Most Awkward Way to Play

[SegaAges]

This may or may not be classic gaming, but I figured that I am not alone in hooking up my games in a very awkward way, and I know that if I put this into classic gaming, that more people with classic systems will have crazy setups as well.

Well I wanted to get my 360 in hd, but don't have enough money for a hdtv, so I had the idea of playing this on 1 of my flatscreen monitors (I got a 2nd monitor exactly like the 1 in my gaming room pics). Well I got an official vga cable for my 360, but it has rca output for audio (I think that is the proper term for the white and red cables). I tested it with the monitor, and it worked, but now I needed to figure out a way to get sound (and anybody that has seen my pics of my room can tell that I do have a stereo, but it is my roommate's), so I had the idea of putting my monitor in front of my tv (not directly in front, but close to it), and plugging the rca audio cables into my tv. Well for my tv to accept rca, I gotta use a rca to coax converter. What I didn't know was that the converter will not send the audio unless it has video hooked up. So then I hooked my gamecube up to the video, but I still had no sound. I found out that I had to turn on my gamecube for sound. I then had to turn my contrast and brightness on my tv all the way down so that I wouldn't have to sit there and stare at the gamecube system screen while I was playing 360.

It works, and looks awesome, but in order to turn it on and play it with sound, I need to turn on my gamecube, tv, 360, and monitor. The audio only works through my coax converter if I turn on my gamecube. It is really awkward, but definately worth it in the end.

Anybody else have anything else crazy like this?

[Gentlegamer]

Aren't there RCA audio to stereo headphone jack converters? That might be a better solution for sound than the hilarious GameCube pass-through.

[Push Upstairs]

Can you take a picture of this, it sounds hilarious.

[DefaultGen]

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[Neil Koch]

I'd hate to see your electric bill :b

You might want to take a look at this IGN article

http://gear.ign.com/articles/703/703073p1.html

[Icarus Moonsight]

I'd pick up some decent PC Speakers and grab a RCA to Headphone converter. Headphone jack into PC Speakers and BAM!

Pics of your current set-up would be neat to see though.

I play all my consoles (save the TG16) through my CRT monitor. It's kinda crazy. The monitor is a big 21 inch roughly 70-80 lbs. Throw in the VGA converter box, the three system selectors and my JVC Kaboom Box (my audio solution) it's an outright mess of cords and boxes. When I pick up a VGA multiplexer I'll add my other 19 inch CRT to the mix. :) So don't feel bad, I'm nearly as nuts as you are. :P lol

[crazyjackcsa]

I think we all have some pretty crazy set ups. I don't have anything like that per sea, but I can see how you came to be at the place you are, and my hat's of to you! that's the coolest set up I've ever heard of. The worst I have is Daisy chained rf adapters for my 16 bit systems with my N64. The Sega systems had the ability a plug in for the antenna. Of course you can just start chaining them together, which I have done. You have to make sure all of the switches are in the right spot. Add in the other 5 systems, with the dvd and vcr and you have an interesting set up, no more than anybody else's though.

[spunibard]

off topic:

my friend once challenged me to Mario Kart 64 battle with his feet. (that's what i thought of when i saw the topic "Most Awkward Way to Play") after only a few rounds he beat me. (i stupidly let my guard down... how hard can playing against feet be?)

he has much joy bringing it up from time to time, to my infinite shame. :shameful:

"hey, remember that time i beat you in Mario Kart... ... ...WITH MY FEET?!? mwahahahahahaha!!" ROFL