Random: Modder Builds Fully Functioning Nintendo Wii Inside A Breath Mint Tin

#OldNews

So...not much stability?

I bet that collectors will keep theirs in Mint condition! XD

A breath of fresh air

Awesome sauce

Keep some frosty wintergreen mints inside as a cooling solution

This may be the greatest fan invention ever, if only for the pure honesty of self admitting it as the “worst thing ever”.

Trebor Mints are a minty bit stronger
Stick them up yer Wii and they last a bit longer

Boooo...
Play the games on Original machines, please.

@Anti-Matter This is the original machine... Chopped up and fitted into a mint box.

He did it because he could but did he ever wonder if he should?

Little does he know this is the machine that will lead to World War 7!

Scales be damned, it really feels like the electronic equivalent of writing long epic poems on rice grains. That moment when you think science has gone too far but can't help cheering for its entire course anyway.

In part because it once took a similar crazy mind to start squeezing games into relatively bigger but still handheld pieces of tech... the rest is Game And Watch, Game Boy and history.

@Heavyarms55 which means humanity will survive World Wars 3, 4, 5 and 6. Talk about bittersweet news.

Because... why not? Sure

@nhSnork Yup. But they wont be pretty.

I clicked the link assuming it'd just be a RPI zero, but to cut down an actual wii mobo and rewire it like that into such a small form is really impressive.

you know, I would pay a decent amount of money if this guy would take an old 3DS XL, and make a perfected Wii in it !!!
including the power plug and, wifi and sd card.

I love my wii, and I can rip the ISOs from my disks, but I see only awesome things if I could have that

Love it! Quite inspirational. Yeah it’s awful by maker admission but it shows what’s possible if you put time, skill and teamwork into s project.

insert mint pun here

#Why
Really though. Why? Yeah yeah, why not, but... WHY?! XD

Very impressive.

Yeah, but there are no games, the frame rate is unplayable, there are hidden costs of ownership, third party support isn’t there, the hardware isn’t as powerful as Sony and MS, it’s gimmicky, stock shortages, and the online service is just terrible. Stupid Nintendo!

Battery life sucks, it's way too thick, the height is too high, those sticks look so fragile, it doesn't have enough internal storage, the d-pad isn't a real d-pad, it's so thick and clunky.

Nintendo's behind the times again. Why can't they just build a normal mint tin console with a proper Tic Tac case like everybody else?

@Anti-Matter What's wrong with this? Someone has an interest and they wanted to share it with the world!

It just goes to show what Nintendo could do if they wanted a really cool portable system. Oh wait, Switch.

This is awesome, though let's talk about the fact that he's using illegal homebrew to play the game, he could have used devolution instead, and probably functions better for Melee.

It would have been interesting to see. Especially since you could verify the game, chop up the console into the altoid box, and then just continue playing from the flash drive; without requiring another working console.

One cool feature devolution has is that it can darken the screen, which might be useful here to reduce battery conumption.

Awe and he passed on the chance to call it Will Wii-tin. Shucks

So this means a mini GameCube should not be that hard to make???

Technically, that's not just melee, it's the 20XX training hack pack

That’s pretty impressive. I wish I had the motivation to do impressive things.

@Matthew010 there's nothing wrong with this. However, I can't say the same thing about Anti. He just loves to be a salty Sally for no reason. Guy has the mentality of a 6 year old...

@Anti-Matter can you act normal for a change?

@G_M
I'm Normal as Always.
This me, myself, with Very different mindset and behaviour.
Sometimes i have saltiness for specific reasons.
In this case, i would rather play on Original Wii machine with Actual Wii & Gamecube discs rather on tiny Modded machine that can Only run for 10 minutes.

just add a fan and a more power ful battery and this could be the best portabale thing ever

@G_M I think he didn’t understand the article.

I'm really shocked a Wii can be shrunk so much. Clever bit of electrical dabbling that.

I doff my hat to the good sir.

Without a disc drive, it is NOT a Wii. Sorry, but if I can't play my Wii collection on it, then it doesn't count.

Pretty cool (pun intended)!

@Anti-Matter you clearly think in a unique way and that is cool. It is good to be yourself.

This is just an experiment to test how they can cut up the Wii and fit it into something tiny. They do it to test their engineering skills and as he said push science to the limits. It isn’t for others to use, but to experiment.

We all have different things we enjoy. This guy and his community like to do this.

And if you think that Wii’s shouldn’t be treated this way, well there are literally 100 million of them and most will just be binned as they are now so cheap. It would be cool if we could give them to kids who can’t afford games consoles, but using some for this also is a worthwhile option as they could learn something from it.

MINTendo.

Yea but it cant possibly be playing games from CD, so its the wii motherboard, but it runs roms i guess? Neat, but I pretty much hated the whole wii generation. No motion controls I guess, although, they were the larger part of why I hated the wii in the first place.