Play PS2 Games In HD - Without A PS3
As anyone who’s experienced next-gen PS2 gameplay at its worst on a PS3 can attest, the idea of playing your PS2 games in a higher-definition, improved environment remains a pipe dream for most of us.
With brilliantly painful irony, however, a $39.99 accessory called the Xploder HDTV Player pushes the PS2 into semi-next-gen territory with nothing more complicated than a software disc to load, a few settings to select, a component cable, and of course a PS2.
PS3 not required.
The product’s been out for a while, but with the recent developments in how PS2 games play…or don’t play well with the PS3, it must be suddenly quite the popular little item. Whereas the PS3’s PS2-playing ability comes from the PS2 hardware stuffed inside its big black box, Xploder HDTV Player for PS2 improves the PS2 experience with software – apparently to greater effect. Click on the picture to see Burnout running on a regular PS2 (on the right) compared to the upscaled 576p resolution that’s Xploding on the left. Because the PS2 runs at odd resolutions, the numbers are weird – but still higher.
PS2 Games in HD—Through Software [Game|Life]
Xploder HDTV Player [Xploder.net]
tiny dancer
Posted to Video Games on 11 January 2007
· Comments (4)
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This product is a sham it shrinks the image and on my tv hardly ever worked. Perhaps on European televisions which can output to 576p and not 480p this would mark an improvement but i was very dissapointed in this products performance. Try before you buy.
Good to know…the non-standard resolution thingy seems to be a sticking point for a lot of graphical issues in PS2 and PS3 land. Anybody know what resolutions standard Japanese TVs run in? 480, 576, pi, a zillion?
sdtv’s in japan run on the same res as north american ones.
I picked this up yesterday, and it made my games much better looking. Mainly they’re brighter, easier to see, and clearer. I really don’t know much about different HDTV settings, but I have it on 480i I think? 480 something. It looked amazing when I had it on 1080i, but it shrunk it a lot.