Post your Gaming Setups

[marcus]

Today I bought a glass AV rack from a store local to me, it fits everything in nicely enough and cost me ?249. Notably, my Gamecube is missing from the picture, its currently in a bag in my wardrobe as I need the component input and cant warrent the little time I spend using it anymore. It will resurrect, but for the time being there is more than enough on the PS2 and XBox to keep me happy.

The only other thing I may plan to buy is a Arcam FMJ power amp to complement at A32, first impressions of the amp are good but I wonder if its lacking the thump of my last amp+power amp setup. I need to do more tweaking to be sure though.

I also need to hide the wires properly, but thats a job and a half I tell ta.

[Jakeway]

007... your room is way to clean.

Here is My Room Size Not really the best pic.... but you get the idea.

[Uli]

marcus, what dashboard are you currently running on your modded Xbox? maybe a new version of nextgen?

[demon9k]

007... your room is way to clean.

Here is My Room Size Not really the best pic.... but you get the idea.

All you folks have massive rooms! Great set-ups in them all, espcially 007. Looks class

Also thats a cool Dashboard marcus 8)

[Madbury]

Finally I've managed to get some digital pics of my setup. Thanks Charles

Real Bout Fatal Fury 2, Running on a cab in my garage


Metal Slug...




Rack of Controllers, cables and devices.






Jaguar, Snes, Megadrive and Master System games.














Gamecube, Lynx, GBA and XBox Games


Dreamcast, Saturn, PSX and PS2 Games


NUON and PS2, currently sitting in the living room

[marcus]

Uli, my Xbox dash is a hacked Microsoft dashboard. I have a few themes, like Halo for example, but love this one the most, it also plays random music from Silent Hill 3 soundtrack in the background. It was constructed for me by Inertia who has made numerous Xbox dashboards on his site.

Madbury, nice man

[John Beaulieu]

madbury's would be nicer if i didn't have to twist my neck to view them

how much was the cab dude - and what is it packing?

and what sharp tv is that in the bottom pic?

[Madbury]

Yeah sorry about that. Charles is hosting them, so I can't change the orientation.

Cab was ?250 It is basically a brand new cab (very small dent in one corner). It's Chinese in origin so its their version of a Japanese cab. Its actually quite small which suits me fine, but has a 29" rotatable monitor so the picture is nice and big. Purchased it from a guy in Romsey.

The sticks and buttons again are Chinese, but they are all microswitched (natch) and actually have a good feel to them. The button layout is wired so that the top 4 are set up for Neo Geo and the bottom 3 are free for installing a kick harness which I don't have. Cab also has twin speakers which are plenty loud enough, lockable doors and coin box and a working coin mech that accepts UK 10p, but obviously I could switch it out for a proper UK one.

Its wired for JAMMA, so I'm using a MVS 1F motherboard to play my MVS carts. I need to adjust the picture as it is a little blured, but I can't bare to turn it on and not have a go.


TV is a sharp 28" widescreen, which I picked up last year. It was pretty cheap for what you got back then (around ?350 I think). Reason for purchase was the fact that it has 3 scart sockets on the back and inputs on the front, so its ideal for my needs. Doens't do anything flash like prog scan though

[Uli]

Uli, my Xbox dash is a hacked Microsoft dashboard. I have a few themes, like Halo for example, but love this one the most, it also plays random music from Silent Hill 3 soundtrack in the background. It was constructed for me by Inertia who has made numerous Xbox dashboards on his site.

sounds interesting! have you got a link for me?

[superkully]

Madbury: Nice collection there... and so organised... Do I sense the touch of a woman?

But I have to know, why on earth do you have an Atari Lynx?!?

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The only other thing I may plan to buy is a Arcam FMJ power amp to complement at A32, first impressions of the amp are good but I wonder if its lacking the thump of my last amp+power amp setup. I need to do more tweaking to be sure though.

What is the make of that rack? I think its the same as mine.

Can I make a suggestion on your hifi though Marcus. See if you can borrow a couple of bookshelf speakers like these:



Those are BW601 S3's. See if your local hifi store will let you borrow their display set [most will do for a 50 quid deposit or something] I suspect given your room size and quality of these speakers you'll get a much improved sound that you get from those floor standers [Assume you have decent speaker cable] without having to go down the power amp route.

Cheers,
Neil.

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Madbury has that guy got any more cabs? Got a contact url/phone number?

Neil.

[charlesr]

The idea of congratulating Marcus on his "nice rack" is doing my head in...

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http://www.ratemyrack.com/

[Madbury]

Madbury: Nice collection there... and so organised... Do I sense the touch of a woman?

But I have to know, why on earth do you have an Atari Lynx?!?

Cheers, there are a few games missing from the wall cabinets. Actually its all my own doing, but given the space (allocated by the girlfriend) they're pretty dandy wall units that can take a lot of goodies.

The lynx was a sort of spur of the moment thing. There are some good games on it Steel Talons, Chips Challenge etc etc. I got the lynx fairly cheap and everything else I picked up from Game when they restocked Lynx stuff about 18 months ago.

Neil I will PM you...