alinktothenes
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With the smashing success of my nes portable, I am confident enough in my skills to undertake the GC. I Hope that you will all support me in my efforts dispute the fact that there are a frick ton of new portable posts here. This forum rocks. You guys rock. I like rock. Rock beats scissors. Paper can (insert expletive) it.
So for starters, here is my work table. That soldering station is sweet and only 100$ if anyone is looking to get a new one by the way.
Got my cleaned up motherboard, trimmed disk drive and other cleaned up parts. I'm a fan of using original components so I'm going to incorporate as much originality into my portable as I can and keep it fairly slim as well.
Controller and and zn40 case. I'm trying to determine what to do with the controller... Chopping a nes controller and soldering the traces was easy enough but the GC controller I have has a nice white paint job on it and is making me nervous about chopping and soldering traces, and we all know you can't beat the feel of those original buttons so I'd rather not use tact switches if I can help it, unless you guys can vouch that they don't affect your game play...
So therein begs the question - landscape or portrait?...
UPDATE: I decided to just give er with the controller.
Using some fine grit sand paper for my dremel, I worked away at the surface to discover it is surprisingly uncomplicated to split and solder wires to the traces and the R button slider should be no problem to work out. Go figure.
So for starters, here is my work table. That soldering station is sweet and only 100$ if anyone is looking to get a new one by the way.
Got my cleaned up motherboard, trimmed disk drive and other cleaned up parts. I'm a fan of using original components so I'm going to incorporate as much originality into my portable as I can and keep it fairly slim as well.
Controller and and zn40 case. I'm trying to determine what to do with the controller... Chopping a nes controller and soldering the traces was easy enough but the GC controller I have has a nice white paint job on it and is making me nervous about chopping and soldering traces, and we all know you can't beat the feel of those original buttons so I'd rather not use tact switches if I can help it, unless you guys can vouch that they don't affect your game play...
So therein begs the question - landscape or portrait?...
UPDATE: I decided to just give er with the controller.
Using some fine grit sand paper for my dremel, I worked away at the surface to discover it is surprisingly uncomplicated to split and solder wires to the traces and the R button slider should be no problem to work out. Go figure.
also partially because of the controller, but also for weight distribution. 
