I came across this video a couple of days ago and has made me want to grab a PSP for parts (the parts that are needed of course) and wanting to do my own build but haven't got a 3D printer so would kind of be hard haha but seeing this project reignited my love for these kinds of projects, and made me look at other type of console transformations like this
Thank you so much for your comment! When I found Stephens work, I was shocked no one had made a video about it. Now I just need to get the UMD drive to be part of the shell and I will consider it done haha.
Super cool! I just came here from Stephen Cooper's video. It's like you said, the ultimate PSP is the one that you can play on your TV! I hope it will be a kit in the future for those not too tech savvy or to "dock and undock" your PSP. Awesome work! A big shout out from Uruguay!
DANG! That is so cool that my video would be interesting to someone on the other side of the world :O. I am glad you feel the same way that I do about the sitting on the couch and playing the big screen :D. It was a really fun build, I would love to see it become a kit for anyone to kind of plug and play. I think that would really be amazing for a lot of people. If I can get good enough at making them I would be willing to sell them for sure, but Im not there yet. I want to get the whole project finished with Stephen first :D.
Nice, have been wanting something like this for years. I once tried to padhack a PSP so I could use an arcade stick with it, but the tiny ribbon cable connectors were too hard for me to solder onto (maybe I could do it now that I've got more experience, but this looks easier and also has analog stick compatibility)
I love that so much :D! I most likely will sell one of my builds since I wont need two of them. I am also thinking that once the new design is finished by Stephen I am going to design a shell for that one. Those ones I could probably sell as well since they will use newer parts! I am so glad people are interested in the project though :D
Hey GLXY I wanted to send you the link to a reddit post I just put up. I was able to put a design together, its the best I could come up with but I think you will like how it turned out :D www.reddit.com/r/PSP/comments/1e3bw4a/what_should_we_name_this_the_play_station/
Hey good question I just built a retro upscaler. It is really frustrating, but no one in that community listens to me haha they are called upscalers not converters. I spent hours searching for the best HDMI converter and for some reason no one wants to use the word converter which is what everyone is searching anyway... Rant aside. There are lots of videos on upscalers and the different kinds you can get I am saving up for a stupid expensive one, but you can get cheap ones that work great still :D
@@DavideNastri that is the nice part of a better upscaler. The fancy ones can handle all resolution inputs. The PS1 and PS2 both had games where the resolution changes at different points in the games. I am excited to get the fancy one to auto switch for me :D
@@DashRetro Thanks for your comment :) I originally built a GBS-c to see if the hype was real with upscalers. I was blown away by the change but not by the color and lack of freedom to adjust things. So I endded up going with a retrotink 5x I am saving up for a 4k but honestly it would make me have to change the whole streaming setup since it doesn't work with all HDMI splitters so I think the 5x is great and give the freedom to adjust the picture aspect ratio and the scanlines are great.
20:30 why u didn't used an pogo pin on each contact with an bracket that holds it in position like an clothes pin (in an u shape with an smaller gap than the psp motherboard) and soldered the wires in those pogo pins, that way it would be 100% reversible and with 0% risk of damaging them? (I mean the contact's on the motherboard)
To be totally honest haha I have never heard of a pogo pin before in my life XD! I have no formal training and am self taught. So I have lots of knowledge gaps. This honestly is super helpful though :O I will look into them and designing a bracket for it if its possible. The reversibility is nice, but I would rather that connection and not spend so much time trying to solder the pins. Also it would make this build potentially into a kit that people who cant solder could put together. :O Thank you!
Great question! Yes I am planning on doing that. I am trying to make them solderless at the moment but it is looking like that wont be the case. At the very least the power cable needs to be cut and connected to the board. I can buy them semi in bulk but then the person who buys the kit would just toss their power connector... still working on that puzzle. The other part is the upgraded BT board will be done in the near future and it makes sense to sell kits with the new tech. Last thing though is I have 3 PCBs from this build since I had to order 5 so I am going to be selling two and giving one away, not sure how to best get the word out on the give away though. So more details soon for sure.
hmmm let me take a look one sec. So i just dowloaded it from the first link in the description and it ran no problem. Sorry for the basic questions but are you using a PC? / will it not download at all or it wont run once downloaded
@@benergylive Yeah, I'm on PC... Chrome keeps saying "Needs permission to download" and on the 1 time I got the exe to download it says "This app cannot be run on your PC" deffo something on my end which is really annoying... Probably a stupid question but I should just be clicking on the "psp-consoliser-programmer.1.0.0.exe" 76mb file on the link, right?
@@TheDeathmatchChannel hmmm that is super weird. yeah clicking on it should just start the download. What pc are you using if you don't mind me asking, only thing i can think is it a chromebook?
@@TheDeathmatchChannel Dang yeah that is wild :O I will send a message to Stephen to see if he encountered any issues like that. I know for me I just had to accept the warning message when I tried to run it the first time. Windows defender or whatever stephens build guide mentions that to make an exe file "windows defender certified" you have to pay them hahaha so I have to just click the more options and say run anyway.
Psp community is awesome
I came across this video a couple of days ago and has made me want to grab a PSP for parts (the parts that are needed of course) and wanting to do my own build but haven't got a 3D printer so would kind of be hard haha but seeing this project reignited my love for these kinds of projects, and made me look at other type of console transformations like this
Sick, thanks for putting this together, been very interested in this project for the longest while. Glad to see it back in the works!
Thank you so much for your comment! When I found Stephens work, I was shocked no one had made a video about it. Now I just need to get the UMD drive to be part of the shell and I will consider it done haha.
Super cool! I just came here from Stephen Cooper's video. It's like you said, the ultimate PSP is the one that you can play on your TV! I hope it will be a kit in the future for those not too tech savvy or to "dock and undock" your PSP. Awesome work! A big shout out from Uruguay!
DANG! That is so cool that my video would be interesting to someone on the other side of the world :O. I am glad you feel the same way that I do about the sitting on the couch and playing the big screen :D. It was a really fun build, I would love to see it become a kit for anyone to kind of plug and play. I think that would really be amazing for a lot of people. If I can get good enough at making them I would be willing to sell them for sure, but Im not there yet. I want to get the whole project finished with Stephen first :D.
@@benergylive This would be a nice project for Crowd Supply! (the "Kickstarter for electronics")
As well as being able to play psp games, this also provides a great way to watch umd films on the big screen.
Great project
Nice, have been wanting something like this for years. I once tried to padhack a PSP so I could use an arcade stick with it, but the tiny ribbon cable connectors were too hard for me to solder onto (maybe I could do it now that I've got more experience, but this looks easier and also has analog stick compatibility)
We need to find out how the “DOSO PSW-303 PRO Wireless Controller for PSP” worked so we can cut this process in half.
Estou atrás 😂de um para comprar, mas nada 😢até agora.
NICE
I would totally buy a completed one for my 3000.
I love that so much :D! I most likely will sell one of my builds since I wont need two of them. I am also thinking that once the new design is finished by Stephen I am going to design a shell for that one. Those ones I could probably sell as well since they will use newer parts! I am so glad people are interested in the project though :D
Thx for the tutorial, have you ever thought about making a 3d printed ps2 slim and making it fit the PSP consolizer?
Thank you so much, I would have loved a video, so I figured it might help other people. I am not quite sure what you mean about the PS2 though 🤔
@@benergylive no prob, but what i mean was maybe making a 3d printed shell based on the ps2 slim that can fit the parts.
@@GLXY23 OHHHH I see what you mean hmmmm that is a super cool idea :D It would take a ton of work but could look super cool :D
Hey GLXY I wanted to send you the link to a reddit post I just put up. I was able to put a design together, its the best I could come up with but I think you will like how it turned out :D www.reddit.com/r/PSP/comments/1e3bw4a/what_should_we_name_this_the_play_station/
@@benergylive dude, thanks for the share. THIS IS A FANTASTIC IDEA!!! Definitely should go with the playstation placable.
How can you make it full screen?
Hey good question I just built a retro upscaler. It is really frustrating, but no one in that community listens to me haha they are called upscalers not converters. I spent hours searching for the best HDMI converter and for some reason no one wants to use the word converter which is what everyone is searching anyway... Rant aside. There are lots of videos on upscalers and the different kinds you can get I am saving up for a stupid expensive one, but you can get cheap ones that work great still :D
@@benergylivetrue but you need to spend some money to get good psp (because of the multiple resolutions)...
@@DavideNastri that is the nice part of a better upscaler. The fancy ones can handle all resolution inputs. The PS1 and PS2 both had games where the resolution changes at different points in the games. I am excited to get the fancy one to auto switch for me :D
@@benergylive You built your own scaler? Is it GBS-C, or something else? The output looks fantastic!
@@DashRetro Thanks for your comment :) I originally built a GBS-c to see if the hype was real with upscalers. I was blown away by the change but not by the color and lack of freedom to adjust things. So I endded up going with a retrotink 5x I am saving up for a 4k but honestly it would make me have to change the whole streaming setup since it doesn't work with all HDMI splitters so I think the 5x is great and give the freedom to adjust the picture aspect ratio and the scanlines are great.
20:30 why u didn't used an pogo pin on each contact with an bracket that holds it in position like an clothes pin (in an u shape with an smaller gap than the psp motherboard) and soldered the wires in those pogo pins, that way it would be 100% reversible and with 0% risk of damaging them? (I mean the contact's on the motherboard)
To be totally honest haha I have never heard of a pogo pin before in my life XD! I have no formal training and am self taught. So I have lots of knowledge gaps. This honestly is super helpful though :O I will look into them and designing a bracket for it if its possible. The reversibility is nice, but I would rather that connection and not spend so much time trying to solder the pins. Also it would make this build potentially into a kit that people who cant solder could put together. :O Thank you!
Are you going to be selling kits
Great question! Yes I am planning on doing that. I am trying to make them solderless at the moment but it is looking like that wont be the case. At the very least the power cable needs to be cut and connected to the board. I can buy them semi in bulk but then the person who buys the kit would just toss their power connector... still working on that puzzle. The other part is the upgraded BT board will be done in the near future and it makes sense to sell kits with the new tech. Last thing though is I have 3 PCBs from this build since I had to order 5 so I am going to be selling two and giving one away, not sure how to best get the word out on the give away though. So more details soon for sure.
I'm trying to run the PSP Consolizer exe on the Arduino but not having any luck downloading it :(
hmmm let me take a look one sec. So i just dowloaded it from the first link in the description and it ran no problem. Sorry for the basic questions but are you using a PC? / will it not download at all or it wont run once downloaded
@@benergylive Yeah, I'm on PC... Chrome keeps saying "Needs permission to download" and on the 1 time I got the exe to download it says "This app cannot be run on your PC" deffo something on my end which is really annoying...
Probably a stupid question but I should just be clicking on the "psp-consoliser-programmer.1.0.0.exe" 76mb file on the link, right?
@@TheDeathmatchChannel hmmm that is super weird. yeah clicking on it should just start the download. What pc are you using if you don't mind me asking, only thing i can think is it a chromebook?
@@benergylive Medion Gaming laptop with Windows10, I'll try downloading it at work on the computer there on Monday, see if that works :)
@@TheDeathmatchChannel Dang yeah that is wild :O I will send a message to Stephen to see if he encountered any issues like that. I know for me I just had to accept the warning message when I tried to run it the first time. Windows defender or whatever stephens build guide mentions that to make an exe file "windows defender certified" you have to pay them hahaha so I have to just click the more options and say run anyway.