portable emulator system

this-is-me · Post by **this-is-me** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:05 am

The power adapter takes up about 3x2 inches. The power consumption is really low. I would imagine it could run off a laptop battery and still have power to spare.

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 6:59 pm

watermelon wrote:i researched building a portable emulator from small mobos but in reality once youve got everything you need in the case no matter how small the mobo is, its still going to be big. remember you need a power source, battries, some form of harddrive, the conroller, a speaker ect, it adds up. i dont think its possible to make one that small.

How small is small? It'd be extremely difficult make one, say Sony-PSP sized. However, one homebrew-N64p or GCp sized should be fairly easy. What materials I have now for my project dictate a size of 5.75" H (same as the diameter of the PSOne's LCD board)x 8" W(same width as a Sega Game Gear)

i think a better idea is to just get a PDA, a nice sized memory card, take it out of its case a build a new one with controll buttons built into it. you dont have to copulate around with the hardware, and its pretty much guarenteed to be pretty small.

saying that i dont know how well emulators are supported on PDA OS's.

On the Pocket PC platform, they're OK, and getting better everyday. However, PC emulators are advancing about as fast, and several systems that aren't well supported on Pocket PC, such as PSX, are running nearly perfectly on PC. Getting storage above 5GB is very hard to come by, unless you have a PPC with usb host. (doesn't really matter, until you start toting around PSX games)