Thread: Playstation LCD Hack - Works!!

by the way man,did u use an existing vga cable or did u solder up a new one?

i soldered to a VGA header, and used a VGA extension cable from the PC to the header.

Problem with that is that VGA extension cables are really horrible and signal quality goes to crap. I'll probably solder some BNCs on later.

Anyhow, if anyone's in Australia, DSE has PSOne LCDs backorder via their website for less than A$100.. really good.

right on,i was going to try that,but i cant find a vga cable with pin 9.i guess im looking 4 a vesa vga cable.is that what u have?

Mine just has 15 pins straight through. might have to look a little harder!

im really sorry to keep this up,but could u clarify something 4 me?is your vga header plug(the one u have going into the extension)grounded to psone pin 8 via vga pins 6,11,4 or did i misunderstand?i know i must seem really dense at this point but im getting desperate.thank u in advance...

anyone whos interested,i also hacked the car adapter 4 the psone to connect it to my power supply.any one tried this?it was my first thought when i saw that it converts 12v to 7.5.hacking the plastic apart is a bear but i finally got it on a molex.now,lol,im afraid to try it cause someone told me that it would be too much drain on my power supply.if anyone has tried this please let me know.

Ground on VGA goes to ground on PSOne: Pin 8 on PSOne goes to VGA Pins 6,7,8 (Red, Green, Blue grounds).

You might also need to connect VGA pins 11 and 4 to a ground (VGA Pin 6), as some monitors will detect a display if these are grounded.

So yeah it'll look like a lot of things connected to pin 6... ^_^

With regards to the PSOne car adapter (i wish i had one of these), how does it do the voltage regulation? Is it a switchmode regulator (it'll have an inductor inside it: Some brass / copper wire wound around a torus or a bar), or is it just a linear regulator (it'll just have one IC, possibly with a heatsink on it if the designers were being sensible)?

Better yet, do you have a digital camera or have access to one? A photo of the inside would be nice (especially if the IC print was readable).

im sorry,my camera is a creative pc cam 350 ,and i cant get it to work with xp(driver support is very bad at creative)but i will look around inside the box today and post a description tonight.also thank u.quick clarification,u said connect vga ground to ground on psone.do u mean vga pin 5 to psone pin 8 as well,or do i just connect all vga grounds to pin 8?

Connect all grounds to VGA Pin 8 [ do something like solder one wire to VGA pin 8, and solder all other grounds to that wire, don't solder everything directly to the pin socket! ].

You can probably get away with just soldering PSOne common ground (PSOne Pin 8) to just Red ground (VGA Pin 5), but it's probably best to ground everything to a common point.