need help with battery and screen (psone portable)

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palmertech
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Post by palmertech »

First off, the resolution on that screen is made of fail. With a screen that small and that low res, your games will look worse than GBA.( And smaller, too. The GBA was 2.9") All personal preference, though. :D

The battery will NOT work. It almost certainly uses a 3.6v li-ion cell, probably in the 500-1000mah range. Not at all usable for a ps1 portable.

Mini DVDs: No. No DVD reading laser (Or other hardware or software support)= No DVD

UMD: Not with the stock hardware. If you somehow (Very unlikely, but play along) replaced the ps1 drive with a UMD drive... Sure, it would work. Only one problem: There is no such thing as a blank UMD. Also, there are no UMD burners in existence. In addition, the format is not well understood. So, while possible (Barely) in theory, it is realistically impossible.

@Blackbox dev: PSP tv out needs progressive scan. I looked into exactly what you are describing, but on a bigger scale. The psone display is not all that much bigger than the PSP one.

Offtopic: I used some of the parts from a UMD drive to try to make an uber small gamecube disc drive... I made a fair bit of progress. Not using the laser/encoder/complicated UMD stuff, just the disc holding system, slot, and hinge. :(
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Post by eurddrue »

I could take mine out and sell you the parts, name the ones you need :D
also, do you know anything about an adjustable power supply because most everyone seems to ignore me on this forum.
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chainfire95 wrote:220V I believe
I think we should check to see if you can withstand 220 volts
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Post by exploding.monkey »

k thanks, and you, no i don't need any parts(rite now...).
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