Sure, we'll still waiting to hear any official announcements regarding a Nintendo 64 Mini console, and you'd fully expect the N64 to be the next Classic machine after the NES and SNES Mini releases, but does that mean we can't already dream of things later down the line?
The answer, friends, is absolutely not, and proving our point in style in this fan-made effort shared online by YouTuber user Madmorda.
Technically, as Madmorda points out in the video above, what you're looking at is actually a tiny Wii. Inside is a Wii motherboard which has been trimmed down to "about the size of a Game Boy Color cartridge", with everything you'd expect to see on the outside being perfectly in place. There are four controller ports (official GameCube controllers work thanks to an adaptor), a slot for the official GameCube controller adaptor for multiplayer action, and even a power button that works just like the original machine.
While an official GameCube Classic console has not been announced - and likely won't be for a very long time, if ever - this proves that it would look an absolute treat for collectors. We'd argue that the GameCube is one of Nintendo's more attractive machines (there's just something special about its cute little cubeness, you know?) and we'd happily expand our mini console collection to include one.
If you're reading this Nintendo, you know what to do!
[source youtube.com, via nintendoenthusiast.com]
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This is amazing - I wish I could have one!
I wonder if overheating is an issue with such a tiny system. Otherwise, really cool.
I would expect the Gameboy to come before the n64 mini to be honest...
Looks great. Well built to match.
I’m tired of asking for GCN games. If Nintendo wanted to do something with them, they would have by now. They’re content with giving us NES games for the next 10 years. God knows I want to play Kid Icarus again 🙄
I want Mini machines that can play actual game cartridges or discs.
I'm still sitting here wondering why they wouldn't put GameCube games on Virtual Console for the Wii or Wii U.
Spectcular craftsmanship!
Is that a micro-hdmi port on the back there?
Not to be a negative nancy, but I almost exclusively have poor experiences with those.
Nice but why sacrifice a Wii just to play only GameCube games in worst quality? Why not also make it Wii compatible and in HD using tech from the HDMI dongle that works on the Wii?
That’s one awesome piece of kit. Looks fantastic
The Gamecube was a pretty awesome piece of kit. Except for one thing.
No backwards compatibility.
Honestly, even though Reggie shot the rumor down late last year, I do see the N64 Mini (and beyond) as being somewhat inevitable. What else are they going to do, let over ten years (N64 and GC combined) of their history die? They're either going to revive the Virtual Console, which I think would cannibalize indie (Nindie?) sales, or they're going to revive the Mini line. Honestly, I think that the Mini route is more ideal, so you don't have a digital library of retro games that disappears once the console dies out, or is sold.
I really hope Nintendo has plans to bring GameCube games to the Switch. Otherwise, it's tag sale season and I'm about to ask my mother in law (who lives for wheeling and dealing at tag sales) to be on the lookout for some GameCube stuff.
@N64-ROX It's not that the GameCube isn't backward compatible. It's a question of how would you get backwards compatible, the thing isn't even a cartridge based system.
@retro_player_22 excuses, excuses!
These mods always remove the GC ports, which makes using GC mode impossible for playing, but it would be interesting to see how much battery time you save on the original clock speeds.
@BanjoPickles I like the way you think.
I think they may let the mini systems rest for a few years. They don't need the bumper crop sales currently and its a nice ace in the back pocket to have. Better to let the latecomers burn the public out with their offerings and then come back latter on near the end of the switch's life and make it look like you heard fan outcry (when it was your plan all along). Quite frankly I think they are waiting on the people that were very young when the N64 came out (as in baby's first system) to age up a little more into disposable income targets.
Hire this lady Nintendo!!! Your future classics consoles (Gamecube and Wii classic) is secured!!!
@N64-ROX
What about the gameboy player?
They re-released Luigi’s Mansion, they need to re-release Super Mario Sunshine!
Now if only Nintendo would make the real thing. I missed out on the GameCube and would love to try out some of its classics that can't easily be found elsewhere like Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
@cleveland124 true, true... Technically true...
@LUIGITORNADO Right. The closest we will probably get are Wii and Wii U GC ports. Wind Waker HD, Twilight Princess HD, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Luigi’s Mansion (3DS), etc.
@Tyranexx That's what soft-modded Wii's/Wii U's are for...
Or, alternatively, just a first generation Wii that's GameCube compatible, probably like the one that you're not able to wrestle away from your family without starting a feud...
@Anti-Matter not sure why people have downvoted that comment... surely built in games and the ability to play original games would be ace. GameCube lends itself to this better than any other due to disc size
Fantastic work, really cute
I just want Gamecube titles on Switch in some manner. Collections would be nice. Imagine "Mario Gamecube classics collections" or a Pokemon Colleseum/XD collection. A Star Wars Rogue Squadron collection (with the N64 title too), stuff like this.
@KoopaTheGamer
Or, you know, really hot.
Okay, made from a Wii motherboard... But it's far too small to play the discs right? And we never see her insert one.
So is it playing roms from the mem card????
How is no one else asking this...
@ThanosReXXX I'll have to check on its compatibility. It was obtained somewhere between 2008-2009.
The way we've been seeing independent developers release retro bundles like the recent Castlevania one, and with Nintendo trying to force people into an online subscription, I doubt we'll see any of these mini systems again, except perhaps for Gameboy.
@Heavyarms55 You may already know, but they were working on a Rogue Squadron Collection for Wii, but it never released.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Rogue_Leaders:_Rogue_Squadron_Wii
@Tandy255 I think I did hear about that. I assume it was related to the studio having financial issues. If I remember right, the studio did eventually get shut down or bought out. I assume Disney owns the rights now and since it's part of the original Star Wars canon, it will probably never see the light of day again.
Wow, now I want to replay Sunshine so hard...!
@Tyranexx Well, if it is a white one and it has the GameCube controller ports, then it would be quite obvious. Otherwise, the only option left, would be soft-modding.
@ThanosReXXX I'll have to double-check next time I'm up there. I suspect it can't, but we'll see.
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