Post A Picture of Your Game Room

[retrogamer]

[racketboy]

hehe -- thanks!

Even though I don't make any money from them

[ravenmgs]

wow, I never have run into people who have every single one of their systems in one spot O_o... you should really think about investing in an xbox and a mod chip.

[retrogamer]

Hi ravenmgs,

I have a regular XBOX bottom shelf right and I also have the special edition green Halo XBOX which is not pictured since it is in a different room with my other systems. Reason I bring this up is because I'm not sure if there is any difference between the two as far as motherboards are concerned but I was thinking about getting a modchip. If it comes down to it between the two I'll probably open up the regular black XBOX and keep the green one intact and untouched. What kind of modchip would be the easiest or semi easy to install yet give me the greatest compatibility as far as running emulators since thats all I would be using it for? I might want to mod one of my PS2's most likely the slim version one since if it breaks it or I screw it up another slim can easily be found in the stores. If you are familiar with PS2 modchips or that boot disc method I'd be open to any suggestions that you might have. Thank You.

[ravenmgs]

Hi ravenmgs,

I have a regular XBOX bottom shelf right and I also have the special edition green Halo XBOX which is not pictured since it is in a different room with my other systems. Reason I bring this up is because I'm not sure if there is any difference between the two as far as motherboards are concerned but I was thinking about getting a modchip. If it comes down to it between the two I'll probably open up the regular black XBOX and keep the green one intact and untouched. What kind of modchip would be the easiest or semi easy to install yet give me the greatest compatibility as far as running emulators since thats all I would be using it for? I might want to mod one of my PS2's most likely the slim version one since if it breaks it or I screw it up another slim can easily be found in the stores. If you are familiar with PS2 modchips or that boot disc method I'd be open to any suggestions that you might have. Thank You.

Chris

Hey there,

There probably are some mother board differences, but nothing that would make a difference in modchip compatibility.

When selecting a mod chip it really is not going to have an effect on emulator compatibility unless you plan on doing a 128 meg ram upgrade to your xbox. You see, an xbox stores the ROM file into ram, or at least a large portion. A normal xbox only has 64 megs, which means some N64 games and special emulators like the Killer Instinct emulators won't be able to load the whole game into ram, causing allot of slowdown.

The main thing I look for in a mod chip is on board features. When you purchase a mod chip, the thing that justifies a mod chip over a soft mod is the onboard features native to the chip. Having these onboard features allows you to easily do things that would require you to go to pretty absurd lengths with a soft mod.

I personally prefer the Xecuter 3 CE. The onboard features include a hard coded FTP server right on the chip and automatic hard drive formatting right on the chip. There are tons of other onboard features I won’t go into right now but those are the big two.

Anyone with a decently steady hand can mod a xbox, however modding a PlayStation 2 is a horse of a different color. Unless you are an absolute expert soldered with a great deal of experience hitting itty bitty contact points, you will want to look finding a professional installer or buying a pre-mod. I recommend my boy davber as a PS2 chip installer.

As far as which chip for the PlayStation 2, with out a shadow of a doubt the best chip for a PS2 is the DMS4 Pro. You see, a xbox is very user interface friendly in regards to homemade software do to the fact it pretty much is a PC. A PlayStation 2 has very unique architecture making it had to program for, the only really top notch set of homemade software for the PlayStation 2 is the “Toxic OS”, the toxic os can only be installed on a PlayStation 2 with a DMS4 Pro chip.

I would recommend getting a version 9 PlayStation 2 moded do to the fact they can hold a hard drive with out an extra mod and they have a IR receiver on the PlayStation which allows you to turn it on and off by remote. If you choose to get a Slim PSTwo moded, then you will have to get something called “HD Connect” which basically is an IDE cable soldered to your motherboard which allows you to connect your HD to your Slim PS2. The problem with this is that you have to have two power supplies running for one system, one for the PSTwo and one for the hard drive. It also just don’t jump out at me as really reliable or stable. Also, you can’t turn your HD on by remote, only the PSTwo, so with the version 9 you can turn both the HD on and the PS2 on with a remote which is very nifty if you have a big game room where you don’t want to have to get up allot to turn systems on and off manually. There are no compatibility issues really to speak of, but it just seems flimsy compared to a fat PS2 and lacks ability to turn the HD on by remote.

[retrogamer]

Wow, thank you for that great advice. I'll look into the chip you mentioned for my XBOX.

Thanks,
Chris

[Majors]

All the arcade cab's and JAMMA stuff goes downstairs...but that is for another forum.

[grittykitty]

i like majors' the best so far - the sideways tv deserves a 1-up and a warp whistle!

[lordofduct]

My game room has evolved a lot over the years.

I started out with my closet filled with games and consoles and I pulled out the console I wanted to play and hooked it up. My mother did not allow me to keep it out on the floor... nor would I want to because she continually would trip over it hurting my precious SegaCD back in 1994.

Upon moving to FL I was forced by my family to keep all my videogames in the living room. I am from a family of 6 children and I was "Supposed to share". I didn't mind sharing... I hated watching my family and their friends destroy my games left and right. I went through multiple copies of SegaCD games and Sonic 1 carts due to the abuse put on them by my siblings (as a Sega freak I only replaced my Sega games... a nintendo game broke I let them replace it if they so wanted it.)

After the destruction of 2 genesis's, 1 SegaCD, 3 NES's and my SNES; I convinced my parents to let me put it in my bedroom and supervise people who played them. I had my own job and I was the one who invested my own money into these games... so it should have been my right in the first place!

First real game set up...
I lived in my parents garage. My bedroom had the old kitchen counter and cabinets along one wall, so I built some shelves in there that set on the counter under the cabinets. I placed my TV between the two shelves I built and lined all my systems in there wiring them together. I catalogued my video games in my bookshelf and CD folders and attempted to keep it organized. But due to multiple gaming parties it would always become a mess.

I moved out when I was 17 and was forced to put all my games into a closet in my new house. I lived for a few months at my friends parents as I was not financially fit to live in my own apartment yet... rent is outrageous here in FL (I pay 1200 dollars a month for the 2 bedroom I live in now). The owners didn't tell me I wasn't allowed to hook up my games... I just considered it curtious to do so as I didn't want to seem like I was intruding on their space.

I then rented my first townhouse. This was the one and only time I had a room meant only for gaming. It was a 3 bedroom townhouse which I shared with my eldest brother (who never payed rent). I don't have any pics of it though.

Due to my brothers failure to pay rent, I kicked his ass out (I received a couple telephones, a baseball bat and other random objects to the head for this). I got 2 new roommates (the kid who's parents I lived with, and my best buddy Dex) with whom a multitude of other random people tagged along (ate me out of house and home along with destroying my house). I had to give up my gaming room and I moved the stuff into the living room.
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I then bought a big screen TV and upgraded the set up to this...
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After throwing mass amounts of parties I moved out of that home and into what is my new home. And my gaming room is still my living room... I now have a 7.1 surround sound system and one of my comps hooked to the TV... hard to see much in the photo though.
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Now I am in the process of buying my own house! I already have the house picked out and the place is gorgeous... 14 foot ceilings, an extra den in the back, stone tile floors. I will be building some nice stuff into this place for my new gaming set up! Cool thing is there are already speakers mounted in the ceiling so I am going to be enhancing on that for some nice crisp sound... WOOT!

I've come a long way since 1992 when I started collecting videogames. I went from welfare to all of this! I think I've done a good job. Though my mother will say otherwise... jealous ****

[ducktapevoodoo]

this is where i play 360
il get a picture of the other side of teh room later