Portable Game Cube

I started out building a portable dreamcast but the motherboard got fried from a short circuit... oops! So i went out looking for another game system that wouldn't be too expensive but at the same time would be a game system worth playing. i have a friend that owns every game system thats ever been made(almost). Anyway i picked up a dreamcast a wireless controller, a regular controller and all of the cables for $50 bucks. Great system for not too high of a price.

The design for my portable game cube will be a laptop form and have an external wireless controller rather than a built in surface mounted controller.

For a screen i used a left over 5 inch lcd screen designed for a car that funs of 12 volts. You can pick up good screens over at tigerdirect.com or if your a good ebay'r you can find a nice screen on ebay. I started my GCp by going over to the helpful forums over at benheck.com. I found that the game cube power input is 12 volts. If you were to look at a game cube power plug there is a box on it that reduces the 125 volt current to 12 volt dc current. In my case i took apart a batteried power drill battery and rewired it to fit in my case but you can simply wire 2 7.2 volt r/c car batteries together you can get 14.4 volts which will suffice. Now the issue remaining is whether to replace the backlight of the lcd screen with led or leave the stock backlight. Although every experienced portablizer says replace the backlight with led's im going to leave the backlight as it is for now. For a controller i have a wirless wavebird controller. The controller port # 1 will have the wireless transmitter built in to the board. For controller ports # 2 im going to add an extension which will then be surface mounted to the outside of the case. For a case im going to make a mold out of clay and then vacuum form an acrylic plastic case. If you don't have a vacuum forming table you can make one for $35 bucks using only a circular saw and a drill. It took me about 3 hours to make mine. If you really want to be lazy you can design your case and get it made for not too expensive.

Power Connection

The Power Outlet is on the right upper corner. The Gamecube runs off of 12 volt power so by connecting the positive power to the left connector and negative power to the right side connector.