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Most portable Wiis nowadays use the GC+2.0 from 4layertech. This board was designed to be compatible with many different joystick solutions and has software that allows you to map joystick values to it making it compatible with nearly any joystick. Joysticks are potentiometers that output...

I missed this when it was initially posted, I love what you did with the batteries extending downwards to give you more of a grip on the unit. I also love the IR LEDs for bluetooth and the HDMI out since that's such an underrated feature! Reminds me that I still need to add IR LEDs into my...

Did you enable the VGA patches when installing RVLoader? I seem to remember those disabling component video.

The NAND looks fine. Be careful when sanding not to sand too far inward and remove this cap: If it does get removed, your console can still function, but it is best to leave it on.

An untrimmed N64 motherboard (measuring only the board itself and not any components that hang off it) is: 127mm x 158mm. The board itself is about 1.5mm in thickness. Each advanced N64 trim is going to vary a bit in size, but the one I have on my desk is 114.6mm x 102.1mm.

This board should still function. The main areas of concern when trimming are on the back edge where your NAND is (which isn't visible in either of your pictures) and this area near the bottom of the board: The red line runs along the NAND traces you need to avoid going through and the blue...

Yeah, I was talking to frost last night about this. I think the board is fine and the cap probably is too, but I did tell him that if the board doesn't work, replacing the cap could be a good starting point for troubleshooting. I also informed him of Nold's Wii trim resistances guide and...

I downloaded Riivolution and looked through the readme.txt to find this: I think we have our answer with this alone. I've never messed with this software before, so I didn't realize it relied on original discs. Every portable that I've seen forgoes the disc drive for the sake of battery...

I've not tested this software myself, but I've found that most homebrew that works on a stock Wii also works on Wii portables. RVLoader has a homebrew tab that allows you to access all the homebrew apps you could from the homebrew channel. I know that CTGP isn't supported since it requires an...

You need a PICkit3 and the MPLab software. Authentic PICkit3s are over-priced, so the community recommends getting a Chinese knockoff since that works just fine for our purposes. I'm not sure this is the best price, but you can find one here...

How big is that screen? If that's the size of a Switch Lite, I'm pretty sure that's not a screen we've seen used in the community before. Also, those dual tact triggers have an interesting design, how have those been working out for you? Again, really neat project overall!

Yeah, that can work. Remember though that the expansion RAM does draw more power than the console's stock RAM (this will reduce your battery life by a bit). It's also only needed for like three games and a few niche homebrew apps, so you may opt to skip it if you can justify not being able to...

Yeah, motherboards are going to be the more expensive option of the two. I've been able to get two expansion paks for around $40 USD a piece. The expansion paks should be the cheaper option of the two. Just make sure you get OEM Nintendo expansion paks and not third party expansion paks as...

The only real answer for this right now is to take apart two expansion paks, use their RAM and swap out the original console's RAM, or to take apart two newer revision N64s that only have one RAM chip and swap that in place of the expansion pak RAM. There has been talk in the community of...

I have updated this guide to include soldering both the H-Sync and V-Sync wires for VGA.

Not sure how this portable slid under my radar the first time. This thing is awesome! I always thought a portable Wii in a Switch type shell down to the thickness and everything would be really cool! Awesome build dude!

I seem to remember there being a function in either RVLoader or Nintendont that allows you to bind GameCube controller controls to a Wii Remote and Nunchuck. It is effectively the inverse of GC2Wiimote. I don't remember where exactly I found it, but I thought it was worth mentioning here in...

This doesn't seem like it's all that complicated of an object to 3D model. I don't have one of these otherwise I'd offer to make a model of it for you.

I don't think you'll need to worry about that nunchuk PCB going anywhere, but I would recommend trying double sided tape sometime. You can get it strong enough to where something like this won't come loose too easily, but you can still get it off if you really want to (I.E. use a bit of IPA)...

It's been quite some time since I've worked on this. I kind of lost motivation to work on this project while I was waiting for the board scans from either @CrazyGadget or @YveltalGriffin , not trying to throw shade or anything, just kind of how things played out. Anyway, I recently got the...