Brand-Spanking New SNESp coming soon! Edit: Now with pics!

minkster · Post by **minkster** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:16 am

Man, joedog that is really kickin ass! Nice job

If you have free time, can you post a pic of that soldering iron attatchment? I'm curious to see what it looks like.

Insert_Name_Here · Post by **Insert_Name_Here** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:48 am

That looks awesome

! Nice job!

Website · Post by **Life of Brian** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:05 am

I had to give the camera I was using back to my older brother because his first kid is going to be born on Monday or so. I figured he just might want his camera back...

I'll have to borrow my girlfriend's camera when I'm done with the whole project.

I seem to remember seeing a woodburning tool at Wal-Mart that had all sorts of attachments (including an exacto blade). I think it was in the hobby/scrapbooking/fabric/things women find interesting section. Ew, it's so arts-and-crafts-y.

I just want to thank all of you so much for all the compliments. It means a lot to me, seeing as how members of this forum in particular fully understand what it takes to make one of these things.

extremesonic · Post by **extremesonic** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:26 pm

After seeing such a nice case(and hearing of this exacto knife soldering iron attachment) it really make me want to sexify my SNESp case(it was fairly rushed, it was a project).

Website · Post by **Life of Brian** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:37 pm

Welllllllll, here's the deal: School's starting up soon and all sorts of crazy "moving back" type stuff is going on, along with some extended family staying for a few days, so I'm not going to be able to finish this before classes start (on the 21st), which was my goal. I've run into a couple of snags that shouldn't be too hard to take care of, it's just that I've run out of time to work on it and so everything is going to be delayed by a couple of weeks.

The problems thus far: I'm still working on designing the best way to hook up the controls and the screen distortion from the speaker bass is driving me crazy so I'm going to have to build my own audio amps (check out the thread in the screen section to see what I'm talking about). Again, these shouldn't be too hard to take care of, but they're both things that require some thought and attention. I have to work out how they're going to fit into the case and all that as well.

So close! The good news is that until I'm totally finished, I can just plug in a regular controller and play games that way (so long as I don't crank the volume up too much).

Gump-in-space · Post by **Gump-in-space** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:57 pm

Heh, in my county school starts on the 9th.

shmagoogin77 · Post by **shmagoogin77** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:38 pm

thats a sweet portbale dog

Indigno · Post by **Indigno** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:44 pm

I really like your idea of using rare earth magnets to hold the battery covers down. Neater than velcro and four of those things would hold down a space shuttle during launch. I'll have to use that

Website · Post by **Life of Brian** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:04 pm

They're so strong that the cover flies out of my hand whenever I put it back on

Buy them in bulk from eBay - it's easy to think of projects to use them in.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:31 pm

Are they so strong they mess with the guts?

Website · Post by **Life of Brian** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:49 pm

If they did I wouldn't put them in my case. Besides, the only thing they're close to are the batteries.

oversize · Post by **oversize** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:04 pm

Man that looks sweet! Good job.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:25 pm

This > Almost every other SNESp (exept the one I'm working on, hehehe)

Website · Post by **Life of Brian** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 2:03 pm

Update! So I resoldered basically everything, and all screen distortion magically disappeared. Strange, but better than having to rebuild the audio amp on my own. Everything's painted (including the edges that were white - now all black) and protected with clear overcoat, and I'm finishing up all the little details of fitting everything inside. I'd post more pictures, but the camera I was using earlier is unavailable. I'll get some final pics and post the finished project in the news forum in a week or two!

Hooray! As a sidenote, it's way easy to hook up the SNES controls just using the IC that comes from an SNES controller using TurboTax's diagram. Why didn't Ben just use that in his book? We must save the newbies!

jgibson · Post by **jgibson** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:41 am

Wow, nice job joedog. Very nice portable. Do you have a link to Turbo's diagram?