XBox 480P ouput on PAL games.

[talizker]

I've been involved in a thread over at AVForums.com about playing PAL games on Live at 480P.

http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=139482

Basically, with my new XBox (Halo/MM3 pack bought at Christmas), official Hi-Def pack bought at Christmas and Xecuter2.2 Lite I can set the XBox to be NTSC then turn the Mod Chip off. I can then select 480P/720P/1080i in the dashboard and enjoy all PAL games running at 480P on my projector and play on Live just fine.

When I had my original launch day XBox with a Matrix chip I did the same thing but most titles from Midtown Madness 3 / Enter The Matrix onwards would not load with the XBox set to NTSC.

There is a guy on AVForums saying pretty much the same thing - you have to patch a PAL games then play a copy / HDD version with the Mod Chip on to get 480P.

So, I know this is not the case for me, does anyone know why this is?

Thanks for your time

[hankwangford]

That guy is talking ****e. I've managed to play every Xbox game I've owned (20 titles) bar Hitman 2 (which has no prog support anyway) in 480p with just NTSC mode and no chip switched on, from the original disc, and with Live.

[mid]

Apparently its EA titles that are the worst for compatibility; my mate with the chipped XBox had left it in NTSC video mode ever since he got it, and was then wondering why Return Of The King wouldn't run.

[Hitcher]

When you say you've set the Xbox to NTSC do you mean the region or just video mode?

If it's the region then this could be the cause.

I leave my PAL Xbox's region in PAL but change the video mode to NTSC using the Enigmah Videomode Switch Disc app.

There are some PAL/NTSC games that need to be backed up and have the default.xbe patched before they'll output prog scan. Check out this thread - http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=210156 - for details.

[talizker]

Hitcher - Yep, I just use the Enigmah app also. Thanks - the xbox-scene link kind of clears things up

[talizker]

Thanks Hitcher...