/vr/ - Retro Games

>>607789
>disk drives
>no Datasette
>no tapes of Football Manager and Jet Set Willy seen

Sup, Burgerstan

>>607802
I'm terribly sorry that Yuropoors were too poor to afford disks on their C64s

>>607789
1540 drives actually don't work on the C64s unless you disable the video, but then virtually all of them were upgraded to 1541 ROMs anyway

>>607789
OP, thank you for posting a proper American Commodore setup.

Beat the bongs!

>>607812
>>607864

We had Disk drives too in continental Europe. Only Great shitain still used the datasette until the 90's.

Anyway, nice station OP!

>>609983
>We had Disk drives too in continental Europe

I know. You krauts are all right and >>607864 picture was not in reference to you. ;)

>>607789

Is that a Modem on the second 1541 Disk Drive?

>>610972
It looks more like a binder for storing papers in

(1541s made an awfully nice place to store air-vent blocking papers or cups of coffee on)

>>610984

Oh, okay, I though it was some US Robotic stuff, eh.

This thread is dead now, but who gives a fuck. The LCD TV actually is hooked up to all those consoles as well, I can have everything on both the CRT and it at the same time.

>>610984
In fact that's probably why Nintendo didn't use flat tops on consoles after the NES

>>611019
>inb4 massive butthurt at the idea of using an LCD with your consoles

>>611025
Ha, well I usually use the CRT for retro games. If I get a Dreamcast VGA box I'll probably use the LCD more often.

>>611019

That's some nice VCR you have. I don't have one anymore as my Philips died... I think I should get a new one.

>>611031
I only have it because it allows me to use two TVs at once. I used it for capturing gameplay too, but then the DVD burner broke in it I guess so now I can't record anything with it.

>>611039

> the DVD burner broke

That sucks...

>>611025
I have one of these and it's about comparable to playing games on a PC LCD monitor with an emulator except for having NTSC dot crawl

>>611049
butbutbut muh scanlines

>>611059
>>611049
Manufacturers rarely advertise how good their upscalers are and due to cost reasons, most suck leading you to end up buying an expensive external box.

Bump.

>>611649

Brand of the VCR? (if it's a VCR)

>NTSC dot crawl

The C64 outputs s-video natively and the VIC20 can be easily modified to do so. As can all of the Atari 8-bit computers and consoles.

>>611716
It looks like a Zenith.

Rate it or hate it

plus way too many handhelds

>>612310
Are you a lumberjack? Or do you simply live in British Columbia?

>>612310
>no cable management
>5th and 6th gen consoles on an HDTV
>clothes fucking everywhere
>you're in the picture
>battlestation is out of focus

>>612310
>plaid
>hipster glasses
This is exactly the kind of person I picture 90% of /vr/ posters to be.

>>612310
why are you in the photo? lol what a fucking faggot

>>611649
Are you watching Ren and Stimpy on the VCR or the Wii?
I can't tell

>>612339
pic related

>>612351
my laziness know no bounds. the chords are actually all nice and bundled/untangled. my friend just stuffed the gamecube controllers in the drawer. I have no excuse for everything else ha.

>>612364

Not him.
I'm more the long hair - dirty T-Shirt style. I hate those glasses.

>>612670
>dat TV with the speakers

>>607789
it's alright
>>611019
good
>>611649
might be comfy
>>612295
good stuff. nice camera btw
>>612310
>>>/mu/
>>612385
bretty good, another nice camera
>>612670
needs some organization

>>612713
>needs some organization
But that is organized. I even unhooked the SNES controller so you could see stuff better.

>>612725
nop

>>612745
How so

>>612713
I've been taking pictures with that camera for about 5 months now and you're the first person on 4chan to notice. It's a Canon T4i in case you're wondering.
Also nice setup, very /g/

>>612761
>and you're the first person on 4chan to notice
Didn't you get called out on it a week or so ago;

You took a picture of an SNES game(Chrono Trigger I think, could be mistaken) with some 360 titles in the background, that was completely out of focus.
Maybe that was someone else with a T4i.

>>612773
wasn't me, I don't have Chrono Trigger, or near that many SNES games

>>612782
DKC 3 maybe?

No big deal.

>>612364
I'm not a hipster loser, I'm a genuine loser, loser. Slightly overweight, smokes weed, greasy hair and everything!

>>612713

I wish my window overlooked a city.

All I see is a brick wall.

>>612713
That's a cool window.

Nothing fancy. Stations 1 and 2 respectively. It used to all be one huge station with all consoles but the wires became a mess and I decided it would be easier split into 2. That tiny Sylvania was free.

>>612942
>>612295
>>611649
>>611019
I just realized that a lot of /vr/troopers own VCRs
Does anyone actually use them?

>>612970

If mine was still working, yes, I would be using it, to watch some movies I only have on VHS -- or record some gameplay.

>>612970

Yes I use VCR. I don't go insane about it and claim it's better than DVD though. I just like how cheap of an alternative it is to pick up a VHS for 50 cents at Goodwill and get an hour and whatever of entertainment out of it.

>>612970
I bought mine specifically for some old lecture tapes I found in my art school's library.

>>612295
>Dreamcast turn on without controller
Wat?

Every time I see one of these threads, I have a different TV. And all this VCR talk makes me want to go pick one up, I have a giant box full of 70's and 80's movies my dad left for me.

>>613094
>snes on top of tv
>snes jr. with the other consoles
wat

>>613094
Does that Sony TV accept any kind of RGB.
If so I seriously envy you.

Whenever I finally organize my shit, I'll take a picture with my bad dragon dildo right on top of my tv. Just wait. You won't forget.

I see most of the people here really do have CRTs, but I can't bring myself to understand the obsession. I played on CRTs as a kid, but I don't really care how my video games look as long as they aren't incredibly distorted or blurry. What's the appeal exactly?

>>613135
The one on top of the TV has a broken AC port. It's very finicky and only works when it wants to.

>>613141
Nope, composite, S-video and one component input.

>>613153
No Input Lag™, and old games generally look better on them.

>>613173
>component
Good enough

>>613153
I will try to explain my thing with RGB/CRT
As a kid I played mostly on CRT with the RF Cable.
But I played a lot on the arcades. Arcade games are graphically special.
Then in the dreamcast years I played perfect ports of some arcades.
But something was missing.
Then I discovered that Arcades are mostly plugged with RGB.
So I started to buy RGB Scart cables.
When I played with RGB Scart on my Megadrive for the first time I could not believe the quality of the picture.
CRT has a certain way of display low res pictures.
The way of making them smooth.
The COLORS

I live in Europe so here Scart RGB is extremely easy to get working.

>>611025
>>613153
>Enjoy that image burn
>And no light gun games
> No input lag
>old games look better on them

>>613153

I don't like the black bars on the sides and the extremely stretched image in some cases. I like the no input lag. They are usually cheap as hell unless you're super picky, but people will give them away anymore. Has a more retro aura about it.

All of the above isn't a huge issue except input lag. I don't judge people if they don't use CRT but I personally still love them.

>>613383
>I don't like the black bars on the sides and the extremely stretched image in some cases.

My (LCD) TV has different picture modes, meaning I can put the image in the proper proportions so it doesn't experience stretching.

>>613362
>Enjoy that image burn

>LCDs
>burn-in
Wut?

>>613397

Yes but doesn't that mean you get black bars? I know that shouldn't be an issue but it bothers me immensely when it doesn't fit correctly.

>>613397
What kind of an imbecile wouldn't set his TV to non-widescreen mode when using 480i modes?

>>613398
He's probably thinking about old plasma displays.

>>613402
Yes, it does, but I don't particularly care. I can understand if someone might, however.

>>613403
I don't know, I just hear people talk about LCDs as though they stretch pictures, but they clearly do not if you bother to set the mode.

There used to be SDTV 4:3 LCDs in the early 2000s, but for some reason the only non-wide displays you can get now are for specialized purposes such as replacements for CRTs in factory equipment

>>613416
Of course if you buy cheap shitty Chinese TVs, naturally the upscalers are crap

>>613418

I've heard that 3D games in general look worse on LCDs than 2D

>mfw most CRTfags are using composite

all your arguments are fucking discredited now, stop claiming your way of playing superior if you can't even use it right

>>613632

I don't use composite for any console except for my N64.

>>613657
NES and Genesis are composite only, the really old stuff like Ataris have just RF output, SNES, and 5th gen consoles have S-video but TVs that can use it are uncommon.

>>613681
they can all be modded

>>613681
>the really old stuff like Ataris have just RF output

You do realize you can run it through a VCR to produce composite output

>>613681

The Megadrive output RGB in Europe, and I don't have a NES.

>>613632
Component for PS1/PS2/Wii(Emulators 'n shit)
S-Video for Gamecube and temporarily for SNES/N64, which I need to buy a SCART cables and RGB mod respectively.
I'd love to get a VGA box for my dreamcast eventually.

>>613657
Why not S-Video?

>>613681
Genesis supports RGB.

i really should take a new picture sometime, not much has changed though.

>>613632
I use RF for my genesis and VCR, everything else is s-video

>>613681
Model 1 MD needs a tiny bit of work for S-video; model 2 and up can do S-video very easily with just minimal soldering.

>>613709
Kind of reminds me of this a bit.

>>611716
>>611782
It is a Zenith. Works fine but it sometimes has a problem ejecting the tape and the A/V cord on the back got jammed by a broken-off connector so I have to plug it in with Coaxial or whatever.

>>613730
Or you could just get SCART for both without any modification necessary and it looks way better to boot. It's just getting stereo audio out of a model 1 into speakers alongside the AV cable requires a mess of cables.

>>612378
Both. The Wii's hooked-up to the VCR. :D
>>612713
It is pretty comfy, though I'll have to do something about the seating arrangement.
>>612970
Yes. I have a few movies like Tron and the original cuts of the Star Wars trilogy that are far more expensive on DVD and Blu-Ray.

>>613757

>>607789
10/10
>>611019
8/10
>>611649
6/10 (it is mine though)
>>612295
9/10
>>612310
5/10 Nice beard.
>>612385
8/10
>>612670
7/10 looks organized and cluttered at the same time
>>612713
9/10 no retro though
>>612942
9/10
>>612979
wut/10
>>613063
7/10 thought about doing that with my CRT around my desk but I thought it would be too much. Everything would be in one place and could create even more of a potential fire-hazard.
>>613094
10/10 well-done.
>>613709
8/10 seems pretty cluttered though.
>>613741
12/10 a true patrician

>>613771
fuck

that image makes me want to lay down in front of a TV and play sonic with a friend all night

32 bit 8x pass Hq2x w/ bilinear filtering. Just as the developers intended it to be displayed.

>>614272
did that even exist back when most of these things were developed?

>>616081
looks good except your SNES is on top of the GameCube. One should never stack things on top of a top-loading console

>>616081
can't tell what type of ibanez that is....but dual humbuckers. good job. and is that a frank zappa poster?

>>617313
almost makes me think of the mother of invention cover. but yeah im thinking thats a zappa poster. very awesome if so. love his musical style

I usually only play one system at a time, TV and amp both have M>F RCA cables so I don't have to mess around with cable routing every time I swap consoles.

>>619295

Consoles are kept in stackable bins, with cables, controllers, etc. Makes it easy to swap between them.

>>619306

Also have this thing. The HTPC doubles as a MAME box, and the Wii is loaded with emulators; good for 4 player bomberman sans tangled mess of cables when people come over. Similar setup with M>F RCA cables routed so I can easily hookup any of the binned systems.

>>619104
>>619351
Same ikea thing

>>619306
very clever

>>619932

Thanks, at one point I had a PS2, Dreamcast, Genesis, SNES, NES, and Atari 2600 hooked up to my main TV using a mix of RCA switchboxes, and RF splitters... it was a colossal mess and a huge dust trap. Not to mention an eyesore.

This way they're out of sight, and still accessible. In fact they're probably easier to pick up and play since I don't have to fuck around trying to figure out what was hooked up where.

>>619295
Those Koss Porta Pro headphones. Mah Nigggaaaaaa. Damn amazing sound in those things.

Where did you get your computer desk? I'm jealous.

>>619306
Fucking genius. Thank you dude.

>>612385
+6 for Japanese console
+6 for Everdrive
-2 for shitty looking TV
-3 for tenkeyless keyboard

7/10

>>612713
>Linux on a desktop computer
Do you hate video games or something?

>>622803
-3 for an awesome mechanical keyboard?

Get out.

>>622839
Numpads are pretty important in my book.

>>607802
They had fucking football manager in the 80s/90s? I figured it was some recent series but I guess I only know of it through Steam shoving ads in my face for the time that I used it.

>>611019
is that background related to Chasing Aurora in any way? If not I'd still like to know more about it.

>>612310
why are you in the picture? this is about battlestations not the people manning them.

>>622842
Silly man, number pads are for people who MAKE THINGS and DO THINGS.

>>619306
I do something similar but not with such convenient bins, I should reconsider my setup for storing consoles. Right now it's a pain in the ass to pull some of them out. Just too large, need smaller ones. Where did you get yours?

>>622803
>-2 for shitty looking TV
That small TV can do RGB SCART on 60hz

>>622893

Got them from Ikea, they were shockingly inexpensive. Only downside (and it's a small one) is that the lids don't 'snap', they just kinda sit in place. However, you can stack them up to the ceiling if you like, and they're rock solid.

>>622071

Yeah! I was shocked that such tiny little headphones could produce such big sound. The desk is an Ikea Fredrick, got it off Craigslist for $50, super happy wit it.

>>622876
The present-day Football Manager series began in the early 90s; 80s games were unrelated

>>622807
>implying Linux doesn't have amazing emulators
If all you care about is /vr/ why wouldn't you use a God tier OS?

>>626646

>Linux
>God Tier OS

Man, if you said plan 9, eCom' or Amiga OS, even BSD/System V, I would have been okay, but Linux man, Linux!

Polite sage because no contribution Also, let's not continue this debate that belong to /g/

>>624679

That's some nice table for 50$!

>>619295

What water bottle is that?

>>629082

Piss, so he could stay all day, all night, in front of his computer

>>629095

B-but, that's not piss anon.

>>629164

Just kidding. I'm just jealous of all these battlestations, and I can't post "mine" because 1) I don't have a camera 2) All my machines are in different rooms/placed in boxes and I don't have enough space to place them in the same room.

>>607789
I don't know about anyone else, but that white joystick facing the wrong way bugs the fuck out of me

>>629198
I never would have noticed that if you hadn't pointed it out, but now I'm pissed.

>>629198
>>629746

>>612385
10/10

My first PC.

Am 386 @ 20MHz
4MB RAM
originally 40MB HDD compressed to whopping ~80MB, now something bigger around 400MB I think

Notice the compact size compared to 3.5" floppy drive. Machine still works fine, MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11 and bunch of games installed. Sadly I don't have working keyboard with appropriate connector anymore so I can't really use it right now.

Doom runs pretty slow on it, but I grew up on Wolfenstein 3D anyway. And Cycles/Grand Prix by Accolade. And Test Drive 2. And Hocus Pocus, Crystal Caves... Commander Keen... Ski or Die... Lost Vikings... oh and even Sim City 2000. But that ran like very slow slideshow.

>>631661
That is FREAKING AWESOME

One of my oldest PCs.
It has an Intel 286 running at 12MHz, 40MB HDD and 1MB RAM.

>>632476
>>631661

These are great. Part of me really wants to build a good DOS machine, with a proper SB16 in it.

>>612385
>SNES
>RPG

How am I not fucking surprised.

>"Are you all right?"

Shitty camera sorry.

>>634584

>Composite
>Shit Lagann Poster

No.

just kidding for the composite stuff, I know it's an n64 w/ starfox 64 plugged on your TV

>>632476
>posts image larger than system's RAM

>>634618
>Shit Lagann

I thought people under the age of 18 weren't allowed on 4chan.

>>634618
this.

you have poor taste. and that's a shitty MG, too, isn't it

>>634663
Eh it gets the job done. I'd rather have a Peavey or a Fender though.

>>634654
That's never stopped the summer.

>>634654

Well if you consider liking older and better show over lagann being underage, you got some problem.

>>634680

I mean, go watch Gunbuster (not Diebuster, it's from Gainax shitty era too) and read the whole Getter Robo saga and you'll know what I mean.

>>634697
Oh no I'm aware that there are better animes than GL but calling Shit Lagann was something I'd expect to see from a 13 year old you tube poster and not from this generally civil board.

And Gunbuster is on my list of anime to watch.

>>634706

Well Shit Lagann is the official term used by /m/ oldfags (maybe in reaction of all these lagann wannabe we see in summer).

>>634716

Well /m/ oldfags sound like a mature bunch of people.

did someone say battlestation?

>>634746

At first i though it was the shitty Commodore 64 PC-Clone w/ emulators, then I saw it wasn't because of the function keys that aren't the internet fn key...
Nice Joystick by the way!

>>634618
>>634654
>>634706
I have a TTGL poster in my gaming room too. And PSG and Mario Bros. the Movie. Get at me

>>634769
>Mario Bros. The Movie poster

Looks like you trust the fungus

>>634769

I'm goin' to wreck you.

>>634390
Do it if you have the space.

>>634738
At least they know how overrated that anime is.

I just found out that Commodore made a CD based game system back in 1994.
Why have I not heard of this until now? Have any of you played it?

derp

>>634774
No lie, I love that movie because it's horrible. Same for The Wizard. I unashamedly have both on DVD.

Got the genesis modded and got some Gamecube wireless controllers.

>>639712

A/V mod?

Here's my television and computer set up. I currently own a Dreamcast, Playstation, Wii U, and 3DS. I'm getting rid of my HDTV in favor of a CRT television soon. I'm including my vidya collection for shits and giggles.

1/2

>>640668
Vidya and a plethora of my belongings.

>>612364

>>640668
>>640674
Why not just wall mount the HDTV and use the stand for the crt??

Hey guys, just making some Doom maps

>>640718

>Dat Glorious NEC monitor

Never noticed the brand of the screen on this picture before...

>>640718

Oh wow, thanks to this I just learned Romero is left-handed

>>640707
That is literally the perfect battle station.
SO MUCH WANT!

>>611019 here
Updated photo, shows a lot more of my battlestation. Not pictured is my retro gaming PC corner.

>>643847
I also have a retro PC corner, not pictured here

>>643870
>LCD TV
>inb4 butthurt

>>643870
Mine's quite sad as it's just a XP PC with a 1280x1024 display on top of it. I need to get a CRT and a Pentium III PC sometime, maybe tomorrow.

>>643884
XP-era hardware doesn't even qualify as retro yet

>>643879
>implying he didn't intentionally make that picture and post it here because he knows /vr/ will sperg out at his using an NES with an HDTV

================= Troll Line: Everyone above it were trolled ======================

================= Troll Line: Everyone below it were trolled ======================

>>643898
It plays all my retro games just fine, so it works for now. I never said the hardware was retro, but the games are.

>>643908
That's fair enough as I also have one that I use for Windows 3.x and 9x games

>>619306
Where did you get those boxes? That's a great idea and I have to try it myself.

Just got this amiga monitor and made myself a little gaming corner beside my couch. Looks like shit but I can't think of much else to do with it. Maximum comfy at least.

>>619295
>>619351

Better shot of the living room setup. TV outputs to the receiver on the left.

HDCRT is a pretty good compromise, displays 1920x1080 with my HTPC (which doubles as a MAME box), the PS2 plays PS1 games over component which looks glorious, and the Wii is great as an emulator box (via injected VC titles). And while old consoles don't look quite as good as they do on my 13" 4:3 tube, it's still leagues better than on a modern HDTV.

>>645493
SECRET AGEN! YESSSSSSS.

couple of megadrive geams, n64 tucked away there

>>647673
reported

>>645638
>Injected VC titles

Why not just, ya know, put emulators on the wii?

>>645638

Nintendo's in-house emulator seems to run better than SNES9xGX, besides with an emulated NAND you don't have a limit to the number of titles, and there is no risk of banner bricking the system so I figure why not?

holy crap this thread's been going for a week now

>>650235

The Amiga Thread too man.

>>647702
I didn't look at all the things he posted at all, but injected N64 roms work better than the Wii N64 emulators that I've tried. Better controls and generally run better as well. If there's better emus for N64 on Wii now then maybe it's changed, but that's how it was a few years ago.

>>640707
comfy as fuck

>>651758

It's a pre-rendered scene posted many times, but yeah, if it was real, it would have been comfy as fuck.