Hey all. I have an odd request (as usual) for you guys. A friend of mine has recently put back together his broken PSP (which became broken after having a high-speed collision with a wall) and we found that the system wasn't in the best of shape. The analog stick doesn't work anymore and most of the face buttons are busted. The screen sorta works, but there is visible damage to it. Also the UMD drive is probably shot. He was going to get another PSP but didn't really want to because it was still usable. I mentioned hacking it and showed him this article from HackADay
http://hackaday.com/2008/10/27/making-t ... -portable/. He is now interested in trying to take his semi-busted PSP and console-izing it. Basically, he wants to make a custom case to house the PSP mothboard and screen. He would then wire the controls to an external controller (not directly, through a port of some kind). the PSP's native video output to output component video and use the Fuse plugin can be used output the PSP display to a TV and force it to output in 16:9. This is just an idea though. He seems to like an idea I came up with to use the plugin RemoteJoyLite to output the PSP's display and audio to the PC. This will only work for the main XMB and games (not firmware updates) however.
We were also thinking of wiring in a hard disk or flash card raid to use instead of the standard Memory Stick Pro Duo for storage. He could load ISOs of his games directly to it. Using RemoteJoyLite, he would be able to re-route the PSP's display to his computer screen and have access to most of the face controls (volume for example).
He can do the work (he's an electrical engineer), but I know he doesn't have time to fully design it by himself. He's helped me out a lot at our job and with my own random modding project attempts, so I'm trying to return the favor by helping him with the design of this custom case and ideas of how to wire everything up. Basically, I'm looking for ideas of how this can be easily done. We both have a basic idea of what it should look like, but not really sure how to go about it. I'm upload a basic (
VERY basic sketch I threw together in OpenOffice to help illustrate what we are thinking of doing.
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If anyone can throw some ideas out to us, I'd appreciate it.
