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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: axefreak on October 12, 2004, 11:01:52 pm
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Here is a PS2 LCD playing ms pacman. Toys-R-Us has these on sale for $99 REGULAR $150!
These monitors come with rca jacks as well as S-Video! Plus speakers that sound great.
No need to hack this.....its all there!!!!
Rick
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How hard is it to take apart?
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Ya what do you have to do too make this work?
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Well, if it has S-Video, then it's pretty much plug and play right out of the box.
Whaddya gonna do though? Lug around a tower with it? Might as well get a Laptop or Pocket PC and be done with it.
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Whaddya gonna do though? Lug around a tower with it? Might as well get a Laptop or Pocket PC and be done with it.
Create a portable or micro size mame machine not necessarily because it's "cost effective" but just because you "can".
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Create a portable or micro size mame machine not necessarily because it's "cost effective" but just because you "can".
I'd like to see it :)
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remember that post with the guy who bought an old bank computer and it was in that really tiny box. something liek that, with that thing on top, and a desktop CP setup, would be a nice portable deal. or you could just buy a 15inch LCD flatscreen on ebay for like 100$ =p
pretty much its pointless, but cool
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I could find use for such a thing. ;D
on the boat. cabin,
tigerdirect.com has a small pc $400.00 s vid out.
I hate missing mame at the cabin shoot I would even take it to the farm (I have a 78 pace arrow rv I use as a hunting lodge) I would like it there for a nice break from hunting, :D
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I'm thinkin' EPIA m1200 with a cool home-made 1/4 scale pac-man cabinet...
That would rule (in geekland at least).
-d
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youd be my hero for a day.... :)
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remember that post with the guy who bought an old bank computer and it was in that really tiny box. something liek that, with that thing on top, and a desktop CP setup, would be a nice portable deal. or you could just buy a 15inch LCD flatscreen on ebay for like 100$ =p
pretty much its pointless, but cool
that was me. so there you go, a use for a small computer!! nothing to do with mame is useless ;D
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that was me. so there you go, a use for a small computer!! nothing to do with mame is useless ;D
Do you have pics of that set-up you could post?
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No-so-good-reviews on Toys 'R Us/Amazon's site:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000099SJH/qid%3D1097682119/102-5778717-0294567
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Bought one of these over a year ago for my 8 year old to play her playstation2 with in her playroom. I have never had a problem with it and it works great. We also put a little Disney DVD in it to entertain her little brother for a few minutes
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How is the picture quality in mame?
I have a little TV (composite) that I use for the kids to watch movies on long trips.
I tried the TVout -> SVid -> Composite and it looked really bad... Obvious that the resolution was way less then the game itself. I didn't spend any time to optimize the output.
Thanks
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I have an Interact Mobile Monitor (same thing, different company). I use it on my PS2 when I wanna sit on the porch or go camping. Works great. Never thought to use MAME on it.
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I wonder how hard it would be to hack one of those monitors and a very very small motherboard (thinking hacked iPaq or something...
and make a MAME Gameboy....a portable, in your hand mame set...
use a 1gb compact flash card to hold the roms...have a d-pad (maybe even from an old broken gameboy) on one side and 2-4 buttons on the other...simular to how the old sega gamegear was....
Would be pretty slick.
-G
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I wonder how hard it would be to hack one of those monitors and a very very small motherboard (thinking hacked iPaq or something...
and make a MAME Gameboy....a portable, in your hand mame set...
use a 1gb compact flash card to hold the roms...have a d-pad (maybe even from an old broken gameboy) on one side and 2-4 buttons on the other...simular to how the old sega gamegear was....
Would be pretty slick.
-G
Or you could save yourself the bother and buy an N-Gage (http://www.harmonicode.com/EMame/) or a GP32 (http://gp32emu.dcemu.co.uk/). I've got eMame installed on my N-Gage; it does make my commute more liveable.
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Does anyone know of a source for really small computers similar to the one danny_galaga posted? I've got a 7inch LCD screen that I've been saving for just such a project. Only problem is I haven't been able to locate a suitably tiny computer for it.
-S
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make a coffee table with lcd screen and ps2 embedded in it. plug in controllers to play.
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the new nana-itx mobo's are coming soon. they are 12cm on a side and have every input output known to man on them. intigrated audio\video and come up to 1 ghtz processor speed.
im thinking about the same project. a handheld mame machne \ computer
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Like this?
http://store.yahoo.com/ituner/viaepiap4itx.html
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thats a mini-itx. small but teh nana are like a 3rd smaller. the nano-itx boards are less than 5 inches on a side.
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in case you haven't seen these mini-itx projects...
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects.asp
i like the r2d2
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thats a mini-itx. small but teh nana are like a 3rd smaller. the nano-itx boards are less than 5 inches on a side.
Do you have a pic or link of one?
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I'd be interested in learning more about those boards as well if anyone has any info to share. How about power supplies? Is there a tiny PS available?
-S
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there is a whole community that love to squeeze these things into stuff at www.mini-itx.com
the nano-itx boards can be seen here (http://www.viaembedded.com/product/epia_N_spec.jsp?motherboardId=221). the states prolly wont see these till spring.
There are speciallized power supplies and most of the lower end boards run without a fan and run cool.
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OK....so where do you put that 1gb DDR400 RAM?