A question on Benjamin's Hand-built SNES...

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 3:18 pm

Ooops sorry. Kurt is better with this stuff anyways. Heck, you're talking to a guy who tried to use a 10 ohm watt resistor instead of a 10k... bye bye Super Joy III!

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 3:20 pm

Heh...tht's pretty funny actually.

Weebl · Post by **Weebl** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:34 pm

Be careful still with the bending of aluminum, even if you do buy the plates. Bending the aluminum perfectly around the curves is a crap and a half to do. I still have yet to jam all of my stuff into my case, but I've put my screen in and it fits fine, so I'm fairly confident. Just follow the instructions in the book and you'll be fine.

As for the FX chip, I'm sure it would suck a bit more amperage than normal, but not a significant amount. It is just a small chip after all. Good luck, I can't wait to see how it turns out.

King of Bling · Post by **King of Bling** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:49 pm

Does anyone know roughly how long a good set of rechargeables can power a SNESp, as I don't have enough data to calculate this myself.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:05 pm

Depends on the screen really more then anything. The SNES requires about 350-400 mA per hour. If your using a Hip Screen then add another 350 mA per hour to that. A PSone screen uses about 750-850 mA, but if you do the LED mod you can cut it's draw down to only ~350 mA.

I hope this helps clear things up.

King of Bling · Post by **King of Bling** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:35 am

For the 1800mAh batteries I am buying, it should last 2 and a half hours. Thanks, you've been a great help.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:32 am

Only 1800mAh?

You can find some that ar 2100 (I have some) and get anouther half hour of play roughly.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:43 am

if you want to get fancy they have 2500's (energizer)

Mr. Hawkins · Post by **Mr. Hawkins** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 7:55 pm

Or 3300mAh

, that's what i'm using

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:54 am

My dad has ni-Mh AA's that are 2700 mah. Small and powerful! can't beat 'dat.

King of Bling · Post by **King of Bling** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 11:47 am

Woah nelly! I wonder where I can find some of those. I should check the mAH ratings on batteries more often...

King of Bling · Post by **King of Bling** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:06 am

The ones I have right now are 2300mAH so I can get around 3 hours and 20 minutes from them.

Sparkfist, what do you mean by a Hip screen? Are you referring to a modified portable television screen?

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:19 am

No. He is referring to the Hip Gear Screen Pad LCD. It is probably the most used screen, next to the PSOne screen. They are the PS2 and Xbox screens made a while back that had a mini LCD display attached on top of a controller of that console. The screen is something like 2.6 inches, and much easier to hack than a pocket TV. I'm actually going to use it in my next NOAC portable!

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:21 am

No I'm taking about the Hip Gear Screen, the little 2.6" LCDs mounted to a PS2/Xbox/GameCube controller. If you don't know about them their really popular. They cost about $30 each, use composit input video and sterio input audio, and they have a low power requirment (5v ~350mA). They also work great on any system up to the 32/64 bit system generations.

SNESguy · Post by **SNESguy** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:41 pm

The super FX chip actually does consume a considerable amount more power than a regular cart, like say, Super Mario World.

I remember this fact when I was building my second SNESp, when I was checking the current draw of the 1992 SNES.

On a regular game, the SNES drew something like 370mA, but with a Super FX game, such as Starfox, the current jumped to about 570-600mA.

This same effect happens with the SNES mini, except the current values are like 250mA and 450mA, respectively.

Hope this clears things up.

SNESguy