Show Your Retro\Arcade Collection

OwaynOTT

EnterNow wrote: »

More pics of selection boxes, less waddle

Los Lobos

OwaynOTT wrote: »

I think waddle is meant to be 'curly-wurly'

o1s1n

Los Lobos wrote: »

I think waddle is meant to be 'curly-wurly'

Well 'f' is beside 'd' on the keyboard...I think enternow wants to see less potato waffles.

CiDeRmAn

I think he meant to say "twaddle", which means someone has been watching too much Downton Abbey.....
Next thing he'll be accusing Atavan of having it away with one of the servant girls and now she'll have to be sent away!

Myrddin

Waddle is a word for ballsology. At least, I think it is

safetyboy

crappy phone pic of a few bits..

Burkey0

safetyboy wrote: »

crappy phone pic of a few bits..

Boxed Secret of Mana? Ye Jammy Arab ye

The Last Bandit

Still amazed how much I managed to squeeze into the small box room.





Not got much in the way of boxed stuff, although those Jaguar games are still in the shrink wrap.





Work-in-progress 'supergun' really needs a case

Andrew76

@The Last Bandit - slick setup dude, very nice. Nice to see the Atari ST getting some love too (although I was/am in the Amiga camp myself). PCB on the carpet though? :eek:

o1s1n

Indeed, I'd at least stick some feet on that board!

The Last Bandit

o1s1n wrote: »

Indeed, I'd at least stick some feet on that board!

Ah its fine like that, doesn't usually live on the carpet

CosmicSmash

I had to relinquish my games room to an expanding family and most of the collection now resides in a ikea wardrobe. It's a good way of organising games if you are tight on room. Could have posted pictures here before many moons ago.




http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/1062/cl6b.jpg
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CiDeRmAn

Very nice, very neat, I envy your tight collection!
Mine looks like an explosion in RAGE!

CosmicSmash

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Very nice, very neat, I envy your tight collection!
Mine looks like an explosion in RAGE!

Thanks but it's just down to the wardrobe really. I would love to do a conversion on the attic but I don't have enough head room to stand up straight.

Burkey0

Monkeykube wrote: »

Goods various

We have a winner

OwaynOTT

I really like the neatness of Monkeykube's stuff there.

I just got mine stuff down out of the smelly, damp and hazardous attic anD DA TAH!



Trying to move from these to these - http://www.tesco.com/direct/wham-crystal-24l-underbed-storage-box-with-lid-clear/208-2107.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=208-2107
As I will be moving to a more permanent residence soon and don't really want to damage the stuff anymore than I have.





Kinda the ying to Monkeykube's yang or yang to ying.

Only thing that really damaged was two gameboy micro boxes - got squished - and the Turtles NES Console - sleeve got ripped! - and all the snes and gameboy boxes are a bit damp and might loose their shape.
Any suggestions on how to avoid this or will it even happen?

Not too fussed about the micro boxes, while they are worth a bit they can be picked up relatively easily, however, the Turtles box isn't as common and it would get damaged.

Earthbound is safe.


I've had a really eventual ****ty three to four months but the worse thing is I haven't been able to play 60hz F-Zero yet or open a brand new snes game for the first time.

o1s1n

Some serious collection pr0n going on in here lately - keep it up!

I won't bore you all with the photos I've posted a million times before. But in an ode to my lost arcade cabs, here's a short history of my arcade machines.

Here's where it started, a leisure 2000 I picked up on ebay. Sat in my uncle's shed for about 5 months as I didn't have a van and had to wait until he was able to drive it up.



Control panel was battered and the sticks were ****e, but I didn't care. The idea of having an arcade cab in the house just blew my mind. There was no marquee light, so rather sadly (!) I removed the marquee and stuck an outdoor lamp in behind. Ran a cable through the back and would plug it in separately. Rather rudimentary but it worked



It came with a 1 slot MVS. First game I bought for it was Metal Slug X.

Soon after I'd buy a 6 slot and sold the 1 slot off to someone here.


Tried to bring the coin door back to life. Spent ages sanding it down, removed all the rust and gave it a repaint.



It's also where I really learned to love The Last Blade



Sadly I had to get rid of this cab to make room for the next one. On a happy note, it's sitting in a pub in on Thomas Street if I ever fancy paying it a visit

That was replaced with this beauty. Which never ****ing worked! Still, was a marvel to look at.







I bought a two player CP for it from Steve_SI but sadly never got to fit it. It's now sitting on an Atomiswave somewhere in Brazil.





That sat there, broken, for a year. A year!! Imagine the frustration.

So, that was eventually sent back to where it came from and I was left cab-less for about 6 months. I spent bloody ages looking everywhere, but it was like candies just werent available at that time.

Until I saw Ronnie post this image over on AO



I had to have it. I've always loved old SNK cabs (Especially the chromed CP ones) but had never seen one for sale.

Of course, the usual doubts come into your head.

It's pretty rare - no spare parts! Nobody will know anything about it if it breaks! It's in the Netherlands! What if it gets lost at sea/takes a knock?!

Then I think it was Ondafly who made a very simple post, but it stuck with me -

'Life is too short not to have a candy cab'. And you know what? He was bloody right!

So I bought it and have been absolutely delighted ever since.



I really wish I'd had the space to keep all three. It would have been beyond amazing. I'd have used the SNK candy for MVS carts, rotated the Atomiswave for vertical shmups and used the woody for standard hori Jamma boards.

shleedance

safetyboy wrote: »

crappy phone pic of a few bits..

Is that a Juno 60 I spot in the corner?

Andrew76

OwaynOTT wrote: »

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A few of those carts were begging to be tipped over dominoes style!

OwaynOTT

Andrew76 wrote: »

A few of those carts were begging to be tipped over dominoes style!

Happenee a few times akrite. Got confusing when we tried to play backgammon thiug. Alcohol 2oo. Ican spell alcohol not drink enough

valleyoftheunos

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Happenee a few times akrite. Got confusing when we tried to play backgammon thiug. Alcohol 2oo. Ican spell alcohol not drink enough

I love it when people on this board get pissed. Atavan you may have competition here.:D

Jack burton

Ah that post is still readable. You've got a long way to go before you can punch in Atavans division

KeRbDoG

The Last Bandit wrote: »

Is this an IKEA shelf unit? If so, which one!? Need some to tidy up a room and that one with the inserts would suit it great.

Is it this one with additional panel inserts?
http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/catalog/products/80208652/#/60208648

The Last Bandit

Yeah its the large 5x5 expedit unit with inserts added to split the shelves in half. The inserts are made from chopping up a pair of expedit 2x2 units to get the colour and texture to match.

The 'table' the Atari ST is on is made from the left over 2x2 unit so nothing wasted

OwaynOTT

Jack burton wrote: »

Ah that post is still readable. You've got a long way to go before you can punch in Atavans division

Ill start up a rigorous regime and hopefully in a few months I can challenge him for his crown.
Ithink I haveca bottle of captain Morgan here somewhere.

Atavan-Halen

Here's mine. Done a big cleanup and a long overdue dusting today. Not much changed since last time I posted pics, just more games really. I also have boxes and boxes of various games and boxed and loose accessories stored away which I'm not arsed pulling out.

Atavan-Halen

Have to attach the pics as I'm on my phone.

Atavan-Halen

Continued....

Atavan-Halen

More!

Atavan-Halen

And again...

Atavan-Halen

Last one!

Atavan-Halen

Last one!

Myrddin

Some serious editing & embedding to do there Atavan, lovely stuff tho

Atavan-Halen

EnterNow wrote: »

Some serious editing & embedding to do there Atavan, lovely stuff tho

I will once I get a new hard drive

Atavan-Halen

Zombie thread! I was cleaning up some stuff and decided to show my current Pokémon collection

Mr.Saturn

I guess you're having a hard time finding XD: Gale of Darkness at a decent price too?

Atavan-Halen

Not pictured are a couple of copies of Pokémon stadium as I forgot about them :P

Jack burton

I want to get a complete copy of Red & Blue. Your the man to ask about that now arnt you!

Atavan-Halen

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

I guess you're having a hard time finding XD: Gale of Darkness at a decent price too?

I might have one sorted shortly but I'm not 100% sure.

Jack burton wrote: »

I want to get a complete copy of Red & Blue. Your the man to ask about that now arnt you!

I suppose!

Jack burton

Well how much would I be paying for them?

I want to get them and display them next to gameboys of the same colour. Seems like a cool idea. Plus I like to make a special effort for games that really influenced me when i was younger

Atavan-Halen

Jack burton wrote: »

Well how much would I be paying for them?

I want to get them and display them next to gameboys of the same colour. Seems like a cool idea. Plus I like to make a special effort for games that really influenced me when i was younger

€20-25 each would be the going rate for a good condition CIB copy.

CiDeRmAn

No Pokemon Mini?

CathalDublin

Pokemon is for kids

http://youtu.be/h_Z_k50ltkY

KeRbDoG

Just for the office/man-cave organised - my small console setup.
We have (anti-clockwise);

• Sony 'Test' PS2
• Sega Dreamcast
• Sony PSX
• Sega Megadrive
• Nintendo SuperNES
• Nintendo Gamecube - Running Mario Kart Double Dash
• Microsoft 'Debug Kit' Xbox1
• Sega Naomi 'cut down' cab, currently with Capcom Vs. SNK 2 via the NetDimm. A Naomi2 motherboard lurking in the bowels of the cab.

The television set is a nearly 10 year old Panasonic 32" CRT beast!

Andrew76

Very nice kerb! In fairness to you, you did a proper job with the cab respray. The black and white cp looks great and the matching stools. :cool:

Mr.Saturn

KeRbDoG wrote: »

Sega Naomi 'cut down' cab, currently with Capcom Vs. SNK 2 via the NetDimm. A Naomi2 motherboard lurking in the bowels of the cab.

Beautiful set-up for a bloody marvelous game; I daren't imagine how many hours I'd sink if I'd a similar rig.

Absolutely love that cab!
Gonna shot you some q's about the netdim setup too,
Its something I'd love to have!

Myrddin

What is this netdimm thing?

KeRbDoG

EnterNow wrote: »

What is this netdimm thing?

NetDimm is a kind of memory cart used in the Sega Naomi units in conjunction primary with a GDROM system. System turns on and dumps the game code from the GDROM into the RAM of the NetDimm. Its battery backed up RAM rather than a flash rom. Then your GDROM could power off, stops wear and tear and you have no loading times as the game sits in RAM. It stays in there as long as the RAM backup battery is powered. Its a rechargeable battery which the NetDimm charges but over time their ability to hold a charge drops. Again, only needed when powering off/on your cab/system.
To stop folks just copying the GDROMs they also employed security key chips which each GDROM game had. That key/chip would plug into the NetDimm as you changed in a game.
Folks have found a way of fooling the version of the NetDimm with the ethernet connection to accept a dump of a GDROM via its ethernet port, so you can drop on the majority of the Naomi collection (once it was released via GDROM) onto the RAM of your NetDimm and play like you would have with the GDROM version.
I think thats everything?

CiDeRmAn

It looks very neat and tidy, you should pop that amp in there for truly wall trembling audio!
The TV has phono out's at the back afaik.
Should be able to hear it form my place!