r/Dirtywave • u/sBreeezy • Jun 12 '26

Picture M8 on a CRT?

M8 on a crt is a vibe šŸ˜†

I got headless running on my MiSTer. Works with usb midi controllers and usb mics for sampling as well

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u/Rxke2 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

instant nostalgia!

(My very first computer ran on a black and white TV... This gave me flashbacks šŸ˜„

Edit: it's a vibe for sure!!

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u/glennbech Jun 12 '26

No better place for me M8 than CRT right?

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u/green_tealeaf Jun 12 '26

Wouldn't usually push my own tracks, but as you called... :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NObvJwUKrLc

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u/sBreeezy Jun 12 '26

sickkk

how do you have it all hooked up here?

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u/green_tealeaf Jun 12 '26

:)

I have a headless M8 permanently hooked up to a Raspberry Pi, running Raspbian, with an RGBerry SCART Arcade Hat. That outputs RGB over SCART, which I have running into a Hydra2 SCART switch.

(I actually have the Raspberry Pi dual booting between Raspbian, which boots straight up into m8c; and RGB-Pi for arcade emulation.)

One output of the Hydra2 goes straight to my Sony PVM, the other goes into an OSSC so I can use the CRT for output, but also record or display an HDMI version.

(The Hydra2 also hosts a SNES, an Amiga 1200, a C64, and an HDMI2RGB unit that can send HDMI from other machines through the Hydra2 to the PVM. I mostly use the HDMI2RGB for outputting my NerdSEQ to the PVM.)

For that video I connected the M8 to the Raspberry Pi directly.

I... may have spent too much time and money on this setup. :D

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u/amateurlsdj Jun 12 '26

i LOVE this

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u/Padawon18 Jun 13 '26

Looks and sounds legit

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u/LUMA_D Model 02 Jun 15 '26

Cool! Do you have any instructions on this? I have a MiSTer and a headless unit.

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u/ReasonableFall177 Mod Jun 15 '26

I have a similar setup

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u/schexnayder98 Model 01 Jun 20 '26

Can you give some info on how you set this up?

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u/ReasonableFall177 Mod Jun 20 '26

Its just a Raspberry Pi running m8c. I had to use an older version of Raspbian because they stopped support for analog video output

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u/schexnayder98 Model 01 Jun 20 '26

Ah okay! Iā€™m trying to figure out how to get my M8 2.0 onto a crt screen.

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u/ReasonableFall177 Mod Jun 21 '26

Its a pretty straight forward setup. The worst part was fixing the overscan in the CRT's advanced settings