Home Made Screen Magnifier!

[Tempus]

A while back, I was on eBay and bought one of those 150" screen projector things that actually turn out to be magnifying sheets. You could EASILY make a screen magnifier by measuring the screen size and building some sort of support to lift it off the screen.

You must hold the magnifying sheet at least 4" above the GP32's screen, otherwise you won't see much difference. These things are cheap and I am going to make one on Thursday, or at least make a start.

The sheets in question were about £3 on eBay.

 

[unlucky]

doesn't the device need like really high out put of light 2 make an effect

 

[Steve-O]

Im just gonna try mod a Game Gear Magnifier ...

 

[pfennig]

doesn't the device need like really high out put of light 2 make an effect

If you wanted to actually use the sheet to project the image onto a screen, then yes you would need a lot of light (or a very dark room). The idea in this case is just to mount a thin magnifying glass above the GP32 screen.

 

[Tempus]

That's right pfennig. Just gonna mount it on somethin during my day off

 

[smythe]

Im just gonna try mod a Game Gear Magnifier ...

ive just tried a official super wide gear on my gp32 and it virtually fits perfect

cheers smythe

check out pics here http://homepage.ntlworld.com/charles.smith23

 

[Tempus]

I'm sorry but that looks absolutely huge!!!

I'm going for something that has fold out legs, I think - making it compact and portable.

 

[Octavious]

holy shit! its huge!

~Octavious

 

[smythe]

got to piss myself looking at in now

something like the neo geo magnifier would be sleeker
the one i have folds out !!

 

[Octavious]

maybe we could use the gba ones, and take off the magnifying glass and replace it with FILL THIS PART IN
then we could all make them and they would have a light too!

~Octavious

 

[fh36]

jeese that gg thing is huge. i wil go to my local Game-X-Change and see if they got one of those. and show off my GP32 and see if that thing is really affective at all. looks like there was actually something good that came from the gg i like mine while i had it. mainly cus i could crank up the volume and everyone on the schoolbus could hear it. but that whole 30 min. battery life really started to suck

 

[Akuma no Houkon]

With that adapter its not really alltogether "portable" anymore, its so big, so why not just try and make a GP32 > TV adapater instead?

 

[fh36]

lol. it could be portable if you would make a ...... n/m that would suck having to carry that damn huge thing around. they have those new GBA SP magnifier/light that are flip out. they might work but the lens is too small so looks like someone will need to make one from scratch. or maybe they could just kit-bash or something and make one out of old stuff. and then they could post how they did it online so we could all enjoy it

 

[Octavious]

well, when i get my gp32 ( should be in a week or 2 ) I will try my gba light idea...

~Octavious

 

[Steve-O]

The Game Gear one Covers the whole screen so thats Good, But yup its big (But If you leave the Magnifier at home then its Portable hehe... )

It Makes quite a Big difference in my opinion, but to get it to stay on you would have to Mod it (Which I dont want to do Unless I get a 2nd one )

 

[Seraptin]

hi
what is a magnifier ???????????
could someone explain ?
In german when possible
there are enought or not

I understand English too but such things are better explained in the speech of your country :lol:

 

[Octavious]

it magnifies the screen...

~octavious

 

[kknd_cf]

Im just gonna try mod a Game Gear Magnifier ...

nice 1 steve-o game gear owns