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after some time of getting pissed off, to turn the sound off at night while playing or watching movies, i decided that there must be an way to plug a headphone jack into the ps2, since my TV dosent Have one already installed i thought i might take this interesting project to the ps2, after making some research on the pinout of a scart cable and Ps2 pinout, finally i have a working sample that i have tested it and works perfect, "24/7 gaming forever without any disturbance"
i have atached pistures of the install and how to cary the install, step by step.
pic1: shows the headphone jack that i have purchased for install.
pic2: shows the wire install directly on the AV output on the PS2 motherboard.
pic3: shows the pin layout of the pic2 so that the wires can be soldered and carryed to the headphone jacks correct position.
pic4: shows the location of the jack and final installation of the headphone.
what can i say i switched it on, plugged the headphones and heard the calming ocean brezzeeeeeeeeeee, its as simple as that, next step is actually trying to send the signal to the PS2 controller so that you can plug the jack there, instead on your console, but in my case iam using wireless headphones which work perfectly and dosent bother me, but if i can achie it and hook it up on the controller then i will post my updates here on this thread.
again comments of any nature are welcomed or sugestions.
Well done mate, atleast we know it can be done now. i wonder if adding some sort of small amp would improve the sound, but hey if it works then thats all that matters.
lol thats what im planning to do with my old 20watt bass amp dude just go to a music shop and get a battery powered mini amp for about £25-£30 and a cable for about £5 im sure you could hook the power up to the ps2 make sure you install a 1/4 inch jack though
hi i gave uploaded a movie file atached below showing the PS2 audio out connection installed earlier, connected to a 5.1 amp base unit, the results are brilliant, caution the file is about 1.2MB so if you have a slow internet connection stay clear of this, i have re-encoded the file into wma and this is the smallest good quality output i could get out of it.
this is kinda useless as you just need a simple RCA to jack adapter to use 5.1 system (like I always do with my comp system) .... anyway your ps2 look nice.......and it give me an idea.... like adding a svideo jack on the back of my ps2 as I only got the normal composite output cable and I dont want to buy another one (like $10 for a cable....) ....
which.. btw is odd... The volume.... the linout should not be very powerful... but I have noticed when recording my music... that the output of the system is much higher than a sandard lineout... I too have used headphones on my system...
I still would prefer a volume... possibly even a simple bass boost too... a small circuit could handle this.... I think that would be the best way to go...
Andreq, PS2 wont support S-video, the picture would be kinda blurry
And getting 3,5mm plug on controller would be possible most easiest way, is to sacrifise the rumble-motor, and put audio throught that wire. It would be mono though.
EDIT: I was wrong about S-Video, yes, there's even a pin for it
Andreq, PS2 wont support S-video, the picture would be kinda blurry
And getting 3,5mm plug on controller would be possible most easiest way, is to sacrifise the rumble-motor, and put audio throught that wire. It would be mono though.
Do you really think those guys are still interested in the topic, after over 39 months...?
My ps2 'supports' s video. It looks sharper than my composite connection.
S-Video is almost the same thing as Composite video. The only difference is that there is a separate lead for the combined V-Sync and H-Sync signals. But the colour information is still as muddy as for broadcast TV due to the use of a chroma modulated subcarrier, mixed in with the luminance signal in a single lead. This messes up both the colour purity and the luminance clarity, as compared to a proper RGB or component cable.
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