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Hey all
Just wondered if anyone else is having this problem, as I have found very little on the intertubes and not a great deal on here...if I may, I will post a series of isues I am having playing (or trying to play) Halo: Combat Evolved on my current gaming setup, in the hope that someone else may know a workaround or fix.
So, I have Halo on the original 2001 game disc, and off of Xbox Originals. But I am frustrated because unfortunatley, neither are very playable on my 360, and through an old Xbox, the graphics quality is terrible on my LCD TV.
Firstly, I can't play the game using my VGA connection to my Samsung LCD TV - I am in the UK and running a PAL box - but I know why that is, and there's little that can be done about that. So I have to switch to the standard hi-def component cables instead. I thought, no worries, I can live with that.
But, when I tried that, there were further complications. It seems that as I walk along in game, my motion seems to "jerk" every second or so. It's subtle, but not so subtle that you can't help but notice it and find it impossible to play. It got to the point where I had to go out and buy an old Xbox just to play on that.
So, I buy an old Xbox, and pop the old disc in, only to discover that playing old Xbox games through a composite cable or SCART into my HDTV looks freakin' AWFUL! Jaggies, jaggies, everywhere, because it is upscaling a 480p signal. So I thought "why not get the hi-def AV pack for the old Xbox". Which would have been great, except that it turns out there is no way to actually output a hi-def signal on a PAL Xbox (NTSC Xboxes can output higher resolutions, up to 720p or more). I *could* theoretically soft or hard mod the old Xbox, but you know, I don't want to do that. That's not an option. So I stuck with the component cables which, although the box isn't outputting anything more than standard definition 480p, looks a tiny bit better. But when I say better, I still mean "like a mid-1990's game with no antialiasing". Still more jaggies than you can shake a stick at though :(
So I have the choice of the original Xbox which gives a terrible image because I can't change the resolution to 720p, or the 360 which makes everything look nice and smooth but jerks around (interestingly, the old Xbox does the same thing if you put it to 60hz instead of 50).
I can't imagine that anyone in the UK with anything other than an old CRT TV hasn't had the same issues, but no one seems to have said anything that I can find (apologies if I have missed any threads, I did do a search). So all you PAL users out there, have you found any way to get around this? I just want to play Halo on my 360 through my BIG TELLY, without having immersion-breaking graphics problems :)
Cheers for any advice.