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He's doing a wonderful job as a stand-in for the community who'd also be stopping you from using hot glue.

No, don't! You have so much to live for! Joking aside, I'm so glad you've found the time and are having fun with this build! I can't wait to see what comes next! These types of builds always hit different from 3d printed builds these days.

I'm just waiting for you to finish this in 3 days and then dig everyone's graves with it. Joking aside, I love these old GBA case portables! Looking forward to seeing this come together in the not so distant future. Loving the Ashida audio PCB you just cut in half too lol.

Time for another update! I got most of the schematic together, and I decided it was best to start putting the PCB together so I could use it as a checklist for the few remaining things left over on the schematic: It might not look like much has been done on the PCB end of things, but I...

Adapter and micro SD card compatibility with the Wii is a bit spotty. Glad it was a simple and easy fix!

It looks like you don't have a file system connected to the PD, but I'll assume that's just the picture. Your USB Data positive and negative wires need to be short and twisted tightly in order to work. Your wires look like they might be a bit long and also maybe a bit loosely twisted...

Interesting, I should open my Louii back up and see if doing this fixes it. I'll also send @Gman a message letting him know about this.

It's time for a mini update. The AVE section has mostly been mapped out now on the schematic: This schematic has been a lot less work than I was expecting. I know I've still got quite a bit to do, and I've been moving at a snail's pace because I haven't had the motivation, but this really...

The diagrams I've found online tell me that the line on the cart slot side is labeled as CSync or VID_CLK, so the line itself is probably a video clock line for syncing the timing of the video signal. If you want to know which line gets connected to it, on Rev 02-04 boards (and most likely rev...

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.