It's been a little bit since I built this, but it's been pointed out to me that I've never made a Cutting Edge post for any of my builds, so I suppose here is a good place to start!
The WiiVision
Funny story about this one: I originally had bought a bunch of parts to design my own custom portable (after building my first ever G-Boy), and by the time I had the parts all laid out how I wanted them, I had come to realize that it was 85-90% just a WiiVision. Years went by and I did nothing with said parts (I got sidetracked with all other kinds of fun builds, like G-Boys, G-Boys, G-Boys and more G-Boys). Eventually I reached out to Gunnar and asked if I could buy a WiiVision shell off of him, and after a PayPal transaction and a couple days, one showed up in my mail.
I started to assemble it, and came to the quick realization that I did not want to trim the buttons from the Mad Catz controller I bought. Instead, I modeled the buttons and resin printed them to fit perfectly in the case as-is. Went I went to go screw the button mounting plates to the posts inside the front half of the shell, I snapped a screw off and had to use a soldering iron and some pliers to get the screw out... And so it sat on my shelf for a couple months while I favored other projects (see above).
Anyway, after some time, I got burnt out from all the G-Boys and Ashidas and whatever else I was building, so I finally sat down one weekend and banged this sucker out. I never made a worklog, so feast your eyes on some random pics I took throughout the build:
The Final Noodz:
As of right now, this is still my favorite portable to play on. Even though the screen isn't IPS, it still looks pretty darn good to me, and the controls feel so right and it just fits so well in the hand.
The WiiVision
Funny story about this one: I originally had bought a bunch of parts to design my own custom portable (after building my first ever G-Boy), and by the time I had the parts all laid out how I wanted them, I had come to realize that it was 85-90% just a WiiVision. Years went by and I did nothing with said parts (I got sidetracked with all other kinds of fun builds, like G-Boys, G-Boys, G-Boys and more G-Boys). Eventually I reached out to Gunnar and asked if I could buy a WiiVision shell off of him, and after a PayPal transaction and a couple days, one showed up in my mail.
I started to assemble it, and came to the quick realization that I did not want to trim the buttons from the Mad Catz controller I bought. Instead, I modeled the buttons and resin printed them to fit perfectly in the case as-is. Went I went to go screw the button mounting plates to the posts inside the front half of the shell, I snapped a screw off and had to use a soldering iron and some pliers to get the screw out... And so it sat on my shelf for a couple months while I favored other projects (see above).
Anyway, after some time, I got burnt out from all the G-Boys and Ashidas and whatever else I was building, so I finally sat down one weekend and banged this sucker out. I never made a worklog, so feast your eyes on some random pics I took throughout the build:
The Final Noodz:
As of right now, this is still my favorite portable to play on. Even though the screen isn't IPS, it still looks pretty darn good to me, and the controls feel so right and it just fits so well in the hand.