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[Gahiggidy]

God damn, imagine if this thing was cartridge based?!

 

[Tornado Condor]

God damn, imagine if this thing was cartridge based?!

? so?
would be shittier but its not

 

[SumGamer]

I reckon they should redesign the case when they put it back together(if that ever happen)

 

[HisshouBuraiKen]

So which two jumpers do you bridge to make it region free?

 

[Gahiggidy]

 

[luffeN]

So which two jumpers do you bridge to make it region free?

um... im not really into all those hardware things etc.. but is it possible?

 

[Mmmkay]

um... im not really into all those hardware things etc.. but is it possible?

It was just a reference to what Nintendo actually did with the GameCube. Sadly that setting wasn't present on European GC's.

 

[Terrell]

See, I see the RAM there... it has "MoSys" plastered all over it. This is still puzzling me ever so. Could someone circle where the RAM is on the Wii board, since I've apparently lost my brain?

 

[DSN2K]

its above the GPU I think.

 

[thetrin]

Well there goes the pikmin rumour.

It's not a theory! They cleaned out the pikmin before taking pictures

 

[Mmmkay]

See, I see the RAM there... it has "MoSys" plastered all over it. This is still puzzling me ever so. Could someone circle where the RAM is on the Wii board, since I've apparently lost my brain?

This is memory:

I don't know if it's the NAND Flash or 1T-SRAM though. One of them may possibly be on the underside of the board, I'd guess the Flash memory. Also bear in mind that the other 24MB of 1T-SRAM is under Hollywood's heatspreader.

 

[::FIXXXER::]

Well there goes the pikmin rumour.

I still believe!

 

[Deleted member 10571]

found one =)

 

[Blütnerd]

i read in another thread that freeloader works. Maybe sooner for PAL <-> NTSC?

Really? I read in the official launch thread that it didn't. Where did you hear otherwise?

 

[Diablohead]

It was just a reference to what Nintendo actually did with the GameCube. Sadly that setting wasn't present on European GC's.

What! I never knew that :lol

Damn, see this is why importing to the uk is the best thing ever.

 

[Hyoushi]

What! I never knew that :lol

Damn, see this is why importing to the uk is the best thing ever.

Yeah, Nintendo has a history of easy NTSC mods. For SNES and N64 it was simply a physical obstruction, on the US snes you can remove two plastic bits next to the cart ports and you can play japanese Sufami games.

 

[Caaz]

Wow... thanks. Quite cute.

 

[SovanJedi]

found one =)

:lol

Surely it should be a yellow one so it's immune to electricity! Nothing else will stand a chance...

 

[wsippel]

Uhhh... am I going blind? I don't see where the RAM is. Weren't a whole bunch of people trumpetting some form of DDR RAM in this thing? Cuz I don't see it.

The small black chip next to the GPU and CPU should be the RAM chip. The Macronix chip in the front is probably the Flash.

 

[Manp]

found one =)

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Chao]

Orange port = holograms!

 

[Angelcurio]

This smells like a future portable.

 

[AtomicShroom]

found one =)

:lol :lol

 

[Diablos]

This smells like a future portable.

If Nintendo can shrink that down to handheld size and get it out within the next couple of years, the war in that market might as well be considered over.

GC quality visuals on a handheld would no doubt be amazing.

 

[elostyle]

If Nintendo can shrink that down to handheld size and get it out within the next couple of years, the war in that market might as well be considered over.

GC quality visuals on a handheld would no doubt be amazing.

Did I get stuck in a parallel dimension where the PSP never existed?

The war in the handheld market is over because nintendo offered something that specifically isn't a shrunk down version of the above.

 

[Slurpy]

Wow, the frikkin GC controller ports+mem card slots take up like half the internals.

 

[elostyle]

Wow, the frikkin GC controller ports+mem card slots take up like half the internals.

Yeah, it's a beautiful design. (If you're talking about the gamecube one)