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If you're making a portable you probably need something to watch it on. (Unless you want to guess what's happening in the game, but I wouldn't advise that) Anyway, this forum is your "Hacking a pocket TV/screen" one-stop solution. Share your experiences and knowledge here.

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I'm getting ready to sell this thing, working or not. :evil: It's frustrating me to no end.

I was doing an... "endurance" test, with my incomplete game of Zelda. About 20 minutes in, the volume down bar (the one on the PSOne Screen) showed up. I can not get it to go away. As I can not take this thing apart, I prodded through some pried up plastic where the button should be to no avail. I believe I kept it there, although nothing changed at all since the last time position-wise. I didn't even unscrew the PSOne board. The things I cahnged from last time are as follows:

- DC/DC regulator replacing the broken 7805s. It can handle 2.85A and as low as 5.6Vin. It outputs a safe constant 4.7V.

-Fixed the D-pad.

If the problem was the voltage regulator I would have picked up on it earlier, right? I fully charged the batteries overnight.

There's a place from the back to connect the buttons, isn't there. Great, it's probably some ball of solder stuck to the tape. I'm not redoing this thing.

What do you think?
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Why dont you just open it?
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No screws. Bondo'ed / Marine Epoxied shut. Looks sexy, but a pain to troubleshoot.
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Post by Kurt_ »

Nevermind. I cut a hole in the top, took out some electrical tape, and jammed a popsicle stick inside. To my surprise, it fixed the problem.

One more problem I'm not going to fix: R and the Y both press both. I may prod around some, but I'm not going to risk messing something up like a broken wire.
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Post by marshallh »

Please,

1. Don't bondo your case shut.
2. See number 1.
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Post by Joes2Silly »

marshallh has a point, what if something goes wrong and you have to open it back up and fix it? Try to do something else but for the love of benheck please don't permanently seal your case!
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Post by lifeisbetterwithketchup »

Joes2Silly wrote:marshallh has a point, what if something goes wrong and you have to open it back up and fix it? Try to do something else but for the love of benheck please don't permanently seal your case!
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Don't sell it, it took too much time and attention to make!
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