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The court of old fucks has finished convening, and also venconing, and delivers the following verdict: The use of AI tools was not defined in the rules before the contest opened and does not fit neatly into a common interpretation of the existing rules, so in accordance with International...

No decision has been made yet. M was simply asked to replace the flat image with searchable plaintext that meets web accessibilty standards, and informed that talks were happening and that the verdict may affect aspects of his entry if generative ai was used in the course of the build. We...

Oh that's much less horrible. Needs a IPA wipe still

This brings back memories of when I tried to fit a Wii into a Leapster. Big ups for frankencasing!

It boots? This fucking thing boots?????????? ..................................I suppose if it works, it works................

This is lofty AF, but you have my interest

Assuming you have sufficient spending money to buy the parts, the required tools and consumables, and have some cash leftover to buy replacements (you will break something), yeah the Ashida is a decent choice. A couple of people have built them for school projects before and did well. You will...

Also worth mentioning that while we don't know Funnyplaying's success/failure rate, B_rob took his time to triple check everything and got a working transplant first try! The Wii does use high speed logic so you will have to finagle some trace impedance matching for best results, but if you're...

If you want to improve the viability of the BGA transplant, the last successful attempt at a mobo recreation dried the board at ~100c for 8 hours to get all the trapped moisture out of the dies before extraction and transplanting. Ideally you'd do both right after the drying before moisture can...

Also you can use a fibreglass pencil to smooth out the via after scraping. I find it helps them to hold tin better

Unfortunately no. You need a NAND backup of that specific console for it to work. If you flash a backup from another console it will be missing the correct hardware keys and fail to boot

Your trim lines and resistances look good

All good. We made that distinction last year and I forgot to put it in the FAQ

You'll need to make a new worklog in this section. We keep all comp worklogs in one place for tidyness and archival purposes.

We talked about this and have decided that recent research and basic testing done without doing any building does not constitute prior "work". There are a couple of such projects that we allowed this year, so you can enter your Touch Mii as well! I have also updated my above FAQ post to mention...

Very nice! (btw you don't have to have the contest paper in every photo. One paper per major update is enough)

You have my interest

For a moment I thought I had to deliver bad news, but then I remembered that Americans write dates incorrectly

This year I will finish my entry Also I will paste here a few answers to common questions from last year's build comp to hopefully speed things up: All work regarding your entry must have commenced no earlier than May 2026. This does not include the purchasing of parts or tools. You are free...

Here's hoping it remains such! Been a long journey to get here