Top Spin 4 Launcher

Top Spin 4 Launcher

Play the Xbox 360 version of Top Spin 4 on PC: one download, with the emulator built in.

The launcher is built on Xenia Edge, a fork of the Xenia Xbox 360 emulator. Xenia Edge is bundled inside the launcher, so players don't download anything else. You only need your own copy of Top Spin 4 (Xbox 360 disc image, title ID 54540859); no game files are included.

Screenshots

In a match	Roland Garros tunnel

Test status

Platform	Status
Linux (AppImage)	✅ Tested and confirmed: boot, "Press Start", menus and matches at 720p, 1440p and 4K (CachyOS, NVIDIA RTX 3080 Laptop, KDE Wayland)
Windows (.zip)	🧪 Builds and passes automated smoke tests on GitHub Actions; not yet played
Steam Deck	❔ Untested (AppImage bundles its own glibc and has 800p presets)
Steam Remote Play Together	❔ Untested with two devices

Features

• Xenia Edge built in, pinned to a tested build (1574493).
• Fix for the "Press Start" freeze. Right after Start, two game threads spin-wait on each other and Xenia Edge's cooperative scheduler never runs the thread they need. The launcher enables Edge's starvation workaround (guest_scheduler_spin_quanta=1, guest_scheduler_quantum_us=250). In automated Start-press trials this went from 1 in 4 successful boots to 26 of 26 across 720p, 1440p and 4K.
• No profile prompts. On first run the launcher asks for a gamertag and creates a proper Xbox 360 profile, so Xenia's "No Profiles Found" box and the game's sign-in prompt never appear. Broken profiles (which make the game hang) are quarantined automatically.
• Resolutions: 720p, 1080p (rendered at 2x and scaled down), 1440p, 4K and Steam Deck 800p, plus FXAA and AMD FSR/CAS scaling.
• GPU picker with real names (Vulkan; Direct3D 12 or Vulkan on Windows).
• Portable: settings, profiles, saves and shader cache live in a data/ folder next to the launcher (inside the unzipped folder on Windows).
• Steam integration: "Add to Steam" creates a library entry with artwork, ready for Remote Play Together. Steam Input's duplicate virtual pad is filtered out when the game is started outside Steam.
• Linux AppImage that bundles Python, Tk and glibc, so it doesn't depend on your distro's libraries.

Getting started

1. Linux: put the .AppImage in a folder of its own. Windows: unzip Top-Spin-4-Launcher-Windows-…-x64.zip and open TopSpin4Launcher.exe in the unzipped folder.
2. Start it, enter a gamertag, and on the Game tab pick your Top Spin 4 disc image (.iso) if it isn't found automatically next to the launcher.
3. Choose a resolution that matches your screen and press PLAY.

Command line: --play starts the game directly with the saved settings (used by the Steam shortcut), --dry-run prints the Xenia command line, and --self-test runs a headless check.

Known issues

• Escape opens Xenia's overlay menu. This is hard-coded in Xenia Edge; press Escape again to close it. (The Guide button and right-click menu are turned off by the launcher.)
• After pressing Start, loading occasionally pauses for 10–30 seconds before it continues.
• Online play used Xbox LIVE, which is shut down, and the game has no System Link mode. For 1v1 online, stream local multiplayer instead (Steam Remote Play Together, Parsec, or Sunshine + Moonlight).
• Keep the frame-rate limit at 60: higher values speed up the game.

Building

The release files are built locally and are not stored in this repository.

# Linux AppImage (needs appimagetool + its type-2 runtime, and the Xenia Edge AppImage)
python3 tools/build_appimage.py --appimagetool PATH --runtime PATH --xenia PATH/xenia_edge_linux.appimage

# Windows zip (on Windows; put the Xenia Edge Windows build in xenia\windows\ first)
tools\build_windows.cmd

tools/make_assets.py regenerates the icon, header and Steam artwork in assets/.

Windows smoke test

.github/workflows/smoke-test.yml runs on every push:

• Windows: downloads the pinned Xenia Edge Windows build (SHA-256 verified), builds the release zip with PyInstaller, unzips it into an empty folder like a player would, and checks that:
  • the self-test passes,
  • the bundled Xenia is found,
  • the Direct3D 12 GPU detection runs,
  • the bundled xenia_edge.exe starts.
• Linux: the same self-test, dry-run and Steam shortcut file round-trip.

No build output is uploaded.

Credits and licenses

• Xenia Edge by has207 and contributors, based on Xenia by Ben Vanik and the Xenia team. BSD 3-Clause License, see licenses/XENIA_EDGE_LICENSE.txt.
• Launcher, packaging and artwork by Mabec Games.

Top Spin 4 is a trademark of Take-Two Interactive / 2K Sports. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by 2K, Take-Two, Microsoft or the Xenia project, and it includes no game files.