Project Play Station

shadow

Back when the snes was still out on market, one man approached Nintendo. That man proposed a Super Famicom with a disk driver built into the system. Nintendo liked the idea so they went through with it... Till they reached a disagreement on who gets paid what amount. The Nintendo went to Philips. Witch was one of the worst decisions Nintendo could ever make. Now thanks to some images of the prototypes it sparked a idea. I will try to take on the task of 3D printing the case (because my school got some 3D printers from the technology fund) and acquiring all the hardware.

Hardware:

2 - 3 NFC Readers
USB Extenders
Power and reset buttons
USB Snes controller

What I need from the community:

A custom theme
A bit of technical know how
And some patients

Want to contribute. Message me on discord. shadowmasterpanda#2614

shadow

The case is underway. By underway I mean that I am building the prototype for the outline of the case. Again some help would be appreciated.

mediamogul

@shadow said in Project Play Station:

What I need from the community:
A custom theme

Themes are a lot of work. Your best bet might be to ask the community for help in understanding how you could go about creating one yourself. A recent post from @EctoOne offering some initial help to someone else can be found here.

EctoOne

@shadow said in Project Play Station:
What I need from the community:
A custom theme

I assume by the title, that you're looking for a Play Station theme?
Maybe that's what you want. https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11794/new-theme-playstation
Plus there is a video boot screen here, https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/27272

mediamogul

@ectoone

Actually, he's talking about the Nintendo Play Station and not the Sony Playstation.

EctoOne

@mediamogul Oh I see. I have not found any images of the UI of that system, so maybe modifying an existing theme would be the easiest then.

mediamogul

@ectoone said in Project Play Station:

I have not found any images of the UI of that system

There's very little out there to go on other than a boot screen. Here's two videos.

EctoOne

@mediamogul hmm, yeah I've seen the boot screen. I'm not even sure if it had some sort of UI like the Sony version or only shows an No Game found screen. If it had one, I would assume that it would be similar to to the NDS menu, with the Rom at the top and the CD at the bottom.
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I would combine that with some elements of the NES/SNES mini themes.

shadow

Update 2: Prototype case is finished alt text

shadow

![alt text](<a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=11akeux" target="_blank"><img src="http://i66.tinypic.com/11akeux.png" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a>)

shadow

Update 3: In contact with some theme developers to see if they are interested at all