The Revenge of the Post Here When You Get Something New thread

Thanks for that .

The Nes mostly passed me by because I was totally into home computers then

keithgeo wrote: »

NES Games

Tiny Toon Adventures is good stuff. It is a SMB3 clone, but hey, there's worse games to rip-off wholesale. Its sequel is better game though, I guess. Less clone-y.

Harmful Park! Is that a 'backup'?

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Well it is Konami, you can't go wrong with Konami during the 8-bit era.

Had a few decent releases during the 16 bit time as well.

Yes, while I consider buying the original. Been playing a lot of shooters lately on the Saturn and I want to pick up an original copy of Shienryu. I think I prefer the older shooters over the newer ones. The seller told me he thought the PS was modded and it turned out he was right.

Monkeykube wrote: »

It came with that controller and memory card off the seller. Anybody know a good place to get disks polished? There a some scratches on some of the disks and would like them cleaned up.

Smyths will polish audio cds so I'm sure this service would do fine for Playstation CDs.

Don't ever EVER get Dreamcast discs rebuffed though... you'll only have a bad time.

Anyway I wasn't really sure where to put this but I finally have it all finished and cable managed. Only two of the consoles aren't hooked up correctly as I need some longer video / power cables but I thought some of you might get a kick out of this. Warning Cable Porn incoming, may be NSFW! It's amazing what some cable tidies, cables ties and velcro can do!

Started off by mounting an 8-way power splitter to the wall, then mounted my router to underside of the shelf that you can see here. Had to take the router apart and break the under casing a little to mount it to the shelf. I then had to superglue the router back together as I then had no access to screws to put it back together. A minor mishap.



I started off the main cable management then by using some velcro to mount a 6 in 1 SCART switcher to the underside of the TV.





The next part took.... days of tweaking to get right and to make practically invisible from the front but it seems to have worked out quite well. Also mounted more plug strips to various points of the unit.





The final look of the router / modem area:



Try to ignore the long tangled ethernet cable in the above shot, I didn't have a cable that was quite the right length to reach my microserver/htpc.

The finished article from my vantagepoint on the couch :-)



From a slightly different angle... ahh velcro is a wonderful thing for remote control management!



A well deserved reward I think:



So what will all of this awesomeness be used for? Knowing my non gaming girlfriend it'll be less epic gaming sessions and more X-Factor and Corrie marathons. Ahh well.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

As said before I'd be worried about the PS3 and 360 overheating since they aren't well ventilated.

360 hasn't been hooked up yet for that very reason, nor has the Dreamcast. I plan to swap them around over the next few days.

Also sorry for the gigantic pics I've resized everything now.

a5y wrote: »

Nice step up. How are you managing with storing the pads neatly though?

That's what the drawers in the bottom left are for. Pads and random cables / PSUs etc.