How are people playing old consoles on wall mounted flat screens? • Gaming • Retro • Eurogamer.net

curtlikesmeat 20 Dec 2017 20:33:34 143 posts
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Are you having your flat screen TV far enough from the wall to allow the scart lead to push out? Are you using some sort of converter? My 4k TV has a scart slot but nothing can fit in it. I saw some right angle connectors in Amazon a while back but they stuck out so far as to be pointless. The recent articles on retro consoles made me think that I need to get on the case and sort this out!

Deleted user 20 December 2017 20:35:51

My amp converts component and s-video to HDMI.

Zomoniac 20 Dec 2017 20:39:01 10,628 posts
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You could get an XRBG mini and convert to HDMI. Can’t imagine how bad SCART stuff will look on a 4K screen.

I solved the issue by buying a decent 32” CRT off eBay for a fiver, though I appreciate not everyone has space.

Edited by Zomoniac at 20:39:15 20-12-2017

curtlikesmeat 20 Dec 2017 20:51:44 143 posts
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Thanks all. Framemeister seemed to start at Ł500 so will look for something similar but cheaper!

Out of curiosity how much did they charge you to deliver the CRT?

Deleted user 20 December 2017 20:52:10

Scart looks great on a set that has a decent scaler on the analog inputs

KD 20 Dec 2017 20:56:05 3,575 posts
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Just buy a CRT for retro gaming, luckily I still got mine but loads of good quality ones being sold cheap or given away if you can pick it up.

Zomoniac 20 Dec 2017 20:56:19 10,628 posts
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@curtlikesmeat I picked it up, it weighs an absurd amount, would cost a fortune to post. Just did a search in a 20 mile radius. Had to get a couple of weightlifting friends to lug it up the stairs!

curtlikesmeat 20 Dec 2017 21:03:49 143 posts
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It must have about a metre depth to it as well

elstoof 20 Dec 2017 21:04:12 28,125 posts
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Tell me more about these weightlifting friends and how you got them to do favours for you

Malek86 20 Dec 2017 21:13:39 12,331 posts
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Still rocking those side RCA cables for the Saturn.

Zomoniac 20 Dec 2017 21:31:28 10,628 posts
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@elstoof that did sound very questionable when you put it like that! My wife’s best friend is the British gold medal holder for women’s olympic 58kg category, and her boyfriend is an army soldier and built like a tank. The TV is about 120kg, we tried getting it up and around the stairs but quickly realised it wasn’t happening so got them to do it.

elstoof 20 Dec 2017 21:43:03 28,125 posts
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120kg for a tv, Christ. We got some new cast iron radiators, 2 of them are massive bastards, 2 metres long and 135kg each. They were a cunt to getvup the stairs

Fake_Blood 20 Dec 2017 21:50:52 11,093 posts
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But do they have scarts though?

neilka 20 Dec 2017 23:54:11 24,021 posts
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Have you plugged in the red and white cables?

Psiloc 21 Dec 2017 09:20:31 6,366 posts
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On the impracticalities of CRT TVs, I have a diddy little game room for my retro needs and I actually feed all of my consoles through my old portable. Of course, it wouldn't work if I had it set up on the opposite side of the living room, but you know. Depending on your intended setup there are some relatively convenient ways of CRT gaming.

Everything looks great on it as well. Definitely preferable to feeding them through a 55" 4K TV. To be honest I'd probably consider emulation if that was my only option.