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Are you using a high quality flux? You can have the highest quality solder and still get poor solder joints without using decent flux. Anything by Kester is fantastic when it comes to solder and flux.

Hey everybody! My boards from 4 layers came in the mail and I'm starting on building my second ashida. This time with HDMI out and micro USB to connect to a 4 port controller dongle. I've already got the wiring worked out on my bench top set up. Now just to compartmentalize it all into the...

Welcome to the club of destroyed Wiis! I've destroyed 2 myself. I buy Wiis that are "broken and for parts only" with broken disc drives or broken power buttons and got them for 15-20$ a piece with free shipping on eBay.

Definitely let it sit for quite a while to cool off. The GPU should thermal shut off at 80C by design. Though it's not something that should be relied on.

That's why ASA filament would be a good choice too. A bit spendier, and same difficulty to print as ABS, but a lot better UV resistance properties.

Truly fantastic and whacky idea. Thank you for the updates. It makes logging in to check out notifications a lot more fun!

EDIT: can you post a pic of the wires soldered to the Wii as well? I'm leaning towards it possibly being your wire pairs going to CM1/CM2 on the Wii board. I'd recommend tightening the twisting on those wires a bit more. It's very crucial that the twisted pairs be as tight as possible to...

So it doesn't show the error until you remove the drive. That seems like it's at least communicating with the drive. It's possible that the drive became corrupted when you booted it with the wires not correctly wired. This is an easy fix though. Try reformatting the drive in FAT32 with 32K...

Those are two different USB channels. You'll want to use 2 and 3 only for the USB

Should be fine having 3 of the 4 posts screwed down. It will still have good pressure against the heat syncs.

Perhaps maybe... *Ahem*.... Green? ;)

It may have been a comedy of errors but the fact that you pulled off this level of board manufacturing to create this device leaves me speechless.

Fantastic. Glad to hear it.

Did you test the same gamecube games and vc content before and after trimming? There are also some GameCube/Wii games/VC games that RVLoader simply doesn't like and won't work properly. If they're more of a niche game, then it's likely incompatible until it's patched. For example bomberman...

Awesome, glad your audio is working now! What thumb drive are you using? This could be a symptom of usb incompatibility with RVLoader. I had to get 2 or 3 different drives until I found one that worked flawlessly with my Ashida. You can get more information from the RVLoader FAQ page.

Yeah I had to do that when I built my ashida. My enclosure was not 100% accurate dimensionally so the speakers would crackle if I squeezed the enclosure in any way. So I soldered wires between the pads on the board and the prongs on the speakers. Easy fix

I'm not super familiar with the louii. Are those speakers pressure fit? As in when they make contact with the board they make their connection? Also, wasn't your portable purple earlier?

That's good to know. My next portable will be all 22awg wire then! Thanks Stitches.

I wouldn't use anything thinner than 22awg for GND with a minimum of 2 GNDs on the Wii motherboard. All other power 1.0v 1.15v, 3.3v and 5v can all be 26awg. Then for all data connections you can use up to 34awg magnet wire. For more details. Check out this wonderful guide to Wii trims put...

Good, clean audio through the headphones means the connection from MC to audio board is likely good. Might want to re-do the solder joints for the L/R +/- on amplifier, and speakers next to rule out a cold solder joint causing high resistance.