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well.. I decided to to this worklog to show my first gamecube portable :F
In the begining I saw a lot of portables and i was really impressed with some of them but the're none that like me at all. I though.. "how can I make one different?" then, my light turns on and the 3ds xl appears in front of me and EUREKA! that will be my portable.
I'm making this think about 2 or 3 month cause here in chile is difficult to adquire specific things like regulators, batteries, screens (with a fair price). so, let's start.
i bought some gamecubes at much lower price (5000 clp that means 7.5 us)
starting to dissasembly and marking to cut with a dremmel.. I broke 1 mobo before to have the actual one ( the dremmel cut arround 30 cpu to gpu traces:c
I remember that i almost finished to cut (1 cm left) and CRASH! dremmel goes crazy because it touched another thing and that was the result lol. tried to bridge the pinouts but doesn't work (mabye can fix it later if it nott fried)
so this is the current one
and.... finnaly cutted
soldered temporally audio and video relocation
next to this, I started to relocate the bios and controllers, as you can see the cut was maximun safe cut and this was the result.
BIOS modular relocation ( you can change the bios battery if dies. the battery is a old HP netbook battery )
and also i make a modular controller rellocation that allows to connect a "multitap" via usb 3.0 to get 4 players and don't loose que multiplayer console feature
Testing the audio relocation (i broke it so need to get another one lol)
TIME TO RELAX! (always is good)
screen arrived and working
i have a little question about the screen.
i bought in aliexpress and the input voltage is 12v but i will a 7.4 battery pack. it will run with the zenloc's custom rerulator?
THIS... this will be the console once finished
viewind the dimensions of the mobo and the 3ds xl i figured that the shell is not bigger enough to handle the mobo, so I decided to cut again the my gc (OMGWTF cut ). this time i lost the controller modular relocation (need to search another part to solder it)
the dirty work has been done again, buy always with some saffelty (not much. im irresponsible, i know)
this is the result!. it fits perfectly, but need to modify que case and add some thickness (about 1 inch) because need to put the batteries, mobo and heatsink (again the hp netbook)
i need to modify the heatsink.. make it fit on the 3ds shell. need to bend the tube and cut the copper foil to add a new one to make it fit with cpu, gpu and memories.
and lastly this is the case addapted to gamecube C stick
so, this is the worklog at the moment.
I have a problems triyng to connect the wasp fusion through megadrive v6. i will explain it latter.
I have also problems with 1.9 volt regulator, i cannot make it work correctly. some have the correct diagram to
PTR08100WVD regulator? it will help me a lot.
i hope that you like it and undesrtand me cause my poor english.
have a nice day
In the begining I saw a lot of portables and i was really impressed with some of them but the're none that like me at all. I though.. "how can I make one different?" then, my light turns on and the 3ds xl appears in front of me and EUREKA! that will be my portable.
I'm making this think about 2 or 3 month cause here in chile is difficult to adquire specific things like regulators, batteries, screens (with a fair price). so, let's start.
i bought some gamecubes at much lower price (5000 clp that means 7.5 us)
starting to dissasembly and marking to cut with a dremmel.. I broke 1 mobo before to have the actual one ( the dremmel cut arround 30 cpu to gpu traces:c
I remember that i almost finished to cut (1 cm left) and CRASH! dremmel goes crazy because it touched another thing and that was the result lol. tried to bridge the pinouts but doesn't work (mabye can fix it later if it nott fried)
so this is the current one
and.... finnaly cutted
soldered temporally audio and video relocation
next to this, I started to relocate the bios and controllers, as you can see the cut was maximun safe cut and this was the result.
BIOS modular relocation ( you can change the bios battery if dies. the battery is a old HP netbook battery )
and also i make a modular controller rellocation that allows to connect a "multitap" via usb 3.0 to get 4 players and don't loose que multiplayer console feature
Testing the audio relocation (i broke it so need to get another one lol)
TIME TO RELAX! (always is good)
screen arrived and working
i have a little question about the screen.
i bought in aliexpress and the input voltage is 12v but i will a 7.4 battery pack. it will run with the zenloc's custom rerulator?
THIS... this will be the console once finished
viewind the dimensions of the mobo and the 3ds xl i figured that the shell is not bigger enough to handle the mobo, so I decided to cut again the my gc (OMGWTF cut ). this time i lost the controller modular relocation (need to search another part to solder it)
the dirty work has been done again, buy always with some saffelty (not much. im irresponsible, i know)
this is the result!. it fits perfectly, but need to modify que case and add some thickness (about 1 inch) because need to put the batteries, mobo and heatsink (again the hp netbook)
i need to modify the heatsink.. make it fit on the 3ds shell. need to bend the tube and cut the copper foil to add a new one to make it fit with cpu, gpu and memories.
and lastly this is the case addapted to gamecube C stick
so, this is the worklog at the moment.
I have a problems triyng to connect the wasp fusion through megadrive v6. i will explain it latter.
I have also problems with 1.9 volt regulator, i cannot make it work correctly. some have the correct diagram to
PTR08100WVD regulator? it will help me a lot.
i hope that you like it and undesrtand me cause my poor english.
have a nice day
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