Wii taken apart

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:06 pm

wii saw PS3 but now they took apart a Wii.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/whatsnew/2 ... drcrd.html

sammy · Post by **sammy** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:11 pm

I never thought the cooling system would have been 'that' small. Too bad he didn't flip the main board, I would want to see the traces running on the back

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:58 pm

Holy frickin' small! If you could modchip it and have the games on a laptop hard drive, you could make a portable super small for its speed.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:07 pm

Looks pretty ugly inside compared to the PS3.

grahf · Post by **grahf** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:02 pm

Why do you say its ugly? Looks awesome to me. It looks to be a very efficient design, judging by the way everything is layed out. Looks quite durable as well, as is typical Nintendo fashion. Function over form.

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 10:09 pm

I see what VB means, I mean, they did a great job fitting all of that stuff in such a small package. But the PS3 seems to have had more engineering gone into it's design.

Post by **marshallh** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 10:35 pm

That disc drive looks pretty compact. Put that with the small mobo size, (assumed) low power draw, and you have a pretty good portable candidate - except it's hard to play with a Wiimote on a 5" screen

Might be a good (albeit expensive) gamecube portable.

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 10:36 pm

I've fallen in love with the simple elegance of the Wii's design, both internal and external.

Kyosho · Post by **Kyosho** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 10:55 pm

If I had the money to blow, I'd be in line right now. And, if I had even more money, I'd buy two. One to portablize. Yes, the Wiimote won't be functional, but it'd make an awesome gamecube/virtual console portable, one would think.

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:01 am

Kyosho wrote:If I had the money to blow, I'd be in line right now. And, if I had even more money, I'd buy two. One to portablize. Yes, the Wiimote won't be functional, but it'd make an awesome gamecube/virtual console portable, one would think.

I think you need the wii mote to pick GC or wii disks though.

Kyosho · Post by **Kyosho** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:03 am

gamemasterAS wrote:
Kyosho wrote:If I had the money to blow, I'd be in line right now. And, if I had even more money, I'd buy two. One to portablize. Yes, the Wiimote won't be functional, but it'd make an awesome gamecube/virtual console portable, one would think.
I think you need the wii mote to pick GC or wii disks though.

Really? Even if you have the classic controller plugged in/whatever?

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:42 am

So has anyone here taken their Wii apart?

Post by **Gamelver** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:48 am

No, but I can say that you can use the classic controller to navigate the menus.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 12:25 pm

Gamelver wrote:No, but I can say that you can use the classic controller to navigate the menus.

Are Gamecube controllers usable on Wii games, or just GC games?

Post by **Gamelver** » Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:08 pm

I'm not sure....I'll have to check...but first, more Zelda! or perhaps a nap...I may not have stayed overnight, but doesn't mean I didn't get a lot of sleep

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