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Burning Typhoon on 05 November 2016
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d21lewis said:
Burning Typhoon said:

Do you really complain about that?  I have 9 consoles and a PC that i use for gaming.  Almost every gaming session I have, I have to fiddle around with HDMI cables, and I have to use converters for my older consoles, like PS2, Sega Saturn, ETC.  I would love to be in your situation, lol.

I refuse to play on anything other than my 24 inch 1ms gray to gray monitor.  I don't care that it's not an IPS monitor, I want screen lag to a minimum. So, no 4k, no HDR, no ultra wide.  Just 1080p and a lagless display.

But, just saying... You've got it good.

 

My PS1, 2, and JP PS2 can all use the same video cable, but not the same power cord.  Everything else uses a different power and video cable, except for the HD consoles.

I can't even have access to 4k, HDR, and all that other stuff, because of display lag.  I refuse to play on anything other than my 2c

I guess everything is relative. I'll count my blessings. And who knows? I'll probably come up with some sort of solution once I have everything in front of me. I'm usually pretty clever and creative when it comes to av stuff. I usually get the result that I want.

I don't want to use switches for all my consoles.  That would mean buying multiple of the same cables, and possible added screen lag..  No thanks, lol.

 

But, here is my current set-up

HDTV, which is used for WEB BROWSING only.  34ms screen delay is rediculous. My 1ms G2G has 9MS delay.

Computer

Which is linked to a main HDMI hub (external) via the internal Capture card to my consoles.

I have two usb hubs that I do not use together.  One has a scart input to HDMI, and the other is an HDMI splitter which gets around the PS3 and PS4's HDCP.

PS3 and PS4 and PSTV use the same HDMI and eithernet cables.

However, as for all of my old consoles,

Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, JPNPS2, some of them remain plugged in.  The genesis doesn't, because the brick is always drawing power.. The sega dreamcast, PS1, PS2, and sega saturn all use the same power cord. The Japanese PS2 doesn't.  Eventhough I only use fat PS2 models they decided to go with a different power cord in Japan.  Everything is plugged into an 8 socket heavy duty surge protector.

the scart to HDMI goes to my capture card, the capture card's HDMI is going into my gaming monitor.  Which is set up as monitor 1 of 3, which means, I have to make sure to move all my stuff over to monitor 2 if i wanna see it while gaming.Monitor 3, is use mainly for screen captured special effects.

 

But, yeah, I can't just turn on a console and start gaming. Did I mention I must have my computer turned on to power the capture card or else I wont get a video signal to begin with?  

 

TL;DR

So basically, unless I'm going to play the currently connected console, I have to probably unplug something, switch the converter box, switch the video cable and plug in the console I want to play while having my computer on.