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CONSOLE is pretty great - easy money getting a ton of hardware shoved in there, no drama whatsoever. I upgraded my "Retrobox" machine with an RTX 2070 Super and the Alpenfohn Black Ridge (with a single Noctua fan). Silent running, insanely fast. Love the simplicity and flexibility of this...

Awesomeeeeee....looking forward to this.

My very own SKYREACH 4 MINI showed up, and the build is done! Here it is (mammoth Caselabs SMA8 for scale).. Not much else to say - Josh has made this chassis incredibly easy to build in, and as you can see the results are stunning. Back to gaming!

When is a console not a console? Reasonably satisfied with the couch gaming side of things, in the background I've been looking for ways to (gracefully) switch between "couch" mode and "keyboard/mouse/monitor" mode, in order to handle older PC games, DOSBox, Amiga emulation, Atari ST..you name...

At first I thought it might be imgur screwing with my giant images, but upon closer inspection............you're definitely right on the money. I can't believe I didn't see the improper line spacing. We are however dealing with NTSC games here and thus don't want to mess with the color space any...

What do Super Nintendo games look like scaled up to 2633x2160? RetroArch 1.6.8 / higan core / crt-aperture (GLSL) Embiggen to show detail..I'm pretty pleased with this. Crisp scanlines, less blur - text looks great, and the feel is a bit more like the modern pixel art games, though still true...

Awesome!!! Trying to answer all your questions as best I can: Dreamcast: Short of it is, I keep a real Dreamcast around, still. Redream is, in my opinion, the one to watch if you're building a couch gaming machine. Otherwise it's a bit hit-and-miss and depends highly on the game; you will...

More tuning, more adventures in shaders In the process of implementing the more major changes I wanted for this second hardware revision, I've greatly simplified my RetroArch config strategy down to a general-purpose main retroarch.cfg, and per-system overrides to tailor the experience for each...

Custom engraving! Oh come on, you're going to make me make my build official? Okay. Fine. Jerk. :cool:

This is all correct! With regards to Save States (that is, a snapshot of the entire memory space of the console), yes, you need to be careful that you're using the same emulator (or "core" if RetroArch) and, sometimes even the same version of that emulator! Platform (ARM vs x86, Windows vs Linux...

Looking the Part - Hiding the Windows UI, lockscreen, etc. For a more complete "console" look in Retrobox 2, I took on some additional steps. The ability to hide more of the Windows UI requires the Enterprise or Enterprise LTSB version of Windows 10 - however the Shell and UEFI logo...

Cloud Powered* sort of I've built a whole lot of PCs over the last two+ decades, and yet none quite like this. At first, I took the words "couch gaming" to heart and modeled after what would be the closest example that you can buy off the shelf - game consoles. A spinning disk for the game...

I'm certainly interested in a powdercoating service, especially if the cost gets better with one shop doing a bunch of these cases..otherwise I'll just take the panels to a local shop.

Ordered! Now the real wait begins :cool:

I've been building PCs since you could pick up a book entitled "Build your own 80286 IBM compatible and save a bundle". In far more recent years, I started taking much more time on my builds - making each one special, memorable, challenging myself in new ways. My office PC is a behemoth Caselabs...