Sega Consoles Case

[CCDC]Norn · Post by **[CCDC]Norn** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 12:06 pm

Hey, right now I'm working on a pc case to hold the following consoles:

Dreamcast
Saturn
Genesis
Master System

I have no experience doing any sort of electrical work/soldering/cutting, so I should learn a lot from this project. Right now I'm working on extending the GD-Rom unit and the Controller Circuit Board away from the actual main board of the Dreamcast system. The controller board shouldn't be too hard, seeing as the recipticle for the ribbion cable from the mainboard was easily desoldered out, now I need some wiring to extend it though. I was going to try to use some old ribbion cable I had around, but Im finding it really hard to strip. I don't have any wire strippers that go down that small, and when I tried stripping it with some wire cutters, I ended up ruining the cable.

So, does anyone have some good advice for stripping ribbion cables?

diggerdanh · Post by **diggerdanh** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 12:32 pm

you can use a lighter.

Post by **gannon** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 12:33 pm

buy a pair of wire strippers that can be used with 28-30 awg wire

Post by **Sparkfist** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 1:04 pm

When I'm in a rush I take a pocket knife and cut the shielding, then I pull the rest back and cut it to make it even. Just be sure you dont hold the knife too close to a 90 degree angel other wise you may just cut the wire right through.

For some help on throwing that thing together you should check out G4techtv's website and look for the Y-boxx. Yoshi their master modder made a pc case that contained the PS2, NGC, Xbox and a PC. I'm sure it will be a good referance for you.

Post by **gannon** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 1:23 pm

hmmm....really, how would you put the games on the monitor, would you just route them through a tv tuner card, or are you going to use something like the xrgb?

[CCDC]Norn · Post by **[CCDC]Norn** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 8:35 am

Thanks for all the differing advice I guys

. I'm going to start trying to throw stuff together again in a week or two, so I'll make updates here.

Right now I have two diffrent ideas for video output. Either a TV Tuner or have a VGA switch. I like the Tuner idea more because that makes the consoles seem more intergrated into the machine. I plan on gutting a rca composite switch, gutting it, and putting that in the case so the consoles can easily be cycled through.

Post by **gannon** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:07 am

I've seen some auto vga box's out there, that will accept standard 15khz rgb and composite, and you could integrate it into the computer by removing the vga out jack from the computer, soldering the vga in of the box directly to the graphics card, and then putting the output vga slot where the old one was.