Has anyone ever tried to consolize a portable?

gamemaster14 · Post by **gamemaster14** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:19 pm

I see a lot of people turning consoles into portables but has anyone ever turned a portable into a console? I think a psp console would be awesome. Has anyone made an attempt to make a portable into a console?

sgtpepper · Post by **sgtpepper** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:23 pm

Use the search function...

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:29 pm

I think someone did attempt doing a PSP. I dont know if it worked.

PS is this gamemasterAS?

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:31 pm

I'm going to do this to a game gear. Segasonicfan has a schematic to get tv-out on the GG on his website. I'm going to design a case and wire a controller port to it, most likely a SMS controller if I can find one cheap enough.

Post by **gannon** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:35 pm

I know someone (not on this site) has made a GBA console using (IIRC) the transverter and SNES controllers.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:43 pm

gannon wrote:I know someone (not on this site) has made a GBA console using (IIRC) the transverter and SNES controllers.

i remember the manta ray too, that was with neogeo controllers.

edit: Miracle Ray is what it was called haha, I can never remember that name for some reason. Seems more of just an accessory addition of a bigger backlight psone screen, but you can hook it up to a regular television

Miracle Ray

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:45 pm

ganonbanned wrote:
PS is this gamemasterAS?

No who ever this is copied my Screen name. And I think they had a addon for the psp for that.

Search!

ganonbanned · Post by **ganonbanned** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:47 pm

http://benheck.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php? ... bilization

gamemaster14 · Post by **gamemaster14** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:03 pm

gamemasterAS wrote:
ganonbanned wrote:
PS is this gamemasterAS?
No who ever this is copied my Screen name. And I think they had a addon for the psp for that.

Search!

Nope I did not copy your screen name. I have been know has gamemaster14 on various forums and sites for more then 5 years now. Before registering on this forum I didnt even know about you.

Retromaster · Post by **Retromaster** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:05 pm

Well, I know that i've tried and thougt about doing this to my GBC, however, it would make one hell of a bad console....hmm......bad as in '3rd party low graphics piece of ****.'

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 10:11 pm

go to hackaday and look for the ultimate gba console

Post by **Sparkfist** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 10:42 pm

gannon wrote:I know someone (not on this site) has made a GBA console using (IIRC) the transverter and SNES controllers.

Actually it was a Neo Geo controller and you can find it here.

As for de-portablizing something like that... I don't really see much reason to. For example, Gameboy games can be played using the Super Gameboy on the SNES or N64, GBA on the GameCube's player (thingy), and most other systems don't have games that are to the point you'd play them enough (as I see it) to want/need a bigger screen.

You can do a google search if you're interested in seeing the progress on someone getting a usable video out of a Game Gear. This would be in a way de-portablizing it, and for damn good reasons, the screen sucks and the battery life does too. This is something that I might look into again for the fact that the Game Gear is a portablized SMS and so if you can replace the screen with a bigger, better, and more efficient PSone screen I'd be for that. Then you have an SMS and a Game Gear in one package.

Beyond the Nintendo and Sega portables, I don't think there are many if any that people would invest the time into to get video out and wire up the controls to a controller port. All for a hand full of games. If someone does it they're doing it for the challenge or those games are some damn good games.

sameguy · Post by **sameguy** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:53 am

I know that someone turned a GBA into a console that worked on his T.V. I could find the site again if you want

sameguy · Post by **sameguy** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 12:53 am

Oops it was already discussed . sorry

josh · Post by **josh** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:15 am

I Have 9 Game Gears....