well i've been lurking around for long enough now, and i think i've accumulated some interesting stuff, so it's high time i did one of these. tv and my console cabinet, with the cd-i sitting forlornly off to the side. got the cabinet from an unfinished furniture place, but never did get around to cutting out cable holes in the backing so everything is strung out the doors. it's admittedly a mess to have everything plugged in all the time but i'm a lazy lazy bastard and wouldn't have it any other way. if i had to go fiddling behind the tv every time i wanted to play a game i'd just give up and switch to playing scrabble or something. close-up of inside the cabinet. the other ps2 in there is a test, next to the halo xbox. i usually hate transparent consoles because i think they look cheap and tacky, but this was free when a co-worker was getting rid of his and you can't really argue with a price like that. have a space open still, maybe if i can ever find the guy i sold my nes to when i was a kid i'll have something to go there. not quite up for expanding to the pc engine yet! and an overview of how things normally look. i don't really know why those n64 games are there, now that i think about it. shit now i want to play pokemon snap. a closer look at those racks. i'd prefer something a little nicer looking with glass doors to keep out the copious amounts of dust, but there's only so much space in my apartment and these were five bucks each since i caught a for sale flyer while visiting a friend's building. so for the time being i guess it'll do. and a look under the coffee table i use fora desk, where my ps1 longboxes and ds games currently live. the longboxes are just big enough to keep them from ever fitting into any dvd racks, hurr thanks sega and sony. playstation games, boxes one and two with the three new games that spilled over. don't know if it's my favorite console, but i'd definitely say it's one of the most robust, especially when taking into account its surprisingly excellent import library. i consider it a matter of pride to see no green borders here. playstation box three, with ps1 imports and my dreamcast stuff in the fourth. never been a huge fan of the dc but has a lot of interesting stuff nevertheless. xbox stuff is off to the side but i have nowhere good to display or store them at the moment. handhelds, top drawer: mostly imports along with whatever stuff i'm playing at the moment. i love me some classic game boy, fellas. and the bottom drawer. there's really no good way to store old gameboy games so here they are stacked twenty deep on the side. anyone have suggestions here? maybe i can nick the display unit from a closing gamestop sometime... closet of miscellany, top floor. couple of boxes, games for a psp i don't have (yet). n64 and saturn games are off to the side but there aren't very many of either so not going to bother showing them. middle rows with all my famicom, fds, sfc and my one 64dd game. working design sets are here because hell if i can figure out where else to put them. the pc games i didn't leave at home are all below that, next to my pile of trades and doubles. if i had to pick something that was really assembler material it'd be my fds collection. not easy or cheap to get all this stuff in such nice condition from my side of the ocean. just realized i forgot to take pictures of my duffel bag full of nes games and the super nes crate, but oh well. maybe next time! although a few final pictures are needed to give credit to the real stars of my collection. the belkin 12 outlet (that's the be112230-08 folks) surge protector that keeps all my consoles working and fed with delicious electricity: the behringer ma400 mini headphone amp, which makes everything sound nice and lets me play games as loud as i want at three am without getting evicted: and the pelican system selector pro (with an older model to handle composite-only systems). not perfect, but damn if it isn't the best multi-system switchbox i've seen for the money, considering most expensive receivers don't have nearly enough inputs for me.
Lovely setup. I spy a Hori Digitial GCN pad... lots of people love them, I don't know if I just landed a duff one but mine was far too stiff. Shame, really. Otocky caught my eye as well - I've been pondering getting an FDS just to play it. Is that a special edition or is the box normally that size?
thanks, pretty happy i have everything all set up so i can just pop in a game and play it without having to dig stuff out of a closet. the hori pad has been nothing but awesome for me, i'm a dyed in the wool dpad user so it comes in handy playing ikaruga or viewtiful joe. unfortuantely i suck at both, but hey. otocky's box really is that size; a lot of non-nintendo fds games came in big box sets, especially squaresoft's dog titles and the wavejack games. be warned that otocky starts out really fun but eventually becomes extremely hard. like, finger-snapping hard. you have to get all the musical notes in each stage, of which there is a fixed amount. if you get hit you loose notes, and the more you loose the weaker and shorter your attack gets, making it incredibly frustrating by the time you get to stage 10 or so. the freeform, no death music creator mode is good times, though!
Viewtiful Joe is nails hard. Between that and Joe not shutting the fuck up, not ever, I gave up on it. I think someone told me there was a cheat that would give you more lives and make the game more reasonable, but I'd lost interest. What else is there that's worth playing on the FDS? And what is "GDC Radio"?
to tell the truth i think viewtiful joe is boring - a little too strict with the powers and too few of them to use, feels like there's no room for freeform play and experimentation. i'll take god hand over any other modern beat-em-up. on fds, i'd recommend mario 2, bio miracle bokutte upa, esper dream, kick challenger airfoot and ai senshi nicol. moero twinbee is a good time if you have some people for three player mode. doki doki panic is fun but not as detailed as mario usa; also goes for a lot of money and is notoriously hard to get working. wardner no mori, hao kun no fushigi na tabi, mekyuu jin dababa, nazo no murasame jo, otocky and keita princess are all pretty good but have marked flaws. arumana no kiseki is balls hard and makes you change the disk every time you continue so you'd be better off saving your poor fds the strain and getting it on cart. the others are mostly decent little shooters. still looking for several other titles, myself, so there's plenty left to explore on the system.
English: Very good collection. It has liked me a lot this \\\"64 DD\\\" and this \\\"WonderSwan\\\" that have in the drawer. Congratulations Spanish: Muy buena colección. Me ha gustado mucho ese "64 DD" y esa "WonderSwan" que tienes en el cajón. Enhorabuena. ***MessageTranslated in www.interbusca.com***
hrrm. it seems i've forgotten my espanol! at leat google can fill the gaps in my memory, heh. gracias, umbrella (y andoba, tambien de espana? ) "wonderswan" es una machina muy agradable. muchos juegos, estrano y intersante! pero, el japonese hace muy dificil a comprender. sera un grande tiempo antes de comprendo. by the way, alchy, i forgot about your question; gdc radio is the online download system for audio recordings of sessions from the game developer's conference. i went as a voulnteer the last two years and always wind up with extras.
I did a bit of research on it myself last night, it sounds like fascinating stuff. Now I'm trying to figure out how I can afford the game-audio-related CDs. $99 each is bad enough, but to charge $60 for international shipping just seems mean (it's an MP3 CD for fuck's sake!)... I'm trying to coerce my department to buy them, but I don't know whether they'll be interested. I think I'll probably end up just picking and choosing a couple of the more interesting ones and going from there. Thanks for raising awareness of it, anyway.
i still have three or four that haven't been used. should work fine, if you want them. i didn't get to attend many of the sessions i wanted this year, but the portal one was particularly good. packed wall-to-wall too - i offered to help out so i could get in.
Nice setup you have there :nod: That Behringer ma400 mini headphone amp looks like an interesting piece of kit. I'm guessing your TV sound output is connected to it and you simply plug in your headphones. Does plugging into the Behringer instead of the TV make a big difference? And what headphones are you using?
He uses Koss TD-80s (this isn't some secret ninja headphone deduction shit, take a look at the second-to-last image)
Yeah, poor we >_< But I couldn't have them all connected all the time anyway. My MD1 adaptor is getting so hot, I can barely touch it after one day of being plugged in. And it starts to smell like burned plastic too... well SEGA probably didn't use high quality adaptors back then as it's the only adaptor I have those issues with.
panzer mike, i just have a connector from the tv out into the behringer amp, like you thought. it makes quite a difference for me, as the tv's output is extremely low on its own and before i got the amp i could barely hear anything (the phones themselves are ancient and tattered, i need new ones but a good pair costs so much). yeah, you pal guys are heros for putting up with all the shit you have to deal with for the sake of videogames. americans are definitely spoiled in that refard!
I'm kind of numb and/or ignorant of it now. The memories of waiting months to pay double American prices (or more) for a new game are just a dull ache, and I like many others these days sidestep the whole issue by importing every damn thing instead of writing into Mean Machines Sega or praying to the Nintendo gods that they may grace us with a new game.
