Dead Projects: PS4 Portable

I like to tinker with electronics, but I have a nasty habit of starting and never quite finishing my work. I figured I may as well dump those projects here - perhaps one day I'll motivate myself to finish them. Yeah, my workbench is messy - sue me. :P

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Edit: A bit of a closer look at the cooling solution. Has some heft to it.

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The heat sink was trimmed down from 80x80x20mm down to a +/- 60x60x20mm with "wings" for a hard mount, the plate was cut out of a 3mm thick copper sheet.
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Dude, this would be a sick af project to make reality. Did you run into a problem in trying to make it portable?

I just posted this to Chary's profile, but this is the PC that I'm looking to make "portable" when I finally get my hands on it hopefully in the next month. I thankfully ordered it before Linus or ETA Prime shined their lights on it from Simply NUC and got it sold out:

 
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I had zero issues since I designed everything on paper before I even bought the Slim (I only purchased it for this specific surgery). Lots of math went into appropriate cooling and power delivery, and everything worked as expected - the system runs just fine, and with that massive custom heat sink it actually runs quieter/cooler than stock (it's two-sided too - large fin stack on APU, huge copper heat spreader on the memory). The snag? My own laziness, and the lack of a 3D printer to make a chassis that doesn't suck. I'm sure I'll finish this one day, or so I tell myself, at least. :P
 
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I'm taking a wild, wild shot at this by creating a whole account for the purpose of this. I'm trying to code a small thing for the DS. I eventually traced your post of 2009 explaining how to get stuff working on it. I have to say, thank you very very much for making those tutorials, as they're probably the most detailed I've seen by far. I followed it through, made a simple sprite and used GRIT for it and converted it, and used Nflib to try to display the sprite, but it just, didn't? If you still remember how to get stuff working on the DS, please message me, I'm in need of help. If you don't want to help me or forgot how to, I understand. It's been 15 years since the DS's release after all.

If you do remember how, please message me on Discord (I could explain more): JuanR4140#0242
I would really really appreciate it
 
I'm afraid I don't do tech support, particularly not on Discord. If you can post your code in the thread you've mentioned, I can look at it and help you figure things out. Chances are that the transparency is messed up, you forgot to pick a palette or you didn't initialise the layer correctly. If you followed the tutorial step by step, it has to work. :)
 

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