PS3 / Xbox 360 Appreciation and Collecting Thread - Are They Retro Yet?

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Oof, I just had a big scare with my 360. My console is configured to automatically boot discs, so I powered it on by pressing the disc tray button, inserted Dead rising, and closed the tray. The TV screen stayed black, but I could still get to the small xbox button menu. I rebooted with the power button, it worked and went to the title screen, which froze. Believing something wasn’t right with the disc, I ejected it and rebooted the console without the disc, while I was cleaning it (it was super dirty, greasy).

The console powered on fine, but there was visual glitches on the dashboard and as soon as I inserted the disc again, the console froze. I thought the disc was dead so I took it away, and tried another disc. Same behaviour, glitches and freeze when I start using the drive. After another reboot, this time the power button became red instead of green, with an error code on the TV. I forgot to write it down but rebooted again, this time there was no error code, but the screen stayed black and the power button was still red.

I thought my console was dead at that point. I remembered the red ring of death of original Xboxes (even though I have a Slim) and I touched the ventilation area, to find it was piping hot! the fan never sped up the entire time, was still running at low speed. I took the console out of the shelf and let it cool down for a bit. After that, I was able to start it again and it behaved fine. I tried a game, the fan spun up properly. Then I tried Dead Rising again, cleaned, which booted fine, fans up and everything.

I don’t know what happened, but maybe the combo of booting the console + starting a game + connecting the account to live + trying to read a dirty disc messed up the boot sequence, which stopped the fan control, which led to the cascade of glitches and freezes and error messages / lights? I don’t have an explanation. Maybe the console is on its last leg may break again at any time? I just played Dead Rising for about 20 minutes without a problem though.

The lack of fan spinning loudly is something I didn’t notice at first, because I didn’t use the console for about a week and everything else is quiet in my gaming setup, I’m still not used to a console being noisy while gaming. But hearing the fan spun up correctly at the end mad me notice the previous silence.

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I wanted to see those subtitles people were talking about. During the intro I was like “Yeah ok, it’s ‘modern game small’, but not that small, maybe people just weren’t used to it back then.”

Then I saw the gameplay dialogue sequences. Ok yeah, that IS small, I had to get closer to the TV to be able to read it. It’s legible when closer to it, but it’s too damn small at normal playing distance haha. I don’t know what they were thinking.

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Team ninja were had some kind of magic with what they were able to get out of the original Xbox

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My first HD trailer was Dead or Aluve 4. My computer slowed down trying to play it :joy:

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Ninja Gaiden Black is still splendid on Xbox One at 960p/1920p.

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Anyone else attempted any 7th gen console emulation yet? Recently downloaded RPCS3 and I’ve been using it in order to play the unfortunately delisted Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. I’m really amazed at the performance on some of these games I remember 7th gen emulation feeling like such a pipe dream. I’ve also tried Katamari Forever which works great! Lastly I tried Soul Calibur 4 which was another title I wanted to emulate so I could play delisted content as I never had both Vader and Yoda at the same time when it came out, but unfortunately it’s running too slow for me currently

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I’ve been keeping my eye on the development, but haven’t done much with it yet. I ran into some problems with the ird files when trying to dump my discs via PC. I’ll probably just pick up a cheap spare PS3 and do it via CFW at some point down the road.

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How is the 360 over VGA? Do all games support a 4:3 mode or are some 16:9 only?

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They should support it as the games I tried were in 4:3 and it went perfectly well.

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Many games are letterboxed, unfortunately. (Virtua Fighter 2, for example.)

The games still look great on a 4:3 CRT in 640x480 though, despite not all of them using the entire screen.

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Xbox 360 might be the console that supports more resolutions ever. Mine can even output to 1360x768 in VGA but via HDMI cable.

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Thanks! I could not remember if this was the case when I had my old CRT but I thought so.

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I remember that trailer. I downloaded the trailer of gamespot and it was insane. Seems like nothing these days but it was my first view into what true HD was

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Its great if you havs a vga screen for sure. Before I had an HDTV to play the 360 on I used a vga cable on a 4:3 monitor for a long time before finally being allowed to play on our DLP. It worked excellently for me. It’s useful especially if tou have a VGA monitor and wanna play simpler looking xbla titles.

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I actually still have my first HDTV I bought to play my xbox on. I bought it at a pawn shop for $100

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I thought the TV maker Emerson died way before the HD era.

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Yep, that’s the one. I probably downloaded it from Gamespot in the day. It wasn’t really that mind blowing for me but I did appreciate the difference and felt like it was a major improvement.

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I wanna say that its probably the first HD video with a large bit rate that I saw in my househould.

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I just picked up the Metal Gear Solid 4 limited edition console. Does anyone know if it came with a special controller.

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The gunmetal gray ps3 came with a gunmetal gray dualshock 3 if that’s what you mean.