The Philips CD-i is a console with many shortcomings, and those include the power supply. For whatever reason, the engineering team decided it should use an 8P8C connector just like …. Running a Philips CD-i Off USB-C.
Thus, just like your Ethernet cables, it has that annoying problem of the tab snapping off all the time. [MattKC] wondered if the CD-i could benefit from a USB power upgrade instead, and set about making it a reality. The plan was simple enough—get the CD-i running off of USB-C instead of the ungainly original power supply that shipped with the unit.
Given the console runs almost exclusively off of 5 V power, it should have been pretty easy. Only, the original spec adds one little detail that makes things a bit harder. The console aims to draw up to 3 A from the 5 V line, while also having a -5 V line at 0.2 A.
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