Japanese Arcade / Home Office / Mini Game Center for Retro Gaming and Driving Games! Ultimate Setup

[@tomrwills]

This is an amazing setup. I think you covered everything you would need. I'm mapping out my basement in my head and want dual vewlixes and something for vertical games. I'd love a small Mini Cute, but the prices make that unobtainable. I am also RGB modding my consoles to go along with a dual RGB-modded Trinitron CRT setup. I supposed I could have gone with the mister, but I already had some consoles.

[@arjungandhi1242]

This is a fantastic setup. I love what you did with the New Net City

[@AaronKraten]

Cool Video. I really enjoyed it. I have been working on a small game center in my apartment and was really happy to see what you have set up in your space. thank you for sharing.

[@donrif2700]

I appreciate the Saturn Bomberman OST ! Excellent room!

[@dorfus]

Thanks! Anyone who doesn’t appreciate Saturn Bomberman is a monster.

[@donrif2700]

@@dorfusone of the best games ever created, I fell in love with the Saturn because of it.

[@sunderark]

Finally! Beautiful setup.

[@dorfus]

I still think yours is cooler!

[@yeetkunedo]

Shift it all into the new garage space, buy some Gundam EXVS cabs, convert the existing space into a temple to the good stuff

[@dorfus]

Tempt me not satan

[@sixiaohai]

Lovely setup, you could add some nice arcade stools in your room for an even more authentic experience.

[@ginzuemulation9265]

It's dreamland this gameroom 👍

[@RUOK2000]

Beautiful set up.

[@socksfelloff]

Killer setup!

[@thegreatjonzini]

Really nice set up 🎉

[@dorfus]

Thanks!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Don’t encourage Dorfus😂

[@dorfus]

@@VideoGameEsoterica Aw man I need encouragement

[@yuGmooDehT]

I want that CRT so bad, and I don't even use SCART. I'm only using S-Video but my 19in CRT needs work. Amazing setup bro

[@dorfus]

Thanks! I actually got the crt from a dude in Connecticut- he does a lot of modified trinitron and JVC sets.

[@RetroTuna]

Loverly setup love what you have done with the room, yean man do a video of the audio equipment i would like to see that.

[@dorfus]

Will do! I’m working on one now about a stupid expensive Walkman.

[@ryu18HD]

Really huge fan and have the love and nostalgia you do. Where do you live? Got a couple of chewlix myself to create that arcade feel.

[@dorfus]

Way up in New England! Not much up here for this kind of thing, but we do have a pretty robust little FGC.

[@KJIgravitypwns]

awesome room! lets see the audio equipment vid!

[@foxbat4127]

A dream setup

[@dorfus]

Thank you!

[@redsaint867]

What an awesome setup! What kind of snac adapter do you use for your psx lightguns? Can’t wait for more videos!

[@dorfus]

I use the SNAC-PSX from Mister Addons. It even has a composite sync connection for the GunCons!

[@redsaint867]

@@dorfusthank you!

[@MrBenedictHeyer]

I subscribed because of your NNC LG Dualup swap, but it's cool to see that you actually found a new CRT monitor for it! Have you only found a donor tube, or a complete monitor? Also, the Blast looks really nice and the Trinitron as well! It's amazing what good quality a consumer TV can bring to the table, it does not look out of place at all in the line up!

[@dorfus]

The Blast City actually came with the Toshiba- but I had to recap it. At that point the Kortek that had been in the NNC had been through its second full pro repair, so I put that in the Blast- the main issue was swapping the tubes on their frames. The frame for each machine was specific, and neither of the frames fit the chassis the individual tubes came with. It was a mess in my office for like days.

[@austimat55]

Is there a specific guide you followed to setup Launch Box / Retroarch on your NNC? A lot of the guides seem to be more focused on Groovy MAME and running at 15khz as opposed to 31khz.

[@sunderark]

1:30 ah sonnuvabich. You got the perspective to line up. I didn't catch that.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Oh I bet you were cruising in Japan. Remember they have prescriptions for that burning sensation

[@dorfus]

The Japanese pharma industry is almost as complex as ours, it turns out

[@8bitDNA]

Say no to raw dogging

[@envisk821]

Great setup, I just got a new net city too. Glad you put back a new tube. Is that control panel a repro?

[@dorfus]

It is, yes. From Brazil.

[@mshoneyy]

bro could charge an entry fee to this arcade, offer a small bar menu, some little snackies

[@dorfus]

The chicken fingers are excellent at this establishment

[@FlashGameplays]

Good evening Dorfus Which system is that in the 5:17min for vertical games? Please.

[@dorfus]

@@FlashGameplays the interface? That’s Launchbox Big Box.

[@FlashGameplays]

@@dorfus I have a Capcom Impress struggling to play vertical games since it's CRT Tried the pandora didn't work since the frequence, so bought the Mister FPGA, but it's lacking from many vertical games :(

[@FlashGameplays]

@@dorfus Thank you! Also, where did you buy that Vewlix, do you have a link? :O

[@dorfus]

@@FlashGameplays I use a PC (it’s an older one I used to use for work) for vertical games. Final Burn Neo does a better job than the emulation of the games on Steam. As for the Vewlix, I got it a while ago for fairly cheap when the Japanese arcades shut down in 2020. I think you could check out Hadouken-Arcade.com though- I did get a bracket for the LG monitor in the vewlix from him. He sells full machines I think.

[@FlashGameplays]

@@dorfus Thank you so much!!!

[@georgewindsor2667]

eh i hear you on the scanlines but still better than no scanlines at all. so many games look like shit without them.

[@dorfus]

Yeah totally fair. I do agree I’d rather have the thick ones than nothing. Nothing compares to 15k pvm scanlines though- an impossible standard to reach

[@georgewindsor2667]

@@dorfus ugh ive bought 3 scanline generators and they all sux

[@dorfus]

@@georgewindsor2667 yeah I’ve never seen one I liked. I have had some RetroTink devices and an XRGB mini as well. Nothing really felt the same, though I do hear the latest RetroTink comes quite close.

[@arthurclayton8866]

@dorfus I just ordered a blast city and I my plan is to run it in tate mode to play vertical shooters. I would love to pick your brain on how you are doing this on your new net city? It looks like you are running a pc with big box. Is this true? If so, how did you configure it. More or less.

[@dorfus]

Yes! That’s exactly what I did. Your ease of doing this will really depend on the type of monitor you get though- my Blast city has a tri-sync, so it can run a 480p signal from the pc easily. The Net City only came with tri syncs. If you have a monitor that can do only 15k, it’s a lot tougher to get a PC hooked up.

[@arthurclayton8866]

@@dorfus it's the original trisync monitor, so that is good to know. Mame runs fine on it? I keep seeing people using groovy mame. Are you using that? Also what is your I/O the original hardware or brooks boards? Thanks again for your help

[@dorfus]

@@arthurclayton8866 Yeah, anything that is 480p will run just fine on a tri-sync. You'll be scaling it PC side, but that really doesn't add lag. The GPU in this is I think the last one that supported an analog output- the GTX 970 or 980- I'd have to double check. I actually use FBNeo for pretty much all arcade games at this point- not MAME. I/O is all Brook and USB.

[@arthurclayton8866]

@@dorfus Thanks, any reason why you use FBNeo over Mame? Is there better latency with FBNeo? I am not familiar with FBNeo and I need to research it

[@dorfus]

@@arthurclayton8866 It was a year or two ago that I settled on it, but yes- FBNeo was the most accurate solution for certain CAVE games.

[@panicfarm9874]

Do the brook boards convert everything in one or would I need to buy a different board for each device I’m converting- pc, ps5, Switch so on ?

[@dorfus]

The brook boards connect to anything with usb, and convert inputs for it. Some consoles like PS5 are a little tricky- you will need a higher end Brook board if you want to play ps5 specific software. I’ve also found the ps5 specific software to be picky about usb cable quality, and the number of cables chained together. The Switch does require you to hold down a button at the time the system is powered up or comes out of sleep. For everything else, it’s fairly automatic.

[@dorfus]

And to just go a step further- Brook makes a lot of adapters that go from say a Dreamcast or Neo geo to usb. Those then connect to the boards as shown.

[@panicfarm9874]

@@dorfus thanks for the reply, wasn’t expecting it so quick. Thanks for that info also appreciate it

[@dorfus]

@@panicfarm9874 no problem! Also, check out my guide on USB switchers- again, the PS5 is real picky about that stuff and doesn’t work super well with them… but everything else works very well.

[@panicfarm9874]

@@dorfus will do

[@StevenSpady]

Which machine can I play Glover on? Please reply

[@dorfus]

MiSTer FPGA has a pretty solid N64 core now, so I guess if you break in I’d try the Trinitron

[@StevenSpady]

@@dorfus Unlock the door

[@SP95]

5:14 is that a modern aftermarket board ?

[@dorfus]

That's the board that came with the 2008 Kortek Tri-Sync I've got in the Blast City now. It's had quite a few issues, but the image quality is very good in 31k. I'm not super happy about how the geometry looks at 15k though, way too much distortion on the sides. Definitely made for 31k content.

[@SP95]

Thanks for the extra details. Given the year it was made we could say it was one of the last then

[@dorfus]

@@SP95 yeah, pretty much the last tri sync replacement unit someone could get. The tube is a Samsung- I’m curious if it’s in any other televisions of the era but not set up as a tri sync.

[@SP95]

I know Wei-Ya used to also make tri sync boards as well and they've also made these until about that same year. Cannot tell you the kind of tubes they've used but this should not be too hard to find.

[@Khinh-xq6lx]

no one go to japan for just sushi its the arcades