Home-made Portable PlayStation 2 205
astrokid writes "This guy has created a portable PlayStation 2, complete with screen. Just in time for Christmas!" Definitely for the post-model-rockets hobbyist.
We were so poor that we thought new clothes meant someone had died.
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Either that or they will put the plastic bags over their heads and tie the yarn around their necks.
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Nope. I would have suggested giving the kids a box of strike anywhere matches.
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Like a rebellious teenager?
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My first grader makes toys out of cardboard and tape (miles of tape, I have to hide tape).
My fifth grader has moved from taking old electronics apart for the hell of it to making breadboard circuits.
They both get together and make toy electric cars out of cardboard, motors and wheels. They have cleaned out my stock of switches and battery holders and are now hitting allelectronics.com and rat shack.
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They want to be like all of their friends.
Shoot them now.
this guy is great (Score:5, Interesting)
bo more boringness (Score:1, Funny)
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I, for one, far prefer the power supply being inside the box. It would be trivial to modify a PS2 to bypass/replace the power supply and work off a 12v feed.
Also at ClassicGaming.com (Score:5, Informative)
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A true portable mod would be creating a new hardware system from scratch, and emulating the original system %100 perfectly. Of course, this would take a different technic
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nice... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Then again, he could go to work for Sony and in a few years when you and me are still working 9 to 5 (or whatever), he will be picking out the hard wood floor in his place on The Sound, and thinking of taking a dip in the hot tub.
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Mirrordot (Score:2, Informative)
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Thanks a lot, Karma Whore.
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In case it gets slashdotted? Ha! (Score:4, Funny)
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lol
What I get for not pressing "Preview" (Score:5, Informative)
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a plus, and a minus (Score:2, Insightful)
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Maddening, perhaps?
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...*grin*
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Bah... (Score:5, Funny)
Its almost as big as the original xbox controller.
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He probably didn't realize how potentially bad a move it was considering he only has two GTA titles.
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the directional pad is still there, the two analog sticks are there.
The R1/R2 and L1/R2 are on the back of the box.
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Ironically, they (GTA) are some of the few games I own that actually use the analogue buttons. For example, with X lightly pressed you can cruise at a law-abiding pace, push harder and you go flat out.
Blast from the past (Score:4, Funny)
Needless to say I prefer the newer technology.
He goes to all that trouble... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh! The irony! (Score:5, Funny)
The one person on the face of the planet with a PS2 portable appears to be the least likely to use it!
Dan East
Re:Oh! The irony! (Score:2, Funny)
or not
Impressive hacking... (Score:2, Interesting)
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Mastered? Maybe, but I kinda think having a 2D CAD program and access to a computer assisted 60w laser cutting machine kinda moves him from "tinkerer" to "professional". A master tinkerer would have drawn everything out on a chalkboard and whipped up a case from cut up soda cans and plywood.
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I wonder what the battery life is like?
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Design flaw (Score:5, Interesting)
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No.
Regards,
Shiva
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No. I'm a man.
http://www.heb.gov.sg/hinduonline/images/04-shiva2 .jpg
Ebay? (Score:1)
If he's not going to use it, I imagine he could put it up on ebay and pull in a fair amount.
Re:Ebay? (Score:2)
It's for sale. Just make an offer, and he'll consider it. I'm not going to bother, as he spends a good bit of money on his portables
IIRC, the PSp was about $500 in build costs (from his site), and this used more expensive stuff.
LCD screens for projects (Score:3, Informative)
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www.partsexpress can be read as either:
"parts express" or "part sex press".
After knowing of other domain-crashing pr0n sites.. I hate to know what it is.
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Whoops, sorry guys. (Score:3, Funny)
**Hangs his head in shame**
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Don't run you web site on a portable ps2 (Score:3, Funny)
See, there is a moral
ouch, the pain of slashdotting his site (Score:1)
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Uh-oh.. I sure hope it's not sending an email for every hit it gets.. we'll slashdot his email as well.
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http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/b6b859a6452a7cbd
Is there a similar mirror for the 2nd page? (Score:2, Redundant)
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google cache link should be easy to find, but I am lazy so here is a different one [64.233.179.104]
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although impossible (Score:4, Funny)
wrong (Score:2, Funny)
And wouldn't it be freaking cooler to take the PlayStation 2 to the next level of radness?
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It's just yet another overpriced handheld kitchen sink. =\
The most disturbing thing... (Score:2, Funny)
Site down? Cached link... (Score:4, Informative)
Not sure if its been posted yet but i didnt find it..Coral got most of it, only a couple images missing.
Hurry and see! might be swithcing to cache the suspended link any time!
Portable Display (Score:2)
Why doesnt sony do this? (Score:2)
It would be able to play PS2 games AND PS1 games AND all different kinds of DVDs.
I think it would be a VERY hot seller. And with sony's experience in making portable devices like laptops I am sure they can find a way to get something resembling decent battery life out of this. Heck, they could make a car version like those car DVD players you
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Somebody at Nokia, please hire this guy ! (Score:2)
guy spends 3 seasons making portable ps2... (Score:2)
Analog Buttons. Killing the system? (Score:2)
Sarcasm drip drip.
Uhm, there _are_ several games that use the analog function in the buttons. Removing that is going to KILL gameplay for a lot of games.
Like, say, madden, or prince of persia, just to start. This step of the hack pretty much kills the system's playability for many games.
Not to be rude or anything, but, yes, th
Re:What about the new PS2? (Score:3, Informative)
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I'm looking at a picture of the portable, and it doesn't look smaller to me. In fact, it looks larger and considerably thicker than a new PS2.
The guy is good, but I doubt even he can add components to a new PS2 and still manage to save space, even if he chucked unnecessary network and video connectors, et cetera.
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Like I said above, if it doesn't play the existing games, it's not a portable PS2, it's a portable game system in the playstation line.
The two aren't the same thing.
Re:All the more impressive... (Score:2)
However, the "portable" PStwo is identical in function to a PS2 with broadband adaptor.
It was also used in this PS2p.
Re:Battery Life, etc. (Score:2)
I doubt you can get more than 2-3 Ah out of them at that current...
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I, myself, when playing a PS2 racing game, have to find an old PS1 controller (fully compatible, FWIW - and the PS1 controllers have digital buttons, so I don't get blisters when flooring it).