a program included with the xbox sdk. It also included 128 mb of ram double what the retail xbox contained for help with running software with added debugging features.

== Seventh-generation video game development kits ==

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=== Nintendo 3DS Family ===

Nintendo's developer program allows developers to use Nintendo 3DS development kits, and allows developers to self-publish their games to the Nintendo eShop.<ref name=":3" /> As mentioned in the Nintendo Wii U section above, games and applications published through this program are considered "third-party" and do not belong to Nintendo, allowing independent developers to publish their games on multiple different platforms.

Strangely, some 3DS development kits cannot play [[ROM cartridge|retail games]].<ref name=":0" />

== References ==