The Way This Portable PlayStation 4 Was Built Is Genius

Someone just turned a PlayStation 4 into a portable console, and what’s great about it is that it doesn’t seem to be that hard to build. So I had to check it out!

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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
3:02 Parts Used
4:12 How It’s Put Together
7:18 Features and How It Works
8:40 Power and Charging
10:06 Exterior Features
11:06 Pros and Cons
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[TheGershon]

His girlfriend let him buy a 3D printer, welding tools, a broken PS4, an old laptop and all this other equipment, and she gives him the space in the house and the time needed to make this, but she would't let him buy a Steam Deck?

[bors]

I guess there’s room for improvement:
- slimmer flat batteries from smartphones
- uncased SSD instead of HDD to save space and power
- slimmer heatsink and fan from a gaming laptop
- moving hdmi -> lvds circuitry to a custom PCB

[kingdomofkuriboh]

"He wanted to be able to play Dark Souls on the go"
Nintendo Switch: Am I a joke to you?

[ChristopherBurtraw]

I'm not buying the "my gf wouldn't let me" story. Mio fratello this is mod culture, not Hollywood

[RetroHellspawn]

A clip of an exploding 18650 would've gone a long way near the end when you're talking about how extreme caution is needed if you're going to weld/solder batteries together. 😂

[RetrNx]

Certainly not the "Worlds First". I've seen a few portable PS4 units, with custom shells etc, over the past few years

[millomaker]

Hey, not bad
So far the cleanest laptop style really portable PS4 👍

[dcmodderful]

Not diminishing the ingenuity of the creator but I'm reminded of the movie quote, "...so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

[Redlock_youtube]

This is like "Tony Stark building one, in a cave, with a box of scraps, " I love the ingenuity of this build. I am quite impressed and look forward to seeing how Francesco and the community iterate on it.

[Manicben]

Tfw Tito uses the Retro Renew intro for a PS4… Rest in pepperoni 😂

[Bamxcore]

"his girlfriend didn't allow him" What? He's a grown man lmao

[andrewtomashaska]

This reminds me of Ben Heck's console to laptop conversions.

[GameDev]

1. Charging time was likely due to safety -- to avoid any possibility of thermal runaway.
2. The battery housing is BAD -- the battery heat goes RIGHT into the console and vice versa.
3. Repurposing an xbox 360 power supply is an odd choice -- when a usb c PD3 charger can EASILY supply 150w+
4. The battery should be a clip on/slide on box on the bottom -- with an optional DC input, as well as possibility for a few common battery standards (eg: tools, laptops, etc)
5. An SSD should have been sued. Obv might require a mod chip, but common ways emulate a HDD for an SSD is much desired to hide the use of an SSD from the OS (but maybe there's anti cheat for this?)
6. The motherboard can be FOLDED to make an even smaller package, as well as concentrating heat to a central heat pipe.

[marinenukem]

This design looks so elegant, huge props to Francesco

[Zinkolo]

Some Japanese dude did this like 6 years ago.
This is NOT the first by any stretch of the imagination.
His version was also a lot more advanced.

[jacobprayer]

The moral of the story is don't have a girlfriend at least one who dictates what you can or cannot buy with your own money

[LBPLIVE]

Peter knetter made a portable ps4 years ago

[arthurdurham]

This is super cool as a concept. But also kind of funny that you can do this essentially by building a handheld gaming PC with similar specs.

But it's the ingenuity of maintaining the hardware as is that makes it interesting

[Armorant]

People are always trying to make desktop consoles portable and vice versa. This is reminiscent of the situation with Apple: the iPhone is always getting larger, while the iPad, on the contrary, is becoming more compact. Just a funny observation.
But this mod is pretty straightforward and that makes it extremely cool.

[hybridRace]

“His girlfriend didn’t allow him-“

Excuse me?