Check out this guys idea for a portabl XBOX.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 07, 2004 3:45 pm

here's the link
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=211331

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri May 07, 2004 5:53 pm

Well I have to say some people have too much time on their hands. If you're going to make the Xbox more portable why not just see about craming it in an old laptop case. That way its slim... possibly lighter and battetry powered.

Wow and I just pulled that off the top of my head.

someone · Post by **someone** » Fri May 28, 2004 9:33 am

You will need either a fuel-cell power supply (with high pressure i.e. 100,000 PSI tanks to provide enough power) or 593829LB of lithium batteries. No, really, does anyone know how much It draws? I am curious to know....

Post by **gannon** » Fri May 28, 2004 12:13 pm

Looking at the standard draw of a computer that size, I'd say that it'd be in excess of 25 watts.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri May 28, 2004 2:25 pm

This may not matter but, I havent seen a car adaptor marketed for the xbox. That may point out it draws more then a stansard can battery/alternator can supply for long periods.

someone · Post by **someone** » Sat May 29, 2004 11:21 am

They must have one....

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Sun May 30, 2004 1:47 pm

Maybe you could use a car inverter.

someone · Post by **someone** » Sun May 30, 2004 3:58 pm

just see what the XBOX needs and then stick wires into the outlet thingy

binderhead · Post by **binderhead** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 1:26 pm

I just looked at my Xbox, and I know, since it is a computer for your TV, that it has a 12V PSU, and mine takes 2.1A. It is version 1.0, it might be different for ifferent versions, since I know that they have slightly different board designs and use parts from different manufacturers. Hope this helps anyone who wants to attempt to build a somewhat mobile Xbox. The console is physically too big and power hungry to be truly portable or handheld. Maybe if you used a slim DVD drive, and either one of those tiny 1.8 inch hard drives, like in the IPod or maybe none at all, then it might be possible. You would have to use lithium ion batteries (think old laptops), for the idea to be feasible, but lithium ion cannot have a 12V output without modification, since each cell is 3.6V. Oh well. Good luck.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:32 pm

binderhead wrote:Maybe if you used a slim DVD drive, and either one of those tiny 1.8 inch hard drives, like in the IPod or maybe none at all, then it might be possible.

The XBOX needs a hard drive to work properly Binderhead. Games like Halo load data onto the hard drive then transfer it to ram as needed. That is how the XBOX can have shorter load times because it's not going from DVD to RAM but HD to RAM.

Sparkfist wrote:This may not matter but, I havent seen a car adaptor marketed for the xbox. That may point out it draws more then a stansard can battery/alternator can supply for long periods.

I saw this thing called a Gamego monitor in my OXM magazine this month. it's a 5.6 inch backlit lcd with a/v in. It hooks into a cigarette outlet. You plug your XBOX or any other system into it and it transfers the 12v to 220v (I think, or whatever it says on the back of the XBOX I can't remember). Look at gamego.com it's $189 with shipping.

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 2:46 am

i hurd of this guy on a forum some where that was going to use a laptop with the same specs to make his xbox handheld... i think he was going to do some wired vertual pc thing on it and use a bios dump from the x-box to do it and the x-box drive to boot... i have no clue where i saw his plans or if this is acurate.... but it sounded strange.

any way if i where to make a portable x-box i would get one of thease

well some think like it... maby switch to a laptop battery.
and put a flip screen on it with a arcade board on top... it would only be half the size of the first X-box controler

someone · Post by **someone** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 11:06 am

lol XBOX needs a battery backpack to run

stereth · Post by **stereth** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:42 pm

No one's talking about running an Xbox off batteries. You plug the Xbox itself into the wall. Then you take your portable unit around, within range of whatever wireless you use. The battery only needs to run a screen and a couple of RF transmitters/receivers.

When you talk about swapping equipment (using laptop processors, DVD drives, etc) you're pretty damn deep into the hardware. Not gonna happen anytime soon. The Xbox may act like a PC, but there's still an extreme amount of proprietary hardware and software in it.

Seriously, if you're going to go to that trouble, why not just get a laptop? You might not get all the same games, but you get a portable gaming system with better specs, with even more games available.

Most car power outlets are spec'd at 12V/10A...plenty of power for a small computer.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:43 am

Well the Xboxes biggest waste of space are the DVD-rom and HDD. The DVD-rom could be a slim one like those used in a laptop, and the HDD well a 2.5" laptop HDD would be smaller lighter and still be able to hole the massive 8-10 Gb the system needs.

I know xbox-scene has toutorials on how to swap HDD and DVD-roms, see about doing those two and you may be able to shrink the system down a lil.

Last problem is the Power Unit, never got deep enough into PC hardware to know how to power each componit with out a big converter/distributer.

MR.MOD · Post by **MR.MOD** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:42 am

You could replace the hard drive with a ide to flash card adapter. You would save a lot of space.
http://search.ebay.com/flash-to-ide-ada ... torderQ3D2

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