Original Xbox games' resolution on 360

All original Xbox games played on the 360 would play in 720, regardless of whether the game originally supported it or not.

All original Xbox games played on the 360 would play in 720, regardless of whether the game originally supported it or not.

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Would the original Xbox game look better in composite since it was designed to play in composite?

Original Xbox games run in 720P HD resolution when running on the 360. If you connected up a 360 to a modern HDTV with a composite cable the image quality will be really bad and will have no impact on any screen tearing anyway.

Well,

1. The output scaling in the Xbox 360 is done on-the-fly, and as far as I know it does not cause any substantial lag.

2. Most games render natively for an output buffer with a resolution of 1280x720. There are variations however, with many games having been rendered at various custom resolutions for memory and performance reasons. They may not map directly to a standardized
output resolution. Examples of odd resolutions include early games such as Ridge Racer 6 (1440x810) and Project Gotham Racing 3 (1024x600), later games such as Halo 3 (1152x640), and some Xbox Live Arcade conversions of classic games such as Sonic Adventure
and Crazy Taxi (both at 888x666).

In some cases the rendering resolution is scaled in software to 1280x720 for overlay of HUD and frontend graphics, in some cases the original resolution is kept as-is. The result is then scaled to whatever the output is set to. Lighting, shading, and textures
are unaffected.

Games can however handle multiple output resolutions seperately and render in a resolution which matches the output. This was used in early games for rendering standard definition output at 640x480 or 853x480. The Xbox 360 Guide is also rendered at 853x480
regardless of output resolution.

3. There has only been a handful of retail titles for the Xbox 360 that render natively to 1920x1080. Some Xbox Live Arcade games do, especially conversions of classic 2D games where the original low resolution such as 320x224 is mapped into a 1920x1080
buffer to retain edge sharpness.

Some conversions of classic 3D games do run in 1920x1080 though, such as Daytona USA, OutRun Online Arcade (also supports 640x480 and 1024x768 natively), Banjo-Kazooie, and Banjo-Tooie. A few original Xbox Live Arcade games also render to 1920x1080, such
as Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 (but not Episode 2).

It was a low end television when it was new. All flatscreens are progressive by nature

Make sure you have 720p set in the dashboard because the scaler is probably terrible

720p is above the resolution of virtually all original Xbox games and many 360, and is considered HD