New Gamecube Portable Worklog

[Tesslayer]

I suppose now is as good a time as ever to enter the portablizer's club, and what better way than to portablize my first and one of my favorite game systems: The Gamecube!

Features:
Rev. A GCN mobo- original regulator
14.8v 6.4Ah lipo battery pack
PsOne Screen
Original Disc Drive
Memory Card Ports
4 controller ports
AV multi-out port

The gamecube has been taken apart and some of the unnecessary ports (serial ports 1 and 2) have been removed

How should I keep this thing cool?

For some reason the regulator stopped outputting anything on the 12 volt line. Any ideas on what's wrong? or should i just input a different voltage such as the 14.8v from my battery pack or the 7.2v that will go to the screen?

Finally, will the stock fan work on 14.8v?

 

[superben51]

I would say just hook up 5v to the 12v spot on the mobo and the fan. The stock fan probably won't run on 14.8v without frying.

 

[MoRZiLLo]

Mine supported 36v half hour with my 14.8v battery pack(before totally out of power).

i don't know if the stock fan run with 5v line. ShockSlayer says that could run with 5v line.

 

[Tesslayer]

Can I just bridge the 5v and 12v inputs on the motherboard with some solder?

 

[superben51]

Yup. Or you could just run two wires from the reg if you want.

 

[Tesslayer]

How should I get 7v to power the psone screen?

 

[superben51]

Psone screens can only handle up to 8.5v with a minimum of 7v. So your probably going to have to build a custom reg for it. While your at it hook the fan and 12v line up to it also.

 

[Tesslayer]

Progress:

I think I broke my motherboard. hailrazer is selling rev c cubes, I'll probably buy one from him.

Got my regulator from TI

Decided on case: It will be a wooden, laptop style case with controller and memory card ports on the front

Still need to do:

Buy batteries (have them picked out from batteryspace)

Buy a few components

How do I wire up a headphone jack to the psone screen?

 

[Tesslayer]

Here's the new motherboard with ports removed

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