/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10698526]

Does anyone have a recommended method to safely mount a larger 27" CRT on its side for playing TATE mode games? I've got a 27" D-Series and recently found myself a 27" Trinitron. Now I'm thinking I'd like to orient the JVC sideways for arcade and shmups. The side of the TV is definitely not flat, and I'm wondering what I need to do to safely keep it rotated sideways as I've read others have successfully done this.

Pic related for reference purposes, however I'm not married to the idea of it having to be tilted upward.

[Anonymous No.10698543]

I remember watching a riggel video about this, he stands up a 27" flat trinitron by screwing several planks of wood to the top of his cabinet to compensate for the empty space on the back of the casing, and also uses the hole on the back (think like the thing car's have so you on the back so you can tie them to each other) to strap it down to the base of the cabinet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ8cnK-QJLw

[Anonymous No.10698550]

>>10698526
>that JVC crt sitting on its side like that

[Anonymous No.10698573]

>>10698526
Here's your excuse to get a proper, box-shaped PVM

[Anonymous No.10698575]

>>10698573
>you HAVE to buy my pvm for 500 dollars
t. pvm seller

[Anonymous No.10698592]

>>10698550
Does that wear them out quicker or something?

[Anonymous No.10698597]

>>10698592
When it falls the fuck over, yeah.

[Anonymous No.10698598]

>>10698592
It's just very unstable. They're not mounted inside to lay on their sides like that. You get stress in a lot of wrong places and if it's not absolutely secure the thing might just fall over. I wouldn't do something like that if you have small children or pets.

[Anonymous No.10698607]

>>10698575
I don't care about PVMs but it is one legitimately good reason to get one if you insist on turning a TV or monitor on it's side.

[Anonymous No.10698629]

>>10698598
I don't think that guy has children lmao (he might have a cat though).

[Anonymous No.10698632]

>>10698629
You would be surprised. The top CRT guys (in terms of experience, how many they have, knowledge, so on) are all married middle aged white men with kids.

[Anonymous No.10698671]

>>10698632
Oh well in that case, if I were a middle aged father with that stuff, I'd be worried the little fuckers would touch and fuck up my shit.

[Anonymous No.10698672]

>>10698592
It's just waiting to fucking bounce off.

[Anonymous No.10698676]

>>10698632
>The top CRT guys
Hahahahahaha wow
Are the top CRT guys officially ranked or something

[Anonymous No.10698695]

>>10698632
Because they’re mostly boomer normies who worked on the machines when they were standard tech.

[Anonymous No.10698701]

>>10698550
how do you even comfortably sit in front of it with it tilted like that?

[Anonymous No.10698712]

>>10698701
you don’t, you wait till your parents yell at you with an eviction threat until you put the tv back where it fuckin’ belongs.

[Anonymous No.10698783]

>>10698712
No they just go
>why don't you get a normal TV?

[Anonymous No.10698785]

>>10698526
It's such a weird optical illusion that the screen looks like it gets wider when put on it's side.

[Anonymous No.10698906]

>>10698526
Just lay on your side on your couch and evey horizontal screen is now vertical.

[Anonymous No.10698909]

>>10698526
Make a mount out of some angle from the hardware store and weld it together and screw it to the case

[Anonymous No.10698986]

when I was a kid I used to flip my parent's 27 inch sony crt on it's side to play ikaruga and then just put it back before they got home so they wouldn't get pissed. nothing bad happened to the TV, i don't think you need to do anything special

[Anonymous No.10698991]

>>10698986
Not all TV's have a square side anon

[Anonymous No.10699148]

>>10698526
Build a custom stand out of 2x4 to hold the consumer set safety on its side. It might nit be pretty so paint it black sonic doesn't stand out.

[Anonymous No.10699269]

>>10698632
Wrong. I'm the number 1 CRT guy and I've never kissed a girl.

[Anonymous No.10699287]

>>10698632
top crt guy here
i dont have kids
but have dated some attractive females with kids
didnt let any crt fall on them
didnt have a tate crt setup until last year


i use sony pvm
before that i was using whatever 12-20" sets i could find and putting them on a padded chair kek

not great for long term use but for quick pcb testing / arcade shit its fine


those big jvc/wega/etc are gonna be too heavy to support their own fatness on their side
maybe a decase +custom metal frame & bolts


>>10698575
imagine hating sony tvs this much kek
both of mine were under $200
which is cheaper than my alienware 240hz 27" displays
those are rotateable too and less of a fall risk / pussy drying device

[Anonymous No.10699689]

>>10699287
>i dont have kids
>but have dated some attractive females with kids
Confirmed not top.

[Anonymous No.10699690]

>>10698526
just ask this smart black woman: https://youtu.be/qmEEbO1xRuw

[Anonymous No.10699701]

what are the current top rankings of CRT guys?

[Anonymous No.10699757]

>>10699269
>Sha-la-la-la-la-la
>Why oh why
>CRT Guy
>Never kiss the girl!

[Anonymous No.10699828]

>>10699269
Girls will never give you the tingling sensation in your face when you kiss them, unlike kissing the image of an animu girl on your crt screen.

[Anonymous No.10699876]

>>10698676
>he doesn’t know about our monthly power rankings

[Anonymous No.10700058]

>>10699689
its called being facetious >;^)

[Anonymous No.10700063]

>>10699757
based, saved, archived for further use

[Anonymous No.10700132]

>>10698676
>he doesn't know
lol okay

[Anonymous No.10700740]

Obviously you're gonna have to build some sort of custom box that supports the TV on all sides and keeps the screen upright. Go get some wood and screws.