Dr.Agons' Really Big Project Thread!

[wiggy]

Jelly.

[Dr.Agon]

Thanks!, although, all of the games i want are STUPID prices, wonder sometimes what ive got myself into on that one...!

fitting all of the bits in so far has been a bit of a pain, still plenty of room left though...


...one day i might be brave enough to post some internal shots...one day...


as to the PSP project, i'm still waiting for a flash of inspiration, re: casing

whilst looking into the PGM i stumbled across several "console-ized" ones, IMHO they were functional but ugly, so when i start to tackle mine i hope to be able to do better...looking at some of the gorgeous Neo-Geo's has inspired me!

[Dr.Agon]

guess what i got in the mail?



the FGW convertors have arrived!
i will be soldering and posting tonight!

[Dr.Agon]

the soldering is about half done!, i'll post some pictures when i can be bothered...

[Dr.Agon]

the saturn ports are all soldered up, the wires to the jamma edge are soldered on so i just need to link both to the FGW's and im good to go!

[Dr.Agon]

WOOT! fully console-ized CPS2 is done!

im not gonna post more than a couple of pictures tho, got a vid of this bad boy in action!

this shows a close-up of the saturn controller ports;



this just shows the view from above;



and here is a quick demo vid!



thankyou and goodnight!

[shenske]

Nice! That is awesome, the Saturn pad will lend itself well to the CPS2 fighters 

[Dr.Agon]

thanks!, i thought it turned out really well, considering its taken me 3-and-a-half days to get the soldering finished!

im not really a pad player,  if it can be played with a stick, i will. gonna get me a couple of saturn sticks eventually...
in fact, up until a few days ago i had a SF stick perminantly hooked up to my saturn (something broke on the board waiting to be fixed )

[wiggy]

Now I want one.  Sunnovabish!

[Dr.Agon]

id say go for it!
the only downside is that prices for games are very high, but you could always get phoenixed ones...

for example an original, un-phoenixed progear costs around 200-300, i lucked out and got a phoenixed board for 90, you also have to be aware of the risks from the batteries dying, but you can get them phoenixed anyway...

[Dr.Agon]

next project is underway!

so ive mentioned this briefly over here, http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=14824.0 (reply #7)

i love my PGM, the games are great, so im going to console-ize my board!, ive seen pictures of the others online and i have to say, that whilst functional, they seem illogical and ugly!, i mean look at this one;
(copyright neotropolis)

controller ports on one side (these should be on the front!), power and video on the other (these should be at the back!), and its not even in a proper case!
so im going to do a proper consolization, with connectors and switches in the right places and in a little case!

with that said lets get this party started!

this is the board i'll be working with;



im going to solder some wires from my spare cart connector to the back of the other one so i can have a top-loader!

i've cut off part of the case as a cart guide;



this just shows a cart in place to get an idea of what it'll look like;



again i'll be using some of the excellent FGWidget convertors along with playstation controllers...

[quickfingers818]

I am interested to see how that turns out. It would be interesting to see it up and running live in action.

[Dr.Agon]

it shouldn't be too hard, the hardest part will be the case, don't think i'm gonna get anything off-the-shelf, i think i'll make a wooden one...

[Dr.Agon]

First row of soldering done!



...Only another 7 to go!...

...on this side!

[Dr.Agon]

2nd row done!

EDIT: this was done last night, for some reason i couldnt open the forum to post it...