Casemodding, or stuffing video game consoles into shapes they were never meant to be in, is the preserve of a special breed. Our favorites are when old consoles are stuffed into different versions of the same console. Remember that gigantic O.G. Brick Game Boy carrying case? Yes, you can turn that into a jumbo-scale Game Boy, and it’s sweet. Continuining this trend of consoles of a different size, [Madmorda] has stuffed a GameCube into a sugar cube. It’s small. It’s really small, and it’s some of the best casemodding we’ve seen.
First off, the enclosure. This is an officially licensed micro GameCube case that originally housed gummy candies crafted by gummy artisans who work exclusively in the medium of gummy. This case, incidentally, is the perfect scale to match [Madmorda]’s earlier work, a miniaturized GameCube controller. This controller was originally a keychain, but with a bit of fine soldering skills it can indeed become a functional GameCube controller.
With the candy container GameCube gutted, the only task remaining was to put a GameCube inside. This is a lot easier if you tear down a Wii, and after desoldering, resoldering, and generally cutting up the circuit board of a Wii, [Madmorda] had something very small.
The finished console is a complete GameCube, compatible with all games, and no emulation. There are four controller ports, two USB ports for memory card slots, and output is composite through a 3.5mm jack. It’s a great piece of work and looks exactly like a miniaturized GameCube.
Ah, but no disc drive? :-)
The original Wii could run game cube disks
Hmmm….. Wonder if you could fit a micro CD drive in there……..
Yes
“…gummy candies crafted by gummy artisans who work exclusively in the medium of gummy.”
I see what you did there, Benchoff.
/tips hat
Would you two stop saying gummy so much!
I think it got stuck in his teeth :)
So without a disc drive, how is this compatible with all games using “no emulation”?
Plus also wasn’t the Wii technically emulating a GameCube?
The wii used an upgraded version of the gamecube’s CPU iirc, so there’s no emulation going on
Both the Wii and GameCube could run games from media other than disks through hacks.
All of these tiny GC/Wii builds use a special firmware that loads disk images from ISOs off of USB storage. I guess you could argue that there’s emulation of the disc drive involved, but the games themselves are still running on the bare hardware.
So, it’s a wee wii.
Oui oui.
The smallest Wii is actually a Wii! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yewfLlubomI
Incredible work, looks great.
What is this, a console for ants???