Hack Like Heck: MilLs Dj

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Declaration of Intent	MilLs Dj Intends to Hack Like Heck
YouTube Channel	Bobflannery103
Hack Like Heck Project Progress	Hack Like Heck - Andrew Miller - MilLs Dj - The Ultimate Portable (1972 to 2012, 50+ Gaming Systems, Movies, Shows, Music, Apps, and around 100,000 Video Games, All In 1)

Name: MilLs Dj

Element14 Community member since: March 23, 2018

Noteable Portable :The 64 Boy Micro - The World's Smallest Portable Nintendo 64, and about 30 other portables

Project for Hack Like Heck: The Ultimate Portable - 1972 to 2012, 50+ game systems, movies, shows, music, and around 100,000 video games all in 1.

Get those votes in guys! Thanks to all friends, family, and fellow modifiers that have voted so far!

(4/4/18) Project DONE. here's a bit of the work in photos and some description of the steps taken for some of the questions of "how does that work" Be sure to check out the video; Like, and Share it!

Well everyone, here it is! I explain basically everything in the video but here are some repeated and other specs and notes on the project. Photoshoot time!

Wii

Nintendo 64 PC Engine, Turbo Graphx, Turbo Duo

Virtual Boy NES/Famicom

SNES Genesis/Mega Drive/32x

SEGA CD SEGA Master System

SG-1000 GameBoy

Atari 2600 Atari XE/ST/800XL

MAME/RetroArch NEO GEO/CD

Capcom Play System 1&2 Amstrad

Amiga VectreX

This wasn't all the sections, but you get the idea of alot of games and systems...

DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT

Watch the video, Its well detailed. Here are some other things I may have missed!

The Ultimate Portable measures in at 9 ½ x 4 ⅞ x 1 ⅜ and as you can see on the front, every little bit of space is utilized! This portable is jam packed with so many electronics it’s insane. I had some space left at the top left by the batteries, but that is because I trimmed a bunch (that wiimote not so much, I'll have to find a better way to make that smaller) ran all the wires the best way I thought. The Wii is located at the bottom left but you can’t even see it because there’s so many wires in this. If you look closely enough, you can see I used 34 gauge wire for a lot of it, and a ton of wires are organized electrical tape and wrapping magnet wire.

The four controllers process explained!

I said before how there is a Gamecube controller, wiimote, nunchuck, and classic pro controller inside. If you connect all together, there will definitely be an issue. The brains of each board get so confused and random inputs are pressed without being pressed, even when all but one is turned off. It was chaos trying to figure this out, and the only result I could find was have power, ground, and every single input. That would mean about 50 switches…so no. I took the IC route and found this chip (1ACEC2T CBT3384A). Datasheet basically says 5v in, GND, and in outs, but there are 2 voltage in points that when fed, it disconnects the pins. When powered, the internal switches bridge and connect, when off, they’re disconnected. I still had to use 3 of these ICs inside, cause the input amount and controllers. This is also how I can switch the D pad Settings on the system to change from holding the wiimote vertical to horizontal. Heres one of the ICs. The blue light on the top right of the system near the abxy buttons shows blue for game cube, green for wiimote, and flashes when syncing internal wiimote.

Once the DPDT switch that powers gamecube controller or Wiimote is set to Wiimote, I press a buttn, and the wiimote syncs. If not I have the wii system and internal wiimote sync buttons on the bottom to connect it (and external remotes), the 3.1v going to the wiimote is sent to the 3way DPDT switch, and a data line to send to either the nunchuck or classic pro controller. To avoid any power confusion and glitchy controller cpus, I had 2 forms of GND in the System GND, Universal and Wii Controllers GND.

The Control Box

All my portables have a control box for playing the system on the TV like it would as if it were unmodified. It’s a quick and easy pinout for this and expands the gaming horizon back to the classic view of how it was made to be played….or maybe I don’t wanna go outside and play like a couch potato today ok ?

I can sync wiimotes wirelessly and the other usb port on the system itself for connecting usb controllers, so there are only gamecube controller ports to use.

The Case

I measured all the components and developed support on the inside structure of the case to easily load. A lot of people vaccum form, cut the actual parts of plastic they need that house buttons and components and epoxy it on then sand, but this portable is the first of many. Now that the main case is on file, I can adjust it to be easier to make the next one. Once it is perfect, I can just say to HACK with it and press print on the 3D printer and boom, a case. (and paint the way I want it too) This is Prototype 1. Definitely making more.

Specs

Holds built in movies, tv shows, music, games, and apps like Netflix, hulu, and internet.

7 inch Raspberry Pi “touch” screen

WiFi

Bluetooth (Connects wiimotes and Bluetooth controllers)

Rechargeable

3 Speakers

Complete Wii motion sensitivity

Battery life is ? Hours (last for at least 3, I havent timed this)

5v Fan and heatsink for cooling

Painted 3D Printed Case

2 USB ports

Built in 2 TeraByte Harddrive

Built in SD Card

Built in Gamecube Memory Card ( games saved on Harddrive too)

Internal Clock

Custom menu for game selection

Menu music originally composed (chipmusic, by who else but MilLs Dj )

4 Controllers Built in!!!!

Screen/audio controls (not just your brightness and contrast controls)

Headphone jack

Low power indication ( controls start to glitch around, better save quick or plug in!)

Wii sensor bar built in

Hibernation mode

Control box put for 4 external players and tv output

Stylish curves

User manual for Software

User manual for Hardware (how to operate the buttons and things and stuff)

Controllers/Controls on portable worth noting

Gamecube

Wiimote

Numchuck

Wii Classic controller pro

….

Reset Button

Wii Bluetooth Sync

Dual shoulder buttons

GameCube style joystick

6 shoulder buttons (TRIGGERED)

3ds slider

wii sensor bar

...you can also attach or sync... keyboards, a mouse, usb, bluetooth controllers, usb controllers.

Game systems that can be played on the portable!

Wii

GameCube

N64

Virtual Boy

SNES

NES

Famicom

PC engine

Turbo graphx

Turbo duo

Vectrex

Sega Cd

32x

Genesis

Master System

SG-1000

Atari 2600

5200

7800

800XL

Gameboy Advance

Gameboy color

Original Gameboy

Neo geo pocket

Wonderswan

Gamegear

Cavestory (NX Engine)

Colecovision

Creativision

Intelvision

Odyssey

Odyssey 2

MAME

Retro Arch

Neo geo

Neo geo CD

Capcom play system 1

Capcom play system 2

PlayStation 1

MSX

MSX 2

Sinclair zx spectrum

Commodore 64

Tandy color Computer

ScummVM

Amstrad

Amiga

Apple 2

Dragon 32

Vg 5000

Special Thanks and Credit

I can’t take all the credit! I didn’t make wiiflow. Shout outs to wiiflow software design team, Abz, Maxternal, Bobby on Youtube, and Various fellow modders on sites like Youtube, BitBuilt, and ModRetro. Thank you all.

Songs used

Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine 2 Player Vs. Mode theme
Lil' Uzi Vert - All my Friends are Dead

(my songs, 3 haven’t been released yet, but check out more songs by me here! https://chipmusic.org/MilLs+Dj )

Believer

RoBoTiCal

Facing the Wall in Bed

Feelin’ Alive

Like a Kid Again

Any questions, ask me, I probably have the answers And follow me on Instagram! mills_dj

And facebook and youtube

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000879936046

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw9qlCJwbLPzh2SegK681yg?view_as=subscriber

Thank you Element 14 community, I am new to this site and I would love your vote to carry on the legacy. With builds like such, I know I’d keep it more than interesting!

(4/2) More sneak peak photos, stay tuned.

(4/1) I'm submitting the video today, its just under the 18 min limit, but it is FULL of intense goodies explaining the whole project, credited sources of help for the project, and what I had to do to build such a portable. Here's another sneak peak, this is the wii board trimmed and wired to fill my requests of playing so many different types of games. I'll post again soon, remember to vote for me to see more portable greatness!

Wii board no trim vs my trim, and then all the parts wired up!

SNEAK PEAK OF THE GUTS AND GLORY (3/31)

Stay tuned for the final video of it all!

More about the contestant:

A Brief history of my experience becoming a portablizer is me starting to build with Legos and make Domino tracks as early as age 5. It wasnt until I was 8 years old when i picked up my first soldering iron,

and burnt myself.

I quickly found a passion for taking everything that was electronic apart to see the guts and glory (butchering tons of remote controls basically).

I grew up playing Nintendo 64 and Original Gameboy/Color games with my older brother; also played the Genesis, but that was more his style.

It got to a point where I played too much and I became a basement dweller. My parents told me, "Stop playing so many video games!"... so I started building video games (Best loop hole ever).

Taking this route with electronics was very different from the knowledge my parents and siblings had. My brother played, but had no interest in building, my sister and mother were not into it much at all, and my Dad, being the very intelligent man that he is, barely knew how to turn TV with a Comcast box on. I helped with computers, electronics, and appliances around the house for them; and still do.

Highschool had no programs with building video games hardware wise, the closest thing was wood shop and Visual Basic. Everything that I learned was from researching, experimenting, and/or creating myself; with appropriate credit given to various online sources and teams. Since it was a small school district, I found very little friends that could even understand a fraction of the creations I was constructing.

This is actually one of the first times I'm using a forum too. I only posted very little to Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, and chipmusic.org (for chiptunes), and even now I don't post much. I mainly build for the absolute passion of doing so.

This contest interests me beyond belief and it saddens me I didn't find out about it sooner. I want to show that creativity and expressing passions is never the wrong thing to do, even when surroundings seem limited. I went from playing video games to building, hacking, coding, developing, and creating them. I even make music with them! I know everyone has ideas, but not everyone applies them to become real. That's the legacy I'm carrying on here at Millersville University and what I see should continue after Ben retires on his show. With what i know from before and double major,I intend to continue building past what is seen as "impossible" and show that if I can, we all can.

After everything, it's not about recognition or prizes. It's about the Thrill of the Build.

~MilLs Dj

Want to know more? Ask in the comments below and tag millsdj!

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