To avoid confusion here is a little diagram of what pins are what on the Wii DVD drive. The top connector is power obviously. The red circles indicate power connections and the black represent ground. I have marked pin 1 on the dvd connector in reference to the pinout I supplied in the first post of this thread. Bow down to my paint skillz. ;P

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Sorry I missed this the first time. If you wanted to slim the drive like palsmer did and eliminate eject as of right now all you would have to do is wire pin 29(wii) to ground. Pin 23(wii) to pin12(gc) is the lid open/closed signal. you could wire a switch between these pins to simulate lid open/closed.

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hmmm. This creates an interesting problem for portable gamecubes.

The gamecube doesn't have a "3.3v" line, but it does have a 3.43v line. So hopefully THAT wouldn't matter. It also has a 5v line, so thats not the issue.

But for the 12v line, this is problematic for people modding their cube to run off Zenlocs custom regulator or simply bridging the 5v and 12v lines from the normal power board.

Ashen, is the 12v line absolutely necessary? I guess we could try the drive without it and see what happens.

EDIT: the reason its a problem is if you wanted to run the gamecube off of 11v or lower.

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Ok

That's easier than I thought. I like when it's that way
Thanks!

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I'm running the 3.3v line off the GC's 3.43v line straight from the power regulator. Also I'm pretty sure the exi bus provides a 3.3v line somewhere. I'm not sure about the 12v line going to the drive or how low you could take the voltage before the drive craps out or if its even needed. Someone with some spare drives can try this. ;P

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Ashen have you tried to disconnect the 12v line from the drive? Just like Tchay mentioned if the 12v line is not needed or still works on 5v we have the perfect replacement drive.

I wonder though if it will be able to read full backups once it's working with a modchip.

I'm gonna fiddle around a bit and post my findings if I have anything worth sharing.

Again awesome progress! Never thought that someone would actually make it work.

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Yeah this is great stuff Zenloc. We now have everything in place for the perfect portable gamecubes.

Small motherboards and a small freaking disc drive! FINALLY.

Speaking of which, Zen, not sure if you saw my post in my guide section. But motherboards that say "DOL - CPU - 20" on them can be slimmed a lot on the controller side of the board. These boards will have a time crystal instead of that 4-pinned copper chip on other boards.

when you make the cuts on the other boards, the memory cards get an error and sound sometimes goes out for good. I'll try and upload a cutting guide video in the next couple weeks.

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Yeah saw your post a couple of days ago. Good stuff!! I was cutting a couple of mobo's I had laying around a while back and also cut that part off. Everything worked fine though never had any memorycard error's. Not sure which revision it was though. One thing though is that the controller data lines go through those little 5 legged chips but when you take them off nothing really changes...... Strange..... Further investigation must be done...

In my gamecubeslide commission you can see one of my cut board. It's funny really after we made the discovery of what the hidden layers look like cutting is so much easier.

By the way I don't know if I mentioned it before but the sound amp on both the gamecube and n64 can be removed all together. Jus wiring the sound directly the you PsOne amp or any other amp will give you perfect sound. So no need to rewire all the little components just remove them all together.


I'm glad though that you compiled all the info I'm terrible at documenting my work....

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Just tested this. My drive will not run off of 5v (disc insertion/ejection is really slow and the disc does not spin up). It does however run off of 7.4v (this is not extensively tested though).

I wired up my viper extreme today and it does not load backups (always get errors), neither does my d2lite wii drivechip (also errors out). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb1yHNCTROs

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Hmmmm that would make it work of my custom regulator..... I wonder how low the voltage can go..... I'm gonna try a couple of things with my lab supply and see what I come up with.

First gotta connect everything and make it work

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