Small game system mobos

portable pie · Post by **portable pie** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 2:01 pm

I am making my portable game system, but need a small mobo for it. Any one know a few game systems that have small mobos?
( ages snes and up)

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:48 pm

Yes, plug'n'play systems - some use small boards, some larger. The small ones I have found (so far) are the two Namco ones (Galaga, etc) and the (Galaxians, etc) one - also the one with 5 Pacman games. The CapCom one is about 50% larger and Intellivision ones about 4x larger.

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 3:51 pm

try a retro duo or fc twin for small snes boards.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:34 pm

The boards I mentioned are about 67mm x 38mm or thereabouts. Small.

SonyPortableizer · Post by **SonyPortableizer** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:54 pm

FC twin, can be hacked for only the Snes side

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:29 pm

Smallest board (original hardware) that is later than Snes, are Psone boards.

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:58 pm

Even smaller than the psone mobo is the newer SCPH-7900X model PSTwo mobos. They only take up slightly more than half of the slim ps2 case. Unfortunately they are out of production now due to the release of the larger SCPH-9000X series with an internalized AC power supply, so they are hard to find.

schmellyfart · Post by **schmellyfart** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:41 pm

I would have to say the PSOne, N64, and The GC all have pretty small mobo's. Just with the GC you have to deal with the disk drive..

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:36 am

The N64 board is about the same size as the PSone board, interestingly.

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:04 pm

bacteria wrote:The N64 board is about the same size as the PSone board, interestingly.

Given the choice between either, I would choose the PSone board just because the N64 board will fry if you look at it wrong.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:06 pm

N64's aren't that bad!

The N64 is cartridge based so easy to portablize. The PSone is easy enough, but the hard part is integrating the CD drive into a case...

portable pie · Post by **portable pie** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:17 pm

Hey, that portable im working on, has a freaken mini subwoofer now. takes up a lot of space, but i like my games loud.Pic if you want.

SonyPortableizer · Post by **SonyPortableizer** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:20 pm

Thats a lot of mAh
Well I agree I like em loud
And fun to play

portable pie · Post by **portable pie** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:37 pm

LOL, when I play everything vibrates. mAH shouldent be a problem because the subwoofer is plug and play with easy removal.