Hi guys!
About 5 or 6 years ago a video by the name of “Kill Mii: Portable Wii in an Altoids Tin” came across my youtube feed. It was so fascinating to me that people were able to cram a fully working Wii and everything else necessary to play it inside such a small form factor. 4 years later I built my first Wii portable, a G-Wii. But as with most people in this community, I’m not one to really play on a portable console at all. So, I’ve always stayed fascinated by the idea of throwing out all ergonomics and just making something that technically works, which is the precise definition of the Kill Mii by shank. So with this worklog, I plan to make my own Kill Mii and call it the…
REVIVE MII
It’s called the revive Mii because shank called it the kill Mii because he hated making it, but the small amount of work that i have done so far has been really fun. So I figured I’d call it the opposite of the kill Mii.
My goals:
Stretch goals:
What I have so far:
I have an early revision of the circuit board that I will be using to wire the gc+ 2 to the gold contacts for the 3ds buttons (see images). I plan to also add the rvl amp to this board, but I’m not sure if I’ll have space.
I have a general idea of all the internals that I will be using. All the images below will be of the stuff I've scouted so far. This will be far from a feature rich design, mainly because of my inexperience with components and such.
I plan to use 2 small high c batteries totalling to about 2200mah and an off the shelf battery charging circuit with a built in usb c port. Since im using the shelf usb c charger, it will be impossible to use the usb c port for data transfer aswell, but that’s ok because I plan to make the micro sc card slot accessible as soon as you hinge open the tin.
For cooling I’m going to be using a 30x30x7mm heatsink and fan that exhaust out the top. Which is also where the triggers will be. The triggers are probably going to be one of the trickier parts of this build. In the kill me, the triggers are just face buttons. Which makes it near impossible to do any real gaming on it. For the revive mii, I want it to be actually possible to do anything you could on a full portable, so the triggers must be accessible by the index fingers. I thought about putting them on the back of the console, but there just isnt room. So they’ll have to go on the top. I’m not a million percent sure where they are going to fit, but they are a must for me, so I will make room somehow. I have some plans to make them dual tact using a bar on a hinge, but I cant confirm it will work, so it's in the stretch goals.
Unfortunately the screen will be the same crappy composite screen that shank used because i guess making a better 2 inch hobby screen just isnt in the cards for any factories in China.
And finally, the Wii itself will be an omega trim. If you’ve watched the original kill mii video, you probably noticed that shank used a LMAO trim (before it was even called a LMAO trim) and although shank expressed concerns about space when i told him I’d be using an omega, i do believe it will fit and be better overall as it will give me more space on the bottom of the tin for the charging and data circuitry.
Anyways, wish me luck!
About 5 or 6 years ago a video by the name of “Kill Mii: Portable Wii in an Altoids Tin” came across my youtube feed. It was so fascinating to me that people were able to cram a fully working Wii and everything else necessary to play it inside such a small form factor. 4 years later I built my first Wii portable, a G-Wii. But as with most people in this community, I’m not one to really play on a portable console at all. So, I’ve always stayed fascinated by the idea of throwing out all ergonomics and just making something that technically works, which is the precise definition of the Kill Mii by shank. So with this worklog, I plan to make my own Kill Mii and call it the…
REVIVE MII
It’s called the revive Mii because shank called it the kill Mii because he hated making it, but the small amount of work that i have done so far has been really fun. So I figured I’d call it the opposite of the kill Mii.
My goals:
- Make a fully self contained wii portable inside an altoids tin
- Have the lid fully close and remain on the hinge unlike shank’s design (thus making it slightly smaller)
- Have proper triggers on the top of the console, no face buttons for triggers
- Have proper face buttons using 3ds button pads
- Have at least double the battery life of shank’s Kill Mii (so at least 20 minutes)
- With longer battery life, adequate cooling for longer play time is also a must
- Undervolted wii for maximum battery and cooling performance
- Overall be cleaner with cuts than the Kill Mii by using a fibre laser or water jet
Stretch goals:
- The ability to plug in the console and play it for as long as you want without overheating
- An hour of battery life. This might be possible, key word: “might”
- Internal bluetooth and infrared lights for wiimotes like in Shank’s design
- Hollywood 2 gpu board for even better cooling. This is more of a budget constraint
- Power button, rather than a power switch.
- Headphone jack
- Dual tact triggers
- Temperature controlled fan. (30x30x7mm fans are loud, so I want it to only go full speed when its hot)
What I have so far:
I have an early revision of the circuit board that I will be using to wire the gc+ 2 to the gold contacts for the 3ds buttons (see images). I plan to also add the rvl amp to this board, but I’m not sure if I’ll have space.
I have a general idea of all the internals that I will be using. All the images below will be of the stuff I've scouted so far. This will be far from a feature rich design, mainly because of my inexperience with components and such.
I plan to use 2 small high c batteries totalling to about 2200mah and an off the shelf battery charging circuit with a built in usb c port. Since im using the shelf usb c charger, it will be impossible to use the usb c port for data transfer aswell, but that’s ok because I plan to make the micro sc card slot accessible as soon as you hinge open the tin.
For cooling I’m going to be using a 30x30x7mm heatsink and fan that exhaust out the top. Which is also where the triggers will be. The triggers are probably going to be one of the trickier parts of this build. In the kill me, the triggers are just face buttons. Which makes it near impossible to do any real gaming on it. For the revive mii, I want it to be actually possible to do anything you could on a full portable, so the triggers must be accessible by the index fingers. I thought about putting them on the back of the console, but there just isnt room. So they’ll have to go on the top. I’m not a million percent sure where they are going to fit, but they are a must for me, so I will make room somehow. I have some plans to make them dual tact using a bar on a hinge, but I cant confirm it will work, so it's in the stretch goals.
Unfortunately the screen will be the same crappy composite screen that shank used because i guess making a better 2 inch hobby screen just isnt in the cards for any factories in China.
And finally, the Wii itself will be an omega trim. If you’ve watched the original kill mii video, you probably noticed that shank used a LMAO trim (before it was even called a LMAO trim) and although shank expressed concerns about space when i told him I’d be using an omega, i do believe it will fit and be better overall as it will give me more space on the bottom of the tin for the charging and data circuitry.
Anyways, wish me luck!
