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To be clear, there are much better soldering irons out there. My iron is decent though and hits the decent middle ground between price and performance. I can't promise that there aren't better irons out there for the same price as my iron, but you could do a lot worse than the Weller WE1010NA...

Well in the case of the Wii, micro soldering usually refers to soldering to vias. There are two other instances of micro soldering on the Wii though, there's two traces 0.1mm traces you have to solder to if you decide to add bluetooth support (for Wii remotes), and there's the H & V sync lines...

For your first question, the Ashida is a good starting project for getting into building portables. For your third question, if you're new to soldering, I would at least get comfortable and reasonably adept at soldering since micro soldering is required in order to build a portable Wii...

Just looking at the original post here, I had no idea there was something like this in the community! This is such a cool find, and super interesting to look at! It's especially interesting looking at the boards and the layout of the PCBs, seeing the C-Stick/rumble daughter board, etc. Such a...

Yeah, I respect getting the resin shell, but these are just so brittle, I'd never have the guts to. I'm so sorry this happened to you, this is always such a painful sight to see...

Tbh I don't really see the point in this when the DS lite exists. Certainly not for a larger dpad, larger dpads are harder/more annoying to use and make my hands sore after not too long. Maybe that's just me though. I've always thought the GBA SP is the perfect size and form factor. Although...

This is all very cool! Would be neat to see a custom PCB for a project like this! We don't see franken-casing like this much at all now days since 3d printing became the meta. Seeing the process of this was really cool though! Awesome project dude!

Ah alright. Did you take voltage readings across all the voltage rails? Do you have any idea when it stopped working or why?

Did you disconnect the batteries from the PMS before doing any soldering? If you haven't been, then you need to! It's incredibly easy to accidentally short something while you're soldering, routing wire, or doing any real work on these kinds of projects. Shorting something with the batteries...

I did a search on YouTube and I can't believe how wild this is. I remember seeing this mod like 5 to 7 years ago and laughing my ass off at it because I thought it was just a high effort shitpost that was attempting to make fun of the N64 controller. I didn't realize that this has actual...

I guess this wouldn't be a bad place or time to mention the N64 compendium I made. It's likely the biggest contribution I've made for the community now.

What in the world?! How does that work!? Did you make a thread for this somewhere?! And thanks! Your build has an amazing quality to it too!

With all due respect, that's not really the point of this project. I made this because I thought it'd be cool to play N64 games on the Wii Virtual console with an original N64 controller. An analog joystick hampers the experience of playing most N64 games (since it uses C buttons rather than a...

Your wires are stripped waaaaay too far down. The B+ and B- wires being stripped as far down as they are is giving me anxiety, if the conductive sides of those touch at all, it could completely destroy everything connected to that PMS. This applies to all of your excessively stripped wires...

Nice work! Glad I was able to help! Good luck with the rest of your project!

It sounds like you might have too much solder on your iron. It also sounds like you might not have enough flux on the board. What brand of flux are you using? Also, what temperature are you soldering at? Your iron's temp also plays an important role depending on what technique you're using...

This really is beautiful! We don't see too many PS2s these days. Loving the Switch style, it gives me Louii vibes! Can't wait to see this thing complete, it looks like you've got most of it figured out already. Crazy cool stuff dude!

It's been a bit since I've posted an update, so I'll give a brief update of my progress here: I've gotten started on replacing my tags with wires here, and while I haven't gotten a ton done yet, I have at least finished making up all the symbols: I plan on splitting this up into multiple...

When you've got something like this it can be beneficial to flux the surface of the board as well as the solder braid before heating it. You may need to put a bit of pressure on it to ensure it makes proper contact with the via. Even then it can be difficult to get the solder out depending on...

I would imagine it's probably pretty similar to the main circle pad in terms of values, but this is more of a question for @Kamp . I remember him saying there's a utility in the system settings for configuring the circle pad, and I was able to find it a moment ago on my own 2ds XL, but I didn't...