The not-so-portable portable GameCube
By Donald Melanson 
posted Jul 27th 2006 10:01PM
posted Jul 27th 2006 10:01PM
[Via Joystiq]
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Worse ben creation ever! it sucks big time man why call it portable if it aint!
Retarded.
I thought this idea was clever. I would hate for this to be belittled and logged away for eternity. Anyone at home could create some contraption and be criticized because its not better than an xbox360. Give the guy some credit for putting this together.
he's no Ben...
Im not saying what i said because it's no xbox 360 im saying it from all he did was put a skin on the bottom and cut a controller in half and molded them to the sides thats all he did....
If you've ever opened up a GameCube, you know how compact they've already built the whole thing, and you might have gained an understanding for how difficult it would be to squeeze it into a smaller case.
The internals consist of two boards and a compact optical drive tier, all three connected in a stack by a single vertical column. There are almost no wires to be found, whatsoever, except the ribbon cable which connects the front controller port panel to one of the boards. (Going from memory, so if I'm a little off, please forgive me). The inside of an XBox looks like a joke compared to it.
The only way to make the thing smaller is to miniaturize its components and boards, which is exactly what Nintendo did when designing the Wii (it's a more powerful GameCube), but it's not something a mere mortal can accomplish on his own.
thats hilarious. although hooking up four controllers into the top would make for some interesting gameplay.
You can play a videogame and workout at the same time
I've noticed that a lot of portables end up looking like a melted Dreamcast, or at the very least, it's controller.
Or, better yet---this one resembles the keyboard-controller they made for the Gamecube (which I thought was really only useful for Phantasy Star Online).
http://www.planetgamecube.com/media/2389/1/9342.jpg
Really though, I'm gettin a dreamcast vibe from this. And I honestly wouldn't mind it, if you didn't have to plug it in. But they already sell several other Gamecube battery + screen attatchments (one of which I own). So, this design seems a little moot.
woah that keyboard is RAD!!!
I certainly couldn't make that.
How many of you could?
Matt, you're wrong. I've spent a lot of time modding my cube; whilst the boards *are* sandwiched tightly, there's also a LOT of dead space at the base where the BBA adaptor etc plug in. There's room behind the connector panel, and the CD flip takes up a bit more room than expected, and dead space either side of the cooling arrangement.
With an exposed spindle and different cooler (modified VGA cooler perhaps?) I reckon the GC could easily be half the size.
The GC is also 12v so ideal to plug into a car; obviously a battery would be better
I, for one, welcome our portable GC Overlords.
"I advise playing it on a table or on my lap."
Bit tricky eh? :D
yeah... I mean, I dont even know the guy that well Joel, not sure I'd be comfortable playing it in his lap...
Why didn't he put a battery in it? They make Gamecube batteries. Infact, I have one. Intec (I think that's how you spell it) makes them. You can buy one off ebay for about $10-$15
So what happens when you have to go somewhere? You just carry it around? It's a piece of crap for portability. The Controler on the other hand...
To people who continue to innovate, rock on. The industry needs more of ya.
To all the haters out there who claim it sucks or they can do better, put your money where your mouth is and do it. Unless you can do something just as good or better than someone else, cram it up your basement-dwelling pieholes, because you have neither the drive to the creativity to do anything half as good as this.