Low and behold! My newest, and most ambitious projekt to date! ...this time using original hardware



Yes, see it here, a portable Sega CD!

As far as I can tell, this has only been attempted once before....but not like this bad oscar!

The controller...rather than roll with a 'custom' controller area, I'm rolling with some semi original buttons, to make it feel more sega-y (semi original cause I just gutted a clonetroller)




..and a nice wide shot of the initial workings....see anything that might hint at how awesome this projekt is gonna be when it's finished? I'm gonna do my darndest to include a feature that has never before been seen on a portable yet (although, we've seen it done elsewhere...)


...to be continued!

good luck getting the slot loader to work. i would ditch as much of the outer metal shell as you can. try to make it nice and finished

Regardless of the outcome I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with. You always take great pictures, and that's what this forum needs more of - actual projects with pictures to document it all. Makes for good reading Sounds like a very good projekt, mein Herr!

By the way, those are some beefy looking capacitors for your audio amp in the background.

Hope you add a 32x into it

Dreamt of doing this for years so I could play Sonic CD anywhere but could nenevr find a CDX cheap enough.

Do I see a slot-loading dd in the last picture? BTW I love this project already.

Update!

Had a small hurdle to deal with..namely how I was gonna use the SL drive with the ancient CDX....and then it hit me!

After much destruction...these two were introduced...


..then WHAM! I got them to fit together in such a way that works


With that, I did a quick test to see how it all holds the disk when one is loaded....which works very well! YES!


Stay tuned!

you got it to work in what, one day.

and killgood still can't get to make a slotloading psone drive.

how are you going to get it to recognize when youre trying to insert a disk? or eject it, or tell the system when theres a disc in there?

by using some sneaky switches


and here's a small update!

Got my screen...

You know what the best part about getting a new screen is?

when the screen you've purchased was listed as being totally broken, only to get it, open it, and find that the part that's broken, was a part you were gonna remove anyway

so I landed a perfectly good PS1 screen for 20 bucks shipped

and so the adventure continues...

i would figure out a way to automate it. using just a single eject button and a way to sense when youre inserting a disc

WERD did a slot loading dreamcast on his Dream Tablet

He made a custom circuit that we discussed when I originally was talking about making a iCast with a slot loading iMac G3.

He hasn't posted much here recently, but I think he has a link to his blog site which has a bit more info on the circuit he used to do the opening/closing/spinning up/down.

Holy burrito launching octopus! That info saves me alotta thinking ...I would've figured it out eventually (by looking at his schematics, I can tell I was already very much on the right track) But this makes things so much easier--woot!

UPDATE FINALLY!

Could've posted this sooner, but I kept forgetting lol.

So yeah, here we go!

Did the classic LED mod on the PS1 screen...

This time around, I had some tooling to assist in the operation...



You can't tell me that doesn't look sexy


Did myself a little tweaking of the CDX board..removing that plug....'twas a real pain to say the least, but at least it works


Couple of Bench test shots....



Seem to have run into a snag tho...I fear the video amp is going bad on the CDX...as the picture is very..um...wobbly...It's hard to describe, but lines seem to travel across the screen, making the screen look all shakey.

Any thoughts?

Happens to me all the time
About the video, it could be some of the capacitors on the board going bad, kind of like sega game gear, and the screen and stuff related stop working. just an idea

Hm..interesting. I'll have to look into that