Hello. I'm just someone that was looking to make a portable Wii. I have and intend to continue to look through guides and worklogs in order to gain a better understanding. Though there is an extensive amount of resources available, it definitely takes some looking into.
It's a complicated engineering centered hobby where new techniques are being created every other week, extensive research is to be expected.
For example, information on rewiring motherboard components after trimming is especially scarce. The Wii trimming guide offers some advice, but there is still a lot left for interpretation.
Que? It's pretty well spelled out, we got pictures with marked traces and everything. There are also a billion worklogs you can look through to see how other people wired things to give you ideas.
Usually when a question about how to wire certain parts is asked, higher members of the forums just bark at people telling them to look at worklogs. What worklogs, exactly? Who cares, I guess.
The worklogs you can find in the respective section for that console? You can click the little blue "Worklog" badge next to the thread name in the list and it'll filter out all other threads so you can just read through the various worklogs. We get the same questions asked so wearily often that we sometimes get tired of runing through the same spiel. We aren't a call centre, we aren't being paid to read a script day in day out, we want to help, but we also aren't going to hold your hand. We have our own shit to do, our own projects to make, lives to live, we do this out of our free time. So yes, we expect you to do your own research, spend a few
DAYS reading through all the relevent information (like we all did once upon a time), make a list of questions you can't find answers to, post them in a thread, and go from there.
I'm all for doing research and committing fully to something, but I do think that this community is generally overhyped as a loving, welcoming group of enthusiasts.
Then do the research and apply some common sense. We try to be as welcoming as we can, but sometimes it gets trying answering the same basic questions for the same kind of basic people who have trouble knowing which end of the soldering iron to hold, and often don't even listen to our answers when we're trying to help them. We generally follow the philosophy of "help those who help themselves". Put the effort in to doing it yourself, then when that fails ask for help and we will do our best.
Additionally, there is no reason why a start to finish guide on how to portablize a console has not been made, especially when higher-ups makes it seem so easy and assumes that everyone has the knowledge that they have.
Yes there is a reason. Time, money, constant advancement, quality control, reliability. That's 5 reasons, but you get the point. Techniques change constantly, so if we made an official full guide it would need changing constantly. Which would mean re-shooting, editing, paying for voiceover lines, probably buying new parts to do the video with, etc. So fuck off with your "no reason", we have in fact: reasons. Also, we never try to make it "seem easy". We
CONSTANTLY tell people how difficult their plans are and try to steer new users toward the simplest techniques. This hobby isn't easy and we've never advertised it as such. Just look at the summer contest. Look at all the seasoned builders who entered, and look at how many have/are actually going to finish in time. We had several months and most will probably not finish, at least not to the full extent of what they planned for their entry. And we kinda can assume some level of knowledge, because it's
ALL HERE. In worklogs and question threads galore. We do expect people to have a basic understanding of things like soldering and relocation because we have many guides with paintakingly contructed custom imagery, and links to many educational videos about soldering, what components do, how to move them, what equipment you need for certain jobs, where you can buy said parts and equipment, etc. Even if we didn't, we live in the Google age, all this and more can be discovered by asking Google if we come up empty or seemingly unhelpful.
I don't mean to be mean, but come on dude. We're a welcoming community for sure, and we want to be helpful, but we expect an amount of automomy. if hand holding is expected, you're in the wrong crowd. The passive aggressive accusations don't help either, and I'd be remiss of my position as the resident Australian if I failed to call you a cunt for having THAT as your opening post, ya cunt. Do your research, make a list of questions, make a thread, ask them there, you'll be surprised. K? K.
