Games and entertainment on the main TV

[MatthewCroughan]

Now that #1138 is done I have a few desires to set these things up, so I'm making an issue to log my progress.

Things I have lying around that I'm going to set up:

• [x] Nintendo Wii
• [x] Nintendo Wii U
• [x] Coolbaby (Chinese bootleg NES console that is surprisingly good) Things I want to set up:
• [ ] Retropie
• [ ] pico8

I'll add other things as ideas pop up, feel free to suggest things and I'll look into it and set them up!

[DoESsean]

Fan of this.

I reckon that it would be good to have a similar set up to pubs that have consoles - the consoles are boxed in, with all the cables and what have you kept tidy and out of the way. That way, there's less mess, it'll look better - particularly if we can have LEDs in the box like there are behind the tv. I'm thinking clear acrylic for the box - and makes it less likely that anyone is going to faff with them unnecessarily.

[MatthewCroughan]

I've set up the Coolbaby, Wii and Wii U. Although I need a few controllers for the Wii U, along with a charger for the gamepad, which I think I've left at home. The Wii is a bit redundant, however I thought it'd be fun to provide it since people can hack around with it if interested.

I've also laser cut a little sign to signify the nature of the setup:

As we gather the resources, we'll make this more elegant. Ikea has great ideas, we can make a lot of these things ourselves:

[MatthewCroughan]

Really, the less systems we have here the better, so I'm going to try and concatenate all of this into one unit some day via emulation.