Portables hacked into consoles?

[noiseredux]

I often see these consoles hacked into portables thread. But what about the opposite? Has anyone ever hacked a portable system and turned it into a console? Just curious.

[IcKy99]

wow thats a good question! i would have never thought of that. I guess that would be cool to see a gameboy advance as a console.

but however i think no one as done it since there are lots of ways to play portable games on consoles already.

super gameboy for snes
gameboy advance player for gamecube
homebrew for pretty much anysystem that can run it

[noiseredux]

yeah obviously the GB Player takes care of GB... but y'know it might look interesting to see how somebody might turn say a Game Gear into a SMS looking console with TV output or something. Or maybe even take a GBA and build it into a console that looked like a top-loading NES or something. Just a random thought I had.

[Hatta]

Does this count?

[IcKy99]

maybe oneday Yobo or another knockoff company will make a GB/GG hybrid homeconsole

[sevin0seven]

Does this count?

ha ha, nice.

[Hateshinai]

a GBA and build it into a console that looked like a top-loading NES or something

I would happily maim a complete stranger to get something like that.

[noiseredux]

sounds like a cool project to investigate. I'm gonna keep this baby on the backburner for the snowy months maybe.

[MrPopo]

I think I recall seeing someone bring this up on the Ben Heck forums. The real issue is that a portable system is not designed to be outputted to anything except its built-in display. When you make an SNES portable you simply plug in the existing RCA connections to a portable TV that accepts RCA connections. All the connections are made direct due to the portable nature, but you don't add in any extra circuitry. To get a portable working as a console you need to add in a video processor to upscale the display and fit it to a broadcast standard, which is nontrivial. Hacking a console into a portable is trivial from an electrical standpoint; it mostly is a lot of mechanical work of creating the connections on the board instead of through plugs, and moving around a few components for space reasons.

[dedalusdedalus]

I once had a busted PSP screen, and I wondered if I could turn it into a home console. Anyway, I didn't find anything exactly like that, but I did find this article:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2007 ... or-psp.ars

That's a definite first step to modding a PSP into a console.

A console'd PSP could basically be a mini media center.