Have you softmodded the PS1 to accept backups? There's a disc you can burn that if you do the swap trick with it it will configure a memory card to be used to load backups
I've got a SCPH-5501, after they "fixed" the swap trick (you have to do it twice, with really good timing to do it on that model) so it was worth it to use a scam memory card that corrupted if I had more than 3 saves on it to make a tonyhax card.
Been a great time going back and playing ff7 and frogger 2.
I remember back in the 90s I found a cabinet just like that, but without the TV. Since I was broke back then, I took it back to my place and used it as a computer desk.
Wow, old memory unlocked, we had that exact tv (or maybe another model that looked very similar). It was the good TV for a long time but never made it to be the less good TV in the basement because, well look at it, it's a tube TV built into a fucking cabinet, just throw it out.
I remember my parents had a Magnavox wood finish tv console. That fucker weight more then a collapsed star I swear it took 3 people to move it from one corner to another.
Oh man, this reminds me of the Sony Trinitron my family had growing up. We inherited it from my grandparents on my dad's side when I was very young.
My grandpa died before I was old enough to remember him being alive, and my grandma we lost to dementia/Alzheimer's not long after.... So we got their TV.
Worked great for so many years, but somewhere around the 25-30 year mark, the picture had all but lost most of the color and I'm pretty sure that we had a failure in one of the emitters so one of the colors would only sometimes be there. We didn't keep it around after that started happening regularly.
It was like this, a huge cabinet on wheels, and it was flanked by two massive speakers the full height of the unit, and about 10" off each side of the screen.
That TV was home to our NES and SNES consoles for a long time, and eventually our Sega Genesis.
We had a lot of good times sitting on the floor playing games on that thing.
Dam. I was only able to afford the 55 inch in 2020 so I’m just rocking the CX. Which did have the hackable firmware to remove all ads from YouTube so I’m not complaining. https://rootmy.tv/
I’m talking about sponsor block for in video ads, but that’s very cool that you can just not agree to that, are you in Europe per chance. I’m also talking about ads before the YouTube video start
Nope, I’m in North America. All LG TVs no matter where you are let you do this. Also, I use an Nvidia Shield with smart tube and it has built in sponsor block + ad blocking.
Then they put that massive TV so close to where they sit that it's just painful to actually watch anything on it because there is just no way you can get the entire image in your field of vision comfortably.
Maybe I am old, but I miss the days when people had some sense and bought TVs actually sized for the distance they will be sitting from it.
Because unless you're buying a quality panel the difference between a 45 inch and 65 is usually $150. For something that you need 3 or 4 of (tops, if you have a family or large house) that'll last 5+ years, the value proposition is high enough to spend the extra money.
Those TVs were in a lot of middle class homes. I think huge is pretty exaggerated. Having a house on the block with those 4 person 40-50 in TV's was pretty common in a lot of areas IMO.
Not even close. We're talking about $1000-$3000 for a decent high end. You could regularly find used for $400-$500 if you could find a team to lug them out.
$500 in the 90s would be equivalent to around $1000 today. That's a very expensive TV and more than I've spent on displays in total across my adult life (which includes some nice IPS computer displays)
I have a 75 in lg c1 in my theater and gaming room. Plenty of folks buy nicer displays. There are plenty of high end displays selling in volumes to support a very healthy display market.
This was true in the past as well. As stated, you talk to most middle class Americans and they knew at least one guy hosting a Superbowl party with a big ass TV.
I think it's more a question of individual values in where to spend money. From my memory as a kid in the 90s I did not see very many TVs bigger than 30" in family's homes. I did see a couple of projection screens that were comparatively massive but those of course had their own problems
I'll take it off your hands. Got to strong boys here with me. It took three of us to get this into house. So true it's freaking heavy. It also swivels which I do find neat. Besides the old game console look better on the equipment they were built for.
Lol great comment. I say regular because it's 2025 and some people hear Nintendo and think Switch, or as we used to if you didn't say regular. People would think Super Nintendo.
It still is next level. Modern setups aren't nearly as cool. TVs mounted to the wall, game consoles on the floor, and who even has a dedicated stereo system anymore?
I would never in a million years would consider this as "next level" unless there's a MegaDrive behind those doors under the TV.
EDIT: those seem like DVD cases by the stereo, so I'll have to revise my previous comment and demand either a Sega Saturn, a Playstation or a Nitendo64.
I disagree, that looks like a record player. You can see the plastic cover and what looks like part of the plate on top. There's also a VCR and I doubt there were many instances of PS3s and VCRs being plugged into the same CRT. I don't doubt it happened, but this is giving more late 90s/early 2000s than mid/late 2000s
Though not all games were playable, or at least not on the small TV I was playing on. The resolution was low enough and text small enough that I couldn't read what was going on in some RPG I was playing, which resulted in me buying my first high def panel.
I don't feel nostalgic for the dark times when our televisions weighed 80 lbs just to beam us an inferior image. Sure, maybe for when being a teenager at the mall meant meeting girls and having a good time with friends walking around, buying nothing because we were all broke. But only the social aspects were better. I'll take today's entertainment any day of the week.
Hey, we socialized in person more before smart phones. There are a lot of studies that say so. But this isn't even an appeal to authority. I remember the first time seeing a couple sitting across from each other in a restaurant, both staring at their phones. My buddy and I gave each other a look. It's everyone now.
They're hilariously worthless for anything but the original purpose. And that's from a guy who repurposes crap off the side of the road every week.
Even if they're real wood, the dimensions are useless. Maybe it could be chopped into a couple of tiny plant stands? LOL, now you got me thinking what I could do! Still, haven't found a use for them after all these years.
What fascinates me is going back and watching TV shows designed for these size / type of capability TV's, and how much less there is going on, in any frame. The characters are central, there's no background action or skits, no huge flashing lights or whole moving cities, and it reminds me of the problems behind coco melon. I wonder if it does the same thing to adult brains it does to baby brains.
Last Sunday when I went back to my parents house, I noticed that the clock was blinking because there was a blackout, so I turned on and I saw that the 5 CD changer not only gets stuck but the laser doesn't see the discs anymore 😢
I don’t want to brag but I have my 1985 Bang & Olufsen music system still in use. Cassette player, CD-player and vinyl player all work well. They don’t make devices like that anymore.
My next level is going back to that. Not with a huge CRT or a full-blown hifi system, but a nice place with a screen, some offline way to play music/audio, a few books maybe…
I remember. My family was always poor but my parents understood the value of technology. all of us had pcs, and we had a nintendo in the living room.
Granted, we were poor, so the tech we hooked up to the tv was a bit behind. I was hype as fuck to finally have a copy of The Guardian Legend for NES while my best friend was playing mario sunshine.
I'm just here to point out that I look down upon everybody, as I have some arbitrary consideration in my mind that makes me and the things I think, more next-levelier than all of you and what you like
To be fair, if a record is made correctly, it actually has significantly more sound information than any digital recording.
It's hard to compete with analog since analog doesn't really have a bitrate or anything. The precision is functionally infinite.
Meanwhile, they gave us the Redbook standard and unless you go looking for it, pretty much everything is a similar quality or worse, digitally.
Digital is convenient, but not higher quality.
Records (true, genuinely analog records) are the Holy Grail of sound quality as far as I am concerned. The problem is that a lot of companies are taking CDs and just playing them back on to vinyl, making them sound like complete shit.
To demonstrate the point. Have you been on hold recently? Hold music sounds like shit huh?
What if I told you that hold music used to be kind of decent. That's right, most companies are using VoIP, which is lower quality than the old analog phone lines of old, so anything that's played is compressed to all hell and back. You don't really notice it with voice, but as soon as that hold music kicks in, you can hear that something is wrong with it.
Depending on how sensitive you are to the musical distortion of digitisation, that can be similar for CD quality content.
I'm not crazy over vinyl, I can't be bothered with the inconvenience of maintaining a player, and I don't have the money they're asking for a new player; so I'm firmly in digital media. I just understand the appeal of vinyl.
That a RetroPie setup at the bottom left?
I think it's a MiSTer.
Isn't the MiSTer like, way bigger than that?
No. Can confirm, I have one.
No, that's a Playstation 2 /s
Those trinitrons were the goat of the day.
Sweet man, that setup right there is next level!
I had that TV back in the day. It was an amazing TV for it's time.
What's the CRT on the bottom left?
Also yes.
Nice. I've been meaning to pick up a CRT iMac or even an eMac.
Haha nice. I'm not sure what I'd use it for, but when I was a tad younger, I used my brother's eMac a lot with Garageband, so pure nostalgia.
No Saturn?
Oh nice, how good is the MiSTer with Saturn games?
Have you softmodded the PS1 to accept backups? There's a disc you can burn that if you do the swap trick with it it will configure a memory card to be used to load backups
I've got a SCPH-5501, after they "fixed" the swap trick (you have to do it twice, with really good timing to do it on that model) so it was worth it to use a scam memory card that corrupted if I had more than 3 saves on it to make a tonyhax card.
Been a great time going back and playing ff7 and frogger 2.
I’m old enough to remember when this was peak entertainment technology.
See, now that's just the TV stand for the newer TV on top!
But seriously, why the fake drawers in these? The drawer handles even rotated, but you'd just be pulling against the wood.
I remember back in the 90s I found a cabinet just like that, but without the TV. Since I was broke back then, I took it back to my place and used it as a computer desk.
That's eerily similar to what I grew up with. Like: "are you my sibling, and is that actually my old house"-level similar.
Edit:nm - we had wood floors, and the fan on the right was white.
Wow, old memory unlocked, we had that exact tv (or maybe another model that looked very similar). It was the good TV for a long time but never made it to be the less good TV in the basement because, well look at it, it's a tube TV built into a fucking cabinet, just throw it out.
I remember my parents had a Magnavox wood finish tv console. That fucker weight more then a collapsed star I swear it took 3 people to move it from one corner to another.
Peak would've been a grey Zapper.
Oh my god !!! That's the TV we had when I was a kid !!!!
My grandparents had one very much like this. It was so much fancier than ours. It even had a remote!
Oh man, this reminds me of the Sony Trinitron my family had growing up. We inherited it from my grandparents on my dad's side when I was very young.
My grandpa died before I was old enough to remember him being alive, and my grandma we lost to dementia/Alzheimer's not long after.... So we got their TV.
Worked great for so many years, but somewhere around the 25-30 year mark, the picture had all but lost most of the color and I'm pretty sure that we had a failure in one of the emitters so one of the colors would only sometimes be there. We didn't keep it around after that started happening regularly.
It was like this, a huge cabinet on wheels, and it was flanked by two massive speakers the full height of the unit, and about 10" off each side of the screen.
That TV was home to our NES and SNES consoles for a long time, and eventually our Sega Genesis.
We had a lot of good times sitting on the floor playing games on that thing.
great picture. I'll bet that TV didn't even have one of the old style remotes to change channels
Looks like model used in cs_militia in Counter Strike Source. Or at least reminds me of it
Twenty-seven years ago that 27 inch TV was huge!
Now most people need massive TVs, but still spend most of the time looking at the small screen on the phone.
Not me, I will refuse to watch any movie I’ve never seen on a tiny fucking phone screen. I at least have some standards
Same, I got a 65 inch OLED big boy for the cinematic experience. I’m going to use the bastard.
Dam. I was only able to afford the 55 inch in 2020 so I’m just rocking the CX. Which did have the hackable firmware to remove all ads from YouTube so I’m not complaining. https://rootmy.tv/
I got a CX too but I have no ads by just not signing the user agreement lol.
I’m talking about sponsor block for in video ads, but that’s very cool that you can just not agree to that, are you in Europe per chance. I’m also talking about ads before the YouTube video start
Nope, I’m in North America. All LG TVs no matter where you are let you do this. Also, I use an Nvidia Shield with smart tube and it has built in sponsor block + ad blocking.
Then they put that massive TV so close to where they sit that it's just painful to actually watch anything on it because there is just no way you can get the entire image in your field of vision comfortably.
Maybe I am old, but I miss the days when people had some sense and bought TVs actually sized for the distance they will be sitting from it.
Because unless you're buying a quality panel the difference between a 45 inch and 65 is usually $150. For something that you need 3 or 4 of (tops, if you have a family or large house) that'll last 5+ years, the value proposition is high enough to spend the extra money.
Those TVs were in a lot of middle class homes. I think huge is pretty exaggerated. Having a house on the block with those 4 person 40-50 in TV's was pretty common in a lot of areas IMO.
They weren’t huge at all. They were huge for that day.
Sure there was 40+ inch tvs if you were willing to shell out 10k plus.
Not even close. We're talking about $1000-$3000 for a decent high end. You could regularly find used for $400-$500 if you could find a team to lug them out.
Not that expensive at all.
In the 90s you could get a 40in for maybe like $500.
$500 in the 90s would be equivalent to around $1000 today. That's a very expensive TV and more than I've spent on displays in total across my adult life (which includes some nice IPS computer displays)
I have a 75 in lg c1 in my theater and gaming room. Plenty of folks buy nicer displays. There are plenty of high end displays selling in volumes to support a very healthy display market.
This was true in the past as well. As stated, you talk to most middle class Americans and they knew at least one guy hosting a Superbowl party with a big ass TV.
I think it's more a question of individual values in where to spend money. From my memory as a kid in the 90s I did not see very many TVs bigger than 30" in family's homes. I did see a couple of projection screens that were comparatively massive but those of course had their own problems
Haha I have this setup to this day.
I use it for my regular Nintendo and Sega Genesis.
I'll take it off your hands. Got to strong boys here with me. It took three of us to get this into house. So true it's freaking heavy. It also swivels which I do find neat. Besides the old game console look better on the equipment they were built for.
What do you use for you irregular Nintendo?
I'll see myself out 🤣
Lol great comment. I say regular because it's 2025 and some people hear Nintendo and think Switch, or as we used to if you didn't say regular. People would think Super Nintendo.
I also enjoy retrogaming. Party on.
It still is next level. Modern setups aren't nearly as cool. TVs mounted to the wall, game consoles on the floor, and who even has a dedicated stereo system anymore?
I definitely would if I had the space and time to build it. Too many projects too little time (and space)
I have a stereo system still, complete with tape deck and turntable.
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
Not that compact stereo system. My old sharp boom box sounded better than those.
Yeah, I'm a little jealous of that cool ass setup. I used to have something like it, though not as nice.
I would never in a million years would consider this as "next level" unless there's a MegaDrive behind those doors under the TV.
EDIT: those seem like DVD cases by the stereo, so I'll have to revise my previous comment and demand either a Sega Saturn, a Playstation or a Nitendo64.
I have a N64 plugged into the back side of my TV. It has a flush mount, as in I plugged the N64 in before I hung it on the wall.
I think that's a ps3 to the left of the TV
I disagree, that looks like a record player. You can see the plastic cover and what looks like part of the plate on top. There's also a VCR and I doubt there were many instances of PS3s and VCRs being plugged into the same CRT. I don't doubt it happened, but this is giving more late 90s/early 2000s than mid/late 2000s
Ya now that you mentioned it the plastic part isn't curved
Didn’t PS3 only have hdmi out, which wouldn’t work with this tv?
No, the PS3 had an analog multi-out still, it's the PS4 which phased that out and went HDMI-only.
Though not all games were playable, or at least not on the small TV I was playing on. The resolution was low enough and text small enough that I couldn't read what was going on in some RPG I was playing, which resulted in me buying my first high def panel.
Oh, I was thinking this was late 90's setup, but if that's a PS3 then it's like 10 years later... but isn't that just like a book or something?
That is one strong unit, the thought of the weight of those devices gives me back pain.
Especially if you had to hookup a new system or player to it.
Kind of still is.
Fuck. I remember when that setup was science fiction.
When the TV perfectly fit the cabinet. That's when you knew.
We must go back
Today it's all about finding a dumb display.
I understood they just don't exist anymore, am I mistaken?
Last time i checked; you need to look at commercial displays or computer monitors. But they are more expensive than consumer smart TVs.
To play games from that era this is a next level setup.
I don't feel nostalgic for the dark times when our televisions weighed 80 lbs just to beam us an inferior image. Sure, maybe for when being a teenager at the mall meant meeting girls and having a good time with friends walking around, buying nothing because we were all broke. But only the social aspects were better. I'll take today's entertainment any day of the week.
The quality of the media was not as good perhaps but I do miss when the world moved just a little bit slower.
No 24h news cycle, no social media, no being pressured to be connected and available to work at all times.
CRT contrast ratios were unmatched until plasma. LEDs never compared until OLED. Flat screen CRT HDTVs were amazing.
Superior image*
*for the time when flat screens initially came out
ok...
Hey, we socialized in person more before smart phones. There are a lot of studies that say so. But this isn't even an appeal to authority. I remember the first time seeing a couple sitting across from each other in a restaurant, both staring at their phones. My buddy and I gave each other a look. It's everyone now.
Thrift stores couldn't sell those cabinets 10 years ago and now they won't take them at all.
I've got one at my son's place we need to get rid of. I probably should just get the sawzall and have him dispose over time
They're hilariously worthless for anything but the original purpose. And that's from a guy who repurposes crap off the side of the road every week.
Even if they're real wood, the dimensions are useless. Maybe it could be chopped into a couple of tiny plant stands? LOL, now you got me thinking what I could do! Still, haven't found a use for them after all these years.
Thank for saying this, and also nice to meet you, fellow roadside and bin scrapper!
Been thinking on starting a comm showcasing crap I found in the trash, see if others join in.
I'd sign on for that!
Worked fine in my basement to hold homebrewing supplies. Mine was higher end and had closing doors for top and bottom.
Otherwise, I've thought of converting to wardrobe
Fishtank, terrarium, uhhhh yeah
It'll be bigger than my brother-in-law's TV.
Then you won't have to go outside.
What fascinates me is going back and watching TV shows designed for these size / type of capability TV's, and how much less there is going on, in any frame. The characters are central, there's no background action or skits, no huge flashing lights or whole moving cities, and it reminds me of the problems behind coco melon. I wonder if it does the same thing to adult brains it does to baby brains.
I have that exact Aiwa music player.
Last Sunday when I went back to my parents house, I noticed that the clock was blinking because there was a blackout, so I turned on and I saw that the 5 CD changer not only gets stuck but the laser doesn't see the discs anymore 😢
I'm sad
I don’t want to brag but I have my 1985 Bang & Olufsen music system still in use. Cassette player, CD-player and vinyl player all work well. They don’t make devices like that anymore.
Probably a relatively easy fix.
I mean, it's still pretty dope.
That sound system stack needs at least 6 more components.
My next level is going back to that. Not with a huge CRT or a full-blown hifi system, but a nice place with a screen, some offline way to play music/audio, a few books maybe…
Yes, I played Nintendo games in emulator on mine, it was so great.
The turntable isn't even on the top of the hifi separates unit. Pathetic!
I have two AF Toshibas. One 27 inches and the other 14. I would have more if I had a house. They are still awesome!
Today's next level iPhone , zyns/vape, gem butt plug.
I remember. My family was always poor but my parents understood the value of technology. all of us had pcs, and we had a nintendo in the living room.
Granted, we were poor, so the tech we hooked up to the tv was a bit behind. I was hype as fuck to finally have a copy of The Guardian Legend for NES while my best friend was playing mario sunshine.
I think I had the better childhood.
I'm just here to point out that I look down upon everybody, as I have some arbitrary consideration in my mind that makes me and the things I think, more next-levelier than all of you and what you like
i remember when i was little, and went to my grandparents house, they had something like that.
raises hand
The TV and stereo aren't amazing for that time. I had better in my teens and twenties just from my restaurant jobs.
I was always impressed by any CRT that didn't have dials on the side.
Was? It gets better ping than my current setup
Was it common for people to have a turntable in their setup at this time?
yes, but it was only used once because, as you can see, you had to pull the whole system out of the shelf to change records.
Yes it was. The next jump after traditional records was cassettes. I find it hilarious that people are going back to records vs. digital
To be fair, if a record is made correctly, it actually has significantly more sound information than any digital recording.
It's hard to compete with analog since analog doesn't really have a bitrate or anything. The precision is functionally infinite.
Meanwhile, they gave us the Redbook standard and unless you go looking for it, pretty much everything is a similar quality or worse, digitally. Digital is convenient, but not higher quality.
Records (true, genuinely analog records) are the Holy Grail of sound quality as far as I am concerned. The problem is that a lot of companies are taking CDs and just playing them back on to vinyl, making them sound like complete shit.
To demonstrate the point. Have you been on hold recently? Hold music sounds like shit huh?
What if I told you that hold music used to be kind of decent. That's right, most companies are using VoIP, which is lower quality than the old analog phone lines of old, so anything that's played is compressed to all hell and back. You don't really notice it with voice, but as soon as that hold music kicks in, you can hear that something is wrong with it.
Depending on how sensitive you are to the musical distortion of digitisation, that can be similar for CD quality content.
I'm not crazy over vinyl, I can't be bothered with the inconvenience of maintaining a player, and I don't have the money they're asking for a new player; so I'm firmly in digital media. I just understand the appeal of vinyl.
Yes