Use a differnt Disc drive in PS2?

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Use a differnt Disc drive in PS2?

Post by Falcon15 » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:25 am

I am planning a portable PS2 that will be in laptop form ( I know, ever since Ben did it with the 360, everyone else has been wanting to do it :P). My question is, can I replace the PS2's disc drive with, say, a slim laptop drive, or am I stuck with what the PS2 has?

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Post by Kyosho » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:35 am

I know with the Xbox you can modify a standard DVD Rom to work with it. As for the PS2, I have no idea.

When you say laptop, what do you mean exactly? A hinged screen with a USB keyboard, etc. like Ben did with the 360?

Out of curiousity, are you going to be using the Slim PS2 or the larger one? Personally if I were doing this project, I'd use the Slim's motherboard, but the larger PS2's disc drive. Mainly because it, you know, ejects and is tray-loading. That's assuming they're compatible, which they might not be. I too am curious as to whether you can use a standard laptop drive for the PS2.

Might be possible to modify a laptop drive and use the guts from a PS2 drive. With some heavy modifying. Probably be rather difficult, but sounds like fun. If I had some extra parts, I'd even try it for the hell of it. But I don't.

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Post by Falcon15 » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:16 pm

I was planning on making it a full on laptop, yes. I havn't bought anything for it yet. It's still on the drawing board. I would use the slim PS2's internal workings, but if the original PS2's drive is compatible, i'd use that. Really the only part that I am in major confusion over is the screen. I don't want to use a standard PS2 travel screen, because they are only 5 inches. I'd rather buy a 10 inch LCD TV and hack that, but I don't know if it's possible to make it work with the PS2.

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Post by timmeh87 » Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:49 pm

well ps2s work on 10" lcd tvs right? it shouldnt be hard. power might be tricky though. id guess that internally it just takes a standard low DC voltage, hopefully not hard to hack a battery onto.

the ps2 dvd drive definitely cant be replaced with a PC dvd drive, most of the control circuitry is actually on the ps2 motherboard, the drive itself (non-slim model) is just a laser, three motors and some switches.

swapping the components into another drive is closer to the right idea, but im actually holding a V7 dvd drive in my hand right now and its only about 1.25" thick at its thickest point. about as thick as the laptop im typing this on. i dont know if you can use these on slim models or not...
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Post by joevennix » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:17 pm

If you want maximum thinness (sp?) try getting a slot-loading drive, I had to get a replacement one, they're at most half an inch tall. They might not be compatible though.

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Post by Falcon15 » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:27 pm

Any suggestions on where to buy a cheap 12-14 inch lcd tv for this thing?

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Post by Falcon15 » Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:55 pm

I just had a thought. Could I use a cheap 13 inch computer monitor? Those usually go for less than a TV.

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Post by paul4990 » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:58 pm

if they input composite then yes

edit: usr the drive out of a big ps2 because then you could have it come out of the front.

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Post by Black Six » Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:50 pm

Falcon15 wrote:I just had a thought. Could I use a cheap 13 inch computer monitor? Those usually go for less than a TV.
You might be able to do that, but then you'll need to make your own audio amp and speakers for it.
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Post by vskid » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:09 am

Black Six wrote:
Falcon15 wrote:I just had a thought. Could I use a cheap 13 inch computer monitor? Those usually go for less than a TV.
You might be able to do that, but then you'll need to make your own audio amp and speakers for it.
Some cheaper ones I've seen have built in speakers.
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Post by spinout » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:57 am

I tore this out of a broken dvd player and I now with some modifacation you should be able to have a ps2 slim dvd drive fit into it. There seems to be a lot of unused plastic in the drive so it coud be slimmed to uner an inch in some areas.

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Post by eastsider_1 » Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:27 am

Hey, that looks familiar- only i see it evertime i change the game on my PS2M 8) Sony probaly could have gotten there hands on something SMALLER, i thought of rewiring my DVD drive to load from the side of the PS2M, but its too big and TOO MANY TINY wires to mess with. :evil:
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Post by Falcon15 » Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:46 pm

I was just thinking, If I used a laptop drive on this, would it have to be the same voltage as the PS2 drive?

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Post by eatablecrayon » Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:04 pm

i have an old ps2 that has the disc read crap. do you think that it would be possable to swap that with a drive from a dvd player or somthing?

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Post by jeroen » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:23 pm

eatablecrayon wrote:i have an old ps2 that has the disc read crap. do you think that it would be possable to swap that with a drive from a dvd player or somthing?
no. However try and get a broken ps2 with working disk reader.

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