Super duper Genesis 3 Portable

[Bibin]

So I think I might end up making a handheld adaption of the Genesis 3. I got a PSone LCD really cheap, so, why not?

I did a lot of board cutting, and I can definitely do a lot more once I relocate the cart slot and hardwire the controller.

 

[zeturi]

Good to see you're using RGB.

 

[hailrazer]

Yea !! A system where it's actually easy to hook RGB up the Psone screen without an amp.

 

[Bibin]

I just reduced the size even more, more pics to come later.

 

[Joeyjoe9876]

hurry up and get pics

 

[Bibin]

Fuh.

It worked fine last night.

This morning, it wouldn't work.

What a jerk.

Well, now I gotta think of a Plan B. I have all these Sega Nomads... the board inside is pretty tiny...

 

[XCVG]

Wow, epic trim job there. Too bad it died on you. Case ideas yet?

 

[Bibin]

Now what i can't figure out is whether or not it's

1) really dead
2) the video signals I'm pulling aren't strong enough to show anything

if it's #2, I'd know by listening for sound - as you can see in this picture I've long ago removed the connectors for A/V and have absolutely no idea where to pull sound from.

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That big black thing is the oscillator I replaced - it worked like this for days, so I know that's not the issue here.

 

[XCVG]

I looked at that picture and laughed. I'm not even sure why, but I found it extremely funny.

 

[samjc3]

god, and i thought mine wwas small!

 

[themadhacker]

looks like a rat chewed around the edges.

 

[Bibin]

Success: I got my hands on another one, and I cut it down even smaller, and it works to boot.

Pretty soon I'll have guides up for cutting both versions of the board.

The heart version can easily output stereo sound too!

 

[zeturi]

Imma see how much you can cut off of your board, then imma finish my genny portable.

 

[Bibin]

Almost got a drawing up for cutting the heart-trace version.

 

[Bibin]

Be confused.

 

[themadhacker]

what's with the two piggybacked carts?

 

[J.D]

what's with the two piggybacked carts?

 

[Bibin]

For relocating I got lazy and didn't feel like removing the old one. They are in paralell, and I'm surprised that having both carts in doesn't crash it - rather it makes it quite crashproof! One cart is loose, no problem, #2 keeps on going!

 

[Joeyjoe9876]

lol try cutting off the 5v to one of the cart slots and see if it cuts off that cart, would be cool to have a cart switch to switch between games

 

[Nintendott]

OSSIM.