360 xbox emulation

Ol!ver · 25 Jan 2006 at 14:57

Just popped PES5 in to the 360 for the first time, and was surprised at the quality of the graphics. Were they this bad on the original machine, have I just got used to HD already?

I wondered if the emulation isn't so clever. Everything just seems fuzzy and jaggy.

I'll try HALO2 later and see what that's like.

Boogle · 25 Jan 2006 at 15:04

Sounds about right.

Afaik the games aren't using emulation per se, especially as emulating an x86 CPU is very, very complex (read: slow). They're being recompiled for the new architecture and presumably fixing any bugs.

640x480 without AA, vs. 1280x780 with 2-4x AA results in quite a jump in image quality

Sagalout · 25 Jan 2006 at 15:43

i thought the 360 applied AA to all compatible xbox games?

NokkonWud · 25 Jan 2006 at 16:36

Ol!ver said:
Just popped PES5 in to the 360 for the first time, and was surprised at the quality of the graphics. Were they this bad on the original machine, have I just got used to HD already?

I wondered if the emulation isn't so clever. Everything just seems fuzzy and jaggy.

I'll try HALO2 later and see what that's like.

I tried Halo2 and was godsmacked at how awful it looked!

Droolinggimp · 25 Jan 2006 at 19:18

I run my 360 on my 32"crt daewoo TV via advanced scart and I find the PQ is very very good. Loads better than the original xbox. Infact I can say I wont be in any rush now to get a HD TV because of the PQ in general on my crt is excellent even playing a DVD movie its better than my DVD player.

Davey_Pitch · 25 Jan 2006 at 19:49

Ol!ver said:
Just popped PES5 in to the 360 for the first time, and was surprised at the quality of the graphics. Were they this bad on the original machine, have I just got used to HD already?

I wondered if the emulation isn't so clever. Everything just seems fuzzy and jaggy.

I'll try HALO2 later and see what that's like.

I think you've gotten used to HD already, as I've played PES5 on both Xbox and the 360 and there's no obvious difference in quality between the 2 versions (baring in mind I'm using a bog standard TV, not a HD one).

BEN_UK · 25 Jan 2006 at 19:53

I was playing Halo 2 earlier on my 360 and it looked better than it did running on the first Xbox.

However i am having problems getting Forza MotorSport running right, its really laggy and the picture has lines running though it.

dirtydog · 26 Jan 2006 at 03:19

Boogle said:
Sounds about right.

Afaik the games aren't using emulation per se, especially as emulating an x86 CPU is very, very complex (read: slow). They're being recompiled for the new architecture and presumably fixing any bugs.

640x480 without AA, vs. 1280x780 with 2-4x AA results in quite a jump in image quality

Hmm when I said recently that MS were wrong to change from x86 because it makes emulation hard, I was told I was wrong and that it was mainly due to the graphics being ATI instead of nvidia.

Also FWIW I believe a number of xbox1 games do use AA.

NokkonWud · 26 Jan 2006 at 03:29

dirtydog said:
Hmm when I said recently that MS were wrong to change from x86 because it makes emulation hard, I was told I was wrong and that it was mainly due to the graphics being ATI instead of nvidia.

Also FWIW I believe a number of xbox1 games do use AA.

Hah, I remember that. Well done for sticking to your guns

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