Even Futurama!?

You're welcome, it was! 😊

Around $3.5k cash plus $1.5k in trade. I imagine it might be closer to $6k today as finding $.99 Xbox games is tougher than it used to be.

implantgames Probably closer to 10k$ (USD) today.

I own the whole set too. I finished it few years ago it wasnt that pricey

Brilliant thought! I disabled 480p and gave Sonic Heroes, Eragon, Codename: Kids Next Door a try. Sadly none booted in 720p mode (only 480i) despite their packaging. I then gave Syberia a try, disabling everything but 1080i. Sure enough it booted up in 1080i! Sadly it suffers from Enter The Matrix syndrome, where it's upscaled 480p. Even worse it stretches the 4:3 art to 16:9 making it even more unappealing. Still, unexpected! Lastly, I fired up NCAA Football 2K3 with the 480p and 1080i flags disabled, only 720p enabled. Sadly it stayed stuck on the black screen. It makes me curious what (if any) other prioritization bugs their might be. Again, great thought!

Freedom Fighters seems like it could be a cool little title, sadly I've never spent much time with it.

Yeah Freedom Fighters was a blast, had it on Gamecube.

Thanks man :) Testing every single game was a monotonous time suck to say the least haha ;)

Thank you Sir!

I was really taken back by NBA Live '07, what a beautiful game! NBA Ballers and Mortal Kombat Armageddon also look next-gen with their super smooth frame rates and sharp textures.

More food for thought: as the Atari Anthology stuff doesn't really contain additional detail (outside of those cool borders) your probably better off leaving it at 720p as well to reduce input lag (most TVs can scale from 720p to 1080p or 4k with less than a frame of lag, verses de-interlacing 1080i which takes at least 1 frame of lag).

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Haha, it is kind of a waste for the Atari Anthology to be 1080i ;) At least the menu screens look nice!

lol if you think that was strange the PS2 supported a few games in 1080i and one of them was "Jackass: the game". I couldnt make that up even if i tried XD

I disagree. Vector arcade games really benefit from the HD output.

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Halo at E3 2001 was in rough shape with a bad framerate. No way it could have gone higher than 480p at launch.

You're welcome!

The original Xbox was quite the machine!

the OG xbox was the best xbox imo.

Especially Crash Nitro Kart

*WHAT A LOVELY DAY!*

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Victor Vallim Oh, really? That's cool, I look into it. Thank you! :D

Sonic Heroes does not run in 720p on any Xbox. It's not a hardware variant issue, the packaging has an error.

Is it possible 720p was dropped close to release and not removed from the packaging?

Absolutely. A 720p beta would be pretty rad!

lactobacillusprime I think you guys only got 576i.

Carl's right, same on Gamecube as well. BUT for standard Def TV's BOTH output at full Pal 60 and didn't switch to NTSC 60 like Dreamcast and the handfull of PS2 games with a 60hz mode did, which is the best standard def output you can get if you can force RGB (sadly not possible with Gamecube, but works with X-Box.) Looks WAY better than NTSC outputting RGB at 480i.

I'm honestly not sure how many exclusives there are in other territories. As for my collection I drew the line at North American black labels, though I did snatch up the Burger King games and a few other non-black label titles. Honestly the amount of variants and collectors editions is pretty nuts!

CRTs are better.

Will do! From what I can tell on FaceBook groups there is a pretty healthy Xbox collecting scene, with many working on their full sets. A few Xbox collections put mine to shame haha :) I would agree its a great system to collect for. I completed my set over a 1 year period from June of 2016 to June 2017 and I found hundreds of games for $.99 or less. I do believe things are starting to get a little more pricey at this point (I paid $70 for OutRun 2006: Coast to Coast, it's much more now) as the folks with the most childhood nostalgia for the Xbox (and PS2/GCN) are starting to hit the workforce and have disposable income.

implantgames oh really what could be better than your full set? I'm tempted to just got for it my self. I have all the rares. I've been collecting of xbox basically since it died out in 05 I'm around 400 games. All mint CIB. I'm an anal collector haha. But when I was young I thought all the exclusives were awesome so set out on a journey to figure out each one. The only rare xbox game I'm missing is futurama. I got my out run coast to coast for 74 $ so not too bad. My best find by far was steel battalion new for 250$ christmas of 2016. Its the holy trail in my collection. I really think the xbox is a special console that deserves more love. That's why I focus on it so hard on my channel.

Sadly I do not :(

None of them render at 960x720 and then stretch to fit 1280.

OwtDaftUK I have a 1.0 Xbox and it seems sharp too me!

Must be your setup. Ps2 is known to have terrible video quality.

@@robarmstrong5404 That's simply not true. PS2 has great video out. The belief PS2 has bad video out I blame on KZfaq were people upload poorly deinterlaced video.

@@OwtDaftUK I have a modded ps2 with over 200 games. I've used 480p and 1080i for gt4 it's still more blurry than my modded xbox at the exact 480p. 720p can be patched on almost all xbox games too, and that's native 720p. It's a massive difference.

@@robarmstrong5404 My PS2 is perfectly shape so the issue must be with your setup.

I was more impressed EA, not known for innovation, seemed to support HD the most.

lol it was the 6th generation, anything was possible and it happened thats why itll always be my favorite gen.

Because increasing the resolution is pretty demanding on its own. Most devs wanted to use the hardware to make their games pretty, especially Microsoft. HD was sort of an afterthought at the time. Not many cared about HD gaming until the 7th generation came along.

Official cables, psyclone, or monster cables are all fine choices. I would stay away from anything modern, as most of it seems to be rebranded cheap stuff coming out of China, and the quality is subpar.

There's a bunch of patches that force 480i games to run in 480p and 720p. 480p generally doesn't matter but 720 can really hurt framerate. If you mod your Xbox to have more ram there's actually a lot of games which are playable at 720p proving it wasn't a power issue just a ram issue. Also, the only reason most games ran at 480i was because they were ps2 ports and developers figured it was a waste of effort since nearly everyone in that era was gaming on a CRT.

With PS2 it was mostly because the majority of the games didn't have a 60hz mode for PAL, and you'll notice all the 480p games do (I owned 200+ PS2 exclusives on PAL, all my multi-plats that gen were on X-Box or Gamecube for the better graphics, 60hz and widescreen modes, and only about 30 or 40 of those 200+ have 60hz modes, and very few multi-plats do, dumped lots of them while they were still worth money and upgraded them to the PS3 remasters, Ratchet and Clanks, Jak & Dexters. DMC and Ico/Colossus etc but still got over 150 left.) And with the Gamecube it was something they did with the video signal on purpose to stop imports (a PAL GC can NOT output RGB, you could force the PAL N64 but the same tricks, using a forced RGB input on your TV, or a scart selector box with something else RGB powered on in an unselected scart slot, only outputs a black screen with sound on the GC, and they used the same TV leads.) So I think it was connected to that, but with a modded Wii you can use a Gamecube launcher to run them all in 480p off the actual physical discs. With X-Box I have no idea, because a modded one can force 480p and higher, so the higher texture files for 720p and 1080i are still on the discs, and its all in 60hz to begin with.

Both 480p only, same with THSP2X and THPS3.

I have a full US set, I spent 3 weeks testing them all haha ;)

@@implantgames just got my cables today. Had to change the color setting on my TV to RGB and it has made a difference for sure. Not a groundbreaking difference but enough to notice. At least it isn't blurry anymore! Thanks for the list. Very helpful. None of the Tiger Woods games boxes say they are 480 but they all are

I've been told about the forced progressive scan trick but I have never able to get it to work. Which games did you find success with?

Oh, I had it work with several games that aren't listed as having native 480p support on either the box or on any list. Star Wars Republic Commando, Indiana Jones and Emperor's Tomb, Crimson Sea, Lord of the Rings The Third Age, Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat, Medal of Honor Frontline, XIII, etc.. You have to do the input at the Xbox dashboard, not while in the middle of any game. You should seen the screen do the blinking to black a few times as you seen in 6th gen games activating progressive scan. Since Ultimate Spiderman and XGRA are the two games that I've tried that don't work with this trick, I'm wondering if it has to with the encoding of the first prerendered video that plays. It may just be hardcoded to run in 480i and, once it does, progressive scan can't be achieved again during gameplay without some type of hacking.

I'm starting to think this trick is a myth. All of those games run in progressive scan without doing the trick.

I did some retesting to see if that was the case, and I'm getting some results I didn't anticipate. Star Wars Republic Commando was dropping progressive scan right after the very first splash logo card. I knew this couldn't be right, because I distinctly remember this was the first game I tested this trick on, and it stayed 480p everywhere in game. Upon trying a few variables, it seems that by setting the Xbox screen mode to widescreen may have caused it to fail to keep 480p, since setting it back to fullscreen, and loading the game again with the trick enabled did indeed maintain 480p all the way through, just as I did 2 years ago when I learned about this. It's possible that this may also affect Ultimate Spiderman and XGRA. I've kept the Xbox set to widescreen all the time since quite a few games use it, and just change the TV mode depending on if the game does or doesn't have a widescreen option. If it is that the aspect ratio setting may have some effect on how some games boot into 480p, then I'm going to have to try some more tests. I no longer have those games, since I traded them off when I found I couldn't get 480p out of them, so maybe I should try getting them again to test. Or maybe you could test the trick with the system set to fullscreen when trying those games since you have all the games :P Though, with the trick turned off, and the settings put to fullscreen, the game did boot in 480p when loaded. I truly don't remember that being the case two years ago. It was not the first Xbox game I had when I first got my system and games for it, and after I got my component cables, I remember every game was 480p compatible. Republic Commando was the first one I got that didn't go 480p when used normally, without the trick. I must have had the system set to widescreen, and had used the trick with it set to fullscreen, which seems to have tricked me into thinking the trick worked. Even so, the ratio setting may be throwing off other games. When you tried Medal of Honor Frontline, did your game keep switching back to 480i during the loading screens? Mine did.

Disabling widescreen definitely allows Star Wars Republic Commando to run in progressive instead of interlaced (updated the corrections and clarifications), however this doesn't require the trigger/thumbstick trick to work. It's odd to me this game will run in 480p with the widescreen flag disabled, but 480i with widescreen enabled. Curiously there are a couple of Dreamcast games that exhibit this same behavior, only allowing widescreen in interlaced mode (such as Tokyo Xtreme Racer 2). Do you have a modded Xbox? Perhaps there is something with a modchip or alternate dashboard where this button combo is coming from.

I have both official Xbox cables (the breakaway box and the traditional cable) as well as a Tomee cable. The Tomee cable performed fine, though the thinness of the cable makes me think it will fail sooner than later.

Shoot, I meant to ask if these captures were made using the tomee cables. I've got a set of OldSkool cables that are of a similar build...and they're simply dreadful.

I already did: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BrPZIRCCWjUYPvv1W1a4l3KFcg85GvmOHc2V9pD4AUA/edit?usp=sharing

Here is my most recent checklist: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BrPZIRCCWjUYPvv1W1a4l3KFcg85GvmOHc2V9pD4AUA/edit?usp=sharing

I don't believe I have ever run into the OG Xbox Monster cables in the wild.

Making you own is not a bad way to go. I turned a 360 component cable into an Xbox cable with a little bit of work. It also supports S/PDIF.

Better off getting Psyclone component cables instead, similar quality if not better than Monster. But building your own is a good idea though.

Haha ;) It looks about the same up close as it does far away, just a ton of game sitting on a shelf.