GingerOfOz, the console modder you may bear in mind from his excellent Game Boy-sized portable Wii, is again with one other residence console-turned-handheld. This time it’s the turn of the PS2, objectively one of the best console ever made and the one which simply so occurs to be the primary I ever owned.
Dubbed the “PS2 Eclipse,” the mod concerned trimming down an unique PS2 motherboard and packing it right into a 3D printed chassis with a set of PlayStation Vita buttons, Nintendo Change joysticks, a 5-inch 480p show, batteries, and a few additional customized circuit boards.
It’s a very neat little handheld, and the truth that it’s utilizing unique PS2 {hardware} somewhat than emulation means it doesn’t have any main compatibility points with the console’s library of virtually 4,000 video games. That mentioned, the best way the console masses video games slowly off a USB drive implies that some titles can stutter barely, and cargo instances are apparently a bit arduous. Battery life sits at round two and a half hours.
Though GingerOfOz has executed an excellent job with the hand held’s usability, together with constructing in audio system, a headphone jack, and a battery life indicator, he admits that it could actually generally wrestle to detect that there’s a controller connected. As such, some video games will refuse to load, and are successfully unplayable. GingerOfOz says he hopes this may be fastened in software program at a later date.
Sadly, if you wish to get your arms on the transportable, GingerOfOz says he has no plans to promote them like he did together with his earlier transportable Wii. After making fifty of the hand held consoles over the previous two years, the modder says that constructing this many to order “is simply depressing.” So in case you’re involved in taking your PS2 library on the go, you might need to get your soldering iron and 3D printer ready. Within the meantime, I completely suggest subscribing to GingerOfOz’s YouTube channel, and studying his full writeup of what went into the PS2 Eclipse.