Diffrent Portable LCD's

Minus · Post by **Minus** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:10 pm

Quick question, can you use say, and xbox portable LCD?I searched the forums and came up with nothing so sorry if its already been covered.

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:17 pm

It accepts some form of video in, so yes.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:56 pm

From what I know, (very little) any screen that is used for a game system can be portablized. Also, anything that has 'Audio/Video In' jacks. Anything that doesn't you need to make a conversion board for...I think?

Minus · Post by **Minus** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:11 pm

well its gonna be for a portable n64 so will i need to do the rgb mod?

psychotic_mechanic · Post by **psychotic_mechanic** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:03 pm

Any "game screen" that accepts video-in will work, you can get some pretty good deals on ebay by looking for ones that are missing AC adaptors or have problems with the case.

BTW even if you're building a system that isn't in Ben's book, it's almost a required purchase (unless you're really good at slinging a soldering iron already, but then you probably wouldn't be asking this)

Post by **marshallh** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:22 pm

Minus wrote:well its gonna be for a portable n64 so will i need to do the rgb mod?

Well, rgb on the n64 has had some problems. It can only be done on the earliest models, they took out the chip in the later versions.
Even so, most people end up getting very weak signals from the mod.

I'd go with composite video, for the n64 at least (easier to find an lcd screen that way.)

RGB is very good quality, but the n64 doesn't support it directly. Composite is alright but average compared to rgb.

Minus · Post by **Minus** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:57 pm

its a 97 version