Comment on Anon remembers the GameCube

Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe, but the GameCube was really riding a particular techno aesthetic, both externally and in the menu design. It was really the very tail-end of the “just because we can!” breed of design.

  The Wii went all nice and soft white, rounded buttons, happy and family-friendly, which was absolutely the correct move for Nintendo commercially to make it mass-market, but it lost something at the same time.

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• lka1988@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, the original Wii revision with the ports for GC controllers and memory cards had legit GameCube hardware right on the motherboard.

  In fact, a lot of Gamecube builds utilize that exact Wii motherboard, just heavily cut down. It’s pretty cool.

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m surprised they aren’t just desoldering chips off the Wii at this point. It wouldn’t be any less nerve-wracking.

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    • lka1988@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I see what you’re going for, but for the average console modder, it’s far easier to just trim the “wrong” motherboard than transplant the relevant chips onto a custom substrate.

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      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        People cramming a Gamecube into a GBA SP are not average.

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• defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Wii can’f use the GameBoy Player, though.

  By that logic, PC is objectively better because it can emulate almost any console.

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