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The Pound HD cable has a known issue with wavey lines that run over the image and generally muddy up the screen. I mentioned something about this in a post above.

Turns out there is a simple fix to this problem. Basically, all you have to do is take a USB cable and directly power the Pound cable from a USB port on your TV. The problem is caused by the old power supplies inside original Xboxes not giving enough power to run the Pound cable properly, thus distorting the image.

With the cable plugged into its own power, I am now getting a beautifully clean and clear image, so I would suggest anyone who owns the cable to do the same.

This doesn't effect my issue with San Andreas, however, although even that picture is cleaned up substantially. ]]> Best possible picture out of an original Xbox? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=183543 2018-09-11T22:43:11 -05.00 OptOut 31 Originally posted by: Pikkon

Just thought of something else to try.

Clearing the cache on the hdd,give that a try.

 
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Check PMs dude!  
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Clearing the cache on the hdd,give that a try.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3GDj3baylg ]]> Best possible picture out of an original Xbox? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=183543 2018-09-11T22:25:26 -05.00 OptOut 31 Originally posted by: Pikkon

First let's get the game working from the hdd,I'm thinking a bios update should fix the problem.

Probably right there, as GTA SA was quite a late release. This is the first version of the xecutor (I think), and I doubt it was installed much later than 2004/5. I know this is quite lame, but I have no idea how to update the bios... do you want to take this conversation to PM? ]]> Best possible picture out of an original Xbox? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=183543 2018-09-11T22:21:47 -05.00 OptOut 31 Best possible picture out of an original Xbox? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=183543 2018-09-11T22:11:04 -05.00 OptOut 31 Originally posted by: Pikkon

Hex editing is not that hard but you would need to ftp into the xbox to grab the xbe,if anything you could send it to me and I could do it.

As for the game what bios are you running on the xbox.

It's the xecutor mod, with the avalaunch app installed. I will have to wait till I get home to get you more detailed information than that, with like version numbers etc. I was actually given this xbox for free by my uncle and it came that way, with the mod installed, so I don't have much first hand information or experience with it other than just fooling around with it a bit... probably why I'm having so many issues, lol!

What I do know is that I can use the avalaunch app to examine the backup files I rip to my xbox, so maybe I can also edit the hex in there? I'm thinking that the PAL version does have some additional code you need to change to get it to play nice with the mod, because I read online some others were having trouble getting that game running.

If you can help me get this thing running together, that would be amazing! My only other option is buying an NTSC version, which would cost more to send to Taiwan than the game is even worth! ]]> Best possible picture out of an original Xbox? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=183543 2018-09-11T22:02:12 -05.00 OptOut 31
As for the game what bios are you running on the xbox. ]]> Best possible picture out of an original Xbox? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=183543 2018-09-11T21:48:47 -05.00 OptOut 31 Originally posted by: Pikkon

Since the xbox is modded you can copy the game to the hdd and hex edit the xbe to output 480p.
https://www.reddit.com/r/original...

Yeah I ripped my copy of GTA SA to my hdd using the backup function. However, I have two problems with this:

1. I don't know how to edit the hex (I guess I could learn though)

2. For some reason, GTA SA will not boot from my mod screen, even from my real legit disc. The only way I can get the game to play on my modified Xbox is to turn the system on with the game already in the disc drive. If I put the game in the system while the system is on and try to launch on the mod screen, it tries and then can't do it. It will not boot the backup from the hdd whatsoever. This is very strange, and it is the only game that has this problem... Maybe there is some anti-piracy thing going on?

Such a shame too, as this is my favourite game! The only one that doesn't work properly, what are the chances!   ]]> Best possible picture out of an original Xbox? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=183543 2018-09-11T08:11:03 -05.00 OptOut 31 https://www.reddit.com/r/originalxbox/comments/8e1vet/list_of_pal_games_not_supporting_480p/ ]]> Best possible picture out of an original Xbox? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=183543 2018-09-10T23:44:27 -05.00 OptOut 31
Turns out, the modified Xbox I have will play games running in 480p and higher with no significant visual problems. There are a few faint wavy lines in the background, but no banding or distortion like I saw before. Those wavy lines are faint enough to be ignored entirely, unless you get right up close to the screen, and most likely caused by poor grounding due to mods etc. Generally the picture quality is pleasing, I would say at least twice as good as composite, although textures are still a little blurry during motion, depending on the game... I guess we are still talking 480p here, so that is not too surprising.

However, I have also identified why I had an issue with banding etc. before. The game I was using to test this Xbox was my FAVOURITE Xbox game, GTA: San Andreas. Now, I happen to own the PAL version of this game, which I did not realise CANNOT display 480p, even on a modified Xbox. This is unlike the vast majority of PAL games which will play at the full applicable resolution in a modified machine. For whatever reason, perhaps the poor grounding I mentioned before, the resulting 480i or 576i image produced by this Xbox through the Pound HDMI cable is complete garbage.

I CAN get a stable image at 480i and 576i using my non-modified Xbox, but the resulting image quality is very similar to composite, making this whole exercise moot! I find it strange that one Xbox gives a terrible image at 480i, and the other a clean one, but it is either a grounding issue, something to do with the mod, some other issue (caps) OR maybe because my modified Xbox has a Conexant video encoder chip while my non-modified Xbox has a Focus video encoder chip... I will be open to any suggestions on this question, mainly out of curiosity.

Anyway, for now my issues appear to be solved! I am gonna source an NTSC version of GTA: San Andreas so I can play it in good quality in 480p, and any other games I can't play for whatever reason I will do the same! ]]>