Little bit too thin to fit any good graphics cards in there. Also the plastic would melt if no proper cooling is supplied, after all single fan isn't ok.
17:27 for future reference: its best not to solder mains connections. Solder cracks and can allow shorting. You should use insulated crimped spade connectors which push on :) and they definitely should be individually insulated
THIS DUDE, made a super entertaining like 20 minute tutorial, actually TAUGHT us how to do so many techniques that were hard to do and options we can use for ourselves, such as those screws, didn't do everything off screen, made an amazing Wii and HAS SUCH FIRE TASTE IN MUSIC!! I am so impressed by this, I actually found you from the Game Rant/Nintendo Life article that featured you and your Wii. Keep up the amazing work! Also, side note, can I just say how much I respect how good of a cat owner you are, you actually made a toy for your cat with 3D printing, that is incredible. You have earned yourself a subscriber!!
i can't belive you made a sequel to the wii, i wish the wii had an offical sequel with like a tablet that came with it but idk i think that idea isn't the best
2:05 Laserdisc. Could have a Wii playing the original Dragon's Lair. Of course burning a Laserdisc would require extraordinarily rare and expensive equipment plus the almost equally rare industry discs, But TECHNICALLY it can be done.
That reminded me of someone who stuffed some home console (I think it was an SNES) into a Game Boy Advance travel case that looked like that console itself
That'd be awesome. Either that, or a shell for another console/PC capable of emulating it. Either way I'd want Bringus to do it, he's clearly really good at making custom shells
@@AverageMichaelJordans Bringus is really talented. If he turned some of the things he's done into products, I'd definitely buy them. He's skillful enough to create such a GBA XL.
Fun fact: the sensor bar works by transmitting IR to the Wiimote. This means you can use candles instead as flames also emit IR. The sensor bar isn't a sensor. The name is most likely a pun with censor bar due to the TV theming to the Wii.
That would be a pc then Edit: It's like if I said "Imma turn this chromebook into a bigger chromebook" then proceed to build a separate pc that can emulate a chromebook.
One big tip or us Wii philosophers. For best screen display results, head to Wii Settings > Screen > Widescreen Settings to change between 4:3 Square and 16:9 Widescreen to accommodate for the clean HD widescreen display. Very impressive work I’ve seen for any Wii in recent memory.
You can get a cheap airbrush (they go as low as like 15$) and paint it that way, and then afterwards spray it with a gloss sealer to make it glossy like the wii. The airbrush will probably prevent it from feeling goopy like spray paint too, since spray paints are usually really thick to fill in scratches and the like, but just putting that craft paint with some thinner through the airbrush should feel no different to how your side panel feels. It should also let you easily use those stencils, if you wanna go that route. The gaps could be filled with some epoxy putties and sanded to fit if you cant reprint it. Awesome build though :D
Yeah he kept saying the video had to get done, but had he been will to spend a lot more time he could have filled/sanded/painted the whole thing and made it look super clean. An air brush with stencils could have done the lettering passably too, but I get not wanting to do that lol
The proprietary connector which you plug the official sensor bar into just sends power to it. All the electronics and logic to figure how far the Wiimote is from the TV is done on the Wiimote itself.
22:53 The adapter you used just outputs the raw Wii signals just like mine: 480i for NTSC signals and 480p for 31khz progressive signals. This is critical for playing the Wii with the lowest latency as possible. Also, you can just use a wireless or USB-powered sensor bar to play your shooting games like Duck Hunt (WiiMednafen or FCE Ultra GX), Lethal Enforcers (Genesis Plus GX) and Big Buck Hunter Pro, so a CRT is not necessary, as the Wii Remotes instead relied on infrared timing.
if it were up to me, i'd disconnect the og wii's faceplate and wire up the port to the front plate on the xl instead of making linkages. this would also allow for the light around the dvd slot and the sync button
You can get sensor bar extension cables. No need to take it off a motherboard. You would've been quite easily able to add a sensor bar plug onto the back.
Put it all together and do Bondo to fill the gaps, then hand and dremel sand to get it looking right, then paint afterwards. Will give you a nicer more finished look! Watch cosplay construction videos for inspiration!
It would be really cool to do a larger version that can fit a Wii and a PC inside. And if possible design it so you could switch between the two using the front buttons
I don't know much about Linux but I've always wondered if you could use it through some combination with retroarch or dolphin specifically to essentially make it a Wii through and through. Like you turn on the system and it boots into dolphin automatically
Fun video, I think this would be great if you did decide to open up the Wii, so you can just seperate the components out to their respectively correct positioning on the large model. Fun though.
you can glue pla permanently with CA glue. It sort of welds the plastic together. Need to wet both sides and let it sit for a bit, then push them together with a bit of force to make a good bond.
You look and sound like AntDude from memory. Other than that, great video! I love tech stuff that I barely understand and it all just goes into my subconscious until a decade later where I'll remember it all of a sudden and it will help me out a bunch, so yeah I enjoy this kind of content.
Hey man, I built this using the files u provided! It works great, and I even managed to add the icons for power, eject and reset! I played Mario Galaxy for hours, then took a bathroom break, and woke up from my dream.
19:43 A little late and probably past the point of worrying about it (also looks mostly fine to me at the end of the vid,) but Bondo or the like is a decent way to deal with gaps like that. Helpful to have in general, really. Helps pretty up all the things I don't want to waste all the time and plastic reprinting.
I done something similar with a gameboy and old pc but a tip since your buttons are modular I would use your fan tap to wire in a led and put it in the power button so it lights up when it on. that shouldnt be hard to add in. Or since you dont need the light bar plug the led into that. ;) It should still turn on when the wii comes on and would be 3 volts give or take making it perfect for that lil red led for the power button.
One thing I would have done with your PCB was to add a diode on the + line going to the fan. Fans can also be voltage generators. You don’t want voltage back feeding into your USB port or device.
You could have used the fan pcb to power the wii sensor bar, all the sensor bar port does is provide power to 4 ir leds, the actual brains for positioning the pointer are housed in the wiimote
With the DVD Drive, you probably get a tab to do a simple usb disc reader like you did for the fan, and tor the girthy prints you can print it diagnoly with supports on it, you can use lychee slicer to automaticly get supports in your prints. hope this help in the future.
Make a Wii HD using a SBC like a raspberry pi (although Dolphin can run on a Pi 4, I would not recommend using a pi), remake the wii menu as an emulation station theme, and use dolphin to run it at 1080p.
Fun fact: the reason the sensor bar can be wireless is because the cord doesn’t send anything to the Wii. The cord is only lighting 4 red leds and the wiimote picks up those leds and sends cursor information via Bluetooth
I mean, if you wanted to make it compatible with what is basically a giant DVD, you could include parts for LaserDisc compatibility. But, that may be overkill 😂
Man, I love your crazy ideas. I have no idea of how to make stuff like this, so this might be a stupid question, but could you use some kind of white putty to mask the gaps in the front faceplate?
Yeah I probably could, there's probably some white bondo or something out there. Really hoping that I can find a company that can do the whole thing in one go
I think you should have used the entirety of the Wii as the DVD drive for scale 😂 Edit: So like, instead of sliding a disc into the Wii you slide a Wii into the Wii XL
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lowes. disliked.
Blud got pin of shame lol
You got pinned after a year ?
Based and home Depot pilled
No way this got pinned 💀
in canada its called Rona+ now 😭
The Wii mini shudders with fear.
We don’t speak of that creature
@@i.w.russell7453*Wii don't speak of that creature
Macho Nacho Productions: Are you sure with that? I already hacked it.
It almost makes the PS5 look reasonable
To be fair, Wii mini fears even the regular Wii cause it sucks.
"There's no, like, big format of DVD I can use in place of a regular DVD."
Laserdisc: "Am I a joke to you??"
They didn't make burnable laserdiscs
@@Z64sports They actually did, albeit for professional use only.
"Sony CRVdisc" or "RLV" are prime examples.
@@Z64sports Yeah they just grew them on trees
The laserdisc completely bombed
Yes
All these modders out here making home consoles smaller and smaller... You went against the grain and made it bigger! Nice job!
This would be a hilarious computer case
Considering that the Wii XL has a similar if not larger size than a Mid-Tower or Mini-Tower case, it wouldn't be impossible to do that
@@sleepyboi2852
4k Dolphin Emu Station
if he sold it as a pc case id buy it
Little bit too thin to fit any good graphics cards in there. Also the plastic would melt if no proper cooling is supplied, after all single fan isn't ok.
@@CHGOfficial512Not wrong, but low profile graphics cards are still a thing, or a laptop could be repurposed into desktop.
"I'm a big wii fan"
*Starts buzzing*
17:27 for future reference: its best not to solder mains connections. Solder cracks and can allow shorting. You should use insulated crimped spade connectors which push on :)
and they definitely should be individually insulated
oh so THAT'S why those weird connectors are used (I hate them they're so annoying)
He says he’s a big wii fan
Then builds a BIG wii
@PseudoWounds hes a big wii fan with a big wii that has a big wii fan
It would be really cool to have the blue ring around the disk drive scaled to the Wii xl
THIS DUDE, made a super entertaining like 20 minute tutorial, actually TAUGHT us how to do so many techniques that were hard to do and options we can use for ourselves, such as those screws, didn't do everything off screen, made an amazing Wii and HAS SUCH FIRE TASTE IN MUSIC!! I am so impressed by this, I actually found you from the Game Rant/Nintendo Life article that featured you and your Wii. Keep up the amazing work! Also, side note, can I just say how much I respect how good of a cat owner you are, you actually made a toy for your cat with 3D printing, that is incredible. You have earned yourself a subscriber!!
i can't belive you made a sequel to the wii, i wish the wii had an offical sequel with like a tablet that came with it but idk i think that idea isn't the best
that was the wii u ._.
@@aciddr0pbfdi great observation sherlock
@@aciddr0pbfdi nah, it was the switch 1
@@aciddr0pbfdi what the hell is a wii u what are you talking about
@@inactivepleasegoaway en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_U
2:05 Laserdisc.
Could have a Wii playing the original Dragon's Lair.
Of course burning a Laserdisc would require extraordinarily rare and expensive equipment plus the almost equally rare industry discs, But TECHNICALLY it can be done.
Can laserdiscs hold 8gb?
Maybe try the GBA next? This XL thing is a really cool concept and I think the Gameboy would be a perfect candidate for such a project.
*GBA Deck*
@@mark030a Exactly! With commonly available consolizer mod kits, you can easily create an XL Gameboy.
That reminded me of someone who stuffed some home console (I think it was an SNES) into a Game Boy Advance travel case that looked like that console itself
That'd be awesome. Either that, or a shell for another console/PC capable of emulating it. Either way I'd want Bringus to do it, he's clearly really good at making custom shells
@@AverageMichaelJordans Bringus is really talented. If he turned some of the things he's done into products, I'd definitely buy them. He's skillful enough to create such a GBA XL.
Fun fact: the sensor bar works by transmitting IR to the Wiimote. This means you can use candles instead as flames also emit IR. The sensor bar isn't a sensor. The name is most likely a pun with censor bar due to the TV theming to the Wii.
Fun Fact: The Wii Remote has never officially been referred to as "Wiimote"
@@Chipmunkboyi do refer to it as a wiimote always have
@@Miketheike123 that changes nothing
Oh that’s clever.
I look forward to the Wii XXL and XXXL sequels in the years to come :)
You should make a larger one that could fit a real PC capable of emulating wii games at 4k
That would be a pc then
Edit: It's like if I said "Imma turn this chromebook into a bigger chromebook" then proceed to build a separate pc that can emulate a chromebook.
@@andrive And plus, someone already put a Mac Mini in a regular Wii case.
@@andrive no shit
@@andrive Captain Obvious to the rescue again.
@@andrive ha, big chromebook
sounds funny
One big tip or us Wii philosophers. For best screen display results, head to Wii Settings > Screen > Widescreen Settings to change between 4:3 Square and 16:9 Widescreen to accommodate for the clean HD widescreen display. Very impressive work I’ve seen for any Wii in recent memory.
Your channel is inspiring and extremely fun to watch. Keep up the great work!
please for the love of god set your wii's aspect ratio to 16:9
Wouldn’t it be easier to just use a prop resizer?
why the HELL is this so funny
#no
From GameCube Mini to Wii XL. Amazing channel
that Wii2HDMI is crazy nostalgia oh gosh
I like how he said he still got most of the disk at 18:32
You can get a cheap airbrush (they go as low as like 15$) and paint it that way, and then afterwards spray it with a gloss sealer to make it glossy like the wii. The airbrush will probably prevent it from feeling goopy like spray paint too, since spray paints are usually really thick to fill in scratches and the like, but just putting that craft paint with some thinner through the airbrush should feel no different to how your side panel feels. It should also let you easily use those stencils, if you wanna go that route. The gaps could be filled with some epoxy putties and sanded to fit if you cant reprint it. Awesome build though :D
Yeah he kept saying the video had to get done, but had he been will to spend a lot more time he could have filled/sanded/painted the whole thing and made it look super clean. An air brush with stencils could have done the lettering passably too, but I get not wanting to do that lol
Should have made a Wii shell for a Laserdisc player lol
literally was thinking this as i was watching
same. lol
I’m a “Big Wii” fan 0:01
The proprietary connector which you plug the official sensor bar into just sends power to it. All the electronics and logic to figure how far the Wiimote is from the TV is done on the Wiimote itself.
22:53 The adapter you used just outputs the raw Wii signals just like mine: 480i for NTSC signals and 480p for 31khz progressive signals. This is critical for playing the Wii with the lowest latency as possible.
Also, you can just use a wireless or USB-powered sensor bar to play your shooting games like Duck Hunt (WiiMednafen or FCE Ultra GX), Lethal Enforcers (Genesis Plus GX) and Big Buck Hunter Pro, so a CRT is not necessary, as the Wii Remotes instead relied on infrared timing.
*yap ends at **21:53*
You are the hero we didn't know we needed. Keep these bizarre yet rad projects up!!!
13:37 I can imagine that poor PCB Way employee going, "Oh god, it's Jon again."
Wii XL with games on Vinyl discs.
You know you can make it happen.
No, with Laserdisc.
if it were up to me, i'd disconnect the og wii's faceplate and wire up the port to the front plate on the xl instead of making linkages. this would also allow for the light around the dvd slot and the sync button
Literally the best idea ever!
the comedy in it is just golden, this will be viral in a few days
Your channel blew up so fast, congratulations! Keep it up, you’re doing an outstanding job!
You can get sensor bar extension cables. No need to take it off a motherboard. You would've been quite easily able to add a sensor bar plug onto the back.
Yeah I realized that very recently when I came across one on Amazon. Had no idea that was a thing
weird that that's a thing considering how excessively long the cable is
@@numairdubas2688 I thought the same thing too. But there were some people playing Wii on a projector, where the screen often isn't near the console.
Put it all together and do Bondo to fill the gaps, then hand and dremel sand to get it looking right, then paint afterwards. Will give you a nicer more finished look! Watch cosplay construction videos for inspiration!
It would be really cool to do a larger version that can fit a Wii and a PC inside. And if possible design it so you could switch between the two using the front buttons
Or a pc that could read wii disks
@@Blavinthat actually wouldn't be too hard.all that you need to do is rip the drive out the wii and throw it in the pc
I don't know much about Linux but I've always wondered if you could use it through some combination with retroarch or dolphin specifically to essentially make it a Wii through and through. Like you turn on the system and it boots into dolphin automatically
Would probably work, but dolphin's wii system menu emulation is still a bit rough around the edges and can crash or get random bugs from time to time
@@shadesoftime Nifty! Thanks for the info
The joys of doing 3d printing and electronics work in pajamas
really puts into perspective on how much design choices go into making an enclosure
Fun video, I think this would be great if you did decide to open up the Wii, so you can just seperate the components out to their respectively correct positioning on the large model. Fun though.
"There's no like big format of DVD I can use in place of a regular DVD"
Could've used a LaserDisk
Or perhaps a CED if you're feeling fancy
"i've been playing this thing since i was a little kid"
holy SHIT i forgot how old the wii was
I kinda wanna use that giant WII case as a PC case.
Maybe use it as a case for a PC made for emulation, which is a project that I wanna do one day.
all i care about the wii is the funny blue channel and funky kong screaming in mkwii
If this burns down my apartment I'll do a giveaway for it LMAO
15:11 Bean is a very helpful assistant~
To help with prints lifting off the bed, it could help to print with a brim to help with adhesion
this man is a legend, truly a good time to be alive
0:37 IM DOING THE FULL BULLPEN!
2:05 “there’s no, like, big format of DVD I can use in place of a regular DVD.”
My guy.
LaserDisc.
:)
you can glue pla permanently with CA glue. It sort of welds the plastic together. Need to wet both sides and let it sit for a bit, then push them together with a bit of force to make a good bond.
The SD extender alone is so cursed, I never saw that coming. Cool build!
You look and sound like AntDude from memory. Other than that, great video! I love tech stuff that I barely understand and it all just goes into my subconscious until a decade later where I'll remember it all of a sudden and it will help me out a bunch, so yeah I enjoy this kind of content.
Hey man, I built this using the files u provided! It works great, and I even managed to add the icons for power, eject and reset! I played Mario Galaxy for hours, then took a bathroom break, and woke up from my dream.
Had me in the first half lol
OH MY GOD ITS A GIGANTIC WII
Keep up the good work :-)
"There's no like.. big format of a DVD I can use in place of a regular DVD"
LaserDisc: **cough** Ahem!
19:43 A little late and probably past the point of worrying about it (also looks mostly fine to me at the end of the vid,) but Bondo or the like is a decent way to deal with gaps like that. Helpful to have in general, really. Helps pretty up all the things I don't want to waste all the time and plastic reprinting.
I done something similar with a gameboy and old pc but a tip since your buttons are modular I would use your fan tap to wire in a led and put it in the power button so it lights up when it on. that shouldnt be hard to add in. Or since you dont need the light bar plug the led into that. ;) It should still turn on when the wii comes on and would be 3 volts give or take making it perfect for that lil red led for the power button.
Nice work, dude!
One thing I would have done with your PCB was to add a diode on the + line going to the fan. Fans can also be voltage generators. You don’t want voltage back feeding into your USB port or device.
Yeah in hindsight that would have been a good idea as well as a small fuse or something
You should shove 4 wiis into one big wii and make it a lan party BEAST
Careful with the USB routing, i design PCBs as a hobby, so if you don't have the USB data lines 90 ohm impedance matched - you can get USB issues
Adding N64 functionality would have justified the size.
1: i want a pc case like this
2: i love these videos
Bringus: " There is no bigger version of DvD that I could use in its place. "
Me with my LazerDisc Drive: :)
You could have used the fan pcb to power the wii sensor bar, all the sensor bar port does is provide power to 4 ir leds, the actual brains for positioning the pointer are housed in the wiimote
we need a huge rgb fan array taking up 90% of the space bc wii motherboard can be very small and producing thrust similar to a jet engine
With the DVD Drive, you probably get a tab to do a simple usb disc reader like you did for the fan, and tor the girthy prints you can print it diagnoly with supports on it, you can use lychee slicer to automaticly get supports in your prints. hope this help in the future.
Now you just gotta get together with that guy who made the giant but still functional Wii remote and this well truly be complete
I love that he assesss his mistakes
babe wake up, new bringus studios upload
You’ve heard of the DSi XL, get ready for the Wii XL!
What's pretty dope is you're using one of the original Wiis before they remove the GameCube functionality
Make a Wii HD using a SBC like a raspberry pi (although Dolphin can run on a Pi 4, I would not recommend using a pi), remake the wii menu as an emulation station theme, and use dolphin to run it at 1080p.
Fun fact: the reason the sensor bar can be wireless is because the cord doesn’t send anything to the Wii. The cord is only lighting 4 red leds and the wiimote picks up those leds and sends cursor information via Bluetooth
"There's no, like, big format of DVD I could use"
My I interest you in a new video idea-
PLAYING WII ON A LASER DISC
Heroes make tech smaller, masochists make tech larger.
Bro joined a community of portablizing and minimizing and does the complete opposite
“big format of a dvd i can use”
Did you forget vinyl records exist, you couldve made a wii style record player, my boy!
I like how he wakes up one day and says “hmmm… my Wii isn’t big enough”
I feel you, parts lifting from the plate mid print is a major PITA
I mean, if you wanted to make it compatible with what is basically a giant DVD, you could include parts for LaserDisc compatibility. But, that may be overkill 😂
Lol seems most people don't know what laserdisc is anymore
@@shadesoftime Oh, I'm fully aware. It would confuse so many people 😂
24:16 I hope there Will be a Version 2 of your project! Make it for us!
Nintendo fan-
I never knew we had so much in common
Wii 4 Life
omg Bean is sooo cute, my lil tortie named Nora loved watching this video
Make a Wii big enough to take LaserDiscs instead of DVDs
There's no big dvd replacement that I could use! lazerdisk:
the song is Whimsical Waters from Mario Party 10 in case someone's wondering
( i had a headache trying to remember where i listened this song)
"Every button of the Wii is accessible from the front panel" Except for the sync button.
And except the eject button.
Man, I love your crazy ideas. I have no idea of how to make stuff like this, so this might be a stupid question, but could you use some kind of white putty to mask the gaps in the front faceplate?
Yeah I probably could, there's probably some white bondo or something out there. Really hoping that I can find a company that can do the whole thing in one go
Shadow of the Wii-lossus.
Wii Big 21:58
now all you need is a wiimote XL
Also based on what you shown I find it funny that you used dolphin grey
I think you should have used the entirety of the Wii as the DVD drive for scale 😂
Edit: So like, instead of sliding a disc into the Wii you slide a Wii into the Wii XL
2:05 effing laserdisc would've been hilarious
nah. just worse.
I'm also a big Wii fan. This is one of my favourite console ever!
other youtubers: "I created the smallest/thinnest/slimmest console"
bringus: B I G W I I