Harshboys GCp V3: The HGP

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:01 pm

Ye Story has begun!

Gamecube Portable V3: The Hgp (Harshboy's Gamecube Portable)

The Beginning....

For score and 5 months ago'th, a Gamecube portable was'th born to ye 13 year olde. He and hith Gamecube portable had many fun times together. Ye was happy with ye invention. But then a dark evil came and took over ye room.......a very dark evil, one that even (insert ye religious figure here) could not defeat. It was ye himself. Ye Gamecube portablish had been ripped open by ye forces of evil. Parts lay across the mighty room of holyness. Ye had encountered many problems along the way....now, here is the story behind ye Gcp, known as the all mighty Hgp........dot...dot..dot...dot...........dot...

The Parts....

For some, this will be beyond there knowledge. For me, its like eating ramen noodles.....The parts are simple as follows:

Gamecube and cables
Psone Screen (A new one!)
GBA Player (Mem card version)
12 Volt battery
7808 Regulator
IDE/Floppy wire
A working DVD Drive (Yet to be bought!! Arg!)

........more to come

Post by **Gamelver** » Mon May 15, 2006 3:21 pm

sorry to hear that your screen fried, but just check the sticky or gamesx.com for the pinouts....the higher number pins are on the bottom of your diagram.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Mon May 15, 2006 3:33 pm

im pretty sure i gave you a pic a little while back that was used in your GCp guide, why not check there?

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Mon May 15, 2006 4:32 pm

Its not right.....

Any idea on whats wrong with the Gamecube DVD drive?

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Mon May 15, 2006 4:49 pm

it should be thats what i use on all my nintendo related portables

EDIT:maybe try and flip it

i think it got the sides mixed up

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Mon May 15, 2006 5:21 pm

ok, cause i remember something was wrong with it before, and now it doesnt work, so its wrong...im trying again.

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:42 pm

Man, sorry to hear that. A word of advice in your time of despair: Hot glue ALL your contacts! That way this kind of stuff won't happen in the future. Try adjusting the laser pot on the disk drive, and just buy a new screen; I've fried screens before (YoboP) and I wasted valuable time trying to fix the damn thing....it seems when the PSOne screen falls, it falls HARD! Look on the bright side, though; you can make a SUPER nice case for this next one! Maybe a blessing in disguise, no

?

Sorry,
CTFan

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Tue May 16, 2006 1:10 pm

Well, i am going to make a new case. But until then, i only have enough money to buy the screen for now. In a week or so, i'll have a tad more. I might rename this thread: Harshboy's GCp V3:The HGP

EDIT: Merged:

Sad to say, but last night while i was playing my GCp (Super Smash Bros) it died. The screen has been fried beyond repair. Not only that, but today, my DVD drive has stopped working! So now, i have no idea whats wrong. The screen got fried by 2 wires touching that shouldnt have

But the DVD drive is really puzzeling me. I have the whole thing torn apart (if you didnt get that through other posts) and everything else is working. Also, i need a whole diagram with the composite pinouts on the gamecube motherboard. If you could put them over this picture:

Color code using this chart:

Code: Select all

Video: Yellow
Audio(Right): Red
Audio(White): White
Ground: Black

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:24 pm

Harshboy wrote: Gamecube and cables
Psone Screen (A new one!)
GBA Player (Mem card version)
12 Volt battery
7808 Regulator
IDE/Floppy wire
A working DVD Drive (Yet to be bought!! Arg!)

What is the GBA player mem card version? Is it a GB player that plugs into the mem card slot?

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Tue May 16, 2006 4:19 pm

Yes...And can someone for the sake of (insert religous figure here) post a modified version of my pic with Video, ground, and audio. I might not include one in this version though....Anyway, i just modded my board a little. I took off all the ext. ports on the bottom of the gamecube, one mem card port (it was broken) and the component adapter (the one on the first GCN models). What i want to do now is to take off the adapter for the power regulator and connect them via wires. Now, i think this is ahead of my league to solder to, but i'll ask you guys. How tiny are the soldering points? Are they small enough to put a hole in, put wire through, and solder the other side? I also did a DVD drive mod. It is about an 1.5 inches thinner! More updates to come!

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Tue May 16, 2006 4:33 pm

So it is a mem card GB player? Where do you get them, I've never heard of it
Usually components have their own holes, so that shouldn't be a problem if you desolder it.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Tue May 16, 2006 4:52 pm

Ok, but i want the "ok to go" from Turbo or Gamelver first. I also need to know the best place to split the controller (I just gave away im doing a landscape design

) I'll post the pics as soon as i get some help! I'm also thinking of one of those really good expensive batteries.....well, updates to come

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Tue May 16, 2006 5:54 pm

[quote="Turbo Tax 1.0"]

you dont need to cut one controller but you need to canabalize another one, this makes it easier to do

khaag · Post by **khaag** » Tue May 16, 2006 5:54 pm

Where do you get one of those memory card Gameboy Players?

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Tue May 16, 2006 6:01 pm

Check EB Games. Its called Gameport Advance. I got it for like 15 bucks (new)

EDIT: And turbo, my controllers are backwards, like the one you soldered to the buttons is the one that is on the right, and the one on the right for me will be on the left. If your confused, the revisions of the controllers are switched for us. This does confuse me, what do i do. Heres a pic, if you could draw lines for me, that'd be great

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