GCN Gamecube Revolution

[JulietStMoon]

Yeah I am loading them now. I had originally typed up that due to my internet being slow it takes 20 minutes or so to load up a long video but I must have deleted that >.>;;

20 minutes? sheesh, I feel sorry for you.

 

[Valwin]

Considering a Gamecube itself is like $30 nowadays (or less), I don't see why anyone would pay $970 worth of materials and labor for this.

I may as well buy a real man's gaming console like a Vita.

yea but like buy this with games or get a vita and no games i mean the if i were to choose il would go for the games

 

[JulietStMoon]

yea but like buy this with games or get a vita and no games i mean the if i were to choose il would go for the games

Precisely. Plus you'd likely end up eventually spending over $1000 on the Vita with games and stuff anyway.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

Considering a Gamecube itself is like $30 nowadays (or less), I don't see why anyone would pay $970 worth of materials and labor for this.

I may as well buy a real man's gaming console like a Vita.

yea but like buy this with games or get a vita and no games i mean the if i were to choose il would go for the games

$1000 w/ games versus $249.99 w/o games

I'm cheap so the $249.99 option is looking better.

Pleasure now, pain later.

 

[JulietStMoon]

$1000 w/ games versus $249.99 w/o games

I'm cheap so the $249.99 option is looking better.

Pleasure now, pain later.

lol. Sounds about right.

 

[Valwin]

Considering a Gamecube itself is like $30 nowadays (or less), I don't see why anyone would pay $970 worth of materials and labor for this.

I may as well buy a real man's gaming console like a Vita.

yea but like buy this with games or get a vita and no games i mean the if i were to choose il would go for the games

$1000 w/ games versus $249.99 w/o games

I'm cheap so the $249.99 option is looking better.

Pleasure now, pain later.

i dont know a 249.99 brick is not looking that good

 

[JulietStMoon]

i dont know a 249.99 brick is not looking that good

GRRRR please, let's not start any console wars (accidental or not)

 

[Valwin]

i dont know a 249.99 brick is not looking that good

GRRRR please, let's not start any console wars (accidental or not)

are there any N64 portable like this thing ?

 

[JulietStMoon]

Just an example... There are many others, and I'm sure some are better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgyzuFMfJ4Q

 

[Hyro-Sama]

Considering a Gamecube itself is like $30 nowadays (or less), I don't see why anyone would pay $970 worth of materials and labor for this.

I may as well buy a real man's gaming console like a Vita.

yea but like buy this with games or get a vita and no games i mean the if i were to choose il would go for the games

$1000 w/ games versus $249.99 w/o games

I'm cheap so the $249.99 option is looking better.

Pleasure now, pain later.

i dont know a 249.99 brick is not looking that good

But I still have $750.00 in my pocket. The Brick is cost effective.

 

[bRKcRE]

how the hell has this topic gone so far without a mention of ben heck?? his site is here: http://benheck.com/portfolio and contains a whole bunch of portable consoles, from nes to xbox 360...

 

[dilav]

Here's some of Ashen's other builds. Gamecube Revolution, Fusion Micro, Fusion Rev 3.
Should also take a look at other portables while you're there.

 

[raulpica]

The Fusion Micro has to be one of the ugliest portables I've ever seen

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Most consoles hacked into portables that I've heard about have batteries, so I don't know where you got the "rare for these portables" thing from. They usually rip out the battery and screen from portable DVD players.
That's a surprisingly pretty portable though, most portable hacks have ugly, hand made shells and this looks like it was factory made or something.
Even BenHeck's stuff doesn't look that professional. His more recent stuff looks good but still looks hand made.

 

[EyeZ]

There would be no way i would pay that amount of money for a portable Gamecube, i did enjoy a lot of the games on the cube, but $1000 D:

 

[JulietStMoon]

Well, just from my personal viewing and research, the greater majority of gamecube handhelds in particular I saw didn't use battieries (possibly because many of them use actual discs, which drains more power and add more bulk already). I didn't mean to imply all console portables in general, sorry I didn't clarify that.

The fusion micro is pretty impressive, but it's definitely not pretty. Plus the need of a cable to play destroys the whole point of making it micro, in my opinion.

 

[DeMoN]

That WOULD be sick! But honestly, what games besides Phantasy Star even used the online capabilities? I think Kirby Air Ride did, but I can't think of any others.

There was only Homeland and 3 Phantasy Star games that supported online play. Kirby Air Ride was LAN, not online.

From wikipedia:

Online gaming

The GameCube was at one point online compatible by using a GameCube Broadband Adapter or Modem Adapter, though only four games featured an online component which were Homeland, Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II, Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Plus and Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution. This online play was ended as of April 2007. Although the official servers for the PSO titles are now offline, it is still possible to play online on various private servers such as SCHTHACK. LAN gameplay is still available for the three titles that originally supported it as well: Mario Kart: Double Dash‼, 1080° Avalanche and Kirby Air Ride. There are some third-party PC applications such as Warp Pipe and XLink Kai that allows online play of these three games by tunneling the network traffic through a computer and across the Internet, though this is not supported by Nintendo.

 

[JulietStMoon]

Ah, I see. Thanks for informing me.

 

[WiiUBricker]

Those Gamecube portables are produced by one person and are not mass produced. People should stop complaining about the price and be grateful that Ashen actually offers his masterpieces for purchase.

 

[dilav]

The fusion micro in my opinion is too fat, and the bulging heatsink/fan really throws it off for me. But it was cool to see a trim down motherboard actually fit and wired up inside a PSP shaped housing. Ashen as well as others recently have been using Wiikey fusion as well as Wode and skip out on having a disk drive, but he had a trim down Wii disk drive. It is quite amazing how compatible/similiar Wii hardware is on a GameCube.