I'm making a PSOne Pi 3
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I saw how the user katemonster on here did a pi 3 in a psone shell with the official LCD. I got everything to do it the same way that I saw it. But I want to do it differently.
I got a USB DVD drive that I'll be gutting to put into the shell. I'm also going to desolder pieces off of the pi 3 to make it more flat so it will fit in the shell with the drive. katemonster also left some of the PSOne board in the shell for it's interfaces. I have no idea what she used to cut it like that, but I got a serious workout with a pipe saw just to cut a square of that board off that I wanted to use.
I started learning Linux scripting the other day on Udemy. I want to write a script to execute once a disc is inserted that will start the psx emulator if its a psx disc, or the Dreamcast emulator for a Dreamcast disk. Not sure if scripting is the way to go yet, but I also know some C++ from a course I took at college. Unfortunately we didnt make anything other than useless command prompt programs. Not sure how I would write this lol it sounds simple, but I think its the hardest part.
Another thing is the video. The person got the video to display through AV. Doing it that way is pretty easy, but I want to take advantage of its picture quality. I tested a tiny cheap VGA from HDMI converter on the Pi with my pc monitor, it works fine. I got that because the LCD accepts RGB signals. I found a couple of diagrams for wiring VGA to the PSOne screen. One diagram needed 270R, and the other almost completely different one had no resistance. I wired a bread board with 270R to interface between the VGA output and the screen PSOne input, nothing happened. I tried the other way with no resistance too. One of the ways, or both (I cant remember),smelled like something was getting too hot, and nothing came onto the screen (I did get a slight flash of light from the first way). Luckily the screen still works like new. Anyone here tried the YPbPr on the screen? Electronic mods are new territory for me.
Well, that's what I'm working on for RetroPie.
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