aaron's "minimalist" game setup.

[SteveyMajors]

It looks great! The Andrew W.K. poster is a nice touch.

[aaron]

thanks guys! this is just upstairs, i have my 360 and emu box set up on the tv downstairs, i'll have to throw some pics up of that eventually.

Hey what dvd cases did you buy and how much were they? I kind of want to do what you did but for sega cd games since I only own burned copies for it.

i got mine from tapes.com, mainly because i also ordered some CD Poly cases from them, since those are harder to find. any standard DVD case will work fine, i just chose white for DC since they looked so much better. my sega cd games are in black cases that i got from work (my old job at a game exchange type place) so i can't really tell you what kind or how much, since they were free to me

word of advice, if you're printing covers, use an inkjet photo printer on the highest quality photo settings using premium matte paper. a lot of people insist on using glossy, but if you're putting the cover behind a glossy cover anyway, you'll get the same "sheen" you'd normally expect from a game case. the ink tends to stick a little better to matte paper, also, resulting in brighter, more vibrant colors. good luck! it's a fun little hobby.

[retrozombieslayer]

Is that an Iron Maiden poster?

[ninjainspandex]

i got mine from tapes.com, mainly because i also ordered some CD Poly cases from them, since those are harder to find. any standard DVD case will work fine, i just chose white for DC since they looked so much better. my sega cd games are in black cases that i got from work (my old job at a game exchange type place) so i can't really tell you what kind or how much, since they were free to me

word of advice, if you're printing covers, use an inkjet photo printer on the highest quality photo settings using premium matte paper. a lot of people insist on using glossy, but if you're putting the cover behind a glossy cover anyway, you'll get the same "sheen" you'd normally expect from a game case. the ink tends to stick a little better to matte paper, also, resulting in brighter, more vibrant colors. good luck! it's a fun little hobby.

good advice man I'll try it out, I've done it before for my universal game cases i just love how it looks for my n64 and snes games
I just wish all of the games had the custom cover art variant, I'd love it to have that uniformed look like yours does.

[Hatta]

I bet the controller would work well for emulating something like Virtual On too.

Unfortunately, the left joystick only moves along the left/right axis. The right joystick turns the torso up/down or left/right. The left joystick turns the entire mech left/right. Up/down isn't used for anything, since there's a separate gear shift and foot pedals for throttle. Oh, and the right joystick is non-centering (like the torso of a mech would be), so you have to get used to that too.

Besides Mechwarrior, the SBC is useful for Freespace 2. I'm not sure if it's better than a HOTAS though. For Virtual On, I'd just use two cheap logitech flight sticks.

[aaron]

Is that an Iron Maiden poster?

yep! got it at the show when they played here over the summer. picked up a frame for it, naturally. down that hallway (to the left of the poster) are a bunch of metal records framed in those 12x12 LP frames. i have a black sabbath tapestry i'm not sure what to do with, either...

[fastbilly1]

For Virtual On, I'd just use two cheap logitech flight sticks.

It doesnt work very well since the cheap logitech sticks are weak.