/vr/ - Retro Games

Just use milk crates

>>8606676

Nah

>>8606725
Fag

>>8606656
That's because the kallax is cheap, thick enough to handle big CRTs, and the cubes are just the right size to accommodate nearly every single retro console made. Only ones that don't fit are the original xbox, model 2 sega cd, and atari 5200. Throw some shelf dividers and you can shove 16 consoles into it without using a lot of room.

>>8606656
>no crt
>Star wars shit
Man that setup is disgusting

>>8606751
Awesome, the only console that won't fit is the xbox then but thats fine because I'll run that on the flatscreen out in the longue. Dividers are a huge plus. Seems like these will do everything I need, thanks anon.

>>8606676
Based

>>8606656
Build your own, or hire someone else. You'll save space with something built to your own spec. Look at that cabinet; so much unused space. Seems like a waste.

>>8606656
Where is your CRT, lol?

>>8606838
Are you asking me? This is an example image of other peoples setups.

>>8606656
I used a knockoff of the Ikea shelves that worked out very well back in the mid 2000s. It was like $20 per unit, and you can probably find similar ones at like, Walmart or something.

>>8606869
I did have some cheap cubes for a while but they werent as tight as the ikea ones so it was a lot of dead space. If there are others that let you insert dividers, drawers and cabinets I'd go with those. The only big drawback of the kallaxs i see it not having a backboard to hide cables.

>>8606656
build some yourself zoomer that way they can be customized to fit gay room

>>8606882
I've had this ikea lappland for a while. It's basically the kallax shelves with a spot to mount a TV and some slimmer shelves for blu-ray players and modern consoles. It holds every video game console I own without taking up much space.

>>8606984
I meant to reply to the OP but w/e >>8606656

>>8606985
Fine for a flat screen but not deep enough for the crt, otherwise looks really good.

>>8606976
I would build them if I was certain this would be the last place I live, not much point making them to fit the space if it'll change later. Also 27 but thnx.

>>8606751
>thick enough to handle big CRTs
not really. The maximum it can really do in my experience is either a 20" PVM or a 24" consumer trinitron, and that's with the CRT's legs barely hanging on to the edges. For actual decent-sized CRTs in the 27"+ range you really need dedicated furniture from back when things were designed for typical living room CRT setups.

>>8606984
there's no way that thing is sturdy/deep enough to hold anything other than a 13" kitchen CRT

>>8606656
>All those 80's and 90's consoles
>Hooked up to a shitty LCD panel with the wrong aspect ratio and retarded neon lights bolted to the sides like some riced out Honda Civic
>Star Wars and Doctor Who garbage lining the walls
Absolutely homosexual

>>8608005
the lappland isn't sturdy or deep enough, but I also have a 2x2 kallax that supports a 27" CRT just fine.

>>8606656
dang. this really motivates me to do something with mine. I have pretty much all of these and a few others but I haven't played games in maybe three or four years. been feeling like it's time to get an old CRT tho

>>8608461
As someone who has tried both ends of the spectrum (lg oled with an upscaler and sony trinitron crt) I eventually migrated back to the crt. I leave my wii and xbox hooked up on the oled because they run 480p but everything else looks better on the crt, especially 480i content. It's not something I would have done had the trinitron not been given to me and it's certainly not the manditory way to play vr makes it out to be but damn if it doesnt feel right. It'll definitely reinvigorate you to play some old classics or favourites, it did for me.

>>8608546
thanks, anon, I appreciate your perspective. you saved me a lot of trouble because you basically summarized for me what I have been seeking for. >when the student is ready for the master, the master appears

>>8608557
>when the student is ready for the master, the master appears*
whoops

>>8606656
>Beautiful retro console collection without a 480i 4:3 CRT as a centerpiece

4/10...you were so close anon.

>>8606771
Eat shit, cancer head.

>>8606656
damn nice, do all those lights turn on at once or is separate? are you planning to expand for the ones below the tv?

>>8608743
But he's right, anon-kun...

>>8606656
Lol such shit

>>8606656
coomlectors are stupid

>>8606656
Why are the controllers never plugged in? These pics always reek of "lookitmeeeee!!@"

>>8609657
Nah, shit looks sloppy when you have a controller in every single console plugged in. Put that shit away when you're done with it. It's not like you're jumping around and playing everysingle console in a single session you need all controllers at the ready.

>>8609631
People who say "coomlectors" are even more stupid.

>>8609657
Because that's what it is. Nobody with even half a braincell would run old consoles on LCDs. Hell, these days, there isn't even a lot of reasons to actually have half the consoles. I run a solid 60% of my games through my MiSTer, because it's better than original hardware in many respects and I can use alternate controllers. It's fucking annoying when I want to play Border Down, but I don't have a 80 dollar arcade stick so I'm forced to use the awful DC D-pad.

If you're going to run LCD, you should really just be using Retroarch. it'll look far far better than any crappy scaler presets, and with runahead there's essentially no latency. There are only a handful of consoles you could even justify running on LCD, like the PS2, GC and Xbox because their emulation is awful. Everything else is good enough for 99.9999% of people.

>>8610497
I like using my old consoles with my LCD when I have company over since the CRT I play on alone is only 14". It really doesn't look half bad and I genuinely prefer the way they look through a scaler to the way they do emulated on the same display

>>8610508
>I genuinely prefer the way they look through a scaler to the way they do emulated on the same display
Then you're either a moron, or you haven't really played around with Retroarch at all.

>>8610513
Rude! I've messed around with Retroarch plenty, but for some reason I enjoy playing with all that physical media that I collected for the sake of using much more.

>>8610537
>but for some reason I enjoy playing with all that physical media that I collected for the sake of using much more.
Sounds like mental illness to me. It's one thing to prefer the original controllers, it's quite another to get high off the "experience" of hunting through stacks of carts and discs. That shit is tedium incarnate.

>>8610546
I don't have stacks and stacks; I have like two shelves of games on my bookshelf and a book of CDs. No offense, but getting this invested in how someone else plays video games comes across as a little more mentally ill than what I do.

>>8609657
Yeah, setups like that always seem like they're more about interior-decoration using old consoles rather than it being a place where these old consoles are actually ever used

When someone buys a console to play ONE single game, and makes an entire cabinet or paint job or whatever, dedicated to that game, that's real aesthetics. Owning everything just shows you're a consumer and nothing more.

>>8610732
>PS2
>only own 007 Agent Under Fire
>Xbox
>only own Splinter Cell
>Wii
>only own Twilight Princess
>3DS
>only own Cubic Ninja

>>8610914
>3DS
>only own Cubic Ninja
woop woop pimp alert woop woop

>>8606751
>Thick enough to handle big CRTs
>>8608005
This anon is completely correct
The Kallax is cheap, sure, and can handle smaller units but it really should not be your endgame. It will buckle, and it will break.
Take a weekend and build yourself a table with shelves for your CRT. It'll hold up the rest of your life and something that simple requires minimal tools and experience.

Just get stuff like this.
I have one with shelves and glass doors on the front that open. It's pretty nice.

I have a wall mounted lcd/led tv with ossc And I have a crt tv. Behind my consoles I have the plugs laying and I can plug in for whatever tv I am in the mood for.

>>8606656
>framed movie/videogame posters
>toys/figurines on display
>20 different consoles hooked up to a modern lcd
100% manchild

>>8611052
I want to replace my old chest of drawers with a bigger fancier one made of construction lumber, maybe even with some shelves at the top for storing controllers and shit. But the prices for shit like plywood are insane, and if I build the whole thing out of 2x4s I'm going to lose half the space.

>>8610497
Ossc doesn't look bad.

>>8611098

>>8611098
It looks like shit compared to some nice CRT filters.

>>8611102
On what planet is this true

>>8611091
Yeah, plywood is fucked right now, but it's still cheaper than buying a premade table that can also support a CRT

>>8611108
This one.

>>8611137
They both look pretty nice, yours just has a scanline filter over it

>>8606656
Are those consoles even plugged into anything?

>>8606656
I just put my consoles on the floor. I do not give two fucks anymore. Not spending money on cheap plywood shelf’s that will bow and sag in a year or so.

>>8611102
I used the fake crt filters on sonic mania and it didnt look bad. I liked it.

>>8611061
Eh, I just don't like the look of that. Clashes with the old consoles, CRTs, stereo hifi setups, etc. Ideally I'd like to have a couple A/V racks for everything

What did people mean by when you have a ossc it uncovers lost artifacts ?
It can bring in textures that were missing ? I dont get that. But when you activate scanlines it somehow does make the games better and have more depth and feel. And i change the color gains too. To make things look nicer.

>they said that cheap wood cabinets cant hold crts.

>>8611206
Yes it does have glass doors

>>8611206
That stand actually was designed to hold a CRT though, so it was built to be sturdy enough. You can tell due to how it's trapezoidal, tapering toward the back. This was common with stands designed to handle CRTs since the back tapering mirrors a CRT's footprint and weight balance

Obviously that one wasn't meant for a tube that big, but still

I've been thinking of getting pic related for my setup (20 inch pvm)
The problem I most often encounter is that few pieces of furniture are deep enough so that the unit sits comfortably well on it.

Also can you guys post some compact setups? I wanna get some inspo for mine.

>>8611227
Even though there just supposed to be for storage the shelves in the OP, ikea kallax, are surprisingly the exact size necessary to hold a 27" CRT. The back of the tube juts out a few inches but it can support the entire base of the TV, at least of mine

>>8611262
*they're, sorry everybody. i fucked up

>>8611249
I'd just take the feet off and make sure the majority of the unit sits on the surface. You can also pull the furniture away from the wall a bit, because CRTs are front heavy anyway so you want as much of the front over the surface as possible, and the back hanging off a bit doesn't matter.

>>8610537
The bigger issue is space. At some point you either need a dedicated room with wall to wall shelving to hold everything for easy access. Otherwise you're dealing with crates on top of crates and your "game room" is more like an electronics trash heap. Back in the day when you were a kid you tended to game in a bedroom or basement that shared space with other things. Replicating that as an adult, where those other things are important to you because you now value sleep and doing laundry and shit, the video games start to become a nuisance with all their wiring and weird shapes everywhere and suddenly your parents objections start making a whole lot of sense.

>>8611249
Looks a bit thin to hold a 20" pvmeme. I certainly wouldn't risk mine on that. Not to mention I'm pretty sure that's not deep enough. And on top of needing enough depth to safely hold the CRT, you also need a bit of extra room in the back with how the chassis sticks out a little and you need room for the cables sticking out too.

>>8611249
14" PVM, on the middle level i have an N64, SNES, Wii and on the bottom I have a PS2 and speakers
Not crazy about the speakers being basically on the ground but its the only place I feel comfortable having them because they're not shielded

On a related topic, anyone have a decent solution to storing N64 carts? I have a fairly large amount of them to the point where trying to find a specific game can be a pain in the ass, due to the lack of end-labels. I know lots of people get around this by putting stickers on the top, but that just looks really shitty to me.

>>8611284
I agree, but I don't have a big enough collection for it to have become a problem and never had any intentions of getting to that point. All of my stuff is in boxes and on a bookshelf.

>>8611284
>and suddenly your parents objections start making a whole lot of sense.
Based. Minimalist living is the answer.

>>8611512
>Based. Minimalist living is the answer.
Eat the bugs and own nothing, sure buddy.

I love owning mountains of pointless plastic crap. The idea that in 50 years it might be fucking impossible to get a Densha de Go controller fills me with an abject sense of dread that can only be overcome by knowing that I have one lying around so I don't have to worry about ebay prices going up to 500 bucks when some zoomer tuber makes a video about it.

>>8611284
>>8611512
I know no one here is going to believe me, but I have an entire separate house I use as my "game room"/office. Not a big house, but I inherited it and its cheap enough to maintain to keep both while using the other home(my parents old house) as a normy, real human adult façade.

Why am I such a weirdo for just wanting to own a library of games and keep them on a shelf

>>8611052
>wood
>lasting the rest of my life
Maybe if I die in the next couple of years. Down here, the humidity will destroy anything it can get its hands on. I don’t buy organic shit, because it’s just going to be ruined by mold. Even with dehumidifiers.

>>8611520
>The idea that in 50 years it might be fucking impossible to get a Densha de Go controller fills me with an abject sense of dread that can only be overcome by knowing that I have one lying around
I honestly don't mean this to sound condescending, but you'll likely grow out of that desire to accumulate due to FOMO as you gain life experience. I used to have a huge collection myself, I sold most of it on eBay around 2012-2013 and earned close to 20k, when the prices weren't as batshit crazy as they are now so it was quite the haul. I kept a little bit for myself and then over the years I ended up letting go of everything. I'm not saying to let everything go, but you'll learn that there's really no point in owning everything just for the sake of having it. It's worthwhile to just keep sentimentals and favorites, and then everything else is backed up eternally to the web for your access at any time.
I'm only recommending this because it feels great. I can fit everything I own into the back of a sedan, sans bed, and with that comes an abject sense of freedom for me personally.

>>8611524
Nice, I wouldn't waste such an opportunity on video games though, I'd probably set up a full gym.

>>8611568
While this kind of mindset is true of software, I can't see it being a reality for hardware any time soon. Will we all eventually be playing PS1 games through FPGAs? Sure. But how many people are going to be producing reproduction Densha de Go controllers? How much research will they put into the detent points? Today I considered getting a backup for my PDP versus pad, only to find that the prices have gone up 100% since a year or two back, and I can't even find one in my country now.

Personally I don't care much about freedom of movement, if someone told me tomorrow I'd die in this room I wouldn't really care.

>>8606656
>LCD
If you're going to this much trouble to display your shit you should have a 36" or larger CRT.

Put your consoles and games out of sight in a closet or cabinet.
Have one or two consoles connected to a CRT at any given time with a few games picked out to focus on for that week or month.

>>8611672
no

>>8611652
I understand your perspective if you love, for example, Densha de Go. Like truly love it and play it all the time, and see yourself playing it 10 years from now. But lets say you also own a Sega Virtual-On twin joystick, but yet you don't love Virtual-On. What purpose is there in owning said controller if it's game is not a lifelong passion for you? You may say:
>To experience the game the way it was intended.
Alright, fair. But now that you've experienced it, and decidedly don't love the game enough for you to play it all the time, why hold on to the controller and even the game itself?

>>8611524
It's amazing how fucking lazy I am because if I had a second gaming house I would rather just emulate than take the five minutes to put on pants and drive there.

Flash drives and ODEs make a nice compromise. You can have an authentic game room with all the real hardware without the glut of hundreds of games. It means the difference between a single wall's worth of space vs. an entire home office's worth.

What I really wish someone would do, to really seal the deal, is convert all the game covers/manuals/paperwork inserts into full color e-reader format so you could even flip through the manuals and shit. Because in general that's the one thing that still makes physical copies somewhat valuable to own as I do like a lot of that stuff.

>>8611768
Because I might play it again in a year or two. Sure, I could sell it and hope that I can rebuy it at the same price then, or I could just keep it, because lets face it, this stuff doesn't take up much space.

I bought a guitar 5 years ago, used it for a month, and it's been lying around my room ever since. A few weeks ago I felt like picking it up again, changed a few strings, started learning chords again, and I'm having fun with it. If I sold it then tried to buy it again? Well, I'd be out a few hundred bucks, because the price on these has jumped up.

If you want to live out of the back of your car, fair enough. Personally, I have enough space that I can just keep all this shit indefinitely without it bothering me.

>>8611530
Do you have a library of games and keep them on a shelf? If you don't then you probably just have the itch. I see this with arcade cabinets. Nothing will turn you off to owning an arcade cabinet more than helping a friend actually move one. As a kid the thought of having one in my house was a dream. Now that I know what they actually look like in a residential setting? Hell no. It's like really weird porn where you're immediately grossed out the second you nut.

>>8611794
You'll understand my position better in time and experience. You'll find that your world view consolidates and you have no more time or desire for anything you merely "like" and there's only time in the world for what you "love". FOMO goes away at that point too, which is nice. Best of luck.

>>8611249
You know it's funny because it's that style of ikea cabinet I'm looking to replace. Its served me well, looks nice and fits all the consoles but it's a little too open for me. Plus no storage drawers at the bottom so I've been throwing all my stuff in fabric boxes underneath. Now that we've moved the missus wants to turn it into a pantry and figured I'd look for something better.

it's a pain in the ass trying to find new TV stands that can fit a CRT in it. I had to punch a hole out of the back of my besta tv bench to make room for my CRT inside it.

>>8606751
The og xbox fits in mine but i doubt it has enough space to stay well ventilated so i take it out when i want to actually use it

>>8611804
I do have a library of games on a shelf. I'm just confused as to why this thread doesn't see any sort of happy medium between not owning anything physically and owning arcade cabinets or enough shit to fill up an entire room. Like what's up with this guy >>8610546 or these guys >>8611284 >>8611520 >>8611524
I could feasibly pack up every physical game I own in like two boxes, and I of course take that into account whenever I plan on adding anything to my library.

>>8611791
I have a shitload of games across various consoles and they still only take up a relatively narrow bookshelf in total. The meme setups that look like the inside of a gamestop, with rows upon rows of games, is an infinitesimally small minorty.

fpbp

>>8612138
>>8612295
These both make sense. I think people are generally reacting to OP's pic. It's not really taking into account the average person who has maybe 40-50 games total which isn't going to take up that much space at all. In fact, even a fullset of one of the less dominant consoles looks surprisingly space efficient on a bookshelf. Like I wouldn't necessarily be against aiming at something relatively compact like a full N64 or Dreamcast set. Even a US Saturn or Sega CD would be neat if it didn't cost a billion dollars.

>>8611689
yes