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Heya peeps,
Starting a worklog to get some help with my first serious attempt at a Wii portable. I have a pretty solid idea of what I want to do; nothing fancy, just a simple portable to play some classic GameCube titles on, so no Wii functionality.
Here's what I plan to incorporate:
I have the shell of a case made up, which turned out pretty well for just getting into vacuum-forming. It's about 7.5"x 4.875" at the widest points, and is currently 2.125" tall w/screen bezel, but I plan on cutting it down a little more and get it to anything between 1.5-1.75"
I was having an issue with the Wii I'm trying to use for this build. I was getting help in the PM sub-forum and finally got around to breaking it down to be able to solder on an old Gamecube controller board to plug a gamecube controller into in order to install the MMM file. I did all of that ( thanks for the help on that one @cheese) and got PM up and running. I haven't relocated anything or trimmed anything at this point.
My issue came up when I shut the system down, Took the USB out and put Pikmin 1 and Battalion Wars into the games folder, following the guide on how to setup Gamecube games. I put the USB back into the system, PM loaded up, I scrolled up to select 'Gamecube' from the drop-down menu to check if they would show up and my screen went black. Nothing was happening. I had to pull the power plug to turn it off. Restarted it. Black Screen.
So far, I have tried to:
Idk what's wrong it. USB is formatted FAT32 with 32kb clusters. It's only after I put a game on the USB and start the system up again.
Any suggestions/things I can try?
Starting a worklog to get some help with my first serious attempt at a Wii portable. I have a pretty solid idea of what I want to do; nothing fancy, just a simple portable to play some classic GameCube titles on, so no Wii functionality.
Here's what I plan to incorporate:
- Custom Vacuum-formed case
- 3.5" screen (from the BOM list)
- 7.4v 7800mAh (4-18650 cells also from BOM list)
- Modified GC heatsink w/30x30x10mm case fan
- GC+ controls
- 3DSliders and DS buttons
- Dual-Tact (obviously)
- Pam 8803 audio amp with button controls (from the BOM list)
- 32GB Samsung Fit 3.0 USB (Formatted FAT32 w/32kb Clusters)
I have the shell of a case made up, which turned out pretty well for just getting into vacuum-forming. It's about 7.5"x 4.875" at the widest points, and is currently 2.125" tall w/screen bezel, but I plan on cutting it down a little more and get it to anything between 1.5-1.75"

I was having an issue with the Wii I'm trying to use for this build. I was getting help in the PM sub-forum and finally got around to breaking it down to be able to solder on an old Gamecube controller board to plug a gamecube controller into in order to install the MMM file. I did all of that ( thanks for the help on that one @cheese) and got PM up and running. I haven't relocated anything or trimmed anything at this point.
My issue came up when I shut the system down, Took the USB out and put Pikmin 1 and Battalion Wars into the games folder, following the guide on how to setup Gamecube games. I put the USB back into the system, PM loaded up, I scrolled up to select 'Gamecube' from the drop-down menu to check if they would show up and my screen went black. Nothing was happening. I had to pull the power plug to turn it off. Restarted it. Black Screen.
So far, I have tried to:
- remove the two games and put the drive back in; Black Screen.
- Removed the USB drive, restarted, eventually a screen came up giving me an option to load the Wii menu.
- Reformat the USB drive and copy the 'Copy_to_USB' contents from the PM pack back to the USB drive with no games. Started it up. PM booted up, created the config file on USB, and I was on the Homebrew channel.
Idk what's wrong it. USB is formatted FAT32 with 32kb clusters. It's only after I put a game on the USB and start the system up again.
Any suggestions/things I can try?