Bear in mind that X360 backwards compatibility does differ from NTSC to PAL consoles.
On PAL consoles there is a snag when wanting to use a VGA cable to have something close to HD gaming. Most compatible PAL xbox games I tried won't work with the VGA cable as their refresh rate isn't compatible with the one used by the PAL X360 and the VGA cable. I am sure Microsoft could fix this without too much work by making the games run a little faster (60Hz instead of 50Hz) as on the web there are tons of reports of people with hacked regular xbox'es that are able to run PAL and NTSC games on the same machine in either framerate regardless of origin. On the x360 all is done in software so if hackers are able to do it on the old machine why can't Microsoft fix this woe for PAL users?
Like it is now, PAL country is left in the Dark when it comes to backwards compatibility. As a whole lot of top titles seem to be PAL-50 only and refuse to function on VGA cables.
Here's a snippet from the original Microsoft website
The VGA standard cable does not support PAL-50. Therefore, if you use a VGA cable, you must configure the Xbox 360 console to use PAL-60.
However, some original Xbox games support only PAL-50 and not PAL-60. Therefore, you will not be able to play original Xbox games that support only PAL-50 if you use a VGA cable.
For more information about how to change your PAL settings, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 917304 Xbox 360: Your Xbox 360 console is set to PAL 50 Hz and you cannot play an Xbox 360 game on your console
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Mark Vergeer - Editor / Pixelator
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
Xboxlive gametag
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Bear in mind that X360 backwards compatibility does differ from NTSC to PAL consoles.
On PAL consoles there is a snag when wanting to use a VGA cable to have something close to HD gaming. Most compatible PAL xbox games I tried won't work with the VGA cable as their refresh rate isn't compatible with the one used by the PAL X360 and the VGA cable. I am sure Microsoft could fix this without too much work by making the games run a little faster (60Hz instead of 50Hz) as on the web there are tons of reports of people with hacked regular xbox'es that are able to run PAL and NTSC games on the same machine in either framerate regardless of origin. On the x360 all is done in software so if hackers are able to do it on the old machine why can't Microsoft fix this woe for PAL users?
Like it is now, PAL country is left in the Dark when it comes to backwards compatibility. As a whole lot of top titles seem to be PAL-50 only and refuse to function on VGA cables.
Here's a snippet from the original Microsoft website
The VGA standard cable does not support PAL-50. Therefore, if you use a VGA cable, you must configure the Xbox 360 console to use PAL-60.
However, some original Xbox games support only PAL-50 and not PAL-60. Therefore, you will not be able to play original Xbox games that support only PAL-50 if you use a VGA cable.
For more information about how to change your PAL settings, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
917304 Xbox 360: Your Xbox 360 console is set to PAL 50 Hz and you cannot play an Xbox 360 game on your console
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Mark Vergeer - Editor / Pixelator
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
Xboxlive gametag
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Armchair Arcade Editor