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Home-made Portable PlayStation 2
astrokid writes "This guy has created a portable PlayStation 2, complete with screen. Just in time for Christmas!" Definitely for the post-model-rockets hobbyist.
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Kids don't like homemade versions of real stuff. Your kid doesn't want a homemade skateboard, or a homemade Playstation 2. They want to be like all of their friends.
I actually check his page pretty frequently for his mods. You should check out his portable NES and the vagabond atari, they're some of his smallest ones and are quite impressive. That PS2 one is not exactly pocket-sized...but still impressive none the less.
If you don't want someone to copy something, don't give it to anyone.
Yay no more boooorring road trips !
This wonderful mod is also covered at Classic Gaming. They have links to several consoles that have been turned into portables, including the famouse Playstation and SNES conversions.
That is awsome... it's always nice to see some people with a bit on imagination and talent... maybe Sony (or MS) should give him a job.
Mirrordot link in case it gets /.'d
got sig?
Once again proving the usefulness of the Li ion battery. The only problem I can forsee is the potential for one more method of annoying neighbour on long flights. Portable DVD players with external speakers used to be my pet-peev...but I can only imagine what it would be like to having someone playing Madden next to me for hours on end.
me thinks the guy is cool without working for the big corporations... he can keep his creative juice flowing this way, or he will end up commenting on ./ - like you, err.. and me..
After flipping through the site, and looking at the construction images, I noticed that he has integrated the controller into the unit. Interesting, but makes one thought come to mind:
Its almost as big as the original xbox controller.
Needless to say I prefer the newer technology.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
And he only owns two PS2 games, which he doesn't even know the names of?
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
And here's an in-game photo. Sorry the only 2 PS2 games I have are both called Grand Theft Auto something, so it kind of limits the pictures I can take.
The one person on the face of the planet with a PS2 portable appears to be the least likely to use it!
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
RTFA: He used the new PS2 to make it. His portable is much smaller than it, integrates a screen and a controller.
They guy has surely mastered the art of tinkering... I even get the feeling he is not going to be keeping that new portable for long... it is listed in his FOR SALE section, just email him and make him an offer...
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I think that is just about the best mod I've ever seen.
I wonder what the battery life is like?
He USED the new PS2 Redesign.
Anyone else see the probelm with having the buttons way up in the corner away from the joy sticks?
There are 11 types of people, those who know unary and those who don't.
From the article: "Sorry the only 2 PS2 games I have are both called Grand Theft Auto something".
If he's not going to use it, I imagine he could put it up on ebay and pull in a fair amount.
If you're going to take that anywhere, you must make sure that there are electric outlets installed every ten feet.
You can get decent LCD screens from www.partsexpress.com. No need to hack a portable DVD player. In the past they've had quite a few choices, it appears they only have one model showing online right now.
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
Suspended!
It seems to have been /.'ed right now
I viewed the first page, then by the second page it was broken. So I guess I broke it.
**Hangs his head in shame**
Pretty Pictures!
Ouch
It looks as if he ran out of banwidth (or something?) http://host164.ipowerweb.com/suspended.html Thats what I get when I click to get to the last page.
account suspended Your account has been suspended. We have sent you an email explaining why. This email should also contain information on how you can unsuspend your account. anyone got the cache + pictures?
Aaackk! I was half way through the article and his page was disabled by the isp! Anyone have a mirror?
Mirrordot link:8 1986d9ba172b231/index.html
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/b6b859a6452a7cbd
vDeck (his host) just suspended him, for exceeding his bandwidth allotment I am sure.
google cache link should be easy to find, but I am lazy so here is a different one
Poor guy, website already down
b d8 1986d9ba172b231/index.html
mirror dot
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/b6b859a6452a7c
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See, there is a moral
I RTFA. Where does it say the portable is "much smaller" than the new PS2?
I'm looking at a picture of the portable, and it doesn't look smaller to me. In fact, it looks larger and considerably thicker than a new PS2.
The guy is good, but I doubt even he can add components to a new PS2 and still manage to save space, even if he chucked unnecessary network and video connectors, et cetera.
... the next step in their construction is to make an x-box controller able to fit in ones hand!
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. - Catcher in the Rye
....he could mount it on a car's steering wheel, fire up GTA, and try some Reality Morphing....
or not
it's the taking apart that counts
Coral'ed at http://www.benheck.com.nyud.net:8090/Games/PS2p%20 1.htm.
Cue The Sun...
I got a homemade skateboard as a kid and it was totally rad. All the other skaters at skool were possing but I had a true work of art.
And wouldn't it be freaking cooler to take the PlayStation 2 to the next level of radness?
"account suspended Your account has been suspended. We have sent you an email explaining why. This email should also contain information on how you can unsuspend your account." SlashSonydoted
Uh oh...now look what y'all did... :(
Funny thing is on his news page he said "I thought of a great way to blow my unused bandwidth" (Posting a 300mb movie) I guess he can add getting /.ed to his list of ways to blow bandwidth
It's not the fact that it's cool to own, it's the idea that there are people out there who would spend the time to answer the challenge. What one constructs does not necessarily need purpose, or be cool all that matters is this guy did something that many can't, for lack of knowledge or technical skill. Simply he did it because he can. Many inventions came from tinkering, better use of a product came from modding or hacking. This guys owns a portable PS2 before the portable PS2 came on the market.
piss off
To bad too, there's to many great games to name for the cute little system :)
This guy has just had his web account suspended. Just in time for Christmas! Definitely for the not-for-profit website hobbyist.
Quote from site: "it's a good idea to test the drive with a DVD you don't care about - you know, in case it gets scratched or something"
Then a picture of Van Helsing DVD appears, what a laugh I had. will they give it for free at this moment?.
I've heard Sony are actually working on a portable playstation already, and games are being developed as we speak; i know someone who is an artist for a company in here who are developing games for it at the moment. it's all very hush hush...
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lol
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Because the link at the bottom to page 2 of the article goes right back to the suspended account.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
I really thought that was funny rather than insightful! :D
Must just be me.
I didn't see any mention of the battery life on the site, I can only imagine how quick those die. And I wonder about heating issues too.
As a friend of mine used to say when asked why he did some apparently pointless thing...
"Same reason why a dog licks its balls. Because I can."
Oh wait, I forgot, I'm not in kansas anymore.
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Well, appalling, maybe ... from reading TFA. The schmuck drinks Miller. Bleh!
Coral Cached link..
:D
Not sure if its been posted yet but i didnt find it..Coral got most of it, only a couple images missing.
Hurry and see! might be swithcing to cache the suspended link any time!
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
What kid wouldn't want a portable Playstation 2,
especialy when they are the only ones to have it?
Nah, well I have, so I put the page back up and let the sysadmins know it was just a slashdotting.
If it gets too bad, it will have to go down again until it leaves the front page. But the load's OK for now.
First time I've clicked a link and gone, "shit, I can't read it, but I can do something about it!"
Muhahahah!
I've been wanting to do something like this for a while but it's hell finding those tiny LCDs in a retail channel. Does anyone know where he's getting his from?
Why doesnt sony (with all their laptop, consumer electronics, game console & DVD experience) produce a device that is basicly a portable DVD player with PS2 guts.
It would be able to play PS2 games AND PS1 games AND all different kinds of DVDs.
I think it would be a VERY hot seller. And with sony's experience in making portable devices like laptops I am sure they can find a way to get something resembling decent battery life out of this. Heck, they could make a car version like those car DVD players you can get now.
And they could make a widget that lets the portable version plug into the "airplane seat" laptop power adapter that some airlines now have.
I think that such a device would be WAY more popular than this PSP crap.
It's a good idea to test the drive with a DVD you don't care about - you know, in case it gets scratched or something:
[Photo of Van Helsing DVD]
Ahahahahaha....
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So does it have a mod chip?
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Sony is marketing this new PS2 as portable... their engineers should be ashamed!
As well, Sony does have a true portable PS2 coming out next year (I heard mid 2005... it keeps getting pushed back). Here are some pictures.
Uhlm... who says this is for kids???
May be with his help Nokia will be able to break a line of ugly smartphones and N-Gage 2 will have sane design from start...
"... always going forward 'cause we cant find reverse! "
i miss being single... *sigh*
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Doing this doesn't allow the buttons themselves to have analog function anymore, just on/off... What? You didn't know they were analog? They are! No, really! VERY useful you know!
Sarcasm drip drip.
Uhm, there _are_ several games that use the analog function in the buttons. Removing that is going to KILL gameplay for a lot of games.
Like, say, madden, or prince of persia, just to start. This step of the hack pretty much kills the system's playability for many games.
Not to be rude or anything, but, yes, the function is very useful, and often used... even though he doesnt see it.
He'll find out when playing GTA, which im fairly sure uses analog.
Then again, I could be wrong.
no
Pretty neat. That's all I have to say on that.