hardware showoff

Jtwo

Cool thread! Damn, that gamecube’s controller port is lookin yellow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one do that before.
I am mostly a digital and PC guy, but I do have a humble collection of retro stuff. My gamer room is a mess, plz forgive.

Here I have a JVC IART hooked up to HD Retrovision component cables, I have the connector for Genesis and Playstation.

Very proud of my Genesis, it took almost a year for me to track it down back in like 2014, but its a non-TMSS / first year Genesis. Looks good and sounds good. I have all the research done to recap it should I need to, but as far as I can tell it looks about as clean as it is going to. I got lucky with this one.

To round things out, I have a dinky little PVM. Its cute and it even came with a PortaBrace weatherproof case. I’ve always imagined like bringing it to a block party or something.

Only other remotely cool thing I have up hear is my VR rig but meh.

Actually, just out of curiosity are there any PC hardware nerds here?

flcl4evr

Jtwo PC you say? Depends on the vintage. I’m all about the mid-2000s and a 2004 era and 2008 era desktop around just for kicks. Neither of them are hooked up, but last winter I played Tron 2.0 on my 2004 desktop before I upgraded it and just sort of let it go back into storage. Ooops.

robinhoodie

Jtwo It totally must have been a smoker’s Gamecube. But heck yeah on the HD retrovision cables. That’s what I’ve got running into all the CRT’s I’ve got. It why I am happy with them over PVMs. The right size (19 inch) and all Component ready.

Syzygy

robinhoodie
Those dupe Toshibas are the exact same one I have and you know, you made me feel a lot better about having kept a big box fan on top of it for years.

robinhoodie

Syzygy They are shockingly sturdy! But yeah I would love to have a better way to display them.

hellomrkearns

some quick snapshots of my ‘gaming rig’ from 10 years ago.

PlayStation 2 (slim)
Philips portable speakers (battery powered only)
Uniden Laser Pocket Projector (ULP1000)
HP Pavilion dv6700

hellomrkearns

lol did I kill this thread with my last post?
Ok. Here’s a recent picture. It’s my at home workstation in our garage. I bought the TV at a recycling store a day before we went into lockdown back in March. It was super hard to find monitors at the time and this one was good as it’s got HDMI, component and composite.

Also pictured two boomboxes that I “fixed” with a can of contact cleaner. It really helped with the staticy volume and tuner knobs.

exodus

@hellomrkearns that “gaming rig” is so 2000s I almost heard an AIM ping.

@JJSignal do you sometimes check out, like… Sonic waterfalls or Adventures of Batman & Robin on that fuzzier monitor? I keep thinking I should have at least one crappy CRT for the things that really rely on that. I kinda got too “good” with my CRTs and a lot of the fuzzy magic is lost in the process.

JJSignal

exodus Occasionally it’s what I might do when fussing with scaling on some emulators. Sonic on the Magnavox RD0946 has smooth-ish waterfalls in that I can’t see the gaps, though there’s a rainbowing effect that occurs often on games that feature a lot of dithering or tricks to make that faux transparency feel.

treefroggy

Fresh lumber from the hardware store. A day of woodworking. That’s my hardware show off. Kirby Super Deluxe with the wood burn print box art is there for embellishment.

Sonic R looks amazing on that Sony KV-9PT40 JJSignal !! Such a fun novelty monitor. Here’s a pic of my KV9 set up in the walgreens cosmetics aisle.

JJSignal

treefroggy Hahaha, what is it doing in that aisle?? I almost got that model, but it’s difficult to find it with the stand. I love how they both have that lovely telephone cord-like power cord. They’re really cute little crts!

robinhoodie

I have realized that one of the things I like about seeing other people’s set ups is the mix of being both ramshackle and cozy. Brandon’s set up from Twitter I remember having these like great cat print curtains. I guess my point is, that one of the things I love about games is that you can go the giant screen austere set up route, or the youtube gamer every system hooked up at once route, but there is something very human about the small screen on a desk tucked away in the corner of a room. I dunno, A Desk of One’s Own and all that. The small gaming set up isn’t trying to present a persona for the outside world, it is a very much a window into its creator.

treefroggy

robinhoodie 侘寂, Wabi-Sabi life, there is no concept of wabi-sabi in western culture, because we are obsessed with new, nice things. I will always prefer a fine patina.

tomjonjon

I bought this racing wheel setup years ago - it’s amazing for Daytona on 360.

I recently got this Marantz plasma panel for free. It’s from 2005, has a glass screen, needs speakers to be plugged into it and is heavy. It is also amazing for PS2/Xbox and Dreamcast. The brightness and contrast are top notch. It also displays SNES/NES and Saturn very well. A bit soft but no lag.

PhantomPhotom

Its my SEGA GENESIS Arcade power stick!

with a secret inside!

Started life like this…

But I really wanted to put a sanwa stick in it!
So I did…

HRMMMM

I had to flatten the posts and remove the steel mounting plate to make it almost fit. It was off by the thickness of the foot plate meaning I had to cut that hole in the bottom. I considered trying to shave the bottom off the stick itself but it was much harder steel.

2 part epoxy was used to secure the stick in the end as there was no longer any extra material to attach screws.

The wires almost matched but had some colors that were different. the correct pinout was (not pictured) to match by color with purple matching green.

After doing this I was told that in Japan these sticks were always mechanical! And that the Neogeo arcade stick hardware fits inside perfectly with not cutting.
Dang. (Still like this stick better tbh)

Anyway this thing is an absolute godsend for shooters (which I am bad at). It also makes anything requiring diagonals a breeze. Landstalker for example is fantastic.

I also have a 6 button Id like to convert eventually.
I had to do the 3 to start its such a visually wonderful stick with its light up button LEDS and turbo slider.
I think it looks even smarter now with the sanwa stick’s dust disk fitting perfectly into the stick base.

exodus

PhantomPhotom you went on quite a journey here

I’ve been thinking (NOT VERY SERIOUSLY, but a little) about the paprium “ultimage mega drive stick,” the grand stick III. why does it exist? I don’t need it. so few games make sense to play with a stick on genesis. and precisely because of that I am intrigued.

PhantomPhotom

office game zone

panasonic plasma, gutter vga 22″ crt on the table, another gutter 12″ vga crt I havent cleaned out yet (might get a raspy pi innit), the much beloved racing wheel.

hellomrkearns

exodus I tell you what, when Benj Edwards was making his BX sticks, he really made using them on Genesis look appealing.

I bought one of the early Atari sticks and it makes 2600 games actually playable.

Kez

exodus I’d say the majority of genesis games are viable with a stick

exodus

viable sure, but better would be a difficult to argue position I think.

Kez

exodus Hmm, I’d argue that any shmup, fighting game or beat em up would be as good or better than a controller if you’re comfortable with a stick. I recently played through Hollow Knight using a stick and it suited the game surprisingly well.
I also like to switch up input methods to vary the repetitive motions I make while gaming!