Portable GameCube - now it really exists
Fake pictures of a portable Nintendo GameCube Advance have been circulating the web since 2005. Now it is reality.
In the mid-2000s, a designer named Demond created a portable GameCube in the animation program Autodesk 3D Studio Max. For fun and for practice. After that, the image circulated on the Internet, where quite a few people weren't sure if it was a fake.
Now hardware hacker GingerOfOz has taken the idea from 2005 and turned it into reality. Albeit with some limitations - because there really isn't much GameCube in it. He used the motherboard of a Nintendo Wii, which is cheaper, uses less power and is smaller than Cube hardware. He also tracked down Demond and found out how the fake was made - with Autodesk.
The CD drive remained a fake in the real version - for space reasons. There is only a slot to make an authentic trap, at least on the photo. Apart from that, however, the build is worth seeing. Based on the 2005 rendering, GingerOfOz has implemented as much as possible. He had to swerve on the hinge. His portable GameCube has one that works similar to Nintendo DS. In addition, sliders are installed instead of joysticks - that's the only way to close it.
Even though the boot logo of a GameCube can be seen and corresponding games can be played on it, the result is technologically a portable Wii that is modeled after a GameCube. This means that you can enjoy gaming for about one and a half hours.
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