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-xenia
-=====
+Xenia - Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project
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-Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project 
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+Xenia is an experimental emulator for the Xbox 360. It does not run games (yet),
+and if you are unable to understand that please leave now.
+
+Currently supported features:
+
+* Nothing!
+
+Coming soon (maybe):
+
+* Everything!
+
+## Quickstart
+
+    git clone https://github.com/benvanik/xenia.git
+    ./xenia-build.sh setup
+
+Open the Xcode workspace or Visual Studio solution to Build and Run.
+
+## Building
+
+### Requirements
+
+You must have a 64-bit machine for building and running the project. Always
+run your system updater before building and make sure you have the latest
+video drivers for your card.
+
+#### Windows
+
+Ensure you have the latest patched version of Visual Studio 2010, the
+Windows SDK, the full DirectX SDK, and the Kinect SDK.
+
+* Visual Studio 2010 (not sure Express will work)
+  * [Visual Studio 2010 SP1](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718359)
+* [Windows SDK](http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=8279)
+* [DirectX SDK](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/directx/)
+* [Kinect SDK](http://www.kinectforwindows.org/download/)
+* [Doxygen](http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/download.html#latestsrc)
+* [Python 2.6](http://www.python.org/getit/releases/2.6/)
+* [CMake](http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html)
+
+#### OS X
+
+* [Xcode 4](http://developer.apple.com/xcode/)
+
+### Dependencies
+
+TODO