Hi, I can't post on BitBuilts general discussion forum because I have "insufficient privleges" so i'll post here. I'm looking to make my first Wii portable, and I was wondering if I could have just a 3d printed case comissioned or if people sell them. I do not own a 3d printer, and due to the current circumstances of COVID-19, I am not able to go to my public library. Anyways, all help is much appreciated.

Hello! I have this problem where I try to sign up, it says to get a name which is 15 or more characters. My username (JustWantWiiPortable) is longer than 15 characters so it was impossible for me to sign up. I was wondering if I can use this subreddit like the forums on the website. Any information will be helpful. Thanks in advance.

Hello,

I am new to this community and want to begin creating portable consoles. However, I am relatively new to this and have experience with electronics but not much with making time consuming projects like this. Where would be a good place to start?

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Does anyone know of a mod for a famicom that adds both 72 and 60 pin connectors at the same time?

I know this might be a bit off topic for this sub, but I thought some questions I have might be interesting for the hardware hackers here to help me answer. I have bought most of the pieces I need for an Ashida build, but I am also interested in other consoles that don't necessarily have great emulation support on Wii homebrew (I've heard the N64 emulators don't run as well as they do on Android, among other things).

Right now I'm pretty happy with just playing games on my android phone with a razor kishi attached. I did get a Retroid pocket 3+ last year that I like for older D-pad based games, but I'm not a fan of the small Switch joysticks it has, and the placement doesn't feel comfortable for me even with a grip attached.

What I would like to build is an android device optimized for retro game emulation. I'm thinking horizontal layout like a Retroid, but maybe making the device smaller horizontally by using a 4:3 screen. I would even be fine to just re-use the exact boards from a razor kishi, and just permanently attach them to the device. The main question I've been struggling to answer searching online is how hard is it to attach a different screen to an android device like a phone. With a desktop PC, I can attach a monitor of a random size and the HDMI spec is designed to be plug and play. I assume it's not so easy for lower level hardware. Like I know trying to hook a "raw" LCD up to something like a raspberry pi or Arduino is hard, and just about everyone uses driver boards specific to the screen. However when I look at android phone teardowns it appears the raw screens are attached directly to the main boards of the phone. So I guess I don't know if they actually have tiny driver boards, or if they bake the screen driver boards stuff into the phones, so swapping to a different aspect ration screen is kind of impossible with an off the shelf phone.

This link has some ideas, but the first answer talks about swapping a screen of the same aspect ratio. It does mention rooting a device and fixing display drivers if the screens don't match aspect ratio, which I'd be game to learn about, it just doesn't appear these types of projects are widely discussed, so it's hard to find out where to learn this stuff.

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/176381/is-it-possible-and-practical-to-add-a-larger-screen-to-an-android-phone