I've had this Gamecube laying around my house for a while, doing absolutely nothing, so I decided to break it out and do something with it. It's a unit that I got in a big box of 10 consoles for 30 bucks (1 dreamcast, 1 genesis, 2 psones, 2 ps1s, snes, gamecube, and N64. Ok so nine.)
It's a silver edition with an extremely annoying Pokemon sticker on top. (Sorry. I hate Pokemon.) The lid is broken, the hinge was broken off. This resulted in the lid switch breaking off, so the disc does not spin. An interesting note: Nintendo apparently intended to put an LED in the fan housing, as a perfect, 1/4" round indentation was placed precisely where a fan LED should be. Odd.
The paint is an automotive, Silver Mist Blue Metallic. The controller plate is straight up black.
I will post a how-to on the LED fan mod - it's an interesting process.
Plans:
Make a clear viewport in the lid and make it easily removable
Blue LED mod the fan (Done.)
Relocate the power LED to light up the clear lid viewport, make it blue instead of amber
Repaint the case (Done.)
Bypass the lid switch
Here's the original horribleness:
The completed, painted case:
The LED fan mod:
It's a silver edition with an extremely annoying Pokemon sticker on top. (Sorry. I hate Pokemon.) The lid is broken, the hinge was broken off. This resulted in the lid switch breaking off, so the disc does not spin. An interesting note: Nintendo apparently intended to put an LED in the fan housing, as a perfect, 1/4" round indentation was placed precisely where a fan LED should be. Odd.
The paint is an automotive, Silver Mist Blue Metallic. The controller plate is straight up black.
I will post a how-to on the LED fan mod - it's an interesting process.
Plans:
Make a clear viewport in the lid and make it easily removable
Blue LED mod the fan (Done.)
Relocate the power LED to light up the clear lid viewport, make it blue instead of amber
Repaint the case (Done.)
Bypass the lid switch
Here's the original horribleness:
The completed, painted case:
The LED fan mod: