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Rule 1 is moreso referring to PCBs that are custom designed to suit your entry. You can freely use any product that you can buy through a storefront. PCBs bought from 4layertech, Electron Shepherd, AliExpress, fleabay, Amazon, etc aren't classed as custom PCBs since they're stores that sell a...

Only useful thing I can suggest is to give the Wii a full IPA clean and go over every solder joint with a fine tooth comb, probe and verify every connection. If everything lines up, the Wii may just have died. It happens sometimes

The original G-Boy (called the WiiBoy before fear of Nintendo) was made from a DMG Gameboy shell. I'd call this a return to the classics

I gathered that much, I'm moreso confused as to why they're skipping the input filters. They're there for a reason

What are the magnet wires here for?

RIP Wave Rider

I like this muchly

The difference between energy and power can take some time to wrap your head around. The mAh rating for the cells is also a bit misleading. mAh stands for milli-Amp Hours, which is thousandths of an Amp over an hour of time. The figure basically means that the amount of power stored in the cell...

It was the other side of the caps, but yeah it might just have been a digital artefact

Amps are a measure of current flow, not stored energy. In this case it's more useful to use wattage to estimate battery life. Volts multiplied by Amps equals Watts (V x A = W). A trimmed PS2 needs 4.7 ish Watts to run, add some extra for the controls/audio/screen/cooling fan, and a little for...

Hmmm. Can you check C40, right by the removed inductor? There's a funny reflective line there that might be a solder bridge caused by bumping the capacitor during inductor removal

Potentially. How did you remove the inductor? Hot air or iron?

The GND location really doesn't matter much, they're all internally connected. The GND location marked in the doc is just a beginner friendly spot to solder to that doesn't have anything important right next to it to accidentally bump or damage. 0.2 ohms is definitely a short. Question is...

Not sure about the fan, but I can't see any visual indication of a short on the driver board