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My first portable, NESp, few questions

Post by TheOnlyOneHeFears » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:02 am

Hi! I'm planning on making a NESp with a custom case, using the Megajoy and a PSOne screen, and I just have a few questions to help me plan.

1. Is there any way of making a switching system for the Megajoy, so that you can choose to either play the inbuilt games, or the game in the cartridge slot? Or does it auto-detect whether there is a game in or not?
2. Does anyone have the dimensions of the PSOne screen? (just the screen, no casing, as I'm trying to draw a mock-up of my case design)
3. Does anyone know of sellers of the Megajoy in the UK (apart from ebay)? I would order one of them from the manufacturers website, but the shipping is very expensive!

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Post by jedi knight » Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:07 pm

Ok well welcome to the forums. I will try to answer your questions.
1) A switching system eh? Well I am pretty sure that it loads the cartridge automaticly, I may be wrong though.
2)Well the PsOne screen is 5".
3)Not sure. A quick search should find one.
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Post by CronoTriggerfan » Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:20 pm

Well, you could make a switch to turn the ROMs on/off, if that's what you mean. By connecting a wire from pin 1 to pin 60 on the Famicom board, it kills built-in ROMs, so to add an on/off function, just throw a switch between them. Although I don't see why you'd want to do this, seeing as the ROM screen boots up when there's no game inserted, but when there is one, the game automatically boots..... :?

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Post by TheOnlyOneHeFears » Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:58 pm

Thanks guys! And CTFan, I realised after I posted that my question was a bit stupid :P . Considering that the whole switching thing is pointless. Thanks for the help!

EDIT: I think I've found a UK seller of the Mega Joy. Pretty cheap as well? Just making sure, is this the right one? Which has a cartridge slot as well?

http://www.htfr.com/more-info/?catno=MR51882#image[/url]
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Post by TheOnlyOneHeFears » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:05 pm

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Please someone answer my question :D
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Post by CronoTriggerfan » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:57 pm

Yep, that looks like the one! Good luck.

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Post by DK » Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:55 pm

Thanks dude. Been looking for one in the UK for ages!
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