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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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!
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
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See, there is a moral
... 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
Then again, he could go to work for Sony and in a few years when you and me are still working 9 to 5 (or whatever), he will be picking out the hard wood floor in his place on The Sound, and thinking of taking a dip in the hot tub.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
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?
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Right, lets rephrase that, Anyone have a WORKING mirror? With more than the first 2 pages?
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
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.
5400 mAhour battery / 1.9 amp power usage = 2.84 hrs
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.
pshaw, i'll bet working for sony is more like working for EA than working for donald trump
-mkb
Yeah, that's great, just wonderful. The gamecube can do that *only* because it uses a wall-wart style power supply, which are annoying as *^&#.
I, for one, far prefer the power supply being inside the box. It would be trivial to modify a PS2 to bypass/replace the power supply and work off a 12v feed.
Does anyone else find it rather sad that he can hack together a portable PS2 system with equal or better battery life than Sony's official PSP?