hardware showoff

vmu_beep

robinhoodie
lol 100%
✅ Garbage
✅ Graffiti
✅ Stoops
✅ Scaffolding

the rocky connrrr picture show

vmu_beep yeehaw! That calibration before/after is really something.

exodus

yeah I was gonna be like “oh that’s where my friend lives” lol. it sure looks like brooklyn.

Anyway nice work! The idea of having to disassemble the thing to get it into your apartment, and the implication that it might have to also be disassembled to get out of your apartment, is terrifying to me, but there’s no denying those excellent results! Congratulations!!

vmu_beep

exodus Thanks! It wasn’t entirely necessary but moving the CRT and cabinet separately made things a lot easier (Also if your friend lives in Greenpoint it IS the same neighborhood 👀)

Karnovski Thank you! I don’t have any actual arcade hardware yet, just all my non-HD consoles and a ’lil PC running at 15khz.

I never even considered owning a candy cab at home until I saw dmauro’s dual Astro City setup on a previous iteration of forums, which feels like it was a lifetime ago.

Karnovski

vmu_beep that’s a beautiful piece of work. Congrats on the restoration, it turned out so good. Are you running a cps2 in that or is it emulated?

robinhoodie

vmu_beep I feel like I am going the opposite route in that having the Mister and knowing the Mistercade is out there has made me more interested in getting a cab than ever before since the set up would be less of a nightmare.

Karnovski

vmu_beep nothing wrong with a little emulation on a 15k monitor. I’ve got a program doing that on my ddr machine. I’ve got a PC in there running stepmania instead of emulating the actual arcade releases of ddr.

Being a big fighting game fan, I really want a candy cab. Specifically 3rd Strike, mvc2 or a cps2 multicart.

vmu_beep

robinhoodie Oh yeah the software side of things has been a huge pain in the butt and has made me wish I had gone the Mister route in retrospect. The console setup has been killer though.

Karnovski I don’t want to be a purist, but I’d guess most fighting games were designed with this setup in mind, it just feels right to play them this way!

It’s not all roses though, over the weekend my picture went bad (including a new moire effect that’d be hard to capture) and I will have to take the CRT out of the cabinet again, hopefully it’s just some bad potentiometers 🥲

Karnovski

vmu_beep if you know how to solder and know how to trouble shoot, then you should have no problem!

Crts can be really tough sometimes, but I believe in you.

copySave

thebryanjzx90

So if these are the specs of my pre-built PC from 2018, and if I’ve already upgraded the RAM and the hard drive to a SSD, would a new graphics card be a good idea for my next upgrade? I probably wouldn’t have to spend a lot of money to get a better graphics card at this point right?

Gaming PC (Intel i5-8400 6 Core Processor, AMD RX 580 4GB, 8GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB 7200RPM HDD, WiFi, Win 10 Home 64-bit), Black - VR Ready

copySave

thebryanjzx90 RTX 2060 ($250) would be my recommendation with that CPU. If your motherboard has an M.2 NVMe SSD slot I would upgrade that as well ($90). For about $400 after tax you can basically get XSX performance. Should be able to play most stuff above 60fps and DLSS will help greatly. RTX 3060 could also be viable, but it’s more expensive and may get bottlenecked by your CPU.

I would also get a 144hz 27″ 1440p GSYNC monitor ($200) since you’ll often be riding the 60fps line on newer games and it’ll smooth out anything above 45 fps, plus some older stuff should go well above 100fps. And maybe another 8gb of RAM ($35). This would add another $250 to the total.

For about $600, that setup should last you about 4-5 more years if you don’t need the best of the best.

thebryanjzx90

copySave thanks for the advice! I did in fact get the NVMe SSD, RAM, and monitor already and I will be double checking but I think they’re all the specs you mentioned so hopefully I did that right. Looks like a graphics card is next!

copySave

thebryanjzx90 Cool! The DLSS capabilities of the RTX card and GSYNC will really help make your PC last longer by running your newer games with a lower resolution but maintaining high-res details and smoothing out any frame-rate fluctuations.

kory

Important PRGE purchases 🧡

exodus

kory that’s some insert credit biz right there

treefroggy

kory I have the same swan!

kory

treefroggy swan twins!! <3<3

now to start tracking down a flash cart…

mindleftbody

I have always wanted a candy cabinet but now that I finally live in a place big enough to own one I have decided that they have become a bit overpriced (for me). I am giving up my dream of owning one and instead bought this mayflash f500 elite stick from craigslist and modified it to look like an astro city control panel. I found the template for the overlay on a reddit thread and had it printed by focus attack. I have been playing fighting games with a pad for so long that I’m going to have to relearn everything. I also bought an adapter so it works on PS5, it’s pretty cool!

tokucowboy

mindleftbody That is beautiful and tasteful.

exodus

mindleftbody That really does look nice!

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