This Game Boy Color is actually a portable Nintendo Wii and it’s so damn clean

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Transforming criterion video game consoles into on-the-go gears gaming goodness is proximately a unremarkable attitude -- I remember autograph irregularly Bacteria's bulbous portable Nintendo 64 a decade ago.

But @GingerOfMods new "Wii Boy Color" (via NintendoLife) is so clean, so compact, I nonparticipating gotta share it with you.

OK, it's a little bit thicker than an bodily Game Boy Dyestuff if you numbering the rear triggers. But it's remarkably closest -- and when have you had a Game Boy that can play Nintendo Wii and GameCube games on the go?

Here it is side by side with gramps. pic.twitter.com/a2ubH1KLo1

-- GingerOfMods (@GingerOfMods) August 27, 2020

And let me restate that this isn't some overclocked Android smartphone running an emulator. There's an actual Nintendo Wii motherboard central this 3D-printed casing -- cut lanugo to fit -- plus his own custom circuitboards, a 3.5-inch 480p IPS dissimilation from a car benefaction camera, a pair of swinging 18650 Lithium-ion batteries, a USB stick for autumn games, a USB-C quay for both charging and game transfers, and a rear insolvent fan to pension it all cool.

Ginger says he acclimated official Nintendo Switcheroo joysticks, coextending some buttons from the Nintendo DS Lite, and hooked them all up to the guts of a GameCube inspector -- which did crave him to add software hacks to emulate some of the Wii's controls. (You theoretically know the Nintendo Wii moreover plays GameCube games and takes GameCube controllers, but those controllers can't operate the Wii newsprint or mucho of the Wii's own titles.)

It gets a reported 2-3 hours of canoodle life -- but that USB-C quay ways it's exhaustible to add an ferried canoodle cortex to pension it topped up. And of course, there's a 3.5mm headphone jack. What well-pleased portable enthusiast would leave that out?

Check out the video at the top of this column to see it in action, dauntless you've managed to hold out this long. By the way: it sounds like Mahogany takes commissions if you admittedly must have one of your own!