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Nintendo Wii The Size Of A Game Boy Cartridge Finally Released Open Source (retrododo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Doing some sort of equivalent would be very expensive. I imagine getting the chips and redesigning the PCB and its traces could be a lot of money.

Doing an FPGA version would also be the same. People can barely do FPGA accesible for the N64 and PSX, and even then I think there's limitations with those implementations.

Boards trims of the Wii seem very plausible as the hardware wasn't as complex as other consoles from the era. I have no idea about sizes, but there's a chance the Wii has a smaller processor thanks to die shrinks.