Greetings and Salutations!
I've been lurking around here for a little while, but I am just now getting serious about my modding.
So, I decided to take a challenge from a friend here in town. He bet me $100 that I could not build a PSP slim from Spare parts. I decided to take it a step further, and go the distance with a full mod.
It started out as a Piano Black Slim with a TA-088v3 (Verified) in it...YUCK. The board was toast anyway (Blown fuses galore), and the only real salvageable parts were the case, and the Wi-Fi antenna.
The first thing I did was purchase a TA-085v2 board, since I already have an MMS and a Pandora.
I took a frame set from a Red Replacement shell, and a WLAN and power button from a Daxter Model Silver. These were added to the Black original shell. A set of Red buttons: Home bar, nub, abxy, d-pad and shoulders; Were added as well.
With the color choices I had made, I decided that I am going to theme the mod. "What theme?" you may ask...
Well, one of my favorite TV shows as a kid was:
With this in mind, I got the System pretty Much together and working.
**Please excuse the pic quality since I took them in less than optimal light, and my Camera is on its last legs here...**
Note! You can click on the pics for larger view!
Right now it is on OFW 3.72, and for some reason I can only get it to run on the AC adapter for now.
Which brings me to a question:
What is causing my power issue? The system will not recognize the original battery. If I leave the battery out for a while and Plug the AC in, I do get a charge light, and it acts like it is charging for about five minutes then goes out. When I remove the charger, it shuts off, and will not respond to the battery at all.
When checking the status with the AC plugged in, and the battery installed, It doesn't even recognize that a battery is in the system.
I have ordered a new battery to replace it to make sure it's not just a bad cell. Everything on the board checks out on the DMM with no continuity breaks. Though I did get a bit of trouble from the metal shielding on the top of the mobo. That is also being replaced because the one I had laying around had some corrosion on it, so one is on the way from my "Parts guy"
Hopefully this will rectify things, as I really don't want to have to mess with replacing fuses. (I hate bridging because the fuse is there for a reason...). Weird though because everything checks out on the meter.
The wallpaper is just a JPEG that I loaded onto a memory stick for demo purposes at the moment until I can get the power issue taken care of.
Anyway, I am planning on putting in some trigger LED's, and doing something with the music player to have Kitt's Voice modulator indicator panel as the VU meter.
Maybe even some Custom Sound clips for the bootup sounds (Turbo boost sound, sensor sound, Kitt saying "Hello Michael", ETC)
This one is a work in progress, and all of the internals have come from about 4 different Slims. So it's kind of my Frankenstation.
I was thinking of modding a custom UMD door with an Illuminated Knight Industries Logo.
Right now it's just a stock one. I was thinking of using a UMD door from a 3000 since they have the thin ring, which lends more to the "Knight Rider" Theme.
I was also thinking of changing the trim to the darker grey from a Daxter model PSP. to reduce the Red a bit.
Any input? I am farming for a little inspiration here. Most electronic stuff is not a real challenge for me, I'm just new to the PSP modding.
Needless to say I already collected my $100 from my buddy. That went into the Fund for doing this mod!
Thanks for putting up with my long-windedness.
