IM NEW HERE AND I WAS WONDERING...

supernoob · Post by **supernoob** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:25 pm

can anyone give me tutorials on how to make the bigger PS2 into a portable .

please help the super noob

Post by **marshallh** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:41 pm

There aren't any PS2 tutorials out, and for a good reason. The ps2 sucks power like nobody's business, and it runs hot.

I wouldn't reccommend the old PS2 for a first portable. Ben (the site's owner) says it was probably the hardest portable he built (apart from the Atari 800 laptop.)

The old ps2 needs several different voltages to run. If you don't know what volts are or how to stepup/stepdown to different voltages, then you have got some reading to do.

The new ps2 stands a much better chance of being portablized. It needs 8.5v, but designing the case and rewiring the CD cables could be a problem.

If this is your first one, you'll probably ruin the ps2 you have. Just wait and start out with something simpler, and come back to the ps2 when you have learned quite a bit.

Joes2Silly · Post by **Joes2Silly** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:08 pm

but nothing sucks as much power as a xbox

supernoob · Post by **supernoob** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:12 pm

so wat project would u refer to a noob

also im only 13 so could u please not tell me projects overly expensive

Joes2Silly · Post by **Joes2Silly** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:13 pm

probably a NES or mabe a SNES, I dunno its all up to you really

Darth Fett · Post by **Darth Fett** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:28 pm

Joes2Silly wrote:but nothing sucks as much power as a xbox

How much power DOES a X-box suck up?

MaDnEsS · Post by **MaDnEsS** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:22 pm

Joes2Silly wrote:but nothing sucks as much power as a xbox

no nothing sucks power more than the xbox 360 current draw is 160 watts

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:30 pm

Whoa thats tons

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 3:07 am

supernoob wrote:so wat project would u refer to a noob

also im only 13 so could u please not tell me projects overly expensive

Make an SNES, its the easiest one out of all portables... well unless you can get an NOAC (NES on a chip). It will run you any where from $75 to $150 to build, esspeally if you buy everything.

As for the power the fat PS2 it draws about 1.5 amps at 12v and 5v. To top things off you still have to deal with the heat sink and fat to keep the thing cool.

The Xbox draws a maximum 2.2 amps and likely is averaging out at 1.8. Rember it is a computer and CISC CPUs suck power big time.

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:13 am

marshallh wrote:The old ps2 needs several different voltages to run.

actually It only takes 12v, I dont know why but there are 4 pins, 2 are + and take 12v both of them, and the other 2 are ground. I tested this myself with my multimeter, why the did this I do not know.

Lucretius · Post by **Lucretius** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:38 am

If you really are a supernoob, then you'll have to do some reSEARCH...there's a lot of info at www.portablesofdoom.org

Post by **gannon** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:47 am

MaDnEsS wrote: no nothing sucks power more than the xbox 360 current draw is 160 watts

But that's just off the 120V line right?
If so that's pretty small.
Off the 120V line the PS2 should use more than 240 watts

supernoob · Post by **supernoob** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 8:04 pm

ok i went on the site and i read the basics and the battery thing

but the thing is how do i know how to make the mother board and things more compact and how do i know wat is wat inside the PS2???

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:30 pm

The Atari, NES and a few other older systems are the only ones you can really make more compact. The PS2 you know whats what by looking at the basic layout of where the power comes in and where things are connected.

Portablesofdoom.org is at the moment a basic reference. You can search on the forum (for the love of god search, please) and find info that you need.

The PS2 fat version can be made portable. But as Gannon and I would agree that v3 is the best. Its got two boards that are about 6x6. However at about $120 (its what I paied) for a used PS2 slim and that would be prefured, you can also can advantage of Ben's "making of the PS2p"

bioniclebert · Post by **bioniclebert** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:22 am

this is for the whole cutting down boards and such:

Older ones like the atari are easy. all of the re-connections are fairly simple and all you have to do is follow their traces. But then take the SNES for example: If Im not mistaken, It has layers? Anyway, you cant really see any of the traces of it, and there isint really any good place to cut. So with newer systems, you could only cut off a tiny bit, that portion being Most of the grounding strip around the edges ( If the system even has one.)

Lets take this N64. Im looking at a NUS-001 that I shorted out (made a short circuit while it was on) and it magically started working like a week later. But thats not the point. Assuming you have all of these removed (controller ports, video plug, and power pak plug) your board will be 6.25 Inches long.(15.8 cm) long and about 5 in. tall or about 12.6 cm.

Now you cut off a portion of the metal grounding, making shure you didnt cut any traces. New measurements? About 5 1/2" wide, or about 13.9cm and for the height it would be the same as before, nothing to cut.

So as you can see, you can kinda cut down boards, but nothing too catastrophic there. (i was only able to get the dreamcast down No greater than .5")