Oct 16, 2020 20:00:00

Introducing a fierce man who makes PlayStation 4 portable with battery drive & attache case

Starting with the PlayStation 5, which is said to be the '

largest home-use game console in history, ' the PlayStation series of stationary game consoles are designed as game consoles that can be played by connecting the power cord to an outlet. However, among them, a fierce man who tried to make PlayStation 4 battery-powered and portable.

DX Terraria, who is trying to make a 'portable PS4', made a playStation 4 and a liquid crystal display in an attache case, and tried to make it portable by a battery drive system. Although it is said that it is incomplete, the PlayStation 4 startup screen is displayed firmly.

Portable PS4
It's almost done! pic.twitter.com/t6xQBXmufp
— DX Terraria (@DxTerraria) October 13, 2020

The movie at startup is also released.

Since it's a big deal, I'll post a video at startup w pic.twitter.com/VWxdWQbC5U
— DX Terraria (@DxTerraria) October 13, 2020

Turn on the power switch in the red frame ...

Click the PS button on the controller.

Then the cooling fan and the game disc started spinning.

And the home screen of PlayStation 4 is displayed. The sound is also sounding properly.

The inserted game disc was also well recognized.

Also, at the time of writing the article,

DX Terraria's YouTube channel posted a production movie that recorded the implementation around the circuit of the portable PS4.

[Slow commentary] Production of portable PS4 [Circuit] --YouTube

DX Terraria seems to be designing based on PlayStation 4 Slim in order to realize portability and battery drive.

When disassembling the PlayStation 4 Slim, it looks like this. There are many parts, but ...

This is the only part required for portability.

First of all, in order to reduce the size of the circuit part, we redesigned the area around the power supply to support battery drive.

Change the

APU cooling fan on the motherboard to a smaller one ...

It explains in detail how the design proceeded, such as replacing the storage device from HDD to SSD.

PlayStation 4 can operate even when the board is exposed as shown below. It seems that he played the game for about an hour to check the operation of the cooling fan, but there was no problem with the operation.

In addition, the implementation of the portable PS4 emphasized cost reduction, and the LCD panel of the notebook PC, which was purchased as a junk item, was diverted to the display.

The redesigned board etc. is packed in the attache case.

It was also released that the game was being test-played by connecting it to the display that was actually attached to the attache case. You can also connect to the Internet and play online games.

Battery drive time measurement and attache case processing will be released in another movie. When the portable PS4 is completed, it seems that new movies will be released on YouTube, including the movies posted on Twitter.