my wiitendo, no portable, but still awesome

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tfrew
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my wiitendo, no portable, but still awesome

Post by tfrew »

Hi, this is my first hardware mod i've ever attempted before.
I had a dead nes laying around and wanted to fit the wii into the nes case. (i've seen one other put in an nes, but it was sticking out the back a couple inches.)

this is some of what I have working so far:
Image - this is a gamestop/madcatz wireless gamecube controll reciever, i am using two of them
Image - bottom case of my nes
Image - thankfully the controller reciever plug is seperated with wires, that makes them fit easily later down
Image - working on stripping down the wii motherboard covers
Image - d2b dvd drive with some "extras"
Image - preliminary layout in the bottom case, things are looking good here
Image - power up check with the drive turned sideways, working!
Image - gamecube controller receivers fit in here fine.
Image - an hour of cutting and molding the old dvd drive mounts to get this angle to line up with the top case ( and plenty of hot glue)
Image - funny thing, the 128mb gamecube memory card fits here perfectly
Image - here is the card, most of its case stripped off
Image - top case on front
Image - top case on rear
Image - top case on side, cables sticking out
Image - set a dvd here
Image - i am able to insert the disk fine, and eject fine!


things I have left to do are wiring the front buttons to power and eject (i'm skipping the reset and sync buttons, if i really need them i can pop the top off. the sd card I can acsess through the ftp server for the wii)

the nes power button was a "click stick" but it was the same type as the reset button, basically i just broke the click pin out, it still had the spring in it so now they both will work for the push buttons on the wii. I'll be soldering those onto the mainboard at a later date.
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Post by thewise1 »

MAKE A VIDEO!!! This is pretty cool. Taking the dvd player inside nes to the next level.
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Post by eurddrue »

XD nice! I commented and rated 5/5 :D
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Post by XCVG »

I like it but the hole on the side is REALLY ugly. Fix the hole and move the ports to back and it'll be perfect.
tfrew
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Re: my wiitendo, no portable, but still awesome

Post by tfrew »

well.. mabey next time, I will have to get hold of another dead nes as i've cut this case up enough...

also, moving those ports would be quite a task, i don't think i can solder that fine just yet
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Post by collinE »

really cool. good to see some action in this area of the forum.
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KICK AWESOME!!!
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love it
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That is pretty awesome.
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