Hey peeps. The time as come where I?m finally getting settled into the house i bought last September and we can use the back-bedroom for something other than dumping DIY kit in. So of course standard to any gaming nerds first house there is going to have to be a little retro corner. The back bedroom is gonna be primarily for the missus to read in and get out of the way when i'm HD gaming on current gen consoles in the living room so I can't overwhelm the place with crap. Also I'm not exactly rolling in the cash to the goal is to be cheap and useful for when i get that retro hunger. I love my gun games in particular, they can't be beat
Last night i picked me up a good CRT TV for next to nothing, not 4:3 but it's a good size and has freeview in case the GF wants to watch stuff. In case you're interested it's a Sony KD-28DX50U.
So, here's what I have at the moment, not a great collection, made up of my original stuff (DC) stuff i got dirt cheap (Mega Drive) and stuff I got free (SNES & Jag)
* PAL UK Dreamcast
* PAL UK Mega Drive 1 + Mega CD1 + 32x
* PAL UK Original Black Xbox 1 (bit rough around the edges)
* PAL UK Crystal Xbox 1
* PAL UK Atari Jaguar (hey i got it free!)
* PAL UK SNES (no cables and battered with fag burns)
* US Virtual Boy
Ideas I've had for expansion:
* PS2 for Time Crisis 2 and other
* Saturn for Virtua Cop 1 & 2
* Replacing the Mega Drive rig with a Jap one cos i had a jap one in my youth and i just love that purple
* Some form of N64, I?d love to get a 64DD as I lusted over them back in the day but buying one could be prohibitively expensive
* A modded SNES of some sorts
* Chipping the black Xbox to act as a media centre to stream stuff off the network
I could do with some general advice and suggestions on what I can do with this project of course bearing in mind I don't want to be spending the big bucks.
One question in particular what do you guys use for SCART switching? I'm gonna have a heck of a lot of stuff to go into 2 SCART plugs (only one of which is RGB).
Last night i picked me up a good CRT TV for next to nothing, not 4:3 but it's a good size and has freeview in case the GF wants to watch stuff. In case you're interested it's a Sony KD-28DX50U.
So, here's what I have at the moment, not a great collection, made up of my original stuff (DC) stuff i got dirt cheap (Mega Drive) and stuff I got free (SNES & Jag)
* PAL UK Dreamcast
* PAL UK Mega Drive 1 + Mega CD1 + 32x
* PAL UK Original Black Xbox 1 (bit rough around the edges)
* PAL UK Crystal Xbox 1
* PAL UK Atari Jaguar (hey i got it free!)
* PAL UK SNES (no cables and battered with fag burns)
* US Virtual Boy
Ideas I've had for expansion:
* PS2 for Time Crisis 2 and other
* Saturn for Virtua Cop 1 & 2
* Replacing the Mega Drive rig with a Jap one cos i had a jap one in my youth and i just love that purple
* Some form of N64, I?d love to get a 64DD as I lusted over them back in the day but buying one could be prohibitively expensive
* A modded SNES of some sorts
* Chipping the black Xbox to act as a media centre to stream stuff off the network
I could do with some general advice and suggestions on what I can do with this project of course bearing in mind I don't want to be spending the big bucks.
One question in particular what do you guys use for SCART switching? I'm gonna have a heck of a lot of stuff to go into 2 SCART plugs (only one of which is RGB).
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