I implore thee sirs, kindly expaineth thine first posteth.

[Twilight Wolf]

My first post is the sixth topic from the top on the second page of Forum 42. Basically, I was just introducing myself.

First post! Anyway, my sisters had an old karaoke machine with a b/w screen that displayed the songs words. When i got grounded for sneaking out of the house once, i was locked in the room that had it with no ANYTHING for 3 days....anyway, i had my psone, but my mom took the tv. i found out that the kareoke machine took a standard composite signal, so.....you know the rest!

In a thread talking about "Secret Systems".

My second post was trying to sell my custom N64 themed DS, I was in the from the START for profit.

I remember that thread. And I remember that post too.

I do, too, odd as it may sound.

[ShockSlayer]

I made a fool out of myself, by letting my former best friend have my account. Then getting it back and finding out that he posted some crap about N64 on DS emu, and crashing a party. Who the hell is Jack? Damn I was pissed at him. That is why he was my former best friend. That, and he broke my nds's screen.

SS

EDIT: Thought I should clarify: I didn't post my first post up because it was the worklog of my first N64p, and usually the first post in those are tenatative. SO eventually I just said screw it and just wrote:

Screw this first post,

SS

[sgtpepper]

I know this has been thrown around a few times here, but I couldn't find any evidence of anyone actually going through with it....

Basically I've got everything set, except for re-locating the buttons (I'm planning on making the calculator look as regular as possible). So I need ~10 tact switches (a few extras in case of soldering problems...), but so far I can't find any places locally that have anything that I'm looking for. Because of the tight space I'm working with, I can't use the few switches I found at Radioshack cause they're about an inch long or so, meaning I'll probably resort to buying online. So I need suggestions on reliable places I could buy from.

Also, any suggestions, praises, critizism, are welcome. Here are some pics of it so far:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/ ... G_0010.jpg - The innards of a Gameboy Advance SP
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/ ... G_0011.jpg - And the back...
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/ ... G_0012.jpg - "installed" inside the TI-83 calculator (relocated battery so the back casing would fit)
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/ ... G_0013.jpg - playing Zelda, the best game ever

I'm planning on buying one of those flash carts, so I don't even need to deal with switching the cartridge after I put this together, but do any mac users out there know how compatible those are?

Thanks

I didn't join these forums until I had a legitimately un-noobish reason to post

[eurddrue]

well it's hard to understand your question but do you mean, power your portable with just the psone power adaptor? if so yes read bacteria's gameboy advance I think that he did that

*erhm* ...


I was pretty arrogant when I first joined because I thought," OMFG! I have read for 2 months now! I know more than anyone!"

I later edited it to say 'bacteria's n64 advance ;arrow: whoops sorry bacteria'

[Turknatr12]

If I buy a new DVD drive for my Xbox 1, will it work with it fine right away or will I have to do something special? My other one wouldn't open any longer so I want to purchase another off eBay, but will it work with the chipset?

Wow, I was making my Xbox Laptop then, what a joke!

[Kurt_]

Um. We should lock this. NOW. Before we get someone's first post in this. They'd have to quote themselves infinitely. All hell would break loose.

[Skyone]

Hi, I think the ps2 hip gear pad screen is rated at 5v, but has anyone ever powered the screen with 6v? (4 AA/AAA Batteries - 1.5 v each)

Thanks,
-Crowley

Back with my old username which I used for a good 3 days. I'd like to think that my attention span has grown within the past 3-4 years.

[XCVG]

I think this is correct:



Note pure awesome paint work... not.

That was my first post- December 22 2008. Answering someone's question, lol.
I'd been lurking for a long time and finally got fed up with a lot of threads with no answers... so I joined. Actually I joined because I was going to build a portable, but that idea got shot down.

[Triton]

Um. We should lock this. NOW. Before we get someone's first post in this. They'd have to quote themselves infinitely. All hell would break loose.

lol recursion

[cennar]

there was this:

Yeah i have some tv screens and i hate there small sizes... but i would like to use my game gear screen its just right. but i have no tv tunner.
i was wondering if any one has any advice

then this:

whos made the smallist N64...
please respond in metric, I'm canadian and i dont get the whole imperial thing
like this Length width hight
mine is 14x12x4 cm

(which I killed)

then some of these...

the portable saturn would be... small, yeah small... its one of those tiny consoles just beging to get portable. just imagine playing those grate games like.... well some old sega games. and the wight, puting ths any where on you would be a major work out, ben could get all buff and strong... and th...

or..

i dont ever want to see any one wit one of those PSofcrapP things when i get my DS. Oh have you hurd that sony has not yet set developers the dev kits for the psp? and nintendos hype came from the developers praseing the devconsole And yeah 2 screens is better than one. I would know, Dual Screen ATI

cool now adays I hate whats out for both handhelds but find the PSP way more amusing

[jackfb13]

Well, im currently hacking up an Atari controller. I took a transistor radio for the case. I know its an off the wall idea, but I just wondered what you guys thought about it



p.s I’ll post pics later




jack

Um.... stupidity?

[grossaffe]

Um. We should lock this. NOW. Before we get someone's first post in this. They'd have to quote themselves infinitely. All hell would break loose.

lol recursion

infinite recursion to be more precise

now as for my first post

I can confirm that the Wii uses a triwing screw

edit: Wii controllers, that is. the only screws i've seen on the console itself are phillips.

sweet, I was helpful.

[evilteddy]

My first post actually something that wasn't too bad. Looking back at it I am glad I have used stupid
abbreviations-

I've been looking around the N64 scene for a while now and just recently saved enough money to start a portable. So far my screen is on the way and I have relocated the cart slot and hooked the power and the video out to the motherboard.



I seem to remember Bacteria asking a while back if you can use the dimension engineering 3.3V voltage regulators. These are the ones I am using and they work very well. They are accurate to .01 of a volt either side of what you set however I had to use two in parallel because I am using the expansion pack.

A possible design I've come up with is this-



I want to have a laptop because I think it will be more comfortable to have a portable that sits on your knees while you play it when you are on public transport or in the car, the case is square and consequently easy to make and make look good (hinges disregarded) finally I want it to look slightly like a big DS.

Just a couple of questions-

1. Can you run the expansion pack without its case on to shrink the height of the board or is the whole design integral to cooling the thing.

2.Can you spray paint acrylic. I have a big sheet of perspex/acrylic but it is scratched and what with hot glue and spaghetti central I do not want it to stay clear and see through.

3.Will a dremel tool cut long cuts in acryllic. I know Bacteria did the button holes on his portable with a dremel tool but are they up to cutting sheets for the case out or should I just use a jigsaw.

4.I was planning on using 7 D nimh 1000 mAh batteries. I think this will give me about 13 hours of game play but I've probably miscalculated. Is 7 D batteries overkill or a nice amount and how much power does the psone screen without the LED mods.

Finally thanks to everyone who has added to the wealth of knowledge on the forums particularly Bacteria, the sticky is great.

I actually read the sticky before posting the topic. I'm so proud of younger, immature me.

[Life of Brian]

Has anyone had any experience adding a controller port on the SNESp for a second player to just plug in and play along with you? I was thinking that I'd basically use Ben's design for the case, but make a space somewhere convenient so that a standard SNES controller could plug in (Mario Kart just isn't the same by yourself). How would this affect power consumption? I'd be grateful for some pointers or just mere informed speculation.

And what do you know? I eventually did exactly that - used one of Ben's designs, modified it a bit, and added a second player jack. I also added an AV out and headphone jack. For any of you beginners out there, I highly recommend trying Ben's NES case design and modifying it for the SNES.

Of course, my fifth post wasn't so... professional:

Aw dangit I don't know how to delete posts...

I apologize.

Ha ha ha...

[gamecube6]

i finally got ben's book, and i was wondering... can I use any small LCD screen instead of a PSOne screen? please help!

I was a lot less smart back then, but I can't say I've improved much, haha.