An Ode to GamingPAL N64 - to reduce the amount of wires (and also because the standard TV aerial that comes with the N64 sucks), I'm actually using the wire from the Gamecube for both this and the SNES (swapping over as needed), then connecting it to the TV via a SCART attachment. PAL SNES - I didn't know, but this has the same odd box-shape hole in the back that the Gamecube uses for TV connections. Now that's forward thinking, especially if you're missing a wire or two. PAL Gamecube - not many games for this, and it spends most of the time unplugged. Awww etc. Japanese Sakura Taisen Dreamcast. Hard to find a model that hasn't gone a funny yellow colour with age, but this one is bright shocking pink. I'm pretty sure this one connects to the TV via SCART too, but I don't want to risk pulling all the wires out just to check :) PAL SEGA Megadrive 2 - I only have a regular TV wire for this (no SCART), and the PAL Dreamcast is already in the TVs single aerial socket. What to do? Well, the TV wire for the DC has an "Antenna In" socket, so I just plugged the Megadrive wire into that and it all works fine with no wire changing. PAL TurboGrafx-16. These don't appear too often, and are basically the US version with the innards replaced. Connects to the 5 in 1 SCART cable down at the back somewhere in a mass of wires. Nintendo DS. I don't have many games for it, but Resident Evil is great fun. PAL NES. Sometimes has issues loading games due to the spring inside going funny, so taping the cart down is the order of the day sometimes :) Atari Flashback - a 20 in 1 plug n play console. It spends most of the time unplugged, but I put it on occasionally just to remind myself how much better the other consoles are. PSP - I got this purely so I could keep up with the Syphon Filter franchise. They better make another one, or I'm going to kick off. Neo Geo Pocket - absolutely fantastic handheld with some great titles. Pretty difficult to get hold of the games - if you have more than 12, you're doing well. Oh, batteries last for up to 40 hours too which is pretty good (has no backlight, but doesn't make any real difference). JJ & Jeff - a TurboGrafx-16 game. Extremely weird, though the Japanese version of the game is even stranger (this is the watered down US version). Street Fighter Third Strike, playing on a TFT screen via a VGA adapter connected to my NTSC Dreamcast. UK PAL Dreamcast - oh, how I love this machine. NTSC Dreamcast, which remains firmly bolted to the TFT screen above. US PAL SEGA Saturn. I don't have a huge amount of games for it, but a great console. Connects to the TV via the 5 in 1 SCART cable. PAL XBox360. Usually this is downstairs connected to the TV, but sometimes I bring it up and connect it to the TFT. Lurking at the back are my three Playstations - original PS1, the mini PS1 and the Playstation 2. I've played these to death, so they're not plugged in much. They do help to hide a lot of wires and connections in the corner while looking nice, though :) 
Pretty much my entire console collection, and nearly every machine in the picture is plugged in and ready to play. Planning out where to place each machine in relation to where the wires were going to go, how long the wires are, which have SCART and which have standard TV aerials took quite some time. Top tip - those 5 in 1 SCART adapters (basically a box with 5 SCART sockets in it that sits behind your TV) are a Godsend for this kind of thing. I think I've done quite well not to have ended up with hundreds of wires spilling all over the place, but it'll probably all end in tears if I need to remove one of the consoles.
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Since doing this, I've realised that the easiest way to hook a big pile of machines up is to separate the power wires from the aerial & SCART leads. Start with the power wires first, as those will be the ones on the ground (and hidden under the units) most of the time and won't be moved around as much. Start from the plug sockets and work your way back to the place where the console will be, but don't connect them to any consoles yet. Once all the power wires are plugged in and in place, push all the excess cable under the unit as much as you can, then do the same with the TV aerials / SCART leads, starting from the TV and the 5 in 1 SCART adapter and working your way back to where the console will be. As you mess with TV wires more than power supplies, it makes sense to do those second. Finally, drop in the consoles and connect everything up, before hiding as much of the aerial / SCART cables as you can. If you have multiple Dreamcasts and you intend to plug one into a TFT, another top tip - saved games made on a regular TV don't seem to work with the TFT and vice-versa, so pick one DC to use on a TFT and stick with it or you'll get confused with your saves real quick. To the left, I have two small baskets which hold all the loose SNES carts and all my Neo Geo Pocket games. There's a Game Gear and a Gameboy Advance just out of shot, too but neither work anymore so I didn't want to include them here. I'm planning on adding some more consoles eventually (still trying to get my hands on a Neo Geo, PC Engine Duo and a Jaguar) so I might have to take another picture with a third shelf unit added. That might be tricky... Comments
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That's a nifty setup.
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