2nd GCP WIP

[unicycler17]

I'm making another largish gcp! With a disc drive! I'm trying to make it as cheaply as possible, using mostly leftover parts.

Case measures about 8 inches by 5 inches by 2 inches. And the DD will stick out the back unprotected, like on Hailrazers.

 

[Ashen]

Looks like your frankencasing skills have improved quite a bit man. Looking nice so far.

 

[bentomo]

Any particular reason why you're forgoing the wiikey option?

Really nice case, looks superb.

 

[unicycler17]

I'm not doing the wiikey since I'm trying to keep the cost of this project really low. I figured I'd just keep this as simple as possible, sell it (or my first one), then make a really small one with the wiikey, batteries, custom regs, the whole shebang.

Thanks for the case compliments guys. It's definitely not perfect, but it is a huge improvement from my last portable. For the case this time, I just dremeled some plastic pieces out, and glued them together. I need to buy more black paint for the back piece, and figure out screw posts for it.

While I've gotten better at frankencasing, I need some severe improvement on my painting skills. It never seems to come out evenly for me. Oh well.

 

[8BrickDMG]

While I've gotten better at frankencasing, I need some severe improvement on my painting skills. It never seems to come out evenly for me. Oh well.

I can't wait to see how this turns out, practice makes perfect though eh?

 

[Kyosho]

I need some severe improvement on my painting skills. It never seems to come out evenly for me. Oh well.

A while back, I found MyCustomXbox's videos to be very educational on the painting front. The videos are for painting controllers, but the same rules apply for our cases.

 

[unicycler17]

The back of the case is pretty much finished. I ran out of black paint, so the back is blue!

I messed up on the screw hole placement at first, so there are some extra holes in the back that I didn't want to bother filling in. Theyre mostly under the DD, and not very noticeable.

I got a controller (Thanks SQ), a gamecube, and ordered a screen today. Shouldn't take a ton of work from here on out.

 

[Ashen]

Just say they are ventholes.

 

[SonyQrio]

Hope that controller works for you.

 

[unicycler17]

Mounted buttons! Used tacts for the a b x and y buttons, and will just mount the whole board on the left side, with wires running to the right.

 

[ShockSlayer]

Looks awesome, getting better and better, can't wait to see how this turns out!

SS

 

[SonyQrio]

Looking good.... looking good.

 

[ABOUT90HAMSTERS]

for a trigger in the back why not take one of the dreamcast controllers and take the back of the controller with the triggers intact and just franken-case it into the shell also making it a cover for the disc drive. it would looker cleaner in my opinion. the controller im talking about is the one in hailrazers trigger guide.

 

[unicycler17]

I agree with you, ABOUT90HAMPSTERS, but...

I'm trying to make it as cheaply as possible, using mostly leftover parts.

I'm trying to keep the cost of this project really low. I figured I'd just keep this as simple as possible.

 

[ABOUT90HAMSTERS]

sorry about that, i was just brainstorming.

 

[unicycler17]

The controller I was using fried, so I mounted tacts on the left side and wired everything up to a gc classic controller I had lying around.

I'm having some annoying problems with my mobo also, and I think it's probably fried. Its a rev-c, slightly cut.

The chips wouldn't get hot, and the LED wouldn't turn on. I bridged the fuse, but that didn't do anything. So I wired up a gc regulator board to the points on the bottom ashen showed in his guide, and I wired 5v to the bottom of the DD connector.

As soon as I turned on the board, the LED would flash then the whole thing would turn off after a split second. If I removed the 3.3v line, the board would stay turned on, and one chip would get warm, but it didn't do anything. Should I just get a new board?

 

[wolborg]

it sounds like a ground problem my problem was similar and i bought a "broken" cube on ebay and then i figured out the other one still worked

 

[SonyQrio]

I had the same thing happen to my board. 1st of all, make sure that you have a 12-15v input. Then, wire your +12v line right here:

Should do the trick.

 

[Ashen]

He has a rev C board, so I dont think the above pic applies to him. I could be wrong though.

Its possible that rev C's are slightly different on the bottom of the board. Try this:

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/9896/pinouts.jpg

 

[SonyQrio]

That's how I fixed my REV C board. The diode is there, just in a different spot.