Tchay
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For Gamecube Portablizers who have a component cable:
My second-favorite pair of boxers (right behind the silky Santa Claus ones)
^ here you can see the control tacts. Green acts as a switch from VGA to AV (one simple push, no holding required for any of the tacts). Red acts as a power switch - push once to turn off the screen; push again to turn the screen back on.
Heres the cool part
ushing blue actually displays a TV menu to change the brightness, contrast, H-position, or V-position. Very impressive.
The two non-colored tacts are used to change the brightness, etc for the TV menu. I am still trying to figure out how to get audio. I'm pretty sure this board has a built in audio amp, could be wrong though.
HEAT
The main chip gets a lil hot but its nothing to worry about, The leftmost and largest coil on the board gets very hot. I would strongly recommend heat sinking this coil and some of the surrounding capacitors when shoving this into a portable. proper fan ventilation would work as well.
DIMENSIONS
most measurements and specs can be found here
The cable from the LCD display to the controller board is long enough that I was able to turn the board perpendicular. So basically you can move the board around to the side slightly to make more room.
Display is beautiful (although this is my first VGA/AV screen so I have nothing to compare it to). If I ever get a PS1 screen Ill do a visual comparison. I'm sure this screen has better colors than the PS1 screen though.
This came with an already-hooked-up VGA plug, so all I had to do was hook up the monitor cable from my computer and voila: VGA computer viewing on my 5" display. Actually, I have been typing this entire review on the 5" screen, no joke. I also watched IGN's latest REWIND THEATRE of Zelda: Skyward Sword on my lil screen. Anybody see that yet? Pretty cool, although I'm not digging Links getto pants...
CABLES/PLUGS
So theres no confusion: This comes with a VGA input plug, 5 tact switches (with 3 empty tact spots included), AV input plug (ground and the yellow composite wire), and then the power input plug (ground and 12V red wire). All of this junk is pre-wired and go to plugs on the board itself (just like on the PS1 motherboard). I noticed some pins on these board plugs not being used, maybe audio is on the 3 empty pins next to AV. I'll keep you guys posted on that.
One more thing: The switch from VGA to AV works perfectly. I was worried about this at first because I plan to have VGA on a future project of mine. But seeing as some games don't support VGA, I wanted to have the ability for the player to switch from VGA to AV with ease. This board makes that possible. As I explained earlier, all you have to do is push the VGA/AV toggling tact switch. The board also has auto switching from PAL to NTSC, not a big deal for me though.
For Gamecube Portablizers who have a component cable:
Tchay said:
My second-favorite pair of boxers (right behind the silky Santa Claus ones)
^ here you can see the control tacts. Green acts as a switch from VGA to AV (one simple push, no holding required for any of the tacts). Red acts as a power switch - push once to turn off the screen; push again to turn the screen back on.
Heres the cool part
ushing blue actually displays a TV menu to change the brightness, contrast, H-position, or V-position. Very impressive.The two non-colored tacts are used to change the brightness, etc for the TV menu. I am still trying to figure out how to get audio. I'm pretty sure this board has a built in audio amp, could be wrong though.
HEAT
The main chip gets a lil hot but its nothing to worry about, The leftmost and largest coil on the board gets very hot. I would strongly recommend heat sinking this coil and some of the surrounding capacitors when shoving this into a portable. proper fan ventilation would work as well.
DIMENSIONS
most measurements and specs can be found here
The cable from the LCD display to the controller board is long enough that I was able to turn the board perpendicular. So basically you can move the board around to the side slightly to make more room.
Display is beautiful (although this is my first VGA/AV screen so I have nothing to compare it to). If I ever get a PS1 screen Ill do a visual comparison. I'm sure this screen has better colors than the PS1 screen though.
This came with an already-hooked-up VGA plug, so all I had to do was hook up the monitor cable from my computer and voila: VGA computer viewing on my 5" display. Actually, I have been typing this entire review on the 5" screen, no joke. I also watched IGN's latest REWIND THEATRE of Zelda: Skyward Sword on my lil screen. Anybody see that yet? Pretty cool, although I'm not digging Links getto pants...
CABLES/PLUGS
So theres no confusion: This comes with a VGA input plug, 5 tact switches (with 3 empty tact spots included), AV input plug (ground and the yellow composite wire), and then the power input plug (ground and 12V red wire). All of this junk is pre-wired and go to plugs on the board itself (just like on the PS1 motherboard). I noticed some pins on these board plugs not being used, maybe audio is on the 3 empty pins next to AV. I'll keep you guys posted on that.
One more thing: The switch from VGA to AV works perfectly. I was worried about this at first because I plan to have VGA on a future project of mine. But seeing as some games don't support VGA, I wanted to have the ability for the player to switch from VGA to AV with ease. This board makes that possible. As I explained earlier, all you have to do is push the VGA/AV toggling tact switch. The board also has auto switching from PAL to NTSC, not a big deal for me though.
