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It's amazing as a technical achievement to get the board so small and still functioning... Literally cutting the mainboard, rewiring some of the features on fle
by Nursie 2y ago
It's amazing as a technical achievement to get the board so small and still functioning... Literally cutting the mainboard, rewiring some of the features on flex-dughterboards etc to come up with something so small, shows a deep understanding of what's going on on the mainboard from the mod commununity.
It seems a bit of an odd contender for the title of smallest, without the dock it can't do anything and the dock doubles the size, plus this has no wiimote capability. Shortstack seems much more complete.
As someone who isn't part of that community though, I guess it's not up to me :)
- mmmlinux 2y agoYeah i agree on the dock thing. this is like showing a SoC and being like "yeah its the smallest computer ever. to use it you have to put it on a motherboard, but that doesn't count."
- Kirby64 2y agoThe dock is up to you, though, no? If you really wanted a super super tiny thing you could remove most of the GameCube ports and cut down the size a ton. It wouldn’t be much bigger than the dockless variant.
- Nursie 2y agoThere isn't a dockless variant, that's sorta what I'm saying. I suppose you could design a new dock with fewer ports, and it would be even less functional... ? You'd still need at least one gamecube controller to control the unit because it doesn't have bluetooth for wiimotes. I think I'd be more impressed with the form factor if it was useable as-is, with (micro?) HDMI, usb-c power and wireless, even if it was a bit bigger. (don't get me wrong I'm massively impressed with the technical achievements!)