I’ve tried to maximise the space I have and what I can have out and connected whilst keeping everything as neat as possible, I have consoles down one half of one of my walls in my games room and this is the set up.
2 of those IKEA 8x2 Kallex units, one of them has the shelf dividers in it and the other unit has the white card boxes, boring I know, but it keeps it neat and tidy. I’ve got space for a 2x2 unit to go at the end of the 2x8 unitss o next time I go to IKEA I’m going to pick one up.
Not got all my consoles set up due to lack of space but currently these ones are set up and it’s just a case of putting the plug in and attaching a controller, which is so much nicer than unboxing the console plugging it all in then packing it up when I want to play a different system, which is what I used to have to do. Neo AES, Neo CD, AV Famicom, Super Famicom, N64, GameCube, Wii, PCE CoreGrafx II, MegaDrive, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS2 and 360. They’re all NTSC-J other than the Wii and 360. I did have a pal PS2 hooked up but that broke about a week ago so I've just swapped it out for my NTSC-J.
On the top of the units I have 2 TVs and a super gun, I’ve got a few superguns but I’m currently using an AV7000 with a TB9000 stick, I think it’s a TB9000. I use 2x Sony KV-14LT1U TVs, one fed by a Gscartsw 8.2 and a Bandridge svb7725 goes to the other TV. I use either official scart cables or ones by retro gaming cables for all of the consoles other than for the N64 or AV Famicom as I like to keep them factory. Although I have a bunch of the rad2x cables and a few component cables if I ever want to use them on a newer TV. I also use an Airlink for the Japanese consoles which is tucked away one of the bottom shelves.
Controllers are a bit of a pain as if they’re out they look messy so that’s where a couple of the white card boxes come in handy as all of my consoles have official pads and most if not all also have vintage hori fight sticks, but the sticks have to go elsewhere. I’ve been using the brook converters for Neo, Saturn, DC, PS2, MD and PCE with some PS4 fight sticks, I've also been using the 8bitdo pads which I quite like. I’ve always liked the Vewlix Hori VLX stick but it’s too big to have out as it used to sit where my supergun is so I’ve been using the Daija recently and that actually fits in one of the shelves so looks tidy which is a massive bonus. Also to save more games room space I’ve got krikzz N8pro for Famicom, fx pack pro and a sd2snes for SFC, x7 for N64 mega everdrive pro for the MD, a terra onion and a krikzz for the PCE and a terraonion for the AES oh and a fertec mvs converter which I really like as it saves loads of space. In the future I’d like to get ODE for my CD consoles so that those games can be stored away but they’re even more expensive than the flash carts.
All of the above fits neatly in and on top of 1 unit, other than one of the TVs which sits on the second unit but I think it goes to show that you can have a lot of gaming in a tiny space and it can look incredibly neat and tidy too.
It’s storing the fight sticks, the unused consoles, the empty console boxes and all of the blooming games which is the main problem as there’s so much and they never looks as neat and tidy as I’d like them to so at the moment they’re split between being kept in an under the stairs walk in wardrobe/ cupboard and in storage.
paulie2021-09-04 11:14:40
