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Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

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Re: Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

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Post by Nursie »

Mogzol wrote: post #133
Neywiny wrote: post #100

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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…

I think if you could give the unit power, get a video signal out, and control it somehow, it would feel more complete. It's an amazing little device but if it really can't be used at all without the dock... does it count as the smallest?

As someone who is absolutely not part of that scene, I obviously don't get a say in that.

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Post by Andrex »

blkhp19 wrote: post #61
segasaturn wrote: post #34

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Actually Nintendo consoles used to be powerhouses until recently. The NES, SNES, N64 and GameCube were all considered state-of-the-art in terms of performance. It wasn't until the Wii when they began cutting down on performance in favor of fun features like they had been doing in the handheld space.

"recently" as in nearly 25 years ago

Yes, in terms of their video game history, Nintendo has been blue ocean (2004-2024+) longer than they were red (1983-2003).

Re: Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

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Post by theultdev »

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #115
rustcleaner wrote: post #79

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This is why juries must be instructed on nullification. It's The People's protection against money's use of criminal lawfare.

Historically, it's also been very useful when you want to murder a black person and get away with it in front of an all-white Southern jury. Nullification is no more inherently righteous than a butcher knife.

What you are referencing is an edge case (and an old one at that).

A more recent one is the OJ trial.

But those are perfect examples of bad jurors.

It's up to you and your peers to be good jurors.

What system do you suggest?

Re: Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

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Post by ThatPlayer »

anthk wrote: post #91
scns wrote: post #67

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One guy optimized Mario 64 to run at 60FPS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_rzYnXEQlE

Mario 64 on the N64 was build without -O2 flags. Maybe with -O0 or even -g. After a simple compiler switch, the speed skyrocketed.

Kaze, who did that 60FPS optimization, has commented on other videos about how the CPU isn't fully utilized anyways, so -O2 doesn't make too much a difference in most scenarios.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_gdOKSTaxM&lc=UgyhTG4Ol46Rr...

His comment, not the video.

Re: Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

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Post by Andrex »

alliao wrote: post #112
whalesalad wrote: post #7

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Nintendo has been doing this ... forever? The switch is ancient tech, and was outdated the moment it was released.

switch was ancient tech, but still predates usb-c enough that they're rolling their own power protocols.. hence deluge of broken switch on ebay with fried usb-c ports...

Switch in no way predated USB-C, even talking widespread support... Nintendo rolled their own protocol because they could and USB allows for it.

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Post by userbinator »

pryelluw wrote: post #2

This is just fantastic. I wonder how small older consoles can be these days while still maintaining full hardware compatibility.

A NES SoC would fit easily within the area of a microSD card containing all ROMs ever published for it, and the embedded controller in the latter would still have a few orders of magnitude more transistors and be faster than it.
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