How to make your PSone screen even smaller.....

Post by **Gamelver** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:17 pm

Lately, while working on my latest portable, a SNESp, I've been doing a lot of tracing on my PSone screen.....why? so that I can cut off the bottom parts and wire straight to the pins/components they lead to

!!!!! you see, the bottom part of the LCD board (where the av/power inputs, volume+brightness switches, and speaker inputs are) is in the way of where my SNES controller needs to go (and trust me, it NEEDS to go there...). so, I decided to trace each input (and each resistor/capacitor) that the screen needs to function to its appropriate spot on the board. by doing this, I can successfully remove the entire bottom part of the board, wire up power+av+volume/brightness switches+audio, and still have space for my controller

. as soon as I actually wire it up and test it, I'll make some diagrams and post 'em up

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Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:42 pm

very nice! So, how much did you get to shave off?

Post by **Gamelver** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:46 pm

I'll show you in a couple hours

....(I've got to go to my brother's soccer game now)....I'd say only about half an inch, but when you take off the top too, a little less than an inch

....and for this SNESp, every 1/1000000 of an inch off is good

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*o* · Post by ***o*** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:47 pm

half an inch is a lot thats how far most screens stick out that will be great!!

Post by **gannon** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:13 pm

Gamelver wrote:I'll show you in a couple hours ....(I've got to go to my brother's soccer game now)....I'd say only about half an inch, but when you take off the top too, a little less than an inch ....and for this SNESp, every 1/1000000 of an inch off is good ...

So you're actually cutting off the 12pin and 10 pin connectors on the bottom of the screen? Also, I'm hoping you also are cutting off the top area where the transformer is

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:15 pm

Cool! I would really like to see how you did it, as this could really help me with my N64P dilema (is there 2 m's?)

Post by **Gamelver** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:07 pm

ok, here are pics of my cut up PSone LCD board

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here's one of just LCD board:

here's a pic of it next to an LCD board that's only had the top and left side cut off:

finally, here's one of the smaller one on top of the larger one:

I still have to shave off a bit but that's the basic size of it

....tomorrow I'll draw some diagrams of what I plan to wire to

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Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:44 pm

Very nice

FDSMAN · Post by **FDSMAN** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:54 pm

yea but wont you lose electrodes?

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:52 pm

That's great

Post by **Gamelver** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:44 pm

yeah, and I've already started wiring to it, so tomorrow I should be able to test it

....I just need a few resistors so that I can get the volume/brightness switches to be able to do more than just go up

.....you see, instead of having two different spots for the plus and minus parts of the volume/brighntess switches, there's only 1 spot on the board that you have to solder to for volume and one for brightness. you simply wire up a switch directly to each spot and another switch to each spot with a 5.6ohm resistor in front

. if all of this is confuses, then don't worry, I'll post up some diagrams soon

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JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:08 pm

hmm this would be cool if it works

Post by **Gamelver** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:57 pm

oh it'll work

.....I've got everything wired up, now, so I just gotta test it

...I need to mod my screen with leds still, though....

bmire1985 · Post by **bmire1985** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:57 am

sorry to bump an old thread but I was wondering if there were an diagrams posted and how the final thing looked.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:20 am

The pics in post 7 are as close as you are going to get! I asked last week.

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