Slot loading PSoneP!

[epicelite]

So I am still going to do this!

Anyway I have a few things I thought of that I could use some help with.

1) How do I find out how much power the disc drive needs?

2) How do I set it up so that switch that detects when the door on the PSone is closed knows when the disc drive is loaded or not?

 

[themadhacker]

If I were you for the switch part, I would just put an external toggle switch.

 

[samjc3]

use a multimeter to find how much voltage the drive needs

 

[epicelite]

use a multimeter to find how much voltage the drive needs

I do not own a mac, so I have nothing to plug it into.

 

[Twilight Wolf]

You're using the slot-load mechanism from a Mac CD drive, then? Even if not, I'd imagine there should be a simple physical switch of some sort that tells the drive there's a disc in it, and if so, you could just wire it to the lid sensor switch in the PSone.

 

[epicelite]

I will as soon as I get the drive.

 

[Bibin]

The iMac G3 slot loading drive is just standard notebook IDE connector type, and takes the standard 12 + 5VDC voltages.

 

[βeta]

Would a laptop disk drive work for this?

 

[Bibin]

If you were to integrate the mechanism, sure, but you can't just hook any drive up. I hope killgood here knows what he's doing, so that shouldn't be news to him.

 

[Basement_Modder]

This will take some SERIOUS drive modification in order to make it work. Spacing of parts is a KEY element in having the disk line-up correctly. I bow to he who can apply this to a portable.

 

[samjc3]

This will take some SERIOUS drive modification in order to make it work. Spacing of parts is a KEY element in having the disk line-up correctly. I bow to he who can apply this to a portable.

there is a guy who made a slot loading psone. it wasnt portable though.

oh boy! moar smilies!!!!!!!!!

 

[Argelfraster]

This will take some SERIOUS drive modification in order to make it work. Spacing of parts is a KEY element in having the disk line-up correctly. I bow to he who can apply this to a portable.

there is a guy who made a slot loading psone. it wasnt portable though.

oh boy! moar smilies!!!!!!!!!

Who?

 

[samjc3]

This will take some SERIOUS drive modification in order to make it work. Spacing of parts is a KEY element in having the disk line-up correctly. I bow to he who can apply this to a portable.

there is a guy who made a slot loading psone. it wasnt portable though.

oh boy! moar smilies!!!!!!!!!

Who?

he isnt on here, or bh. he never made a tutorial, and he never did anything else. in short, he is nao a loser.

 

[Basement_Modder]

This will take some SERIOUS drive modification in order to make it work. Spacing of parts is a KEY element in having the disk line-up correctly. I bow to he who can apply this to a portable.

there is a guy who made a slot loading psone. it wasnt portable though.

oh boy! moar smilies!!!!!!!!!

Who?

he isnt on here, or bh. he never made a tutorial, and he never did anything else. in short, he is nao a loser.

I think he was french. Anyhoo, he posted one or two speechless vids of them (he made a few, all in different colors.) on youtube and never came back.

 

[Aguiluz]

This will take some SERIOUS drive modification in order to make it work. Spacing of parts is a KEY element in having the disk line-up correctly. I bow to he who can apply this to a portable.

there is a guy who made a slot loading psone. it wasnt portable though.

oh boy! moar smilies!!!!!!!!!

Who?

he isnt on here, or bh. he never made a tutorial, and he never did anything else. in short, he is nao a loser.

I think he was french. Anyhoo, he posted one or two speechless vids of them (he made a few, all in different colors.) on youtube and never came back.

Link?

 

[Basement_Modder]

I think he was french. Anyhoo, he posted one or two speechless vids of them (he made a few, all in different colors.) on youtube and never came back.

Link?

Link.

 

[Aguiluz]

I think he was french. Anyhoo, he posted one or two speechless vids of them (he made a few, all in different colors.) on youtube and never came back.

Link?

Link.

Oh my goodness. If we could find out how he made it. Maybe we could "reverse-engineer" RDC's XB360 guide and make it for the PS1?

 

[Basement_Modder]

I was actually surprised that no forum member had done this yet. When I first saw this, I looked to see if the guy was a bh forum member, but discovered he wasn't.

 

[Bibin]

Who, "epic elite"? He's just Dr. Killgood, and he was a member, but if I remember correctly, he was banned.

 

[eurddrue]

No, I think he was talking about the dude in the youtube video, Bibin.