My gaming room is just a shelf with all my games on it...nothing too impressive.
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My gaming room is just a shelf with all my games on it...nothing too impressive.
Here's some pictures of my gameroom with zero effort to clean it up / organize it / make it look pretty. Keep in mind that all consoles (also my arcade supergun and pc) are wired into the same tv, amp, and speakers. Selecting between input is controlled by a s-video / stereo sound selection box. I have a second room right next to this room where I keep all my game carts / cds / cases I just didn't bother taking pics of that.
http://imgboot.com/images/Drakon/gameroom1.jpg
http://imgboot.com/images/Drakon/gameroom2.jpg
http://imgboot.com/images/Drakon/gameroom3.jpg
I would have taken a pic of the futon couch facing the tv but someone is sleeping on it at the moment.
You should take a picture of all your games in the other room...Quote:
Originally Posted by Drakon
And lol @ me being on your monitor in the first screen.
Smeh it's just 1 shelf full of games from various consoles. Maybe I'll take a pic later if I feel like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by NostalgicMachine
Pretty much what I've got as well. One room with a large bookshelf full of NES stuff, and my main shelf in the living room with all my SNES/Genesis games and peripherals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drakon
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Originally Posted by Drakon
That looks exactly like one of my voltage converters in this pic.
Is that a step-up converter? Canada operates on 120V, right?
Step down (going from 120v to 100v). Yes canada uses 120v I googled it to be sure we're the same as america. I just figured for the 30$ that thing cost me to let me plug my japanese gear into a japanese outlet standard is worth it. I bought that step down converter way back when I first started collecting japanese consoles. I think the first system I ever used it for was my av famicom, god I love the av famicom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thierry Henry
I kinda thought you might have a PAL console somewheres with the rest of your stuff. That's why I thought it was a step-up converter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drakon
But interesting that you would use it for Japanese systems. Because I have never heard of Japanese gear having any kind of issues when worked off of 120v. But yeah I guess it doesn't hurt none to play it safe in that regard.
And yeah, the AV Fami is a great console, but I tend to use the Sharp Twin as my primary go-to system for NES/Famicom gaming. It's convenient also because I don't particularly want to be bustin' out the FDS every time to play the disk based games.
I have a twin famicom, but I use the powepak for fds stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thierry Henry
Love that complete Pc-Engine Drakon.
Thanks. It's a lot more than just simply "complete":Quote:
Originally Posted by Thunderblaze16
take a closer look:
http://imgboot.com/images/Drakon/drakonpceod.jpg
On the side is s-video, also a stereo headphone jack if you're using the pc engine as stand alone. The pc engine cd the gear broke (very common). I bought a few of the replacement bypass gears from pcenginefx. For those who are unaware this bypass gear lets you remove and completely bypass the gear in the pc engine cd / turbografx cd drive which breaks. The factory gear breaks because it's under a lot of stress since it sits on a pole which doesn't rotate. The other two gears in the cd drive are on rotating poles which is why only the one gear breaks. You need to do a number of mods to bypass a gear completely but once it's done the cd drive basically will never break again. Here's a demo of the s-video and stereo sound quality from this beast of a machine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKm9vFveAUc
My only real complaint about it is if you step hard enough and cause enough vibration the cd audio skips and stops. They should have given you an option to pause the game and reset the stage audio playing.
All of my consoles have been upgraded to the max. The pc engine is done, audio can't be better, video can't get better, I even hard wired a controller multitap into two extension cords so now I have a multitap with a very long cord and it's all one piece. The av famicom is as upgraded as possible as well, default / upgraded audio circuits selectable by a switch on the back, true rgb, s-video, upgraded to using a cxa2075, everything wired through the multi av port, I divided the master clock signal down to 1/6 the speed to drive the video encoder which produces better colour quality in s-video. The sega genesis a japan / usa region switch, my improved s-video mod for sms games and the 32x has the superior 32x s-video mod. The 32x has been hard wired which makes it so genesis games never freeze or reset (32x games sometimes get stuck but that's okay I have non hard wired 32x systems for that). I'm going to be dropping in a stand alone ym3438 into my genesis when that shows up and testing it out, I already came up with a proper mixing circuit for it uses the fm signals from my CCAM'd genesis 2 and my model 1 genesis already has the ym2612 desoldered and sitting in a precision socket. The snes jr has the video encoder bypassed with a very compact cxa2075 encoder circuit which produces sharper s-video and also gets rid of the translucent bar in the middle of the screen. I also installed the hardware in my snes jr to get digital audio. The snes is open because I'm looking for a good spdif to analog converter which I can internalize. Then there's the arcade supergun (a lot of cool specs I'm too lazy to go into right now) and the overclocked superfx game collection.
There's a lot of stuff going on here that you just can't show with pictures. Sure I could show internal shots of my consoles which is basically a lot of breadboard circuits, electrical tape, and hot glue to keep it all from breaking or ever shorting.
I don't think I posted this before, but cleaning up my desktop, found this image
my set-up from 2008
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/attachm...0&d=1360738337
Attachment 6240
Nice, Ascii Optical stick:D
ah! but that is the rub...Quote:
Originally Posted by chinitosoccer
I too assumed this was optical when I purchased it (back in '06)...
The Dreamcast ASCii Stick FT is the standard that all others should go by, and I figured that since this was the next iteration; ASCii Stick FT2, that it would be even better. Imagine the disappointment when I received it and discovered it is clicky.
edit:
some sort of wild coincidence, this picture was snapped a year ago today
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/attachm...6&d=1360927390
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