Author Topic: Hacking Console Lcd's (Read 2565 times)

atom · « **on:** March 23, 2005, 11:44:28 am »

Months ago I walked into EB and saw this little LCD for gamecube. It was 40 bucks so i said what the hell, and it is one of the worst LCD's ive ever seen. After opening it up I see the Model: Sharp LM6Q401. On the back panel I see 6 wires, RGB, CSync, 12v and GND. Im pretty sure the reason the picture was always so bad was for a couple reasons. One, upon inspection of the connection to the NGC, it uses composite video with a cheap converter on the PCB! YECK!

Anywho tommorow sometime I am going to mount this baby to my side panel, do you guys think I should leave the it all intact or use just the screen? It had a pretty good little SRS speaker system. Will upload pics of the video card \ lcd hackery.

Lawrence · « **Reply #1 on:** March 23, 2005, 12:02:49 pm »

With a $40 LCD you're gonna get a shitty picture no matter what source you feed it. Terrible contrast, blacks that are never better than grey, is the worst problem.

Lesmot · « **Reply #2 on:** March 23, 2005, 07:25:59 pm »

Atom, I would use just the screen, or make some sort of custom surround for it. I've been looking for a cheap LCD to tink around with, one that I can totally destroy and not feel too bad. I'll have to frequent my local EB more often. Or, maybe the addictive eBay. Maybe not.

atom · « **Reply #3 on:** March 25, 2005, 02:59:40 pm »

Haven't quite got around to it yet, should do it saturday though!