Retro gaming setups

[davyk]

Rearranged the room I have set aside for my retro consoles, CRTs etc. Looks a bit tidier now.  I have an RGB switch (the silver box to the right of the rotated CRT I use for shmups) that connects most of the consoles to that 28" CRT on the left (yeah - that's a really big rubik's cube!).  The flat panel on the right I use with the Japanese Gamecube you see beside it as it accepts s-video and that's the best the JP-GC can do without a mod. It's on an extendable, rotatable arm which is handy for the shmups I have on the JP-GC.

[TrekMD]

Nice set up! 

[Shadowrunner]

Cool! I like that TV on its side

[davyk]

Cool! I like that TV on its side

Is a must for a lot of shooting games on 32bit era consoles and later. 

[compot]

That's a pretty neat set-up. But how do you rotate the picture 90 degrees for shooter games on that sideways tv?

[davyk]

The better games on ps1,saturn,ps2 gc,dreamcast etc have options for playing this way. Its called TATE mode. Pronounce "tah...tay".

[Shadowrunner]

Huh, here I've been saying it wrong all these years lol. Never knew that's how it was pronounced.

[davyk]

I was same for a long time. It wasn't until I read a few articles and maybe something at shmups.com that explained the pronounciation. It's to do with the Japanese word for upright or something like that.

[compot]

The better games on ps1,saturn,ps2 gc,dreamcast etc have options for playing this way. Its called TATE mode. Pronounce "tah...tay".

Allright, hope you don't mind if I steal your idea and flip one of my TV's sideways too.

[davyk]

The better games on ps1,saturn,ps2 gc,dreamcast etc have options for playing this way. Its called TATE mode. Pronounce "tah...tay".

Allright, hope you don't mind if I steal your idea and flip one of my TV's sideways too.

Lots of people do it     Just make sure you have the games!

When rotating a CRT, make sure it is powered off and left for 10-15mins. Rotate it. Leave it for 5mins and then away you go. If you rotate a TV while powered up you can get weird bands of colour.  Obviously try and find a TV with a nice flat side. A domestic TV isn't supposed to operate like this so I never leave it unattended while powered up - just to be on the safe side - even though I have been doing it for years with a few different models.

Games I own or have owned that that support it:

PS1 - Namco Museum (quite a few early Namco games are TATE - Pacman for instance and this is an option), Xevious 3D/G+ (the classic Xevious games have TATE modes), Space Invaders 2000 (classic Space Invaders is another TATE game)

Saturn - DoDonPachi, Game Paradise,Layer Section, Kingdom GrandPrix

PS2 - DoDOnPachi Dao Ou Jou, Dragon Blaze, Castle Shikigami 1 & 2, Espgaluda, Homura, Psyvariar, Raiden III, Samurai Aces, Tengai, XII Stag.

Dreamcast - Gunbird2, ( I don't own Under Defeat and Ikaruga but I know they support it)

Gamecube - Castle Shikigami 2, Radirgy Generic, Ikaruga

360 - Mushihmesama Futari, DoDonPachi Resurrection, Muchi Much Pork & Pink Sweets, Under Defeat HD, DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou

Steam - Mushihimesama, Raiden III, Raiden IV

[zapiy]

Lovely setup m8, much better than mine.

I see you have a few Jap versions of the various consoles!

[davyk]

Too many!!!

There are 2 JP Saturns on show, the black GC is Japanese and the N64 is a Japanese modded for RGB. I have an unmodded one in storage I should really sell. The silver slim PS2 is Japanese. The rest are PAL though the Megadrive and SNES are modded. I use a boot disc on Dreamcast for thew imports I have for that.

[Sanddancer]

Hi new to the forum, thought id share mine and my brothers collection, been collecting since about 2011, have a about 1100 games so not all on display :-), dont have as much time as id like to play these days with 2 young boys but i enjoy it all the more when i do find time :-)

[zapiy]

Nice collection going on there m8, whats your fav stuff to collect?

[TrekMD]

Welcome to the forum!  Very nice set up and collection!