It's looking pretty bad. Basically about a week ago I had it all working, audio everything, then I went to close up the system, and while managing cables and checking it still worked every minute or so, it stopped working. I started getting a purpleish screen and the wii wasnt booting. I had no idea what it was, and I began searching a lot of different things. I found a short from ground to 3.3v and fixed it nearly 3 times before finally getting rid of it. I got it to boot again to the main screen once, then it stopped working again. I found more issues that I had to fix, like a resistor that was bridged and I accidentally pulled off, but fixed (this turned out to be the 3.3v to gnd short). I stopped getting the screen to turn on, and throughout this all the fan would only turn on once in a blue moon when I turned on the system. I can't really explain everything that was strange, but I spent hours and hours on it and was getting nowhere. At one point I accidentally left in one of the batteries, and when soldering to the wii, I got a spark, and while I don't know if that messed up anything, it could have. I finally today, got everything wired up again, no sign of shorts or anything being messed up, and it still wouldn't work. I am at my wits end with this project, and after it working perfectly fine and then failing for no apparent reason, it is a real blow to morale. I think its ruined, and all this failure combined with me getting a new switch which can play Mario sunshine and Galaxy 1, which are the main games I wanted to play, basically just make it so I dont think I can handle this project anymore. Thanks for the help