

It’s not clear whether it has WiFi or Bluetooth modules. Unlike a lot of current smartphones, it has a headphone jack too, so all is well in this corner of the world. GingerOfMods says it’ll run for two or three hours on a single charge, but you can plug in an external battery pack to keep playing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess or some such a bit longer. There’s a USB-C port for charging and data transfer. The rear has triggers, Z-buttons, and a cooling fan. The dual joysticks are from Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons and GingerOfMods yanked the face buttons from a DS Lite, while circuitry from a GameCube controller ties those together. GingerOfMods 3D-printed the shell and frankensteined the Wiiboy Color together using bits and pieces of other Nintendo consoles, as Kotaku noted. upeF2rHyKR- GingerOfMods August 27, 2020 My latest project is complete! The goal was to make a portable Wii the size of a GameBoy Color, and after 9 months of work it's finally finished. Even better, since the Wii is backwards compatible with GameCube games, you can play those on the move too, along with retro titles though the Virtual Console. But there are ways you might be able to play Super Mario Galaxy on the go real soon instead of waiting for the rumored Switch version.Ī modder has crammed a Wii into a handheld case about the size of a Game Boy Color, with a 3.5-inch 480p IPS screen.

The Wii has a ton of great games that Nintendo hasn’t ported to the Switch, and it probably won’t do so in most cases.
