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Look at a GBS control to downscale to 240p. It’s a good and relatively cheap solution for your problem https://www.retrorgb.com/gbs-control-installation-overview.html

All that toxic hate was the reason for me not to hang around here anymore. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one. Nice to see you’re still trying to keep the ship a float!

all tv's can display 240p natively. It's basically 480i, but instead of interchanging even-uneven lines between frames it will always show the even lines(or uneven). This is where the scanlines come from. don't think RGB adds much over component. In theory it should have slighty better color accuracy, but in reality you will not see a significant difference. You can gain more with a better screen then going the RGB route.

You can select aspect ratio in the retrotink, so it’s not the retrotink who is stretching things but rather the xbox itself. Only a handful of games on the xbox where designed as native 16:9. Definitely not an expert on PVM’s, but anything Sony would be my first pick. The sony pvm 20L5 is probably one to go for, but you have to be willing to sell a kidney for it . Not to long ago there was a sony fw900 up for sale on eBay in Czechia, almost considered driving up there to pick it up, however 1800 euros was a bit too crazy. Just think about for which console/resolution you want to use it for. 720p and up usually break the bank and are rare, but 480i and down are far more easier to find. And sometimes you just need to be lucky. The Barconet ADVM20 I bought recently was only 90 euros, old advertising poster which I found suggests it can do all the way up to 1080p! Haven’t got my hands on it yet, a friend picked it up for me and its still at his house. Here are 2 more pictures of my Sony PVM

@Bowlsnapper skip the pound cable completely . These cables are notorious for being either too bright(sega megadrive) or too dark. On top of this they have variable inputlag of 1-2 frames. But anyway 720p looks awesome on a plasma. I love the low polygon look of the xbox games. CTR nitro is one of those that looks awesome on 720p and 16:9. Picture below is upscaled to 1440p. But there is no extra AA applied or anything. I think this game was natively designed as a 16:9 because it didn’t look this great on my pvm when I tested it last week.

congratz @Bowlsnapper nice achievement!

So I joined the club. Sony trinitron 20M7MDE. It outputs 480p and looks gorgeous. These monitors were used in the hospital, previous owner picked 2 of these up for free because they wanted to trow them out . Might get it serviced and definitely will replace the fan for a quieter one. But that’s not all, today a friend will pick up a Barco ADVM20 for me. These babies could go up to 1080i. Sadly only via SDI. Info on this thing is very limited but it is possible to rgb mod these things. Worst case I would use it with my retrotink 5x HDMI to SDI. This is mainly for my sega as SDI apparently doesn’t like 240p-480i

it's likely just a scam site. Like I said, everything has the same price lol.

I found them here for cheap https://shoptr6.goftman.org/content?c=xbox+crystal&id=31 For some reason everything cost 23.91 euro, doesn't matter whether it is towels or very rare consoles There are a few up for sale on ebay. Not sure if you want to dish out the dough

@Bowlsnapper relax, it was just a joke from sweet. He is german and they are famous for their humor are you using the same dash on all consoles? I think some dashes incorrectly report clock speed

These are very nice temperatures. Looks like a nice upgrade

@Bowlsnapper did you miss this message? Bidding just happened via dm’s on this forum.

some versions of the DS3 are a pain to built back. I got a few with a PS3. They were dirty as hell, so took them apart and cleaned them, then the painful step was to put them back together. For some reason cannot get those annoying plastic inserts between the shoulder and triggers to fit.... I also have some that don't have these parts and easier to work on. PS4 or PS5 are much easier to work on

@Dempsey_86 did you do any temperature and noise tests? mine is pretty quiet with an 80mm noctua replacing the original fan an temperatures are quite ok. I would go for this solution if it doesn’t impact noise but improves cooling

Hmm probably won’t win the auction since shipping prices usually are crazy high. Typical ebay auctions charge 100 dollar for shipping from US to Europe for a broken xbox. Anyway will do my best to drive op the price

Ok you got me convinced now I needs to have it @WhiteBeard I guess your shipping from Austria right?

I wonder how this guy did this. Retrotink doesn’t accept hdmi as an input. I have a retrotink 5x (considering getting the 4k after watching Bob’s stream @ retrorgb). anyway I’m not convinced this is because of some AA filtering from XBOX. The XBOX itself doesn’t scale, it’s the XBOXHD that does the work. It outputs 1080p, or at least that is what I suspect. Of course it’s the 144 (or 288 not sure what twitter is using nowadays, and yes I refuse to call that platform it’s ridiculous one letter name). 1080p upscaling to 1440p always gives sharpness issues. It’s 1.333x scaling. 480p to 1440p is just simple 3x scaling. So it has to do extrapolation, so making up data . I saw similar issues when playing with my PS4 on my 1440p monitor, it wasn’t as playing on my 1080p TV. I really started to notice the difference after hooking up my PS5 to the same monitor, the monitor can also downscale 4k to 2k. The sharpness difference was night and day.

You should have made a picture with a newspaper. This can be easily faked Cool to see these things are still around. I would have been interested if I had a blue case

@zono why fix the games when you can simply switch your XBOX to NTSC via Enigmah?

Very nice blogpost and good news for the community!

Yes, you can put this one directly on the IDE port on the motherboard. From there route a SATA cable to the drive. You still need a SATA power cable and I guess the adapter also requires power as wel.

Nice option if you plan to use without DVD drive. You can route the SATA cable more cleanly this way. Might be nice option for my 1.4ghz xbox. Not planning to run games from DVD anyway and it will get Stellar so no need for DVD to set it up.

Don’t know about US prices, but here in NL 2TB SSD’s go for €72 vs €42 for HDD. If you’re getting them to sell I can imagine you don’t want to spend the extra 30 bucks. You probably can’t recover the investment. I got myself a PS3 phat last week, was cheap and had a lot of controllers which was the main reason I bought it. Idea was to see if it works, clean it, upgrade HDD and install CFW to sell of the console. Anyway nowadays ssd’s are cheaper then the 2.5 inch counterparts

You need also 80 wire cable with startech adapters. I had my xbox working with a 40 wire cable + startech on UDMA2. Until after a couple of days the XBOX slowly wouldn’t boot anymore. Swapped the original 40 wire for a 80 wire and presto it worked again. btw those startechs are also not perfect, they support the speeds but quality control isn’t that great. First one I got was DOA. Replacement worked, but I read more people running into these issues with startechs.