I got my Ps one screen today. I've been following the PSOne LCD in a PC guide. Thanks Hardnrg. Has anyone here on occ actually done this? My problem is I can't see the pin outs (in the pic) well enough (see first pic below) to figure out how to do the vga mod. Are there better pics out there?
http://www.bit-tech.net/content_images/pso...wer_circuit.jpg

This is the best I can give you is this: [CLick-Click]

still not much clearer - anyone else able to help? (shameless bump for the poor fella)

I think the bit-tech guides picture is quite clear but I recommend using rca as that is what I used (got a lot better picture quality than vga). If you want to see mine click on the link Psychotic_god left.

Here's the same image with better quality. If that little LCD was cheaper, I'd try it myself... but it's not... so I won't.

cheaper than 15 dollars? for an lcd?

where is it for 15 dollars

I didn't know they were that cheap, I'll take two!!

kmart HAD them for 15 dollars, not sure if they still do, my kmart had them last week when i was there, there was a thread about it a while ago.

It may be the worst solder job in the world ever but i'm half done. I still have the vga side to do.

Can hardly see it but looking good.

I'm done. But the screen won't turn on. The screen flashed blue and the brightness & contrast controls work. It may be due to my laptop secondary out only being able to do 1024x768. Not sure.

Can I see some instructions on how to do it RCA?

Help

If the screen stays blue it means it works, move your cursor to the other side of your screen and you will see it on you ps1 screen. If your ps1 screen is black it means theres some sort of wiring problem or something, try rca, look at my attached picture. connect the rca lead to pins 1 and 4. The picture is of the actual screen so make sure you solder the rca leads to the right place. Reply and let me know how you get on, I will help as much as I can.

So doing RCA, based on your pic I assume its possable to not use the bottem conrtoler card?

Thanks

I have one on my computer, I ended up scrapping the VGA connection (too much of a pain and the picture quality sucked) and went with the composite RCA connection. You have to tap into the A/V in plug to do it, you can either buy the adapter or just solder directly to the pins. I think the outermost solder point was the ground, the second pin in being the video. I don't remember exactly, but you can touch from point to point with a known good video signal and you'll get it. The video quality is perfect for a downmixed 640x480 signal.

Here are some pics of mine, just lazily mounted to the front of my case. I'll build a bevel when I get around to it.

Dude that rocks!

The screen turns on but I don't get any picture. I've just been connecting it to the composate out on my 6600gt. 648x480x32. What do you mean by downmixed? Do I need another pice of HW to make this work?

Thanks guys!

The screen really only supports the resolution of 320x240, so it'll downmix any signal sent over the composite connection (smoothing it out) to the native res. 640x480 worked fine for mine, higher resolutions give more "room" but text becomes very hard to read at smaller font sizes.


The composite out should work fine after you enable it as your second moniter in your display properties. Check the screen using a dvd player or console to see if the screen itself is working properly (since you know they output the signal correctly).


You may have to enable overscan mode on your computer to get the screen completely filled.

ok ijag once you get done gives us a good walk through so i can have one to do mine as i havent gotten around to it yet myself but i do have my screen taken apart and ready for me to get the case i may use internaly modded to hold my hdd's but i am also thinking of just buying another full tower to use so i dont have to do alot of internal modding

I'm still fighting this thing. Thanks for the support. Composite sounds alot eaiser then vga. I can't get eighter to work ATM. I may try hooking this up to a TV.


Edit:
The good news is that it works when pluged into a TV. THe picure sucked because I was holding the wires together with my fingers. Progress. So i guess I need to exactly emulate TV output with my 6600gt.