Starting a SNESp
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I started working on a SNESp a few days ago, and I thought I might as well make a thread on it.
I bought a mini-snes from the flea market last week and ordered a psone screen from ebay to get started. As soon as the screen came in, I wired it up to the SNES with RGB and turned everything on. But alas, the screen stayed blank! I checked all my connections and made sure everything was wired up right. But still, it wouldn't work. Discouraged, I gave up and played half-life for a while, and finally beat it. But the next day, while looking around on the forums, I found a thread that might help fix my problem! I tried desoldering the component that TheGamer3000 did, and it worked perfectly!
Here's a picture of it running F-zero. The SNES is running off of 4 AAs (the same battery pack I use to charge my PSP) and the screen is still using the wall adapter.
I still have the song from the first track of F-zero stuck in my head...
Then I ordered some li-ion batteries from here, since they were so cheap. It's $10 for 2 3.7v 2200mah AA-sized cells, and I ordered 3 pairs. So that'll be 6600mah at 7.4 volts once I wire them up. That should give around 6 hours with a mini-snes and a non-led-modded psone screen. And if I decide to LED mod it, that should bump it up to around 8 hours. And the batteries even have a protection circuit built right in so that they don't asplode!
I plan on making a wooden case (cherry), but I have no idea what the design will be like.
That's all I have done for now. I'll post updates when I make any major progress. Which probably won't be for a while since I'm camping all next week and the batteries are going to take 2-3 weeks to ship from hong kong. This project will probably take me a while, judging by the fact that it took me two years to beat half-life.
I bought a mini-snes from the flea market last week and ordered a psone screen from ebay to get started. As soon as the screen came in, I wired it up to the SNES with RGB and turned everything on. But alas, the screen stayed blank! I checked all my connections and made sure everything was wired up right. But still, it wouldn't work. Discouraged, I gave up and played half-life for a while, and finally beat it. But the next day, while looking around on the forums, I found a thread that might help fix my problem! I tried desoldering the component that TheGamer3000 did, and it worked perfectly!
Here's a picture of it running F-zero. The SNES is running off of 4 AAs (the same battery pack I use to charge my PSP) and the screen is still using the wall adapter.
I still have the song from the first track of F-zero stuck in my head...
Then I ordered some li-ion batteries from here, since they were so cheap. It's $10 for 2 3.7v 2200mah AA-sized cells, and I ordered 3 pairs. So that'll be 6600mah at 7.4 volts once I wire them up. That should give around 6 hours with a mini-snes and a non-led-modded psone screen. And if I decide to LED mod it, that should bump it up to around 8 hours. And the batteries even have a protection circuit built right in so that they don't asplode!
I plan on making a wooden case (cherry), but I have no idea what the design will be like.
That's all I have done for now. I'll post updates when I make any major progress. Which probably won't be for a while since I'm camping all next week and the batteries are going to take 2-3 weeks to ship from hong kong. This project will probably take me a while, judging by the fact that it took me two years to beat half-life.
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be careful when running lithium batteries in parallel! get a protection circuit for them as well because they wont just get hot or not work right they can literally explode. lipolys are the same if not worse, so be careful or something like this can happen (gamelvers gcp after his lipolys blew up)
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OMG, triton is that your gc portable. If it was that sucks, it was going so wellTriton wrote:be careful when running lithium batteries in parallel! get a protection circuit for them as well because they wont just get hot or not work right they can literally explode. lipolys are the same if not worse, so be careful or something like this can happen (gamelvers gcp after his lipolys blew up)
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Can you read?twilightprincess wrote:OMG, triton is that your gc portable. If it was that sucks, it was going so wellTriton wrote:(gamelvers gcp after his lipolys blew up)
And the protection circuit is not a thing that you have and say "I'm safe, I can do anything". Its like having seatbelts in your car, just because you have them doesn't mean you can drive like a maniac, it just means that if you do get in a wreck, you're more likely to live, but you could still be messed up. The protection just keeps them from exploding, you can can still screw them up beyond repair if you aren't careful.
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O darn you beat me to it.CronoTriggerfan wrote:twilightprincess wrote:OMG, triton is that your gc portable. If it was that sucks, it was going so wellReally observant.Triton wrote:lipolys are the same if not worse, so be careful or something like this can happen (gamelvers gcp after his lipolys blew up)
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It finally runs on batteries!
I actually did this like 2 weeks ago, but now I've gotten around to posting some pictures of it.
It may not have a case, built in controller, or any aesthetic appeal, but it is portable! I took it to school a few times and people actually thought that it was the coolest thing ever (except for all the people who just think I'm a nerd.). But it was pretty sweet to play Chrono Trigger and Zelda at school. I do plan to eventually build a nice case and such for this.
I also spent about 15 minutes to make a PS1 portable. I've actually been using it as a CD player for the last week or so.
The screen was screwed onto the back of the psone before, but then I took apart the screen and was too lazy to put it back together right.
I actually did this like 2 weeks ago, but now I've gotten around to posting some pictures of it.
It may not have a case, built in controller, or any aesthetic appeal, but it is portable! I took it to school a few times and people actually thought that it was the coolest thing ever (except for all the people who just think I'm a nerd.). But it was pretty sweet to play Chrono Trigger and Zelda at school. I do plan to eventually build a nice case and such for this.
I also spent about 15 minutes to make a PS1 portable. I've actually been using it as a CD player for the last week or so.
The screen was screwed onto the back of the psone before, but then I took apart the screen and was too lazy to put it back together right.
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Engineers say that it's twice as big as it needs to be.
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I hear you. I have a couple of PSOne's that have been laying on my desk with their guts exposed for oh, about 5 months now.Ari wrote:The screen was screwed onto the back of the psone before, but then I took apart the screen and was too lazy to put it back together right.
dragonhead wrote:sweet. ive spent a third of my life on benheck!
My Sega 3 is gathering dust and has been shuffled around my carpet a few times. Too lazy to test. WAY too lazy.Life of Brian wrote:I hear you. I have a couple of PSOne's that have been laying on my desk with their guts exposed for oh, about 5 months now.Ari wrote:The screen was screwed onto the back of the psone before, but then I took apart the screen and was too lazy to put it back together right.