Current Events > Anyone have a retro gaming area setup?

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Recently set up a retro game room in my house. Have a Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and OG Xbox hooked up to a 32' Toshiba CRT. Got component cables for all the systems other than the Dreamcast which is S Video.

Good Lord does the Genesis look incredible with a component cable.
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Sadly, I sold all my NES and SNES stuff a few years back. But I still have a tube tv with a PS2 hooked up in my bedroom.
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My PS2 disc laser broke years ago. I've been thinking about buying another from a local game shop. I still have all of my PS2 games.
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depends exactly what you qualify as "retro" but I've basically never disconnected the n64
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kirbymuncher posted...

depends exactly what you qualify as "retro" but I've basically never disconnected the n64

I'd currently classify the 6th Gen(GC, PS2, OG Xbox) and older as retro.
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my bedroom tv has all my og consoles on it. my gf plays them mostly...
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I have a NES and a Genesis. Not currently hooked up to anything.

Had a friend build a 14'lx7'h series of shelves in my home theatre room. Made from pine, sanded and stained multiple times with an aniline dye myself. Left side for vinyl, turntable + guitar/bass picks from shows I've seen, and the sub, center area for wall mounted 55" plasma, and three grouped sets of shelves, right side for all other physical media. 7.1 surround. Xbox One and PS3 via HDMI, Wii and Xbox via component, and a composite-HDMI converter coupled with a 4 input composite switcher to have the SNES, N64, GCN, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and PS2 connected. It's not CRT pure but whatever. We have three NES and one is on the shelf but it's not connected. There's a shelf running along the top, which is where I store specialty movie/game releases, unique music festival merch, and drumsticks/setlists from shows I've seen. Next to the shelving unit is my drums ekit/amp/USB audio interface. Across is our 14'l couch.

I fucking love that room.

a-c-a-b posted...

Sadly, I sold all my NES and SNES stuff a few years back. But I still have a tube tv with a PS2 hooked up in my bedroom.

for accurate guitar hero gameplay?

Big_Gold posted...

I have a NES and a Genesis. Not currently hooked up to anything.

Sounds like you don't have a retro gaming setup buddy.

MagnusX posted...

Had a friend build a 14'lx7'h series of shelves in my home theatre room. Made from pine, sanded and stained multiple times with an aniline dye myself. Left side for vinyl, turntable + guitar/bass picks from shows I've seen, and the sub, center area for wall mounted 55" plasma, and three grouped sets of shelves, right side for all other physical media. 7.1 surround. Xbox One and PS3 via HDMI, Wii and Xbox via component, and a composite-HDMI converter coupled with a 4 input composite switcher to have the SNES, N64, GCN, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and PS2 connected. It's not CRT pure but whatever. We have three NES and one is on the shelf but it's not connected. There's a shelf running along the top, which is where I store specialty movie/game releases, unique music festival merch, and drumsticks/setlists from shows I've seen. Next to the shelving unit is my drums ekit/amp/USB audio interface. Across is our 14'l couch.

I fucking love that room.

You have any pics my friend? Sounds incredible despite not having a CRT display.
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Guilty.
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Omnislasher posted...

a-c-a-b posted...

Sadly, I sold all my NES and SNES stuff a few years back. But I still have a tube tv with a PS2 hooked up in my bedroom.

for accurate guitar hero gameplay?

Nah. I've played through about 5 or 6 PS2 games in the past year or so, but no Guitar Hero.
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Yes. My setup is not as impressive as Magnus, but I have a top loading NES, SNES, Genesis, Gamecube, PS2, Wii, N64, and NES Classic and SNES Classic are in the basement with AV and HDMI splitters. The PS4, Switch, and Wii U are currently upstairs in the main room.

Probably in the reverse of what would be expected, in the past year my boy (12 years old) has played the older systems way more than I have, while Ive focused on some newer games like KH3 and such. Since it'll give me a chance to brag about him, my skills for all the old games were/are super-strong, but holy shit, my son....he's catching up hard. He's like a god when it comes Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine and left me in the dust LONG ago on those.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

Recently set up a retro game room in my house. Have a Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and OG Xbox hooked up to a 32' Toshiba CRT. Got component cables for all the systems other than the Dreamcast which is S Video.

Good Lord does the Genesis look incredible with a component cable.

You know what evil. I actually have a new DC and a monitor that easily tipped to Tate mode, and I have set it up. Mainly because I am using my VGA box as an Audio jack for my PC.
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I still have a huge (prohibitively heavy) flat screen CRT around for SNES, N64 and Gamecube.

Mainly for F-Zero GX on gamecube, because any input delay in that game would mean death.

Also helps with the 100 super jumps on Mario RPG for SNES
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BlazinBlue88 posted...

Sounds like you don't have a retro gaming setup buddy.

True, but I moved recently. At the old place I had two TVs beside each other. I had a console hooked up to each TV, nothing special.

...plus an ever-growing pile of "minis"

32 inch CRT is I imagine at least 500i, my crt is 320i but 13 inch and it is game ready.
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Also these things:



...and these things:



...and some legally questionable knockoff things:

Questionmarktarius posted...

...plus an ever-growing pile of "minis"

Off Commodore 64 checking in !!
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BlazinBlue88 posted...

Big_Gold posted...

I have a NES and a Genesis. Not currently hooked up to anything.

Sounds like you don't have a retro gaming setup buddy.

MagnusX posted...

Had a friend build a 14'lx7'h series of shelves in my home theatre room. Made from pine, sanded and stained multiple times with an aniline dye myself. Left side for vinyl, turntable + guitar/bass picks from shows I've seen, and the sub, center area for wall mounted 55" plasma, and three grouped sets of shelves, right side for all other physical media. 7.1 surround. Xbox One and PS3 via HDMI, Wii and Xbox via component, and a composite-HDMI converter coupled with a 4 input composite switcher to have the SNES, N64, GCN, Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, and PS2 connected. It's not CRT pure but whatever. We have three NES and one is on the shelf but it's not connected. There's a shelf running along the top, which is where I store specialty movie/game releases, unique music festival merch, and drumsticks/setlists from shows I've seen. Next to the shelving unit is my drums ekit/amp/USB audio interface. Across is our 14'l couch.

I fucking love that room.

You have any pics my friend? Sounds incredible despite not having a CRT display.

Sure!






It's never finished, as I want to paint behind the tv a dark colour, sand/stain/install a wall mount shelf for a new Polk center speaker we have, buy new fusebox doors/stain them, paint the whole room, etc etc etc. The right side is pretty much full but I'm generally done buying that kind of physical media. I'm gonna have to move the turntable down next to the receiver since I've well overshot the space for vinyl. Behind the Thundercat/Zombies stacks is a drawer for all the plugs, behind the U.S. Girls/Silversun Pickups stacks is a drawer for all the controllers.

Yeah, I still got a mid-2000's CRT plus my GameCube and N64 with games ready to go. Also got a couple of old Gameboy Colors and a Gameboy Advance with games in working order, all of which I can also play on my CRT with a Gameboy Player via my GameCube.
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