I actually prefer the action ones; I like how they went for something a little different while still comfortable - whereas the f310 always felt like a worse Dual Shock 2 to me.
That said I played 1000s of hours of FFXI on a f310.
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Ah, OK, missed the PS1 part completely. Yeah, I use them on PS2.
Definitely like the Action version. It was the best wireless PS2 controller at the time and it’s still the best in my estimation. It’s very comfortable.
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Updated my CRT set up a little bit tonight. I finally got some decent powered speakers from mono price. I took my old audio mixer out of the set up because I’m now handling all audio through the Extron Crosspoint. I also moved my Emotia and USP 405 to better positions.
This still isn’t perfect but it’s a much better set up than it was. At some point I’d like to figure out a good solution to mount the speakers off to the sides of the middle shelf. That would free up more room up top for when I move my PS4 into this set up.
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I built some shelves and got them installed above my commodore nook. It frees up a bit of space on my shelves for more goodies later.
I really like having some of the other old consoles and computers in display instead of hiding in the storage closet.
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Very cool!
One day I’ll have a basement with room for a few old PCs. This is so cool.
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This is amazing! I love the plant on top of your Trinitron too.
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Sorry for my long absence everybody!
I posted these on the Discord, but as payment I offer updated pics of my retro setup.
My BVM-20E1U has died since I was here last, unfortunately, so I’ve moved entirely over to the KV-32FS320.
Still need to find a nice futon or something, and some plants!
For years I’d daydreamed about having a space I can use for both old games and movies in an era-appropriate setup, and this is far from perfect but it’s functional. We moved into this awkward 70s rental house with ridiculous carpets right as quarantine started, and it had this little bonus room off to the side that we decided to make the most of.
Everything is hooked up and ready to go at all times, at the highest video quality I can manage without mods. Just about everything here is either RGB transcoded to Component via Shinybow box, or just native Component. N64, LaserDisc player, and S-VHS deck are all on S-Video, that dumb-looking NES (found it at a goodwill many years ago, someone tried to give it the gold-powder-coat Zelda cart treatment with a single pass of spray paint and failed miserably) is in composite, and the 2600 is RF.
But the more important part for me was making sure I had access to era-appropriate surround sound for every source. So everything that’s capable is using optical audio, and all of the audio is being routed to that receiver–a Sony STR-DA1ES. Almost every console going all the way back to the SNES is capable of surround sound. Lots of SNES, N64, and PS1 games specifically licensed and utilized four-channel Dolby Surround, which is an analog matrixed surround format (which is decoded by Pro Logic) that rides on the inverted phase channels of the two stereo RCA audio cables. The speaker configuration in this room is in 5.1, as nothing hooked up to this setup (which caps out roughly around ~2006) is capable of anything beyond that. This especially comes in handy for original Xbox games as almost all of them are in 5.1 Dolby Digital. But I use this room just as often for movies as well. Lots of VHS releases utilize Dolby Surround. For DVDs you generally have either Dolby Digital or DTS. LaserDisc is where it gets complicated. They’re either analog stereo, analog Dolby Surround, digital stereo, digital Dolby Surround, digital DTS, or 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround, which is modulated into an RF signal via AC-3 codec, which is demodulated by that big Yamaha box above the LaserDisc player, which splits each channel into a separate analog RCA terminal–six in total–which get fed into the “multi-in” input on the DA1ES, which sends them out to each channel accordingly. It’s wild.
It was a tremendous amount of work and a lot of deep, dark rabbit holes, but I’m extremely happy with the result. I can do dumb stuff like the other night when I watched the Cowboy Bebop movie via UMD on this setup by plugging in a PSP-3000 with component cables. It’s a nightmare spaghetti mess of cables and switchers, but everything works exactly how I want it to. Now I just need to make the space itself more comfortable!
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My $2 Ikea fake plant, haha!
That carpet is totally rediculous, but I love it. Your room is amazing, thanks for sharing!
That NES is funny, since you can’t go back to the original color, you should try a sand and repaint of a proper gold colour. I think it would look great if done right.
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Haha thank you, maybe fake plants are the way to go! 
Yeah someday I need to soak that NES and give it a proper glow-up (and replace the 72-pin connector cause it works roughly 1% of the time lol). I just haven’t really used it since the NT Mini came out so it hasn’t been a priority. But someday!!
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Love it! I particularly enjoyed reading it all on my phone before any photos scrolled into view.
And I still have Pang DS to send you that I promised before lockdown. I will send it… at some point!?
Stay safe and have fun
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If you want to replace the connector at some point, I highly recommend the Blinking Light Win.
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Oh my gosh I almost forgot about that! I think my address may have changed so feel free to DM me, haha. Lockdown definitely threw everything for a loop!
Yeah that’s been in the back of my mind as well. Might as well do it right!
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Killer setup! Looks like an awesome place to play!
I actually loved how condensed it all is. Like it’s been put together to be played immediately. It’s all right there, controllers included.
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Thank you so much! 
Yeah, my goal was to eliminate as many barriers to convenience as possible, and the result is that I just end up playing a lot more games because they’re all easily accessible!
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Can I somehow like this post 10 times? 
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Even my second revision of it seems too tight. Takes serious effort to remove anything from my nes, to the effect of me keeping the top unscrewed so I can grab the cartridge better when changing games.
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Great setup and explanation of your goals, pitfalls, and workarounds.
5.1 sounds like a good little rabbit hole, especially with the laser disc audio variants.
I’m intrigued by snes and N64 surround sound. Are there any stand out games, from early consoles, that you’ve discovered?
By the early 2000s even music producers were interested in SACDs with 5.1 mixes, but in the mid 90s, my understanding was that it was limited to film (and it’s home releases).
I still listen to a lot of CDs in the retro system, and a good stereo setup trumps my interest in overhauling my gear.
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Oh god. 5.1 isn’t a rabbit hole I thought I would be considering for my retro setups. Thanks a bunch. :c
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