Moving House - Gaming Setup - Out With The Old - Part 2 

After moving several times in only a few years I decided that having all of my systems (9 of them at the time) hooked up all the time (complete with switch boxes and outlet strips and converters EVERYWHERE) just wasn't worth it anymore. My console wiring/furniture mess was exactly like your situation, all the way down to having all of the wiring bound to the furniture. After a year or longer of never doing anything with it I ended up cleaning them all thoroughly, placing each of them in a large ziploc bag (2 gallon here in the US), and placing each bagged console in a clear plastic tote with its' respective A/V cables/power adapter/controller/memory card/etc, and storing them all in a closet. Since I also bought a home I ended up running auxiliary TV inputs between my seating area and behind the entertainment center through the wall with "reclaimed" (free) RG-59 coax (converted to RCA ends) and "Wired Home" brand customizable wall plates. I also put a short jumper inline on the wall plate for my main CATV feed (the wall plate has 2 coax connectors so I can remove the jumper and interrupt the feed) for connecting systems like the 2600. I also ran my rear surround sound wiring in the same cable bundle and since the RG-59 is shielded it doesn't pick up any electrical noise from it or vice versa. My runs are also around 30' (~10 meters) and I haven't noticed any loss of picture or sound quality. In my installation the downside is no s-video or composite (I *could* have wired them) but that's ok with me not to have that for casual use. My classic gaming life is much simpler and more organized now and I never have to worry about the consoles being damaged by electrical storms/surges or a plumbing leak or something ever again. It does sort of take away from the "wow" factor of having all of your cool stuff on display, but it frees up a ton of space. In my case that space has become filled by amplifiers and such for my home theater, which is also a huge wiring ordeal. I can also now easily transport a system away from my primary viewing/playing HDTV and plug it into a CRT in another room if I want. The primary focus of my collection is light gun games so that is fairly important to me. Anyhow, just some food for thought. Whatever you end up doing, good luck! I just stumbled into your channel today and look forward to seeing what you come up with. You'll probably find some broken video game robot on ebay for the price of scrap to do all of that for you.

Wow... I've lived through an era. And I can't believe the era of the gaming cabinet are over.

And one of our fellow brothers goes down. You served us well Sargent Cabinet. May you be remembered forever.

I'll always be patient for your content. Even watching your repair videos over and over for a while now. I'm getting pumped up for your upcoming content. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!!! Hope you have a wonderful holiday!

Good to hear from you again sir! I myself have moved three times since your last video!! =]Looking forward to your next one!Love from Edinburgh

Glad to see you back in action!! Miss your repair videos in my subscriptions!

Looking forward to the return of your very informative and entertaining repair videos in the future!

He has risen to bless us with hopefully repairing ebay junk again.

Thank goodness the broom handle support survived. I hope you had a good Christmas Martin, and that your new year brings you nothing but happiness.

Still one of the best setups i have ever seen. Great job!

Nooooo that cabinet was cool! Inspired me to mod my own cheap furniture for gaming... :D

I had spare plastic legs in my attic. I had the tv cabinet and I had the bookcase too. Bought mine as a temporary thing until I could afford something better. Been in my attic for over a year, you could have had the legs.

THAT LORD KARNAGE BOOK!!!

YAY! A new vid from the man himself! Always awesome!

Guess I didn't realise the age of your previous video :) Seeing the new setup I suddenly remember having seen it before though.

Poor old unit :-( But the thing took a beating for what it was! New place looks nice :-) I wasn't expecting the sound bar, much less a little sub woofer as well, now your games are going to sound as good as they look and play ;-)

Nice to se eoyu back.

miss you bro, always get happy to see a vid

Great video as always. Keep up the great work

Yayyyyy missed you and your videos!

Yo, I just discovered your channel and have much more content to watch. Keep it up in 2016! Thanks!

Speaking of TV stands, I could really do with replacing mine. I have a glass one which I got 6 or 7 years ago now. Glass looks good in theory, and I'm sure would be fine for a normal simple setup, but its a dust magnet and there's basically nowhere to route cables in a clean way. Not ideal when you have 8 or 9 devices hooked up to the TV. I'll maybe have a look for a new stand, while also searching for a new blu-ray player (my old Toshiba is starting to whine...).

looking good so far. your old setup was pretty cool, but if it starts falling apart i wouldn´t keep it either. i´m sure once you figured out wich consoles you wanna play and wich you don´t really need, your setup will look as good as before =)

Curious on how you going to setup almost everything. Thanks for the upload. Cheers.

under that tv unit could benefit from some coloured led strip lights. just a thought for ya.

I should get some velcro-strips for my cables. It'd be a lot better than my current system..

Ah moving home is always such a hassle, but at least this way you've got a nicer floor ;)

retrogametech i think you can fix that old entertainment if you still got it with wood

You are alive!

Shame about the cabinet but like you said, it wasn't going to last much longer. Date I ask.. But when will the repair vids start Martin?

Are you going to be doing a 2018/2019 setup tour?

Wahoo more uploads :D

Another already!

I see you have the 1000 videogames to play before you die, an excellent book.

♥

Did you remember how to use your camera this time? Anyway have a great new year!

Holy shit you BUILT your own scaler boards? Fuck me, I want a video about those!

Keep the old table in case the new one breaks

are u going to put any kind of lighting inside the cabinet/center console thing where ur systems are? just to illuminate them to look more pleasant to the eye and for the camera

It's good to see you back mate! missed you! what's with the pixelating? haha

Good to see you back. What did you do with the Crystal Lcd Xbox i dont see it in the new pad?

How does your CCTV work? Is it comprised of a series of webcams hooked up to a NAS with a bunch of storage or is it specialised hardware? Also, those boxes look useful. Never seen those type before, they look a little like the old recycling boxes you got from the Council but probably aren't.

how did you previously have the surge protectors connected up to the one outlet? I mean.. you didn't daisy chain them did you? I'm transitioning a whole set up at the moment and want to manage everything more confined to a power source as well, but I don't know enough about electrics in that sense

oh damn I'm sorry you do have a ps4, hadn't remembered I guess

You have security cameras? I'm surprised

Please make more eBay repair videos!

RetroGameTechcCan you tell me where you got that plastic stands for pcb's under table? 3:50

Have you picked up any bargain deals for fixing, modding etc?

DId you sell alot of your old stuff because there is stuff missing if anyone has noticed that.

OK but what you do with Modded Xbox With Xecuter 3 Control Panel ?

I just got my megadrive lol

Mod the multi mega drive?

Can I just ask a question? What part of Scotland are you from (Glasgow, Linlithgow, ect.)? I'm just curious, that's all, also I have family in Scotland. But yeah, just wondering.

When will your next upload be

ayy :D

cctv or skin mags?

What did you blur out? hahaha

Lord Karnage Book on the mighty Vectrex... I like you!! But you don't sound like you're from NEW JERSEY, are you?

Why did you stop making videos anyway?

Dude I think I have the same guitar as you! It's an Epiphone Special 2 right?

when are coming back to RU-vid ??????

What is it that is so hard core that it need to be censored?

5th

seems like such a huge downgrade :(