xenia-project/xenia

Give an error for XNA/.NET games instead of just crashing

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#1496 opened on Oct 28, 2019

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Description

Continuation of #529.

Quote from @benvanik:

Could still be nice to detect them and throw up an error message that they are not supported.

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Tech stack
cpp
Domain
backend
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-2 days
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
mostly clear
Prerequisites
C++familiarity with XNA/.NETxenia codebase basics
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
40
Research direction
Review issue #529 for additional context on XNA/.NET detection. The implementation should be in the game loading code (likely in src/xenia/kernel). Identify common XNA/.NET signatures (like the .NET runtime header) and when detected, output a clear error message indicating XNA games are not supported, instead of crashing. Check existing code for similar detection patterns.