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For reference, 60mm is less than the width of even a compact smartphone, and 16mm is 1.5 to 2 times as thick. This thing is tiny. Hell, it has about the same footprint as a gamecube disc .
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Inscryption Subnautica Satisfactory Factorio Hollow Knight RE7 Baba is You Baldur's Gate 3 Elden Ring Dead Cells Hades Ori and the Will of the Wisp Disco Elysium Dishonored 1 & 2 Orcs Must Die Planet Coaster Portal 1 & 2 Read Dead Redemption 2 Valheim I dont' know what you mean by "modern," but these were all games I enjoyed recently-ish, and I'm sure I forgot some.
Off the top of my head I'd say to throw in Outer Wilds (wilds, not worlds), Tunic, The Riven remake, and The Talos Principle 1 & 2 as well.
Feels like the logical next step would be to ditch the stock motherboard altogether and make a custom one that you transfer the chips onto.
I don't think it's worth the huge amount of effort extra compared to a simple trim.
The "Thundervolt" reference in that post is a project where they cut up a Wii PCB to leave just the DRAM and the processors on the PCB, and then they slap an external DCDC board on top of that cut up PCB to provide power to it, while also undervolting it since you reduce the IR losses. https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/thundervolt.62... That is pretty insane.
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The sensor bar isn't actually a sensor, just two IR blasters that the cameras on the wiimotes use for positioning. You can use any two sources of infrared light instead!
Before I knew this I had someone pull out their lighter and point the remote at it when our sensor bar died. Took me a little bit to figure it out.
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Seems... large? I was expecting something substantially smaller than a flip foldable phone.
That's not the Kawaii though, a little under halfway down the linked article, there's a size comparison between the GC Nano and the Kawaii - https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/kawaii.6474/
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One factor (surprisingly I've seen this mentioned by a video game guy on youtube few years ago) is the disbelief made by non game visual art. Game boxes, booklets, they bootstraped the imagination. Handmade art was 100x more detailed than 8bit games yet we didn't care having a low res 8bit characters because we were already mentally in the world displayed on paper. I do sincerly miss the limited rendering aspect of o…
The limitations of old game platforms didn't vanish, they are still used (and being re-discovered by new generations). One of my favorite games on this side of the new millennium is Celeste, for example. Some indie studios are even producing new games for GBA, GB, NES and other platforms from the 90s, sometimes including booklet and packaging!
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That's fair. So then yeah I guess the dock is needed. Considering it didn't look that big, if I bought one of these I'd probably want it integrated instead.
The point of this project is more about squeezing the Wii into the smallest possible footprint rather than making it convenient to use. If you wanted something similar with ports integrated though, check out the GC Nano (which despite looking like a Gamecube has Wii internals), or Short Stack. GC Nano: https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/gc-nano-the-wo... Short Stack: https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?t…
Both are super exciting though. Maybe a few years down the line, we get some 2" LCDs integrated or something for truly portable play.
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It's actually a golden age for fun video games, because we are swimming in new beautiful, engaging, original titles every year. Some things really take you by surprise as well. I never saw Inscryption, Disco Eliseum or Hades coming, and I think nobody did. And even oldish games still have great value. I still play LoL or Isaac, and they are as good as they were on day 1. Plus, you get the Switch then the Deck refresh…
> I never saw (…) Hades coming, and I think nobody did. I don’t think Hades came as a surprise to anyone who was already a fan of the devs from Bastion and Transistor.
As for transistor, the story is basically "futuristic world is being destroyed by virus-type-invaders and your sword/companion is the key to beating it", with a predictable end and almost zero character dev.
Being able to make ok games doesn't translate to the skill to make a masterpiece.
It was a quantum leap.
It would be like saying you can deduce Divinity Original sin 2 would be amazing because you played the first one.
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That's not the Kawaii though, a little under halfway down the linked article, there's a size comparison between the GC Nano and the Kawaii - https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?threads/kawaii.6474/
The base is the same size, still quite large for being called "keychain-sized".
60x60x16mm, so it is 20% smaller than a credit card (in surface area)