Found a Wii mini review

It surely won't be for profit.

 

Give it time and someone will hack the firmware to allow for at least the RJ45 to USB adapter to work on it. Then the usual Homebrew channel hacks can be applied and BAM! Now you can use WODE or the Wii Key Fusion for diskless operation and with how small the mobo is a rather tiny portable.

Maybe while the hacker is going over the firmware they can at least enable 480P mode if the lines for component video out are missing.

I'm just trying to find something positive out of this epic failure...

 

I'm seriously considering now buying one of these for a portable. I mean realistically I didn't ever use mine online, but it's the lack of GC ports/port pins that seriously bugs me- I can't play many games without a GC controller.

But if that firmware hack actually works it'd be nice.

 

It could have new I/O chips programmed without the commands needed to interpret the GC input protocols, or encoding its native video into s-video/component/RGB.

 

Then we'd have to live with one of these- http://www.amazon.com/Gigaware-Wireless-Controller-Wii-Gamecube-Color/dp/B004E9JOXM
As for no 480p/component that would be horrible. I can't see them getting specific chips that DON'T have that functionality. Seems strange if they would pull that.

 

Well I guess that depends if it'd be similar to how much easier the early N64 RGB mod is.

 

One ugly controller.

 

You cant compare the price of a boxed nes NOW with a gamecube NOW. Fair comparison would be price of a gamecube in like 10 years or so time vs the price of nes now.

 

I don't think this is worth getting at all... Even as an investment.
If it's $100 and you're planning to sell it in 10 years, say inflation is 5% each year, that means in 2022 you'd need to sell it for $163 just to break even...
I can't see that happening.

 

If this things turns it can be modded with rgb or component, it would be interesting to see what the picture quality is like.

Always thought the wii's picture was slightly blurry when using component and rgb, however if this could produce a better picture I "might" consider buying one.

 

The mini does work with RGB scart not tried S-Video as I do not have a cable yet.

But yeah I acccept all the negative criticisms about the system and its overpriced but for the oddness of it I decided to get one.

Its like a toy from the point of build quality.

 

Really? nice how does it compare to the rgb picture on a normal wii? any better?

 

I really wish this was how the Wii was originally conceived. Sure now it looks bad NOW since there are lots of incompatibilities, but if this was how the Wii launched it would have made for a leaner/better console.

 

Very unusual... Given this model is supposed to focus on cost reduction, and how the original NTSC Wii needed softmodding of some kind to enable RGB.

That's taking things a bit too far. I was thinking more practical benefits for users. Expandable main storage, real online account system, universal option to pillarbox 4:3 content on widescreen TVs.

 

Its kinda like the missing link between the GameCube and wii but again I must state the build quality is below both of those consoles.


And yes I just tried direct scart connection to CRT switched to rgb channel - previously I had the machine chained through a freeview box.

 

Thats because the pins were used for 2 functions. NTSC land one and PAL land RGB. There was no hardware difference, only software between wii consoles in different regions.

 

I see some unpopulated pins on that board, Wifi Maybe ? or SD card? wich protocol is talked on there ?
http://images.eurogamer.net/2012/articles//a/1/5/3/5/2/2/9/DSC_0079.JPG.jpg/EG11/resize/1920x-1

 

Pretty sure thats wifi.

I have about 200 wii wifi cards, if someone needs some


If I had the money spare, I would buy one myself and hack it in.

 

Maybe if the Main CPU is the same, some SD card pins are also available. and maybe by connecting just what is necessary it may work out of the box ?
I cannot find any real usefull pinouts or hacks for the original wii, where SD's are more directly connected to the cpu.