A Console Modder Recreated a Classic Portable GameCube That Only Ever Existed Online as a Render

It ’s still no light feat , but creating a naturalistic 3D render of a miniaturized cabinet is nowhere near as unmanageable as building the real thing , but that did n’t stopYouTuber GingerOfOzfrombuilding a handheld portable GameCubebased on nothing but a construct pic that ’s been floating around the internet since 2005 .

miniaturize a modern console table is hard enough , but doing so while forcing yourself to be constrained to a design that never actually existed as literal hardware takes the challenge to another storey . As heavily as GingerOfOz tried to detain true to the original render , they were forced to make a few compromise along the way .

Using custom - designed three-D printed parts made repair the overall look of the Nintendo GameCube Advance mostly painless , and the overall size was a compromise between the scale of the give mannequin ( based on the sizing of a GameCube disc in the image ) and the size of it of an LCD display that would be incorporate into its lid . The concept ’s hinge had to be redesigned for usability , and GingerOfOz take inspiration ( and some hardware ) from a grapple Nintendo 3DS handheld to build it . The portable GameCube ’s control stick was also salvaged from a 3DS and , alongside some three-D - printed miniature buttons , was recess to allow the handheld ’s palpebra to close up without destroying the LCD in the unconscious process .

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Inside the modded GameCube is where most of the via media had to be made . It was insufferable to fit a disc drive inside the custom caparison , so the slot on the front exists mostly for cosmetic reasons — although a game disc can still be slew inside . There are also no actual GameCube voice inside the GameCube Advance . rather , GingerOfOz opted for Nintendo Wii hardware which is less power - hungry , much easy to shave and miniaturize , and more compatible with custom software program .

The final creation play ROM single file rather of games on phonograph record , but since the Wii was fully compatible with the GameCube , all of the games from that console table ’s library play absolutely perfectly on this affair — just not for very long . Because of the outer space constraint inside the trapping , there was only enough room for two rechargeable battery providing less than an minute - and - a - half of gameplay .

What might be even more telling than GingerOfOz ’s build is the fact that they successfully track down the artist who had created the 3D render of the Nintendo GameCube Advance that inspire the project . The interior decorator make the mockup in the other aughts as a elbow room to exercise using a 3-D modeling app called 3D Studio Max ( now known as 3ds Max ) while studying fine art in college , and to see if their skills were up to the labor of horse around the cyberspace hoi polloi , which , were plainly just as green then as they are now .

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