How to get 8.0 with CRT working.

[slikvik]

I have a pi2scart connected to RPi3 and a clean image of Recalbox 8. I get nothing on screen of the TV.
I then mounted the SD card on a PC but can't find recalbox.conf to add the entry mentioned in the wiki?

Am I supposed to get it all setup via a HDMI monitor first??

[Wizzard]

@slikvik Yes, I believe you have to run it using HDMI and enable desired CRT config. You may also manually edit retroarch-crt-config.txt, but this is preferred way, as I read the documentation.

[slikvik]

Thanks @wizzard
Could you point me to the documentation that mentions the recalbox-crt.config? All I've found on setting up RB with a CRT is this page: https://wiki.recalbox.com/en/tutorials/video/crt/recalbox-on-crt-with-scart-dac which is frankly not very clear.

[Wizzard]

@slikvik well, to say the truth, I do not have my pi2scart yet, hope to get it in a few days so I am not sure how exactly to get it working. I think that the link you gave is right, but maybe I would prefer just to set it via HDMI for the first time (or via composite out, if you do not have/want to connect it via HDMI.

[slikvik]

@wizzard Hey. I did get it working by plugging into a modern screen first.
Unfortunately, all my PAL games are playing with a squished display so it's not currently plug n play like some CRT builds out there.

[Wizzard]

@slikvik I already have my Pi2scart but cannot set CRT via pi2scart on my RB 8.
After I enable it in settings and reboot, I only got ghosts screen on CRT and ES on HDMI.
After reboot I got no picture on HDMI neither CRT.

[Wizzard]

Ok, on the second try it works, even in 480p and it is quite nicely centered, will try some games later.

[slikvik]

@wizzard That's good. Yes it works quite well but I'm having issues with most PAL games (SMD, SNES, SMS) with black bars at the top and bottom of the screen and a little bit of flicker, notable on title screens like SMB. It's not the normal 50hz black bars either as they're not same size above and below.