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Looks great man! So you were able to use switch sticks directly on an original ps2 controller ic? You didn't need a microcontroller or anything?

Wow, got to give you credit for that DAC relocation. Only 1 or 2 others have done it I believe. This looks really promising!

Holy cow, this is really coming together Nold!

This is actually pretty genius…B| I love it! Brings back many memories.

Wow, what a difference. Very clean B|

Nice! looks very clean. I thought about doing this as well but after finding how hot the DAC gets, I was thinking of going the Gman route of just replacing the Sony DAC altogether with the THS8135 from TI and see if I get better results power efficiency and heat wise. Looking forward to this...

Was messing around last night with reballing and such. I recommend 0.5mm solder balls for the reball of the GPU even though stencils have them labeled as 0.6mm. Also, a heat pad or hot plate I strongly recommend as well. I have a fancy one at work, but a cheap one at home that I paid $10 for or...

Hmm, I believe @Aurelio mentioned he has plans to open source the Direct Drive at some point actually. I could be wrong. I ordered another Wii mini today for further research, and hopefully it is a Hollywood-2... The goal is to use the Hollywood-2 in the end if possible, just to get that little...

Thank you. VGA does look nice, but compared to the gcvideo HDMI, it looks a lot softer. The black bars are a bit annoying with HDMI, but it's not too bad. Plus, you can scale the image via software in Nintendont and remove the black bars. Unfortunately there's no solution with Wii games though...

There's a lot going on here and maybe could be cleaned up a bit, but finally finished the schematic for the essential system to run. Still have to rename a couple caps and add some test pads, but it's basically done. This schematic so far has the Wii system and gcvideo using the XC3S200A...

Looks really comfortable, and the custom pcbs look great!

Here is the Vita OLED screen with a driver board that accepts 720P or higher resolution via HDMI. Would work great with a raspberry pi. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256802883535807.html

I received the Wii Mini with the Hollywood-2 GPU. The seller informed me he bought it at a thrift store, found it had no video, took it apart and couldn't figure it out so sold just the motherboard which I snagged for $15. Turns out, he just didn't have the bluetooth plugged in lol...

Your only next option is to create your own custom pcb, and it will be pretty challenging if you are not familiar with pcb design.

No. But the one I linked has HDMI though...

No, the 3.5" screen has 54 pins, the Adafruit board is only for LCD panels with 40 pins.

I was trying to figure out how to insert an image of the Wii motherboard to trace over in kicad, but found there is no such feature. However, @YveltalGriffin had a genius idea as usual and recommended a little program called "Peek Through" where I can make whatever program I have open...

Small update: The project is starting to take shape. Doesn't look like much but I've put in about 10 more hours since the last post just mapping out the pins and figuring out how I want to create the schematics. I made different boxes per BGA package of the CPU/GPU/RAM in the schematic for...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2255800331368404.html

Looking good so far. This brings back memories as I did the same thing a while back. Was my first somewhat complicated circuit as well. It can definitely be made much smaller than the original board and makes for a cleaner build.