I now have a PS2 two... whatever it's called
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Yes, they had some at Gamestop. It'll actually run off a big Sony Infolithium battery for a couple minutes, but it looks like it WILL need 8.5 or so volts for the long haul. The wall adapter says it gives 5.8 amps or something outrageous like that, it appears to run at more like 2.
It's actually heavier than you'd expect, but it IS small. The motherboard itself is 5.475" x 8.063" The DVD drive assembly is smaller than the PSone assembly even.
Another bonus is no stupid "sub-board" for the controller ports - they connect right to the main board.
There's only 1 big chip that gets heatsinked, they musta combined the GPU with the CPU. I also noticed the 2 memory chips are not heatsinked now.
There's a couple random chips that are cheaply heat sinked to the metal RF shield. Wow.
Everything inside kinda looks cheap... I don't know how else to describe it. It has a built-in LAN port I'll try and have in my portable
The DVD drive will probably have to have the cable extended and rewiring - if I build this it's gonna be A LOT like the hand-made PSP I did for the book.
Wal Mart has this DVD Li-Ion battery pack thing for $50. It comes with a charger, spits out 9 volts and has 5400mAH of juice. I may use this...
Even though I still have things to get done for my book I'm starting on this... wish me luck. If anyone has any questions about the guts of the things fire away.
-Ben
It's actually heavier than you'd expect, but it IS small. The motherboard itself is 5.475" x 8.063" The DVD drive assembly is smaller than the PSone assembly even.
Another bonus is no stupid "sub-board" for the controller ports - they connect right to the main board.
There's only 1 big chip that gets heatsinked, they musta combined the GPU with the CPU. I also noticed the 2 memory chips are not heatsinked now.
There's a couple random chips that are cheaply heat sinked to the metal RF shield. Wow.
Everything inside kinda looks cheap... I don't know how else to describe it. It has a built-in LAN port I'll try and have in my portable
The DVD drive will probably have to have the cable extended and rewiring - if I build this it's gonna be A LOT like the hand-made PSP I did for the book.
Wal Mart has this DVD Li-Ion battery pack thing for $50. It comes with a charger, spits out 9 volts and has 5400mAH of juice. I may use this...
Even though I still have things to get done for my book I'm starting on this... wish me luck. If anyone has any questions about the guts of the things fire away.
-Ben
wow, I didn't even know that they were supposed to be out untill the end of the month! Dissapointing that it doesn't run on anything lower than 8V, but then again, it's a lot better than 12V. Also, how big is the spacing between leads for the dvd drive? I know the spacing on the standard ps2 isn't very big making it pretty hard to solder.
If you can post some pics, as I'm sure you'll give us better ones then the others we've seen.
P.S. I'd also like to point out the PS2 was designed to have its GPU and CPU compined into one chip its not really a new thing, just wanted to point that out.
P.S. I'd also like to point out the PS2 was designed to have its GPU and CPU compined into one chip its not really a new thing, just wanted to point that out.
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i knew that the people of this forum would jump on this thing as soon as it came out. cant wait to see this thing "portable-ized"
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The DVD drive spacing leads is the same although there appears to be fewer leads. However, the cable is a bit longer with a 90 degree turn in it, so it can be moved a bit more without re-wiring.
Example: It looks like I'll be able to center the disc in the unit (like the hand-built PS1p) and not have to rewire the DVD read cable, just the drive motors which is WAY easier.
I'll try and upload some actual-size pics of the board today...
-Ben
Example: It looks like I'll be able to center the disc in the unit (like the hand-built PS1p) and not have to rewire the DVD read cable, just the drive motors which is WAY easier.
I'll try and upload some actual-size pics of the board today...
-Ben
Wow editing a book and working on a system you've never messed with before all in half a month! You sure are going to be busy, and thanks for the pics.
vskid wrote:Nerd = likes school, does all their homework, dies if they don't get 100% on every assignment
Geek = likes technology, dies if the power goes out and his UPS dies too
I am a geek.