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Yeah... I think I commented on this a while back to one of the staff members. I usually go out of my way to underline any links just to make it stand out a bit more. I completely agree that hyperlinked text definitely needs to be more clear since not everyone thinks to do this.

INCOMING TRANSMISSION: COMPONENT PROCUREMENT & FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT TO: Operational Lead FROM: Department of Unhinged Thermals & Defiant Engineering SUBJECT: RE: Project "Tough-Box-Of-Everything" — Approved with Caveats Chief, this isn't a commission; this is a declaration of war on the...

Really beautiful project! I remember seeing this on and off in the Discord, but I never got a good look at it. Always appreciate when people are able to open source like this! Great stuff man!

Such a sexy project dude! Can't wait to see people make use of this! It was an honor to be able to contribute even if only a little.

Any model of any console motherboard can be trimmed, but the community chooses to target specific motherboards since they are often the most optimal for portablizing. Sometimes this is because is because they draw less power, other times this is because they're much easier to trim down to a...

Due to unforeseen circumstances my 3D printing service will be closed for a very long while.

I'm afraid you're not going to be able to fix this motherboard. The RAM traces here are very sensitive, and any bodge wires would have to go under the chip on a bus where trace length and thickness is very sensitive due to tolerances and other variables. I don't think this is very recoverable...

Update time! I've been continuing to iterate through the front and back revisions of this on and off in an effort to line up the screw posts and other various things. Somewhere along the way @Bubberiffic @Shank and @buzzyc inspired me to replace the screw posts with brass inserts: I haven't...

The jumper pak resistors and capacitors are used for terminating the RAM bus. This is true for both the expansion pak and the jumper pak (they both use an identical method to terminate the RAM bus) with the difference between the two of them being that the expansion pak also has an extra 4 MB...

What were you looking to use as a replacement method for the expansion port? If you were looking to do an Akira method, or use an Akira flex (both methods of manually relocating the resistor paks contained on the jumper pak), removal of all these pins was going to be needed regardless. I...

Thanks a lot for the kind words! I'm a huge fan of the GameCube vibe too, and I would also be on the fence about the color for the bezel and joystick nubs. The shell was a joy to put together, and I'm glad you're happy with the shell! Best of luck to you with this build, and as always, if...

This definitely falls into the niche category of features, but it sounds like a really awesome one to implement! Also, I don't think we've got enough portables with clam-shell designs, so this sounds really cool and unique! Having a track pad for the C stick will work well with trying to keep...

The unreliable booting could have been wire length, but it may have also been the U10 wire depending on how your U10 relocation looks. Looking at your board, it doesn't look like you did U10 relocation, so I'm guessing you used the U10 pad on the PMS2. I won't say that's an invalid solution by...

I've always really loved the "Wii" vibe that this build goes for. Most Wii portables go for a GameCube vibe, but this one leans all the way into the Wii aesthetic, and I love it! How do the tact switches feel with the ABYX buttons? I know that the G-Wii's A button suffers a bit from the...

Holy smokes dude! This is shaping up to be the cleanest G-Wii build I've ever seen! Loving the usage of brass inserts! Those are a very underrated touch to a build like this. I've seen people attempt custom PCBs on a G-Wii before, but I've not seen one this clean. Absolutely beautiful work!