DreamCast Laptop

[ragnar]

Hello, there wasn't any Dreamcast section on the Forum, so I posted this here, hope you guys don't mind.

Well anyways, I've been thinking of Making my own DC laptop, the thing is, I need help with some things, now I have no problem with soldering, all I need to know is what to solder and where to solder, I don't really have any plans for a case yet but, that'll come later, my problems are, the Battery and the LCD screen, I've got an old Laptop, I was thinking maybe I could use its power supply and LCD screen, it would lower the cost of everything, maybe I could even use the case of the laptop, I don't know but we'll see that later, if there isn't anyway to connect the laptops Screen and Battery than I need alternatives.

To make things short, I will post the LCD screen and laptop Power supply photos and any questions I can answer about them later, after that I need alternatives in case none of them work.

I'm really excited about this and I hope to make this work as soon as possible, and I think with help I can make it .

[zbblanton]

sounds sweet how long u think its goin to take

[ragnar]

well I'm not sure, I'm going to post pictures and whatever info I have tomorrow, I'm too tired today, but I would give it a month or two if the stuff I have works, if I need to find more components it might take more time, considering the money I have and if I can find whatever I need in my country.

[vskid]

Info on DC modding, powering, and portablizing/laptop making. (its a link)

[kink192]

sounds like a good idea, if its a success possible mod an older system like the nes into a laptop. that would be a mod to be amazed by.

[ragnar]

Here are the photos on the screen and the power supply, hope any of you guys know if this works and how:

[Ilzwalrus]

Unfortunately you won't be able to use the screen... mainly because the hardware is incompatible, and there's no driver for the screen.

[*FuFa]

Also I wouldn't use a battery to power it, it won't hold long enough to have some serious fun with your DC

[dreaddiekruger]

yeah laptop screens are useless unless you posses the skill to construct a video processing board its vital for your project working on a similar project but still a work in progress thats why those add-on third party console screen are so handy since they posses a video processing board making it a far better choice for your DC laptop, that being said your limited to the size your going to use cause the biggest game screens ive seen available are around 10", so your next best option is a nice lcd tv. (17'' to 20" is what i will use myself ) a pretty ambitious project to say the least since it involves some reegineering of a few things ( the biggest being the gd-rom unit as its pretty big and bulky) not to mention the keyboard aspect, (will require some reegineering too as the sega keyboard is pretty long) keep us posted im intrested in seeing your ideas and development of this project, GOOD LUCK!

[MARIOPARTY53]

i tryed this to, I had it runnig on a car charger and it could connect to the wall, but my problems were a big screan to suit me,  and a case

[ryan0]

for all your battery needs get a broken camcorder with a battery,u gotta modify the psu to work with the dc tho,the dc one would be too big and wouldnt support batteries,anyways camcorder parts are the way to do it for the whole power thing no doubt about it thats what everyone else dose or not necessarily camcorders everything with a battery that can match the power feed their console needs e.g a laptop battery and psu
by psu i mean power supply,not the on which charges the battery in a camcorder i mean the internal one which draws the power from the battery

[Timmy]

the best screen to use for this sort of thing is the 7" ps1 screen you can buy

benheck uses it for most of his mods like this

as well as portable tv screens