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Was interested in getting a shot of the silicon underneath the heat spreaders, and potentially improving thermals, so I took a razor blade, an old credit card, and a huge leap of faith, and was able to pop both of them off and get a nice gander at the silicon. Admitted there is a bit of scratching on the substrates that could have posed a risk to the thing even functioning at all, but I did a test afterwords and everything works just fine. And in the words of my mother, “ye pays ya money and ye takes ya chances.”
Should anything go wrong with the trimming and build of this portable Wii, I have a backup that I can use. Granted it is the power hungry revision 01, but better than nothing I guess.
Look at that tiny PowerPC G3 core, I’m genuinely surprised something that tiny can give so much power to the Wii, but I guess that’s the glory of RISC computing. And now the architecture is open-source so anyone can probably reverse-engineer the Wii CPU and put it on an FPGA.
I’m guessing that little thing above the GPU die is an EPROM of some kind.
And now I have a couple of badges of honour.
Should anything go wrong with the trimming and build of this portable Wii, I have a backup that I can use. Granted it is the power hungry revision 01, but better than nothing I guess.
Look at that tiny PowerPC G3 core, I’m genuinely surprised something that tiny can give so much power to the Wii, but I guess that’s the glory of RISC computing. And now the architecture is open-source so anyone can probably reverse-engineer the Wii CPU and put it on an FPGA.
I’m guessing that little thing above the GPU die is an EPROM of some kind.
And now I have a couple of badges of honour.