i'm looking for a 4 inch screen please help can't find one

zenloc · Post by **zenloc** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:41 am

hi,

i've been working on a protable gamecube for a while now and i have the 5 inch psone screen but is it just to big my prtabale game cube will really be small so i'm looking for a 4 inch or 3,5 inch i've been looking everywhere but all the screen are really think and i don't wnat it to be thinker that the psone screen or something in that range

does anybody have a idea for a screen and where i can get it

p.s. in 5 inhc the amecube usess the whole screen wil it do that with 4 and 3,5 inch aswell??

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:07 pm

How about a 2.5 inch hip screen?

S q u e e ! · Post by **S q u e e !** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:15 pm

Man, that is way too small for GC game playing!

Trv · Post by **Trv** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:31 pm

youd probably have to get a portable tv, and use that as the screen

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:00 pm

psone screens are really thin, if you position it right it shouldn't take up much room at all

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:51 pm

S q u e e ! wrote:Man, that is way too small for GC game playing!

Thats a lie and you know it. I tried the one I sent to G-Force out myself and it was copulating great.

Trv · Post by **Trv** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:17 pm

Jeff wrote:
S q u e e ! wrote:Man, that is way too small for GC game playing!
Thats a lie and you know it. I tried the one I sent to G-Force out myself and it was copulating great.

How well can you play smash brothers on the 2.6" screen? Since it zooms out a lot and so far, i cant imagine too well.

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:37 pm

Well, it's like this:

Hig gear = High resolution* and small screen

PSOne screen = Small resolution* (it looks about the same as the Hip gear even) but big screen.

(*resolution being relative to the screen size)

So really the Hip Gear is just as good as the PSone screen for playing games. It's just more compact. And trust me about this, I own both. Text on the PSone screen is just as readable as on the Hip Gear.

bioniclebert · Post by **bioniclebert** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:51 pm

I would agree with G force 100%. The Psone screen Is just bigger, and Thats good for portables that have big mobos in them. The NOAC portables are usually meant to be Small, so they use small screens. I definatley wouldnt want to play it on a hip gear, just because it would be a small screen on a big portable.

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:30 pm

I believe Ben mentions a 4" Casio TV in his book (used in the VCSp Gold) that will work well. Try that for your portable, or just use the PSone screen, it can become smaller if you LED mod it and chop off the top. I've heard the Casio one is expensive, so the PSone screen's probably your best bet. Besides, you're not gonna get a GCp small enough to make a PSone screen too big anyway.

zenloc · Post by **zenloc** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:26 pm

the thing is i have made the gc quite small and the screen i have is just to big i don't 5 inch looks just a bit to big

i need a screen that is about the same thikness as the sone screen not thicker and not smaller than 4 inch

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:30 pm

Then you should go for the PSone screen, no matter how small you made the GameCube, it'll still be your best bet. If worst comes to worst, you can buy a screen module from here, but they're DAMN expensive, over 3-4 times what the PSone screen costs. There's a 4" one with a relocatable board (the ribbon cable is fairly long) and a nice 5" one that has 2 smaller boards but they're both over $200. Heck, the 2.5" one is $120! The good news is that most of them have a prebuilt LED backlight option so you don't have to deal with modding it yourself or it looking bad.

mikm240 · Post by **mikm240** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:28 pm

lol i was just about to post that site when u did yea i wana find a site that sells lcd modules for cheaper (i dout there is one though)

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:34 pm

Yeah, we all wish screens weren't so expensive, but that's the way it has to be. Unless you're still going for the Casio EV-3500â€¦

atkafighter · Post by **atkafighter** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:36 pm

Hey usbcd36, do you think the 2.5 inch would be able to replace a hip gear screen (if its got a broken orange cable). If they do sell the screen only (no board) it could repair a hip gear.