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Title: Xbox 360 Display Screen
Post by: 90snostalga on January 26, 2014, 02:23:53 am
So I got my new Star Wars Xbox 360 and I'm loving it so far!  (Thanks to my wife) But I played Shenmue II for it last night which is an original xbox game.  The game plays; however, it will not fill up my entire 55" tv screen.  It takes the left and right sides out on my tv.  I tried playing with the 360 options but I still cannot get the game to fill up the screen.  Any one know what I can do?  Thanks.
Title: Re: Xbox 360 Display Screen
Post by: Veilor on January 26, 2014, 03:26:33 am
So I tested this with just two games(I have a 40'' tv), first one was Indigo Prophecy which supported fullscreen 1080p from start. After that I popped in Star Wars Episode 3, that game did not support it. So I had a look around on the internet, and found that you have to change your display to 480p. So I did, menu looked awful after change, but the game then ran in fullscreen.

Just change your display back when playing an actual Xbox 360 game or doing something else like netflix :)
Title: Re: Xbox 360 Display Screen
Post by: 90snostalga on January 26, 2014, 03:57:10 pm
So I tested this with just two games(I have a 40'' tv), first one was Indigo Prophecy which supported fullscreen 1080p from start. After that I popped in Star Wars Episode 3, that game did not support it. So I had a look around on the internet, and found that you have to change your display to 480p. So I did, menu looked awful after change, but the game then ran in fullscreen.

Just change your display back when playing an actual Xbox 360 game or doing something else like netflix :)

Ah okay, I will have to try that.  I would think they would make it to where the game up converts to 1080 but I guess not.  I am also going to try to plug in regular av cables and see if that fills up the screen.  Have you tried av cables instead of hdmi?
Title: Re: Xbox 360 Display Screen
Post by: Veilor on January 26, 2014, 05:18:01 pm
Microsoft didn't really support the emulation of Xbox much at all. Probably why. But no I haven't tried it with AV cables, go ahead you.
Title: Re: Xbox 360 Display Screen
Post by: 90snostalga on January 26, 2014, 10:06:18 pm
Microsoft didn't really support the emulation of Xbox much at all. Probably why. But no I haven't tried it with AV cables, go ahead you.


I put Halo 2 in their today and it actually plays in 720 HD great quality.  Your trick worked for me for Shemue  :)  Just have to switch it to 480.

Thanks
Title: Re: Xbox 360 Display Screen
Post by: Veilor on January 27, 2014, 03:17:13 am
Awesome :D
Title: Re: Xbox 360 Display Screen
Post by: pceslayer on January 29, 2014, 11:19:18 pm
When changing your 360 to 480p you are allowing your TV's scaler to handle the image. Most TV's by default do a zoom/fit image to screen for 480i/p resolutions that imo look like ass. The reason Shenmue 2 only output in a 4:3 box was because it isn't made for widescreen and the 360 was enforcing the native aspect ratio.