/vr/ - Retro Games

a little messy

>playing 240p and 480i systems in composite on an lcd
lol

>>5616751
Ps2 is video but I need to wall mount my tv, I dont have room for a crt

>>5616757
yes you do

>>5616759
Can you wall mount a crt?

>>5616757
Meant svideo

>>5616769
yes

>>5616771
But is it relatively flat? I sleep under my tv

>>5616774
Yeah. Get a B&O. Some people bought those with wallmounts.

Obligatory ass blaster setup

>>5616747
>ps2 stand sitting on top of ps2

>>5616747
I think you are a filthy tripfag now go back

>>5617173
also
>having a PS1 when you have a PS2
fucking why?

Do you guys really leave your consoles with the controllers plugged? Do you clean it everyday? I store my controllers when I'm not using, I let a dualshock2 out for months once and shit got really bad.

>>5617189
If you leave them plugged in then neither connection collects dust, though?

oh boy I get to post this again

>>5617202
Ha, same.
This is an old image, and it looks small, but it's rather spacious. You're only seeing it from one angle.

>>5616747
Unplug the controllers when not in use - it'll help with the clutter and somewhat from having the consoles drugs off the shelf by accident.

>>5617217
Everytime I see this shit, I want that TV to fall and break all your stuff a little bit harder.

>>5617183
Cheaper to get a modchipped PS1? You can run backups on a PS2 without having to modchip it but popstarter sucks.

>>5616747
A few years ago this would have been an obvious troll

>>5617217
this is more of a storage closet than a gaming room. 3/10.

>>5618706
Yo whaddup

>>5616757
>>5616770
Get your fat ps2 a component video cable. They're really cheap

>>5616747
Get an A/V hub / switcher with S-video input. Grab S-video cables for every console and run them that way. That's about the best picture quality you're going to get with those consoles feeding into a single TV set. You could also run the PS2 via component cables, but your mileage may vary on that since not all PS2 games will support that signal or colorspace.

And invest in some kind of shelf.

>>5617061
You won't be able to take any of those things to your grave with you.

>>5617202
Clean your furniture, man.

>>5617217
Your room looks like the interior to a junk store. So many things are rendered inaccessible because of all the clutter. Maybe it's time to consider downsizing a bit.

Dig the arcade cabinets, though. I probably wouldn't bother to own more than one of those things unless maybe I lived in a studio or warehouse.

>>5619206
Am I looking at someone's closet?

>>5616747
>it's another angry crtfag thread

>>5619840
>not all PS2 games will support that signal or colorspace
PS1/PS2 software doesn't have to support any colorspace other than RGB, the PS2 hardware handles everything to do with encoding the output signal. The only problem someone might have with component is on the TV side, if a really shitty TV doesn't recognize 240p or 480i properly on component but does on S-video or composite. It's a known problem for certain TVs.

>>5619840
>Clean your furniture, man.
I have, the picture is ancient, at least a year or two old
but boy howdy does it get real dusty real quick, gotta have a duster on handy and dust shit every week

>>5619840
My storage closet which is also my game room

>>5620149

I've had one of two games not output any video signal through component at all, one of those being Gradius III and IV. I have no idea about PS1 compatibility since I play those on PSOne hardware. PS2 laser assemblies don't like to read CDs for very long.

>>5620635
Looked into it, the complaints I see about that game and most PS1 games are based on the 240p issue I mentioned. If you play those games on a PS2 connected to a non-HD TV using component, they work fine because the TV doesn't try to process the signal any further.

https://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?139844-Gradius-III-IV-(PS2)-issue

>>5619840
>You won't be able to take any of those things to your grave with you.

I misunderstand. I consume media in mass because I want to accelerate my perception of time, to bring myself closer to death in what seems to be sooner.

Too much of a coward to pop my own dome.

Just added the amiga the other day. I don't know why I didn't turn on anything for the pic. Oh well

>>5622351

>>5622351
"This is my room dedicated to retro gaming. My favorite brand is Nintendo. Collecting is my favorite hobby!"

>>5622354

>>5619840
I'm going to be buried with my collection. When archeologists dig me hundreds of years in the future up my treasure will be worth a million space bucks.

>>5622351

Needs more Game Boy. Looks like you have all of two cartridges there. Now's a good time to grab GB games from eBay because most of the non-first-party titles are pretty cheap, especially if you want to import any Japanese versions.

>>5622367
That's quite the contrast between you SNES and NES Collection.

>>5622354
too much clutter and random shit everywhere for my liking, but I won't lie, that looks like it COULD be a cozy set up

>>5618647
Just use PSXLoader on your PS2. Plays PS1 backups discs without the need for a modchip.

>>5620149
PS2 had a pretty shitty component encoder, though. Makes everything look washed out.

>>5622351
>>5622354

>Amiga 2000
based

>>5622945
The cases behind those game boy carts that say game boy on them are the rest of my game boy games. I am working on them and genesis games now though (genesis and famicom games are in the cassette case next to the TV)

Oh boy, here I go posting my setups again!

>>5624250
>unzips pants
*thud*

>>5624250
>>5624256
I like it. I remember both those TV models, too! Does the sunlight ever directly hit it or you got some clever buffers arranged?

>>5622351
Never saw this one. Have this: SOUL.

>>5624905
>some kid on the intarwebs liked and upvoted himself
cringe

i'm thinking of getting stuff for my ps1 and n64. what is the best tv and equipment to ensure maximum comfy?

>>5625579
Too subjective. You should moreso think what YOU want to feel comfy. I'll give it a shot.

Go LCD. You can change the aspect ratio and zoom effects to customize the look for many games, you don't have to wait for tube(s) to "warm up", you don't have to degauss, worry about magnets/speakers which may or may not be in or along the unit if its TV, and you can use it for more modern systems. LCD may not have dials for the sake of fine tuning the picture but it generally display more advanced colours/lighting/shading which you will need if you get a unit like say a ps2. I have heard of some LCD TV can suffer refresh rate problems with older systems that use AV or component but I haven't encountered the problem myself but I have old LCD. I would recommend to check out the sharpness setting to make it look just right to your eyes defending how you TV implements it. My current LCD doesn't have edge enhancement until 91/100 for some reason so I set it to 90 as it just mattes or dulls the picture down beneath that - from my understanding Sharpness generally should be set to 0 but I still highly enough to tweak this setting so you don't get distracted by bad visuals or bleeding. My last TV's sharpness was set to 2 and sometimes 3. I know I blather here but this setting makes all the difference in my opinion.

If you want to go CRT, try to find one those rare flat-screen ones. So nice~ Same thing with sharpness applies to crt, too. Otherwise beware what you buy and always test it with an actual signal input before you buy

Get a good chair you can sit on few a few hours with good posture if not a recliner. Make that TV equal to slightly lower than head level so you can look down or straight and not crick your neck from up.

Everything else is to your tastes and preferences, anon. But for ps1 and n64, I'd go LCD if you don't want to go any older - but I play as far back as the 2600 on my LCD with no issues but your screen or tastes may not have the same sentiment.

>>5625579
If you're in the US and want to get nice quality without spending much, get S-video cables for both those systems and play them on a non-HD CRT TV with S-video inputs. Curved tubes generally have fewer geometry problems but flat tubes are newer with fewer hours on them.

>>5625998
Oh wow, this is a lot of info that helps a lot. Thanks a bunch fren
I'm pretty comfortable with whatever, although I am leaning towards LCD now that you said all this. I do not want to fuss too much over getting a lot of things, but if I have to get a few more things then I wouldn't mind either
>>5626952
Nah, I'm from the shitposting country aka Australia. I can probably get some adapter stuff so that US cables can work for me though.

>>5628272
>Oh wow, this is a lot of info that helps a lot.
You're being deceived by a total brainlet.

>>5617061
Is anything on the right even connected to power or the TV?

>>5628175
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVay367HM3Y

>>5619840
>You won't be able to take any of those things to your grave with you

>>5623572
>turn on PS2
>open tray
>pop in original PS1 disc
>open uLaunchELF
>navigate to PSXLauncher.ELF
>wait for disc to spin
>use physical tool to pry open mechanical drive
>replace trigger disc with CD-R
>play game

versus

>open ps1
>insert disc
>turn on console
>play game

just get a PS1

>>5628460
>that

versus

>turn on ps3
>choose game from the list on your screen
>play game

just get a jailbroken ps3

>>5628498
PS3's PS1 emulation is okay but playing on a real PS1 or mednafen is better.

>>5628505
I'm a bit ignorant of how emulators work, but what exactly makes one emulator better than another? and specifically what's wrong with ps3 emulation?

not that guy btw.

>>5629109
The more accurate the emulator is to it's original hardware the better the emulator. In this case mednafen is more accurate than the emulation PS3 uses.

>>5625998
Most of the flat screen CRTs have really bad input lag. But I agree LCD is the way to go. I think the CRT meme is kind of a troll. But I bet some people have actually convinced themselves they prefer it.

Why would you own both a ps2 and a ps1?

>>5616747
Why a PSone and a PS2? PS2 does the job for both. Looks messy. Also, tripfag.

2/10

>>5629568
>Most of the flat screen CRTs have really bad input lag.
Only if they're HDTVs because HDTVs scale low-res which adds lag; there are many non-HD flat CRT TVs without any of that lag.

>I think the CRT meme is kind of a troll. But I bet some people have actually convinced themselves they prefer it.
No, there are real reasons, but nobody's forcing anyone to understand them or care.

>>5628314

I take a console down and plug it in when I want to play. Right now my N64 and PS2 is plugged in.

In that picture? No. That's where they go when not in use. Design isnt even final. May build something so the consoles are under the TV

>>5629568
>>5630272

Thanks you two. I honestly forgot about most of the problems with the CRT flatscreens. I didn't know HD was the main issue for those (thank you for teaching me that) but I remember seeing a lot of problems with many non-HD larger sized units, too. It's probably just because they were cheap quality. They're more rare in my area than other places though and it seems people mostly just bought ones made by the same cheap manufacturer whose name is long lost to me. I used to often see people pick these particular ones up off the curb and come back 30 minutes later to put it back. I know they weren't HD because I was in the stores a lot trying to find a good small TV when everyone seemed to just want big & bigger. Hell I knew a guy at the time with a CRT HDTV that was wide as a sedan is long but I digress.

So anyway, I find Anon 1's opinion on the input lag very relatable because how my regional economy purchased their TV's. Anon 2 helped me understand why I thought they were categorically good for gaming yesterday.

I asked my friend who owns an appliance store about why nobody was buying then-new CRT flatscreens where we live and he said that nobody in our region was buying TV's or monitors and mostly people just window shopped because they were interested in plasma hype but didn't know how much that costs as-of-then. The result came usually 1-2 TV a week to some person who just wanted to replace their broken TV and thus usually got a cheap one. Monitors on the other hand were all high-end expensive CRT because the only people buying monitors wanted those and those kinds were a rare purchase already.

I go into all of this detail because I've been trying to get a chance to reply to you for hours and its been stewing in my brain and I don't want to have yet another thing go to waste today. It's just been one of those days so please accept my wall of text. Have a nice day, gotta go.

>>5618542
Get real sad, kiddo.

>>5628498
Dude, no. PS1 emulation on PS3 has a lot of input lag, no 240p and some inaccuracies

>>5617061
Did you ever get that Swancrystal?

>>5624250
>>5624256
Had no idea you were the same anon. I suppose I should’ve connected the dots sooner from comments left with the Space Command pic in the past.

>>5628498
>putting up with subpar PS1 emulation when you don’t even get portability out of it
Get a PSP Go instead if you’re going that route. Assuming you average 400 MB per ISO, you can fit 40 games to take anywhere you want just on internal memory and still play with a DS3

480p + dreamcast conversion mod + full xbox 360 controller support mod = comfy

The ol' "I'm planning on moving out soon" setup.

>>5634264

>>5634265

>>5617217

>>5632063
>Did you ever get that Swancrystal?

Not yet. I never got paid for 3 months of work, so that set me back pretty bad. I'm working on getting debt free, which should be in a few weeks.

>>5628460
I can't tell if you're trolling or not. But unless the PS1 is chipped, it's not that simple to get a backup working on the PS1. You have to do a bunch of swap disc bullshit.

Also you can put a shortcut to PSXLauncher on your home screen with FreeMcBoot, and both the fat and slim models have easy flip-top mods. On the slim you can do it for free with a little bit of tape or glue.

>>5634268
bothers me that its organized alphabetically regardless of the console

Tips to improve my setup?

>>5617061
>Battletech
my nigga. hope you're not clanner scum.

>>5637494
Well how about having actual /vr/ consoles

>>5634143
Holy shit, an InteractiveVision in the box. Somewhere I have a loose one.

>>5617061
watching twitch streams on your TV is a fag flag, double gay points for showing chat. everything else about your collection is pretty straight though.

>>5616747
I hope someone else here told you, but FOR GOD'S SAKE SWAP THE POSITION OF YOUR PS1 AND DREAMCAST. The exhaust vent is on the right, you can see (and probably hear) it and you should really not cover it up.

>>5637859
Yeah I grabbed it from some guy on fb market place for $35. I'm pretty sure it has everything it came with, including the paperwork. He said he found it at goodwill and had to rescue it. I like people like that. It's just a shame it only outputs to RF.

>>5637662
I don't know. The only console I ever liked when growing up was the PSX. I can't really see myself owning a non-sony console.

>>5632686
Sounds more like clunky.

>>5639397
>It's just a shame it only outputs to RF.

Atari 7800 Composite Mod.

>>5639809
I just finished modding my 7800 with an svideo mod. Would that work too? I'm a little apprehensive about modding such an uncommon console though.

>>5639620
nice try, but it plays and looks better than the Dreamcast version

>>5637494
-light behind the the tv
-low lag screen instead of that huge tv
-tidy up the stuff in front of the tv ont he table

>>5640196
I'm not really bothered by the lag and I like a big display for movies.