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  1. Lightning

    Worklog WORKLOG FIRST PS2 PORTABLE

    Lovely LCD driver board, handles the speakers and everything. Did you give any thought to using a RetroGem for the HDMI? I bet it makes the picture quality nearly perfect. Anyway, are you planning on doing your controller analog sticks in the traditional PlayStation style, or the Xbox...
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    Worklog Some PS2 Project

    Lord have mercy!! To think we used to consider the PS2 such a black box, and then you come along and just blow all it's secrets wide open! One wonders how one man can posses such keen insight. Do these BIOS mods you've been working on have the ability to give a 70000 HD boot capability? Someone...
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    Worklog An attempt to recreate the PS2 PCB

    Okay yea... I've definitely been away too long... Who the heck is this @Tschicki, and what the heck does he do if this is how he does his hobbies!? I best look at some of those integrations myself! Looks like we may be on the verge of a renaissance in PS2 modding.
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    Worklog An attempt to recreate the PS2 PCB

    Those alternate footprints for the BIOS chip are very interesting. Are you attempting to use newer chips? sort of like those new Dreamcast BIOS mods?
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    Worklog A Study in Product Sourcing

    Plying Trac!! Isn't life just a barrel of monkeys!!! Well we all know this to be true, and we also know that the urge to suddenly resume a project that you didn't even realize you'd stopped working on, (I don't understand it either) hits you like several kilograms of hurled cellulite... After...
  6. Lightning

    Worklog Ps2 shiden type-s

    Very impressive work! I especially like how you retained the metal over the GPU to help shield it from magnetic fields.
  7. Lightning

    Worklog Chunchunmaru - A PS2 Portable

    I love your idea for creating a series of carrier boards for the power electronics. I did something like that once. Anyway as for scraping the solder mas from the USB traces, I would refer to the old PSP Undiluted Platinum installations. That mod chip required soldering wires directly to the...
  8. Lightning

    build battery level

    Oh really? Which one?
  9. Lightning

    build battery level

    Have you done any browsing of Texas Instruments devices?
  10. Lightning

    build battery level

    Well you have to use a BMS board, otherwise you run a very real risk of melting your device. But all that aside, what you're looking to construct is a circuit which includes a voltage senseing ic of some kind, which will be able to communicate with, or directly provide a programmable GPIO that...
  11. Lightning

    build battery level

    So you want a battery level indicator that works independently from an off-the-shelf charge/discharge circuit? Also what configuration of batteries do you intend to use? number of cells, and how many series, how many parallel?
  12. Lightning

    Worklog An attempt to recreate the PS2 PCB

    This forum is a true delight, because we get to see such beautiful images of meticulous, carefully detailed work, into which a like mind has poured so much care and dedication. Your project is so incredibly ambitious, and it looks like you are quite equal to the challenge. If I may ask...
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    Worklog A Study in Product Sourcing

    So... If I'm understanding this... I should be okay as long as I use a MechaCon with the correct date code. Well it's actually funny you should bring this up (and fortunate), because I noticed a few weeks back that the MechaCons in the pictures in the title post, are actually the wrong date...
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    Question [Last question UPDATED] Questions about my PS2 Slim SCPH-77004 project (SAMBA Router and SSD integrated)

    Any copper plane connected to the shrouds of the USB ports is GND, as is essentially the entire border of the board. If you have access to a multimeter you can find any voltage or common plane you want. Highly recommended tool for a newbie lol
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    Question [Last question UPDATED] Questions about my PS2 Slim SCPH-77004 project (SAMBA Router and SSD integrated)

    The points highlighted in red should provide 8.5 volts
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    Worklog Ps2 portable

    Good thinking!! I would never have thought of that solution. You're really smart!!
  17. Lightning

    Voltage Regulators and Current

    In general you can't go wrong with anything from Texas Instruments. I believe the PS2 PSM all TI
  18. Lightning

    Worklog A Study in Product Sourcing

    May I present, the network adapter and SATA bridge chip board: I am still trying to figure out if the CXD9731AGP chip will even work without the Ethernet chip attached, and whether i should ground the inputs, or leave them floating, or pull them high, or pull them low... It's a real...
  19. Lightning

    Worklog A Study in Product Sourcing

    @Mister M You're absolutely right!! I will need to length match the traces for the RAM chip bus. Thanks for making sure I knew about that. I probably would have run into some pretty nasty performance issues otherwise. You're the best!
  20. Lightning

    Worklog Ps2 portable

    So I know you said you don't care, but if you wanted to eliminated those little gaps on the front of your case, (I assume you print it face down) increase the initial layer flow by 10-20%. I find this makes for a cleaner surface when printing cases like these
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