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The setup consists of a media/gaming PC, a gaming laptop, a gaming PC, a music production desk, a retro games console setup, an arcade pedestal setup in front of a TV, and a lot of controllers and games. My Media/Gaming PC ‘studio.local’ 12th Gen i7 CPU 32GB DDR4 RAM 1x NVme M.2 SSD 1TB (system) 1x 1TB SSD 1x 500GB SSD 1x 2.5 TB HDD (storage) 3x Logitech C920 Webcams (for streaming) 1x Logitech C270 Webcam (for video calls) 1x Nvidia 4070 GPU 10Gb/sec fibre optic network card 2x Libredrive flashed LG-WH16NS40 multi-disk optical drivers for ripping Blu-rays, CDs, DVDs and any optical disk with MakeMKV and games for my Plex server and emulators. Media PC Software dbPowerAmp CD Ripper (lifetime licence) MakeMKV for ripping CDs and Blu-rays (lifetime licence) AnyDVD HD (lifetime licence) for ripping DVDs and Blu-rays 4K Video Downloader (lifetime licence) for ripping videos from Youtube etc Imagemagik for creating GIFs and command line batch graphics manipulation and conversion FFMPEG for command line batch video manipulation Movavai Video Editor 2022 Sony Vegas 19 Video Editor for more complex video edits Aseprite Pixel Graphics and Animated Gif Editor Sonarworks SoundID Reference - speaker and headphones environmental EQ software. Audacity Audio Editor for editing and mastering mixes uploaded to Mixcloud Hye Sync (official app) for syncing Phillips Hue lights to movies, games, etc PlexAmp and Plex for streaming audio and video from my Plex server at highest quality VLC for video playback HandBrake for transcoding and compressing video OBS Studio (open source) Resolume Avenue 7 for visuals for my DJ stream Resolume Wire for creating custom beat-synced visualisations for my stream Paint.NET open source graphics program for simple crops and photo editing Aiseesoft Blu-ray Player (lifetime licence) for playing unripped Blu-rays on my PC Bome MIDI Translator Classic (lifetime licence) for translating MIDI events to key presses - useful for complex streaming setups Various free emulation tools for decrypting/anti-DRMing copies of video game console optical disks and getting them in a playable state for use in an emulator Reaper DAW (shareware licence) Ableton Live 11 Suite DAW Filebot for renaming and organising media files My Gaming Laptop ’legion.local' Lenovo Legion 5-15IAH 2022 i7 12th Gen 64GB DDR5 RAM 2x 2TB NVME M.2 4th Gen SSDs Nvidia Laptop 3070TI Cooling Gaming Laptop Pad Gaming Setup I share this setup between the Media PC and the Gaming Laptop. I have a 4K HDR KVM switch and a USB 3.0 KVM switch so I can quickly switch between the two. ...

I’ve always wanted an arcade machine in my home. But I could never really afford one, in terms of time and space. Recently I thought to myself, “I’m not getting any younger”. So I built an arcade setup mostly just using the things I already had in the home. Games The ROMs I have are all stored on my file server upstairs. I can get around a 3gbits/sec connection via my 10gbits/sec home network, so there is no performance ‘hit’ in streaming them off the network drive - it has similar speed and latency to a physical drive. Which is handy, because my ROM collection is way too big for the storage on my gaming PC. ...