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Below is a collection of older posts that can be consulted when trying to build your perfect retro-gaming room.

They range from products that look very interesting to art and music ideas.
Send me your ideas and such and I’ll be happy to feature them!

I will be talking about similar things and more in my spin-off blog about enhancing your gaming environment

• Rack-Mount Nintendo
• Street Fighter Figurines
• More Retro-Styled Controllers
• Gamespot’s Game Room Contest
• Pump Game Music Through Your Room
• Keep Your Games in an Online Database
• Street Fighter II Mini Console
• Street Fighter 15th Anniversary Arcade Stick
• Sega Saturn USB Controlers
• Wireless NES and SNES Controllers
• Sega Offers Neo-Geo Joystick for PS2
• SNK Offers Neo-Geo CD Controller for PS2
• Pac-Man Meets Retro Art
• Overclocking Your NES
• Sega Genesis Picture Book
• Perfect Your Emulation Experience With Authentic Controllers
• Collector’s Guide Advance – 16-bit Encyclopedia
• Space Invaders Attack Office Walls!
• Pinball Furnature
• Popular Science Builds An Arcade Cabinet
• Arcade Art!
• Party Time! The Best Multitap Saturn Games
• Build Your Own Arcade Machine
• Custom Dreamcast Gallery
• Sega Genesis Mini Console
• Commodore 64 Joystick
• Custom Consoles

I’ve been working on organizing my Game Soundtrack MP3 collection in iTunes and thought I would share my favorite places to get some free downloads.

The best place to get modern remixes of tracks from classic games is OCRemix. They offer a few different ways to expand your collection. Not only can you search for certain songs and download them directly from their site, but you can get a torrent of their entire archive and recieve and RSS feed for updates. They put out a new remix or two every few days.

A great place that offers modern soundtracks via torrents, IRC, FTP, and DirectConnect is #gamemp3. They occasionally offer some good fighting game soundtracks that I enjoy among others. They also offer RSS feeds for new torrent updates.

If you are a Final Fantasy fan, look no further than Blue Laguna’s archive. They have a number of full albums up for download and add new ones every now and then.

If you are in the mood for some more old-school tunes from the Sega and Nintendo eras, check out the impressive selection at SegaXtreme and NintendoXtreme. Both are adding new albums on a frequent basis.

Enjoy the music, everyone!

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There has been quite a buzz from the Sega’s USB Saturn controllers. Even though they are very cool products, there are a number of people that would like to take their exisiting Saturn controllers and hack into their own USB controller.

There is an excellent guide at GameSX.com that walks you through the entire process and has plenty of pictures to illustrate your journey.

I also recommend that you check out GameSX.com’s main page for a ton of other modding ideas and instructions. It will give you numerous examples of ways to turn your classic consoles and accessories into the perfectly customized device for you.

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If you need to have a unique flair to you home theatre/gaming setup, you might like the idea of turning your NES Controller into a remote control.

You can find all the instructions and illustrations at ZeroSign’s site. If you are planning on doing this one yourself, it might be a little bit of a challenge.

It involves gutting an existing remote control and soldering some parts inside the NES controller.

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