CRT Thread

[TamagatchiTamaHiro24]

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Did we just meet CRT god?

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Anyway, here's my modest little setup. It's not much, but it's honest. Sorry for the clutter, btw. I was testing a bunch of stuff on my SummerCart right before this.

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Monitor is a Sony KV-27FS120. Got it off an ol' mate for free a little while ago. Legend, that guy. He demo'd it to me by hooking a 3DO up to the thing.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

I have a ViewSonic g70fmb 15” PC CRT monitor that i use for original hardware. Got it for cheap locally.

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Goddamn its that an arcade board?

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My mother trashed one of our crts

Stop it you! Haha

 

[Macky]

Goddamn its that an arcade board?

If youre talking about the orange thing nah lol. Its a gbs-c scan converter to output to VGA from SCART, VGA, and component. Sorry, if that is disappointing.

I could try to build a mini-pc for emulation and hook it up to my CRT via the GBS-C or just use the ps2 and emulate from that.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

If youre talking about the orange thing nah lol. Its a gbs-c scan converter to output to VGA from SCART, VGA, and component. Sorry, if that is disappointing.

I could try to build a mini-pc for emulation and hook it up to my CRT via the GBS-C

Could you share some resources on how to get a vga signal to output on a pal crt in rgb?
I have a lot of tvs but Im a n00b to this stuff, I just play on consoles or a rasberri bi 3b+ with pi2scart

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Did we just meet CRT god?

Stop it you haha

You have a fine one yourself!

 

[Macky]

Could you share some resources on how to get a vga signal to output on a pal crt in rgb?
I have a lot of tvs but Im a n00b to this stuff, I just play on consoles or a rasberri bi 3b+ with pi2scart

Not familiar with PAL dominant inputs (SCART/RGB isn't common in the US). I will try my best.

If you want to take input from VGA to as input to output to SCART for a PAL CRT. You could try this Sync Converter.

Resources for VGA/SCART Sync Converter:

VGA2SCART Sync Converter - Retro Upgrades

The VGA2SCART is used to convert RGBHV (VGA) to RGBs (SCART), so that you can use games consoles and other devices that output VGA to a monitor, TV or scaler that only accepts SCART connections. Features: Converts 15/31khz RGBHV (VGA) to 15/31khz RGBs (SCART). Designed primarily for use with...

www.retroupgrades.co.uk

I might be overthinking this, but If its just VGA -> SCART, then you wouldn't need anything else as it converts the VGA signal 31khz to 15khz for SCART.

If the input is SCART/RGB, then you could use a Scan Converter/Upscaler for it to output to VGA then use the Sync Converter.

Console (inputs SCART) -> OSSC/Upscaler (output VGA) -> Sync Converter (VGA to SCART) -> PAL CRT

feel free to DM me.

 

[Jeanfranc]

Not familiar with PAL dominant inputs (SCART/RGB isn't common in the US). I will try my best.

If you want to take input from VGA to as input to output to SCART for a PAL CRT. You could try this Sync Converter.

Resources for VGA/SCART Sync Converter:

VGA2SCART Sync Converter - Retro Upgrades

The VGA2SCART is used to convert RGBHV (VGA) to RGBs (SCART), so that you can use games consoles and other devices that output VGA to a monitor, TV or scaler that only accepts SCART connections. Features: Converts 15/31khz RGBHV (VGA) to 15/31khz RGBs (SCART). Designed primarily for use with...

www.retroupgrades.co.uk

Actually that's what I use with my Retroarch setup, great stuff

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I have a ViewSonic g70fmb 15” PC CRT monitor that i use for original hardware. Got it for cheap locally.

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is that a soundbar on the left? Is it shielded?

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I could try to build a mini-pc for emulation and hook it up to my CRT via the GBS-C

Honestly, if you have a crt and just hook it to the original consoles and not your pc you are kind of missing out. Besides, unless you own multiple 1000+€ PCBs, there's no other way to play arcade games on those.
I'd kill for a Deathsmiles PCB.

 

[Macky]

is that a soundbar on the left? Is it shielded?

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Honestly, if you have a crt and just hook it to the original consoles and not your pc you are kind of missing out.

Soundbar is a cheap one generic brand from bestbuy, i highly doubt it. I was getting some interference when placed on top of the CRT so i just moved it away. Its the only speaker i have right now.

I just got this set up, so thanks for bringing awareness to sheilded speakers ill definitely invest into some better speakers.

EDIT: for anyone interested, JBL seems like a trusty brand for shielded speakers according to this reddit post

https://www.reddit.com/r/crtgaming/s/V0N9g2XBgg

 

[Jeanfranc]

Soundbar is a cheap one generic brand from bestbuy, i highly doubt it. I was getting some interference when placed on top of the CRT so i just moved it away. Its the only speaker i have right now.

I just got this set up, so thanks for bringing awareness to sheilded speakers ill definitely invest into some better speakers.

EDIT: for anyone interested, JBL seems like a trusty brand for shielded speakers according to this reddit post

https://www.reddit.com/r/crtgaming/s/V0N9g2XBgg

I have a Hi-Fi setup but for my crt I just use quality headphones connected to my pc. It's better than using a pair of shielded speakers, as those tend to be older and of lower quality than a modern set of headphones.

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EDIT: for anyone interested, JBL seems like a trusty brand for shielded speakers according to this reddit post

https://www.reddit.com/r/crtgaming/s/V0N9g2XBgg

Very nice, this is some useful info