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Nice work! Actually might stick one of these into one of the SNES controllers I have lying around, since i find GC+ to be better suited for portables rather than controller projects. Thanks for this!

Raspberry Pi Pico is a inexpensive dev board for the $1 RP2040 microcontroller that has been used in a *ton* of different projects. It's extremely powerful for its cost and pretty easy to implement into projects. It's also open source, so you'll find a lot of alternative form factors &...

I've used 18650batterystore in the past personally and they're pretty good too, but I did buy 21700s from mabdelectronics and they definitely come highly recommended.

Dark theme for everything no matter what. Anyone caught using light theme willingly is to be considered a psychopath and a sociopath at the same time. :XD: (Edit: This is a joke, to clarify, use whatever theme you want lol)

Totally! SCPH-50XX units are great for more than just consolizing! I've been doing a lot of work on PU-23 SCPH-90XX boards, which also have a lot of potential for a trim as well. Even if you don't end up making a portable, SCPH-50XX units can be modded with an X-Station and PS1Digital, which is...

Awesome, glad the game boots! Next step you should do is pull all boards out, clean them up, and recap them. Recapping the CRT driver board might fix the issues you're having, or if not, at least help narrow down the list of potential issues to troubleshoot. I believe you can find cap kits for...

Great find! I did see this as well but it seems oriented for generic arcade monitors but I suppose could be adapted for a RGB modded consumer tube with some effort. The 20EZ tubes are great tho and I'm sure can be made to work with some effort if it's not working already!

Important thing to note is that you'll likely want a specific arcade tube as well, which from my understanding is the Sanyo 20EZ/EZV 19" chassis. You might have a lot of difficulty getting a generic tube working if you can't find that. Did this cab not have a tube?

Oh we'll get that board repaired, I think the collective here will never let you put a Raspberry Pi in there :XD: Great find though! I can't wait to see the progress you make on getting this restored! It actually already seems to be in pretty good condition, and I'm sure this cab has a lot of...

RVL-PSU is an all in one Wii voltage regulator board, meaning you don't have to spend time and effort wiring up and testing your PTH regs. It's also way more space efficient. For a Noldendo, PTHs are more than sufficient, but RVL-PSU is quite a bit easier to work with!

Nice work! You could probably clean up the wiring a bit by doing some work to remove the PSIO switchboard, as it's not needed if you don't intend on using the original disc drive. TZMWX has some docs on this on his Github, which you can find here.

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Please note that this isn't a worklog of any kind and may not actually be a real project, rather him "just messing around" as he put it. Please don't reply to threads unless you have something of value to add. :D

Update time! Before we get into the progress updates, lemme outline some changes to the original preliminary features: 1. Motherboard Revision: PU-18 is great, however I've decided to go with PU-23 instead. There's one big reason for this: it is tiny. Sony decided to consolidate a lot of the...

I suspect that this modchip might have been an early attempt at circumventing modchip detection schemes that some games started including at the time. It just screams over-engineered in that regard lol As for removal, you should be able to without issue, but it's possible that the laser may be...

Time to throw my hat in the ring! We've been making a ton of advancements in PS1 portablizing lately, and I'm hoping to make some further advancements to push the console further than it has before. Preliminary features are as follows: PU-18 revision trim Either a Yveltal/tzmwx style board...

I think its very much a case-by-case type of deal - plus HASL contacts will probably wear down quicker over time, so its probably not a bad idea to get them done in ENIG regardless. Thankfully OSHPark & DKRed offer free ENIG on 2 layer boards, so that could be an option. Carbon button contacts...

Yeaaah that could be your issue, not much to do other than reorder from my understanding, unless you got a way to gold plate PCBs at home? :XD:

Did you order your PCBs in ENIG plating? HASL isn't reliable for button contacts and can have issues.