A few months ago, [Shank] built what will almost certainly go down in history as the world’s smallest portable Nintendo Wii. As it turns out, the Wii motherboard is home to a lot of unnecessary ...

Invented in the 80s, indispensable to the kids of the 90s, and still popular in 2021. Nintendo’s Game Boy still inspires a lot of modders and the next example is a perfect illustration of that. A ...

Nintendo hardware modder Shank is back at it, this time with a "reactive color-changing" Wii and GameCube portable system. It's called the 'GloWii' and uses RGB LEDs & video processing to display ...

Chris is a writer currently based in the Philadelphia area. They are currently writing for film website Flixist, podcasting for Marvel News Desk, and were an editorial intern for Paste Magazine's ...

Over the last decade or so, there have been a lot of people turning home consoles into portable consoles. And each year, they ...

Better keep an eye out, Mr. Heckendorn-- we know that the modding community is pretty cut throat -- just like the Ice Pirates in that movie, uh, Ice Pirates-- and now it looks like there's another ...

How would you approach a build that required you to hack apart a perfectly good console motherboard? With aplomb and a strong finish. [jefflongo] from [BitBuilt.net] — a forum dedicated to making ...

Remember earlier this year when we showcased a system builder that created a working portable Wii system out of an Altoids can? Well, he’s back- and with something way more comfortable for you ...

Ever wonder what it would look like if the Nintendo Wii and GameBoy Color had a baby? Well, now you don't have to. A modder known as GingerOfMods made a portable Wii console by packing it into a build ...

We never thought we'd see a Wii U treated as a portable system, but that's exactly what's happened with a keen Japanese gamer — importing a system ahead of time clearly wasn't enough on its own. The ...

[Update 2: This problem has been fixed with the Wii's first downloadable system update. Wii saves are now transferable to SD cards.] With all our Zelda playing this weekend taking place on one Wii ...