SonyQrio's Unnamed Game Cube Portable Work Log Thread

[SonyQrio]

Yes, I know it has only been a week or two since I finished the Objective 64. But, as any good modder can attest, there should never be a time in which you don't have a project to work on. So, out of my longing desire to work on something (electronic of course) thus the UNNAMED Portable Nintendo Game Cube was born.

It shall feature:

Stereo Audio
Nintendo Brand Controller
A Screen (of unknown size)
xxxx mAh Batteries
Controller Ports (I mean come on, a Game Cube without multiplayer Smash Bros. Melee is useless.)
AND MORE STUFF to be decided

So, this project has begun, and we are now beyond the point of all return to Game Stop!
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Enjoy Video log #1



Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjPaogwLf0E

 

[ShockSlayer]

I love how you are using all of my silly tricks, like the tv audio and the electric taped battery looks familiar(but that's just common sense!)

The more GCp's the better! Also, call it the Qube, or the QGC.

SS

 

[Gyroninja]

Is the name of it "Unnamed" or Unnamed.

 

[J.D]

Considering the context, probably the latter. l2english...

 

[mymixed]

The more GCp's the better! Also, call it the Qube, or the QGC.

SS thats and awesome name! Great work Sony, looking forward to progress. Just make sure to hot glue stuff after it all works this time .

- mymixed

 

[Crazy Inventor]

What batteries do you plan on using?

 

[SonyQrio]

Haha, SS. I think all that stuff is just common sense. I used my TV for audio long before I saw you use it, and I've used electrical tape to cover things before! I used a whole wad of it to cover my PTH08080W in the Obj-64.

Anyways, more progress to come.

Edit: Oh, and SS, that is an epic name. I'm considering it.

 

[SonyQrio]

Waitin on parts.

 

[SonyQrio]

Wiikey gets here monday!

Sorry, SS.

 

[ShockSlayer]

MY WIIKEY GOT HERE TODAY

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[SonyQrio]

Nice! You have to stream tonight!

 

[SonyQrio]

Ok, so I haven't been able to work on this lately because I don't (well, didn't) have parts.

However, I wired up my 1.9v regulator today (thanks to the handy diagram SS made) and soldiered it to the GPU. I had already wired my 3.3v regualtor to the CPU, so I wired 7.4v to the preamp, switched it on, and IT WORKED! YAY.

So it turns out that I had only fried my onboard regulator, not my entire mobo. I is happie.

Anyway, my newhaven breakout board arrives today and I'm going to be wiring my Wiikey up tonight!

Life is good.

-SQ

 

[ShockSlayer]

switched it on, and IT WORKED! YAY.

So it turns out that I had only fried my onboard regulator, not my entire mobo.

You should like, show us where/how you wired up the regs to the Rev C board. I want to know!

SS

 

[Ashen]

You can get away with only hooking up the ones circled. When doing this on a rev C board, I'd rip off all the 1.9v and 3.3v regs from the top of the board though to avoid interference.

 

[ShockSlayer]

Ah, it's that simple? I figured you'd have to cut off the original regulators output traces, but eh.

SS

 

[SonyQrio]

The pic Ashen posted is for Rev A and B boards. The bottom of the C board is a lot different. You have to bridge a few traces and wire the separate voltages to the CPU and GPU. All in all, it's simpler than I thought it would be. Progress video tomorrow.

 

[Ashen]

Rev C boards are slightly different in that area. You could still use that pic I posted above to figure out where to hook stuff up.

If you need more clarity, here is a pic Zenloc made of an actual rev C board:

 

[SonyQrio]

Yepp.

 

[SonyQrio]

Ok, I finally uploaded another progress video. Synopsis:

Got my Wiikey wired up and working.
Got my memory card working.
Epicly "unfried" my Game Cube mobo by making a custom regulator.

Enjoy the progress video.

 

[Kyosho]

Good stuff dude. I too was planning to try soldering directly to the FFC but changed my mind when I saw it in person. $10 (or whatever it was) for the breakout board is worth not having to do something so intricate. Especially since screwing it up would mean having to buy another FFC which is about the same as buying the breakout board.