edomatic wrote:I am wondering something, are any of you guys actually use a corio c2-400 to play xbox360 720p/1080p games on a 4:3 crt tv?
Won't all games play when the Xbox 360 is set to 480p mode? Why would you set the Xbox 360 to 720p or 1080p when 480p is a direct integer scale of 240p (I would rather have the Xbox 360 itself scale that first part to 480p at least)?
To answer your question though, I've done both 1080p from an Xbox one (which being a widescreen format will always have black bars on the top and bottom, i.e. letterboxed -- this is on a 4:3 Sony BVM CRT which I just happen to have a 16:9 mask for FYI):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNVu9d4rcy4
And I've also successfully used the geometry controls to make a widescreen-only 720p game from Xbox 360, downscale to 240p, then use the geometry controls to make it fit into a 4:3 image on a 4:3 CRT (but this game was originally a 4:3 240p game, but to make it for the 360 they kinda just added the graphics on the side to make it 720p for modern screens, then I'm bringing it back home to 240p by stretching the image through the Corio2... still not ideal though):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JZkZgGud2s
Both were successful to 240p with a Corio2. Oh, BTW, if your screen gets darker like at 38 seconds on the 2nd video, that's a setting on your PVM that needs to be tweaked actually (found that out later).
But yeah, like Orange808 was getting at, this is kinda a pointless exercise. Myself personally I stick to downscaling 480p 4:3 games for the most part (many of which were original 240p games to begin with, which just happen to be 'converted' to 480p on consoles, so I like turning them back to 240p especially when the only other SD CRT use scenario would mean using horrible 480i as the nasty-other-option). Anything higher, like games natively and originally made for 720p or 1080p flatscreens I find way more enjoyable on my modern flatscreen.
