Hey James, glad to see you've been putting all your free time to excellent use :D
This looks amazing, I love all the attention to detail.
Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii
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#72This reminds me a lot of BenHeck, back in the day he made all kind of cool custom portable XBox (original) and PS1 consoles
It was his mini Atari 2600 etc that blew me away originally - and his site just felt so 'fun'.
The benheck forums are the reason I work in tech. It was a great community. A lot of the people working on these projects today are former members. The most notable was Palmer Luckey who went on to found Oculus.
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#73Do the custom controller connectors introduce any amount of input lag? Would love to try and make one of these for Melee tournaments if it doesn't.
Not really sure how it could? It’s just effectively adding ~5” of wire and a differently shaped connector. Unless you’re worried about the fraction of a nanosecond the extra wire will add...
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#74How long before someone goes all the way by designing a completely custom motherboard and transplanting the key components onto it I wonder? It's been done for older systems but the BGA parts in the Wii would be a challenge.
How does a typical smartphone SoC compare to the Wii in terms of processing power? Would one of those running an emulator be even smaller?
Well, the Wii GPU has 12 GFLOPS, while the Mali-G52 MP2 used in the Galaxy A14, the top selling Android phone of 2023, has 418.78 GFLOPS.
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#75The Wii proved grossly underpowered consoles can still be a lot of fun. This is the form factor it deserves!
Re: Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii
#76How long before someone goes all the way by designing a completely custom motherboard and transplanting the key components onto it I wonder? It's been done for older systems but the BGA parts in the Wii would be a challenge.
How does a typical smartphone SoC compare to the Wii in terms of processing power? Would one of those running an emulator be even smaller?
People have been running Dolphin on Nvidia Shields since the first one came out in 2015
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#77If your boss asks why you're reading about short stacks at work, I am delighted to report that it's also a poker term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_poker_terms#S
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Purely for aesthetics! It wouldn’t be the same without that iconic glowing disc slot.
It's a lost opportunity that you didn't repurpose the CD drive opening as a full-size SD card slot! Nicely done regardless.
That would have been fun, but the SD card slot is in the same place as on the original Wii (behind the front flap), which also makes sense.