Totally Frickin' Sweet Idea!

NiN^_^NiN · Post by **NiN^_^NiN** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:20 pm

Wasn't a GBA put into a Super Gamboy cart for the snes before aswell?

Mageslayer · Post by **Mageslayer** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:28 pm

Would it be possible to do that and still play it on the snes? As in not making a portable from the cart, but rather take the GB parts out of the SGB and replace them with GBA parts.

Post by **marshallh** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:36 pm

Mageslayer wrote:Would it be possible to do that and still play it on the snes? As in not making a portable from the cart, but rather take the GB parts out of the SGB and replace them with GBA parts.

Nope. The Super Game Boy is basically the internals of a game boy minus the screen and speaker. A seperate chip interfaces between the game boy's Z80 cpu and the SNES.

Have fun recruiting Kevin Horton for that one

NiN^_^NiN · Post by **NiN^_^NiN** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:54 pm

its possible the Super 8/Tri-star used the snes for power and controls and had a pass through AV cable that plugged into the snes AV port.

A menu popped up for u to selec nes or snes game so it could work out which AV signal to use so it would either block the snes AV and use the nes throught the passthrough cable or just let the snes do what it normally does.

The snes part was just a cart port passthrough in a sense the super gameboy added to the super 8 made it run real slow so most likely when that menu comes up to select the nes or snes games it is running through that program as super Fx games don't work.

You could built it into the Super gameboy case and have a cable going from the super gameboy to the AV plug so video can be used.

For controlls i think you need to have a snes program running for you to use the controls thats how the super 8 workes i don't think the controler signal is available through the cart port

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:38 pm

I remember in my deodorant boy thread someone said they made a PC that was built into a drawer of there computer desk.

Don't you see, everyone loves a good stupid mod now and again. Think about it what do you think benheckers think about all day Games and modding and then they see a object and combine the thought of all 3.

NiN^_^NiN · Post by **NiN^_^NiN** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:23 pm

mmMMMmmm Mini itx in super nintendo case

We need some cool mods like a mini nes projector or something using a noac with a small LCD screen and leds and lens to make a on the run nes on a wall

Post by **Triton** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:04 pm

good leds for that project are high brightnesss ones or luxeon stars or their chinese counterparts very very bright

NiN^_^NiN · Post by **NiN^_^NiN** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:08 pm

I was thinking bout the 1W Luxeon star ones i tried 3 1w stars in my projector and it didn't work

Actually i got out a stanless steel bown and reflected one luxeon star off it and the projector was bright enough for a totally dark room and 3 was ok if there was light filtering in like from curtins so it does work and is semi cheap for setup and the leds are cheap aswell

But i got a 70w home bulb to work for my projector so im using that altho i might go to luxeon to help with the white balance

I do have small led boards with SMD leds and its a lot brighter than the 1w luxeon so i might try that out its about the size of 2 luxeon stars but it doesn't get hot and require a heatsink like the luxeons do

Post by **marshallh** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:14 pm

Remember LCDs aren't very transmissive - if you shine a light through an LCD, only 5-10% actually goes through.

You're best off with a very bright, small halogen lamp (possibly a mini-candelabra E11 base) or if you have the dough, a metal halide lamp. Be ready to shell out extra dough for a ballast, though.

Luxeon LEDs are pretty bright at 80-100 lumens/unit.
You need at least 5000-8000 lumens focused on the LCD panel to get anything decent from the other end. LEDs are getting there, but there just not bright enough yet.

The best way to get even, focused light is to use a reflector with a very bright point light. This is why arc lamps (HID) work so well.

This reminds, I have to post my ghetto projector mod soon...

Post by **Triton** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:55 pm

i have actually seen a projector in which they used a VERY large LED array to drive it instead of a bulb or luxeon stars for a 7 or 8" lcd they had just short of a thousand(750 or 800) 10000mcd leds and were getting about roughly equal to a 150w bulb from that!

Post by **marshallh** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:57 pm

yeah, I read about that chinese guy too. I recall him producing LED lighting kits so he probably had a hude price break to

He was going to sell them for about $150, I don't know what happened to it though.

NiN^_^NiN · Post by **NiN^_^NiN** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:49 am

marshallh wrote:Remember LCDs aren't very transmissive - if you shine a light through an LCD, only 5-10% actually goes through.

You're best off with a very bright, small halogen lamp (possibly a mini-candelabra E11 base) or if you have the dough, a metal halide lamp. Be ready to shell out extra dough for a ballast, though.

Luxeon LEDs are pretty bright at 80-100 lumens/unit.
You need at least 5000-8000 lumens focused on the LCD panel to get anything decent from the other end. LEDs are getting there, but there just not bright enough yet.

Thats true but if you reflect the light instead of haing it directly under the LED you have a far better transmission of light.

I have tried 1 1wat luxeon led and it works fine in a totally dark room could be abit brighter but its viewable if you used 1 or 2 5w luxeon leds it should project a pretty good brightness i tried 3 1w luxeon leds and it was just right but is suited for a totally dark room.

I believe using afew of these should be bright enough for viewing in a dark room with closed curtims with light coming through

I have 2 of these boards replacing my parker lights on my car and they light up the area pretty bloody well and are damn bright better than the 1wat luxeon (i replaced the 1wat with these things)

I can't find the spare one i have so i'll have to test it when i get some more

I don't have any info on them on how bright each led is but it is a lot brighter than the luxeon and has more lumens than the luxeon.

If your ever played with an overhead projector you will know that if the light is reflected like most overhead projectors instead of putting the light under the lcd by itself you will see that it doesn't work if it isn't reflected or doesn't work enough to make it viewable.

It's how i replaced the lil bulbs with a clear normal 75w house hold globe

I even tried 15w power saver light that says it outputs as much as a normal 60w globe and i got that to project just enough to make it visible in the dark.

Here is the LED i've been using on my car
http://jaycar.com.au/products_uploaded/ ... e_9735.jpg

Its the size of a 9v battery and is bloody bright altho it does cost $30 per led board cause of the high output of the SMD leds i love these things i swear

sammy · Post by **sammy** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:10 am

I saw someone putting a pc inside a nes case. It was pretty cool, he replaced the controller inputs with usb inputs and the reset and power buttons still work. The disc drive was also put where the carts used to be entered.

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:53 am

sammy wrote:I saw someone putting a pc inside a nes case. It was pretty cool, he replaced the controller inputs with usb inputs and the reset and power buttons still work. The disc drive was also put where the carts used to be entered.

yah that would have been cool but it was a mac mini so it sucked

Post by **bicostp** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:15 am

dudex77 wrote:
sammy wrote:I saw someone putting a pc inside a nes case. It was pretty cool, he replaced the controller inputs with usb inputs and the reset and power buttons still work. The disc drive was also put where the carts used to be entered.
yah that would have been cool but it was a mac mini so it sucked

Yeah, a sub-$550 computer with a Core 2 Duo CPU sucks. Macs can do anything Wintel ATX clones can, even run Windows (Why would you do that if you have a fully functional, superior, UNIX based system right in front of you?). They really blurred the line between "Macs" and "PCs" when they switched fron PowerPC processors to Intel processors.

Besides the guy who built the NES-PCs (at least the one on G4) used Mini-ITX boards.