Retro

Team: Retro
Name	Team Retro
Short Description	Retrogaming, slacking, consoles, 8 bit madness
Contact	Stitch
Mailinglist	retro@eth-0.nl
Volunteers Wanted?	,|x|x"x" is not in the list (Much help needed, Some help needed, Not needed now) of allowed values for the "Summer 2010 Team Needs Volunteers" property.}}

This is information about the Eth0:2010 Summer Edition.

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MORE: Network • Lounge • Retro • For more see Summer Teams

During Eth0:2010 Summer there will be a public, complete retrogaming experience. While eth0 focusses its event around hacking and security, there is enough room for slacking. One such place is the Eth0:2010 retrogaming experience, where all consoles and games from our past are present, as well as some new ones. You know; the nes, megadrive, 2600, pong consoles and more.

Here you will find all pre-event details, so everyone can see what's going on and possibly contribute.

FIXT!

Tents during previous events

• Tent, 5x5 meters

Ideas/Plans

These ideas and plans contain contributions made by others and ourselves. The text in brackets indicates the need for the idea and the percentage it has been arranged. Its a rough estimate, but it gives an indication. Please adjust status and needs according to your own liking. A low need doesn't mean we don't want it, just that there is less focus by the current team.

• [high 10%] Donation mailing, we need more consoles
• [high 30%] TV's: crt and possibly flatscreens
• [high 00%] Beamer(s) (how many? see tent layout)
• [high 00%] Interior (couches, lights, tables)
• [medium 30%] 8 Bit Music - User:Will-Do ownes a lot
• [medium 00%] Decor / props (need: medium, status: 0/100)
• [medium 10%] Audio/Video output to network/other locations on terrain (radio shack) User:Zarya has a 4 channel video to network broadcaster.
• [medium 25%] Location for the tent, possibly next to the cottages, otherwise somewhere where lots of people visit and in connection with the lounge?
• [low 10%] Compo's (maybe the 3-in-one game cartridge from the wizzard, that would make it awesome)
• [low 10%] Real life compo's, games of ping pong and real life snake
• [low 00%] official approval by james rolfe? (need: low, status: 0/100)
• [low 10%] Anaglyphic game trip, in collaboration with fransh, it's very awesome: playing mario 3 in anaglyphic mode

Console placement / wiring

What is Retro?
In my honest opinion ps1 and everything before that is considered retro. (Syb) although not everything is as popular.

All these consoles need wires, and for exporting their video/image even more wires. Also they need tv's (on lackracks?) and extra tables to play with raised feet :P Do we need headphones extension cables/headphones to limit cross-noise? (probably not a problem)

Since we don't have much space, maybe we need to work in the vertical axis. A wall of tv's, of course it has its pro's and con's. like good for space, bad for people who want to sit in front of the tv.

We might need a large sofa possibly without armrests but just pillows, so it can fit more people.

another idea is using 2 oposite walls for placing tv's + consoles with a big row of sofas, chairs in the middle Back-to-Back gaming.

Donation Mailing

We are asking random people in the netherlands for game console donations. Currently we can lend 15 consoles from various people, but that comes with some risks, some management and its also not possible to tinker with them. Therefore we've devised a donation mailing to ask unknown others to donate their old game systems to eth-0. They will be used during the summer event and distributed throughout meeting places in the Netherlands.

Consoles

The tent will have plenty of room for consoles. A quick estimate says about 20, with some spares/optional in boxes. We try to lend consoles from our friends, our lend them from our own stash. There is also a public 'nobody-owns-this' stash of consoles, donated by rd and maybe others in the future.

Needed

These consoles / games are smash hits and should be present.

• Super smash brothers for N64 + 4 controllers (Stitch has this already)
• Super mario 3
• List of top titles for older consoles, so we have good games
• Dedicated pong consoles
• add more here...

Stash

The current collection is not yet considered full-retro. This is what we have.

• Dreamcast + controllers and games
• 2x Playstation 1 with guns and games
• NES 8bit + controllers but no games
• Gameboy + games

So its not a lot, and we hope donations + lending ups this list to at least 20 different consoles.

Lending from friends and neighbors

Consoles lended from others...

• 2 NES 8 bit consoles with 22 games (including zelda & zelda II), only 1 set of cables. owner: jacko
• 2 NES 8 bit consoles with 8 games (mario 3, zelda, mario 1 and various), few sets of cables Stitch
• Pong console (tele sports 6) with a 12-in-1 cartridge. (has to be fixed) (stitch)
• Colecovision with some 1983 games (which of course all suck) (stitch)
• Bunch of PC games such as c&c red alert, 7th guest, duke 3d, dune 2, rollercoaster tycoon and theme park (stitch)

Crew

• Syb aka Mr Prodent
• Jacko
• Stitch

Connections

Links to other on/off event resources for making this a great_success.