mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓man i saw something online that i think is soooo cool but, they're not selling it, they're just going to sell kits to make it, and it's going to be extremely difficult to make
JakJakthis is a nintendo wii. this does not emulate a nintendo wii, this is the motherboard of a nintendo wii shaved down about as far as you can do it, removing some parts and repositioning others, until it's 60mm square
you use this adorable little dock for controllers, power, and video out
most wii miniturization projects don't have any way to connect gccs AFAIK so they're useless to me, but
they had a prototype up and running at a convention or something and it had overheating issues. which like, yeah, it would. of course
if all i want to do is play a gamecube game from 2001 i wonder if it'd be less of a problem. or i wonder if there'd be some way to modify the dock to provide some passive cooling at least. bigass heat sink on the back or something
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@monorail the gc nano is one that's almost as small and actually intended for regular use rather than as an art piece, it uses 3.5mm jacks for gamecube controllers
@monorail the creator (https://x.com/crazygadgetmods) sells them for, um, $1000
@leo oooh i thought i saw somewhere they were only making kits
that's cool
@monorail no the gc nano. idk it's possible he'll end up doing commissions for the kawaii
@monorail both the gc nano and kawaii are collaborations, the person who worked on both isnt the person doing commissions
@monorail i know theres plenty of people in the wii hardware modding community that do commissions, i'm sure if you are willing to spend as much as it would cost you could find someone to do it
@leo ohhh my bad, i missed the other reply entirely and i'm not at a computer so i didn't really want to look at mobile twitter haha
@monorail it was officially released today but it's still explicitly intended as artwork/electronic jewelry and not as something for playing games, and when you account for the adapters you need to actually use it it's no longer the smallest https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/kawaii.6973/
Kawaii
OPEN SOURCE ON GITHUB! Kawaii is a functional metal Nintendo Wii keychain created by @YveltalGriffin, @Wesk and @Ding. It's a technical tour de force that prioritizes aesthetics over practicality, and fully utilizes the OMEGA trim. Kawaii may be the zenith of Wii portablizing as an artform...
@monorail the short stack is still the smallest actually usable console and would fit your needs, if you can find someone to make one (which i'd guess is probably very roughly around the $1000 mark as i said), here's the size comparison pictures from its readme
@monorail they're not visible in that screenshot but while it doesn't have an actual gamecube controller connector it has adapter cables
@monorail this is a much easier mod that isn't nearly as small but is still significantly smaller than an unmodded wii, it's basically just a ~average wii portable build but with no screen and the original connectors (incl. gamecube ports) preserved https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/guide-release-noldendo-wii-miicro-v1-1.3750/
Model - [Guide / Release] Noldendo Wii Miicro - v1.1
Hi folks, today i'm happy to finally present to you my Wii Micro aka "Miicro" Project! About this project The goal of this project was to use as less additional components as possible and make most of them 3d printable. Also it recycles a lot of the Wii's mainboard and used the stock...
Paul Henderchristmas@monorail wii motherboard trimming is so unhinged
Julie Sqveakaroo@monorail Where does the disc go?
@JulieSqveakaroo i genuinely forgot wiis have disc slots until i saw this reply
certainly there's an SD card slot on here, which does the same thing
Kranston@monorail i wonder why the wii specifically has so many people physically shaving the motherboard down like this. like surely you could do this with other consoles? maybe its just some weird way the wii is laid out on the board
@sudo_EatPant i have to imagine it's "facts about the pcb layout that i wouldn't know", combined with "easily software-moddable, huuuuge library (emulates everything up to the n64 and plays gc and wii natively), and sold like hotcakes so there are roughly infinity of them out there for experimentation"
@sudo_EatPant (also as i've just been reminded from another reply, "cheap as hell if you buy broken ones, and the thing that's broken is almost always the disc drive")