I've gotta' get one of these, part 674

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:12 am

Here's another one of those portableized consoles that seem to be showing up a lot these days. The interesting part of this one is that he was able to take one of those little 6-game Genesis things that are showing up in stores these days and managed to wire a cartridge slot into it to allow it to function as a normal Genesis. The result is the Exodus. I've got a Nomad here, but this one looks to have a nicer screen (it uses one of the PSOne LCDs), uses less batteries, and seems to be a nicer form factor overall. I don't want to know what he'd charge for one of these though...

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:33 am

Damn, that's cool... I tried portablising a Genesis once, but I don't have the equipment to make fancy stuff like this guy. You can actually see it in one of the photos I put up on the Shmups Picture Day topic, but it's an ugly huge beast and it doesn't even have its own contained power source... I'm kind of working on making my own PCE-LT from a CoreGrafx right now too...

8 1/2 · Post by **8 1/2** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:36 am

Makes me wish I had followed electronics as a kid. I was always that kid that took apart his toys to see how they worked, but I never got any real education in the field. How fun to be able to make a thing like that.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:30 pm

That guy makes the coolest stuff.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:39 pm

Looking at what he did, I think I might be able to make something about half as nice (which would still be MUCH better than the piece of crap Genesis 2 job I did), but I'm still quite short of money right now...

TWITCHDOCTOR · Post by **TWITCHDOCTOR** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 4:37 am

Thats pretty interesting, however in the latest issue of EGM (May 2005) there is a small pic of someones Xbox hack.
It features a slide out CD tray all housed in the Star Wars " Millennium Falcon"! Looks really cool!!
Apperantly, it sold for $1,500.00 on Ebay.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:06 am

I might as well show off my Genny job... but I've got NOTHING on this benheck guy...

http://www.angelfire.com/gundam/geoffna ... tagen.html

But the fact that it's possible to hook up a cartridge slot to those TV game things has me very interested, I might try it out sometime too.

8 1/2 · Post by **8 1/2** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:44 am

[quote="iatneH"]I might as well show off my Genny job... but I've got NOTHING on this benheck guy...
http://www.angelfire.com/gundam/geoffna ... tagen.html
[quote]

That's super ghetto! I love it.

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:30 am

I wouldn't call that ghetto. "Ghetto" would involve exposed wires, duct tape, and cardboard. That one actually looks quite nice. The buttons for the directional controls are a little odd, how well does that work?

magnum opus · Post by **magnum opus** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:05 pm

made a portable game cube once.
onlyproblem was i couldn't figure out a decent way to power the damn thing so it was still shackled to a powercord.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/ ... 010004.jpg

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:13 pm

wow, magnum opus that is some nice work. i could really use something like that on those long rides to work. how much munny would it take to convince you to build me one?

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:01 pm

That's really cool, magnum opus! But it looks really heavy! Does it kill your neck and knees? But it's a great idea (and a great photo, now THAT's ghetto!)

Vexorg: The directional controls (and the rest of the buttons for that matter) really suck, they're like these continuous mushy springs, so they don't click at all. Once I saw the ones benheck used, I knew I should have gone for those instead (there was actually one already inside the controller I hacked up). Add that to the fact that I was too excited to actually measure the hole alignment properly.... I just plug in a regular controller whenever I use it now.