Author Topic: MY PSP MODDING STEPS (Read 17357 times)

redrider · « **on:** March 22, 2009, 10:14:46 PM »

Here I will be editing this post every time I do a new mod to my PSP SLIM. Check back daily for updates on what I have done and How I have done it. And if you have seen my thread on my 360....my slim is going to match it..
READ>>>I see that this thread is turning into a "BIG" discussion on how everyone does there modding and their experiences. THAT'S GREAT LOL....Stop apologizing for "hijacking" my thread lol...this is good bc any time someone needs to know how to do something, they can simply come here and find out what will work best for them and so on. Keep on disusing as I put up my steps and this will be a one stop place for anyone new to modding or just wants to find new ways how!!

3/22/09-Thread Started

3/23/09-Jewel In Door

So here I have a blank Jewel in the Slim UMD door now. I Spent about 3.5 hours doing this...No joke lol. All i used is what you see in the third pic which was a box cutter and a fine file that has a curved edge. Using power tools like a dremel to cut and sand are just asking for trouble.
Steps I took-
1. Peel off the ring
2. Cut out the middle circle with the PSP name with the box cutter.
3. Sanded with the fine curved file until PERFECTLY circular...not kidding, this is a perfect circle.
4. When I thought i did enough I tried putting in the jewel.
5. It fit, but was still a little to tight so I sanded some more.
6. When it fit snug I put very little amounts of supper glue spaced evenly apart around the circle
7. Put the jewel back in flush with the door and let dry.
8. When dry, washed with water.
DONE!! This mod takes a lot of patients and time to make perfect so take your time!

WAITING ON PARTS FROM DX....cheap but slow lol
3/25/09-Swapped out power/charge/mem card/ WiFi led to all blue! Pics soon.
4/11/09-
OK!!!So I have opened a paypal dispute with they guy who I bought my stuff from on ebay bc its 20 days late on delivery and he wont contact me back! so I figured I would do all that I can with the stuff I have! here is what I got done today...
Trigger's-
But both red and blue led's in each trigger. the red are going to be solid on with a switch and the blue are going to be sound reactive with a switch also!

Led Swaps!
Here is my wifi and mem card led swap(both blue) can you tell i even did it lol? and it works haha

Here is my power/charge led swap(both blue also) looks kinda messy bc I followed the tut that is wrong on the tut boards. But I got it figured out lol. looks ok and it works so whoooohoo!

This is ganna be the switch for the sound reactive blue led's (works lol and is supper glued in). and yes, im not going to be using the umd drive any more.

Here is where Im getting my power from (I think I did a great job on this lol) whata ya think?!

And here is the 2n2222 sound transistor all ready to use. (supper glued it in)

And here is a full view of the the psp now. Trying to keep the wires nice and neat. (I striped the neg for the speaker a little to much lol...got confused!

eyelykeknives · « **Reply #1 on:** March 22, 2009, 10:20:02 PM »

nice nice

redrider · « **Reply #2 on:** March 23, 2009, 06:05:26 PM »

Today I put a blank jewel in the UMD door!! Check it out and tell me what you think!

Slim Hacker · « **Reply #3 on:** March 23, 2009, 06:45:06 PM »

nice perfect circle

DarkShot · « **Reply #4 on:** March 23, 2009, 08:14:36 PM »

Good idea.

Can help nubs.

rgarjr · « **Reply #5 on:** March 23, 2009, 08:29:43 PM »

Take a pic from the back and see how it looks like. Where do you get that jewel?

EliteGamer83 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 23, 2009, 08:40:04 PM »

You can make em' out of CD cases if you can cut them out in a circle and you use the thick kind, of course you can't have them engraved but they work for plain jewels

ndru98 · « **Reply #7 on:** March 23, 2009, 08:59:25 PM »

CD cases break very easily.
Not very trustworthy if you ask me.
And, good job dude!
I know your pain.
I had to do that with a razor blade, and a nail filer....
Took me a LONG time.
I got my jewel from my woodshop teacher

I asked him for his thinest peice of plexi, and asked to cut it 52mm, and a jewel was born.

rgarjr · « **Reply #8 on:** March 23, 2009, 10:17:01 PM »

Is there anywhere were they sell these jewels with pictures or text on them or do guys do them themselves?

redrider · « **Reply #9 on:** March 24, 2009, 12:03:34 AM »

I got my jewel here, don't remember from who though. And I think its 50mm not 52mm...But doesn't really matter. And NO, you cant really make it out of a cd case. What you could do is cut out a square of it and put it behind the circle you cut in the door..Only thing that is wrong with that is that the glass wont be flush with the door. But again, this mod really shows and any imperfect thing wrong with it, basically defeats the purpose of doing it..So in saying that, if your going to do it, do it right lol.

rgarjr · « **Reply #10 on:** March 24, 2009, 12:59:43 AM »

What I wouldn't mind doing is cutting out a jewel the size of the chrome ring and putting that on the umd door (ring of light). Its just hard to make it fit near perfect.

ApheX · « **Reply #11 on:** March 24, 2009, 01:25:26 AM »

You can get them,

Either ask here on the jewel shop section or go to shatteredmods.com. It's called a ring of light jewel.

redrider · « **Reply #12 on:** March 24, 2009, 02:13:40 AM »

Or what you could do that would be easier would to cut out the middle circle on the door really well and then place it behind the blank jewel. it would probably look cleaner to.

EliteGamer83 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 24, 2009, 05:18:29 AM »

Quote from: ndru98 on March 23, 2009, 08:59:25 PM

CD cases break very easily.
Not very trustworthy if you ask me.
And, good job dude!
I know your pain.
I had to do that with a razor blade, and a nail filer....
Took me a LONG time.
I got my jewel from my woodshop teacher
I asked him for his thinest peice of plexi, and asked to cut it 52mm, and a jewel was born.

Not if you have the good kind and you do it right, it will last unless you drop your PSP or TRY to crack it.

bustinthejustin · « **Reply #14 on:** March 24, 2009, 01:04:05 PM »

Quote from: redrider on March 24, 2009, 02:13:40 AM

Or what you could do that would be easier would to cut out the middle circle on the door really well and then place it behind the blank jewel. it would probably look cleaner to.

nah if you can cut it right, then it will look better using a RoL jewel because it'll be flush. Also, i'm pretty sure its 52cm. i want some calipers to measure but im broke right now LOL

Jumbo · « **Reply #15 on:** March 24, 2009, 01:20:49 PM »

Quote from: EliteGamer83 on March 24, 2009, 05:18:29 AM

Not if you have the good kind and you do it right, it will last unless you drop your PSP or TRY to crack it.

Not really.. Just the pressure of your pocket could break it.. Its very unsafe to us CD plastic IMO. Plexiglass, or Acrylic.

Blazinkaos · « **Reply #16 on:** March 24, 2009, 04:32:20 PM »

Quote from: EliteGamer83 on March 23, 2009, 08:40:04 PM

You can make em' out of CD cases if you can cut them out in a circle and you use the thick kind, of course you can't have them engraved but they work for plain jewels

I did that before and from what ppl say it is not reliable better of buying a piece of plxiglass and shaving it down.
For example i did ring all hand done with power tools and hand shaving tool take a look.

ndru98 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 24, 2009, 04:37:05 PM »

Quote from: Blazinkaos on March 24, 2009, 04:32:20 PM

I did that before and from what ppl say it is not reliable better of buying a piece of plxiglass and shaving it down.
For example i did ring all hand done with power tools and hand shaving tool take a look.

That is pimpin'

Blazinkaos · « **Reply #18 on:** March 24, 2009, 04:45:37 PM »

yea i also made a regular clear jewel i have video here.
PSPM3 Modded PSP

ApheX · « **Reply #19 on:** March 24, 2009, 06:19:51 PM »

Quote from: redrider on March 24, 2009, 02:13:40 AM

Or what you could do that would be easier would to cut out the middle circle on the door really well and then place it behind the blank jewel. it would probably look cleaner to.

I tried that as one of my first mods. It looked, well.... cheap in my opinion. I'd rather buy or make my own RoL jewel using plexi then glue part of a cd case to the back of the umd door.

Blazinkaos, nice vid

rgarjr · « **Reply #20 on:** March 24, 2009, 06:44:19 PM »

Dremel'ed out my spare UMD door. I tried using a CD jewel for the ring but I just bend it a little and it broke off since its so small. Will try to get a hold of some plexi glass though.

bustinthejustin · « **Reply #21 on:** March 24, 2009, 08:23:16 PM »

Very smooth cuts

Blazinkaos · « **Reply #22 on:** March 25, 2009, 07:56:37 AM »

Quote from: ApheX on March 24, 2009, 06:19:51 PM

I tried that as one of my first mods. It looked, well.... cheap in my opinion. I'd rather buy or make my own RoL jewel using plexi then glue part of a cd case to the back of the umd door.

Blazinkaos, nice vid

Thanks aphex

Also want show you guys something i thought i couldnt do but i tried it and may not do it again cuz how hard it was. But it actually turned out better then i thought it would. This was all done with a dremel with a very tiny bit and hand sanding tools. Check this pic out.

DiscEngine · « **Reply #23 on:** March 25, 2009, 10:10:26 AM »

I watched him do that

EliteGamer83 · « **Reply #24 on:** March 25, 2009, 10:16:35 AM »

Another way to do it is if you have a drill press, ramp up the speed get a very very small bit or dremmel bit and the just start it up, then drag your jewel under it in different directions to make your design. Works well if you watch your fingers =]

krazyone2006 · « **Reply #25 on:** March 25, 2009, 10:36:19 AM »

elite for some reason i see alot more kids goiing to the emergency room with that trying to get fingers sewn back on LMAO

Blazinkaos · « **Reply #26 on:** March 25, 2009, 10:51:29 AM »

Thats what i did i used very thin bit and did this on a dremel station.

Quote from: krazyone2006 on March 25, 2009, 10:36:19 AM

elite for some reason i see alot more kids goiing to the emergency room with that trying to get fingers sewn back on LMAO

ouch

rgarjr · « **Reply #27 on:** March 25, 2009, 11:27:57 AM »

Guys, I just noticed we just hi-jacked redriders mod steps log thread here, oops

EliteGamer83 · « **Reply #28 on:** March 25, 2009, 12:00:43 PM »

Ha I was gone for the past 2 hours or so making my own jewel from a CD case now I'm gonna make a vid and upload to prove it can be done. It's pretty scuffed up and not the right size, but I didn't care about the size cause it's just a proof of concept.

krazyone2006 · « **Reply #29 on:** March 25, 2009, 12:48:27 PM »

sorry for hijacking your post redriders

but yeah when i'm just doing a plain jewel or window for someones UMD door i just run up to the hobby store and pick up a small sheet of plexi glass it's only like .99 cents for a pice the size of a sheet of notebook paper and cut them outta that start off with the dremel and then move to sandpaper to do the finishing touches

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