Consolized PSP

Haha thank you I just need some means to burn this to a PIC before I can try it. I wonder though if 5 seconds waiting is enough. I will try to time it later

Is 250ms the amount of time it "pushes the button"? That needs to be around 5 seconds before it switches to AV-out.

 

Ah, OK - I didn't realize that. And looking at it again, I can see that it does, in fact, have a bug

This bit

bsf STATUS,RP0
movlw b'00111110' ; Set GPIO0 as output

Should be:

bsf STATUS,RP0
movlw b'00111011' ; Set GPIO2 as output



I did the classic mistake of changing the comment, but not the actual code

If you can give me the timings you need, I will do an edited version.

 

It's about 12 seconds boot and 6 seconds button press. Just to be sure. But that's something I can tweak in your code myself. It seems pretty simple when looking at it

The thing is though, that I need the PIC to activate when I press the power button. The PSP always has some kind of power connected to it, and the power button is activated by pulling it low. Not sure I can just wire the PIC up the the power button switch, and expect it to work. But that's probably an easy fix. So can you help me make the PIC activate when you pull one of the inputs low for about 20-30ms?

Just to clarify:
By pressing the power button for 20-30ms or more, one of the inputs on the PIC will be pulled low. After a 12 second wait it will then activate the 6 second simulated button-press on one of it's outputs. That should be doable, right?

But no rush at all. I don't have any means of programming one of these chips right now, and won't have the money for the needed hardware for a few months. Any suggestions for a usable chip programmer would be highly appreciated though. Preferably one that could be used for several other chip types as well

 

OK, here's a fixed version - as for a programmer, the ones for PICs generally don't handle anything else. I'm using an ICD3, but mostly for the debugging functions (and they are not available on these low pin count devices unless you use a special header board) - if you just want a progammer, then probably the best option is to get the PICKIT2 since it's both cheap and official. It's technically been superseded by the PICKIT3, but that's about twice the price.

http://www.microchipdirect.com/ProductSearch.aspx?Keywords=PG164120

Here's the modded version of the code with the bug fixed, trigger input added and delays adjusted.

 

Awesome and thank you very much for the information on the programmer. I really appreciate it

I'll let you know once I got it tested

 

I'm late but god damn this is amazing.

 

Thrown money at my comnputer, nothing happed, what's wrong ?

 

+1 for PICKIT2. Extremely easy to use and very cheap. Plus you can buy it in Denmark if you want the warranty. PICKIT3 seems to be roughly the same hardware with a new price tag.

 

This is nothing short of amazing! Looks very clean and professional, looks like a licensed product! Congratulations!

 

Can we please get a tutorial?

 

I already posted pictures of the relevant points where you need to solder for the controller. It's mentioned in the first post and can be found here:
http://www.playright.dk/forum/emne/26126-vis-os-dit-mod-traaden?start=1400

Hopefully that will help you a bit

TriMesh> Sorry, I haven't gotten around to buying that PIC programmer yet. Been busy with other things and I can't afford it until next year, with Christmas and a three upcoming birthdays.

I still really appreciate your help with this, and I hope you don't think I'm ungrateful

 

How much woud you charge for one of these?

 

This is awesome!

Never seen this done and it looks great!

Well done!

 

Hi. I won't be doing this on commission, sorry. Although I do trust my soldering and mine is still functioning properly, there's a LOT of tiny soldering spots inside, and I can think of several things that could go wrong if I shipped it halfway around the globe. Although it would probably arrive fully working, that's just a chance I'm not willing to take.
Furthermore it took so many hours that it would end up being crazy expensive. Everything was done by hand and I've must have spend 4-5 hours sanding down the lid alone, making sure it was perfectly straight and symmetrical. If I were to make something like this for anyone else, I would obsess about it even more and make sure it was far superior to my own and perfect in every thinkable way. The price would be insane :/

I only showed it here because I think it turned out somewhat decent, and I never saw anything like it before. I'm hoping it will inspire others to do something similar and hopefully surpass my work too. That would make me really proud

 

That is awesome. I'd go so far as to say that it is so well done that you could have put it up on Ebay as some internal Sony proto and made a fortune with no one being the wiser.

 

Fantastic job! Any videos of it running? How does the output compare to using the PSP video out cables?

 

The output is still the original component signal. Nothing has changed there as I find it quite alright already. Besides I have no idea where to even beging if I wanted HDMI for example. I'm outputting though a XRGB-Mini which does a good job upscaling to fullscreen. You can see a close up of the TV on the first page.

No videos of it running. I did record one, but somewhere along recording it with my iPhone, converting it on my Linux PC and uploading it to YouTube the sound got out of sync. Perhaps I'll try again another day

 

This is EPIC! Wish I had enough skill to make this. Has anyone checked out the guy from Japan who made a Game Gear Console in the shape of a Master System? Well this is just as epic as that!

 

Great fucking work ! When it comes to the consolised PSP

I have no idea which distro of Linux you use, but KDEnlive is a good (I personally fucking hate it, but alas). Video editing program for Linux. But I used to use OpenShot , which was simple but straight forward and easy to use for me. When it came to editing my videos on Linux (I need to get a new used "old" laptop), so I can get into the whole video editing on Linux again yeah I some times make videos. And put them up on youtube, from demonstrations and what not. But anyway KDEnlive and OpenShot are both pretty damn good video editors for Linux. Sadly I can not really find , if VirtualDubMod has been ported over to Linux yet. But there are ways, of synchronising video and audio too in Linux. And video compatibility issues, is a VERY rare occurrence. But anyway those were my hopefully helpful tips upon Linux, and video editing.

 

I'm running Ubuntu with Cinnamon desktop installed. Funny enough I have over the past couple of months had to use OpenShot to edit and convert a series of pictures into an animated .avi file. I can only agree that it worked pretty damn well
If I can get my hands on a better camera I'll do a video of this thing running. Need to actually start using it now that the Valkyria Chronicles 3 translation has just been released

Thanks!