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Hack Like Heck - Andrew Miller - MilLs Dj - The Ultimate Portable (1972 to 2012, 50+ Gaming Systems, Movies, Shows, Music, Apps, and around 100,000 Video Games, All In 1)

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This video shows a walk through of the construction process, and a bit of showing it off of a portable Wii that's been soft and hard modded into a handheld system that boots to a custom interface that houses everything listed in the title and more. It involves software and hardware designing for it to become real and playable, so the video is FULL of information on how it's made, the steps I took, showing the system off, credited sources of help, and some funny tid bits to express my personality and how it would be like if I was on Ben Heck's Show. I focused on a bunch of aspects like play-ability (the controls, cause what's a portable if you can't play it?) It houses 4 controllers that can be switched for playing; and they are all for playing games the best way for the user. Another focus is the interface for a diverse library, making it easy to use, quick game booting, and all around stylish and completely beautiful art, icons, and originally composed music. The main idea of this system is an ALL in 1 that can not only run vast amounts of games from various systems, but you can PLAY them (hence the focus on mastering controls). I tried to cover everything I could in 18 minutes, Enjoy, Please like and share! and for more photos of the system and other info, check out this page with my audition video as well! Hack Like Heck: MilLs Dj

 

"I wish to apologize for this negativity related to amount of appropriate credit given to sources for this project. There is no intention of claiming ideas that were not mine. Since this is my first portable Wii and it was a very new build for me, any phrases like "I found out" are suppose to be taken as "I learned". There are infinite amounts of ways to see things as discredited, after all, we are all modifying and making adaptions of existing technology (aka Team Twiizers made HomeBrew for the Wii, which is a Nintendo game system, and Nintendo didn't invent Videogames, Ralph Henry Baer did). Please, comment appropriately, and if there is nothing nice to say, don't say it. I'd rather see no posts than negative ones toward anyone. Thank you."

 

This is my 1st of many portable Wii's.

 

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Watch the video, Its well detailed, but here are some other things I may have missed!

 

Specs

  • Holds built in movies, tv shows, music, games, and apps like Netflix, hulu, and internet.
  • 7 inch Raspberry Pi “touch” screen
  • WiFi
  • Bluetooth (Connects wiimotes and Bluetooth controllers)
  • Rechargeable
  • 3 Speakers
  • Complete Wii motion sensitivity
  • Battery life is ? Hours (last for at least 3, I havent timed this)
  • 5v Fan and heatsink for cooling
  • Painted 3D Printed Case
  • 2 USB ports Built in
  • 2 TeraByte Harddrive Built in
  • SD Card Built in
  • Gamecube Memory Card ( games saved on Harddrive too)
  • Internal Clock Custom menu for game selection
  • Menu music originally composed (chipmusic, by who else but MilLs Dj  )
  • 4 Controllers Built in!!!!
  • Screen/audio controls (not just your brightness and contrast controls)
  • Headphone jack
  • Low power indication ( controls start to glitch around, better save quick or plug in!)
  • Wii sensor bar built in
  • Hibernation mode
  • Control box put for 4 external players and tv output
  • Stylish curves
  • User manual for Software
  • User manual for Hardware (how to operate the buttons and things and stuff)

 

Controllers/Controls on portable worth noting

  • Gamecube
  • Wiimote
  • Numchuck
  • Wii Classic controller pro

 

….

 

  • Reset Button
  • Wii Bluetooth Sync
  • Dual shoulder buttons
  • GameCube style joystick
  • 6 shoulder buttons (TRIGGERED)
  • 3ds slider
  • wii sensor bar

 

...you can also attach or sync... keyboards, a mouse, usb, bluetooth controllers, usb controllers.

 

Game systems that can be played on the portable!  ( amount of games )

 

 

 

 

{tabbedtable} Tab LabelTab Content
Page 1
  • Wii (686)
  • GameCube (321)
  • N64 (266)
  • Virtual Boy (30)
  • SNES (435)
  • NES (873)
  • Famicom (in NES)
  • PC engine (180)
  • Turbo graphx (in PC Engine)
  • Turbo duo (in PC Engine)
  • Vectrex (54)
  • Sega Cd (85)
  • Genesis (918)
  • 32x (In Genesis) Mega Drive (In Genesis)
  • Master System (351)
  • SG-1000 (91)
Page 2
  • Atari 2600 (307)
  • 5200 (47)
  • 7800 (29)
  • XL (463)
  • ST (In XL)
  • 500 (In XL)
  • Gameboy Advance (907)
  • Gameboy color (538)
  • Original Gameboy (699)
  • Neo geo pocket (35)
  • Atari Lynx (91)
  • Wonderswan (23)
  • Gamegear (91)
  • Cavestory
Page 3
  • Colecovision (91)
  • Creativision (14)
  • Intelvision (138)
  • Odyssey (42)
  • Odyssey 2 (In Odyssey)
  • MAME (84)
  • Retro Arch (large scattered amount)
  • Neo geo (285)
  • Neo geo CD (large scattered amount)
  • Capcom play system 1 (120)
  • Capcom play system 2 (224)
  • PlayStation 1 (12)
Page 4
  • MSX (172)
  • MSX 2 (In MSX)
  • Sinclair zx spectrum (6226)
  • Commodore 64 (14554)
  • Tandy color Computer (75)
  • ScummVM Amstrad (33)
  • Amiga (443)
  • Apple 2 (1260)
  • Dragon 32 (2)
  • Vg 5000 (22)

 

 

Music and Media is found on page 3 and a software user manual is found on page 4!

 

(I know, if you add up the numbers it doesn’t equal 100,000. But there are minigames inside games, hacked versions of games made by fans and other groups, and Media is infinitely changing. Its more of an abstract thought to say 100,000 videogames becasue there is no definite number, but it is the closest amount I can relate to in the WiiSearch process)

 

Movie Clip from Juggarnaut

 

Songs used

 

Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine 2 Player Vs. Mode theme

Lil Uzi Vert - All My Friends Are Dead

 

(my songs, 3 haven’t been released yet, but check out more songs by me here! https://chipmusic.org/MilLs+Dj )

Believer

 

RoBoTiCal

Facing the Wall in Bed

Feelin’ Alive

Like A Kid Again

 

Any questions, ask me, I probably have the answers

 

And follow me on Instagram!  mills_dj And facebook and youtube

 

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000879936046 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw9qlCJwbLPzh2SegK681yg?view_as=subscriber

 

Thank you Element 14 community, I am new to this site and I would love your vote to carry on the legacy. With builds like such, I know I’d keep it more than interesting! (psst... Ben...it plays a ton of atari generations too... )

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 8 years ago +19
    I wish that the lot of you 'd go back to your own community.
  • shank
    shank over 8 years ago +15
    Hello millsdj I go by the online alias of "Shank" and as you probably know, I played a major role in Portablizing the Wii. For 3 years, I spent thousands of hours working on properly reverse engineering…
  • shockslayer
    shockslayer over 8 years ago in reply to shank +7
    Just pointing out this is the same Shank from my video(yes, the goofy looking guy strapped to a mattress at MGC.) He's absolutely the key contributing factor behind the greatness of Wii portablizing, and…
  • balearicdynamics
    balearicdynamics over 8 years ago

    An incredible job well explained and great video. I really enjoyed it

     

    Enrico

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 8 years ago

    I wish that the lot of you 'd go back to your own community.

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  • jgriswold
    jgriswold over 8 years ago in reply to rocits

    rocits  wrote:

     

    Where is your competition entry?

     

     

    Your comment to Noah:

    rocits  wrote:

     

    You didn't enter the competition! So unless this effects you directly your establishing your own bias and trying to impact the voting system yourself!

    What you're saying is that it is fine to make these remarks if it directly effects them, yet you asked the exact same question to Shank, who it DOES directly effect.. You're also making the point that what Noah said is not okay because he didn't enter the competition. See below:

     

    Your comment to ShockSlayer:

    rocits  wrote:

     

    You are still active in the competition and you're making derogatory remarks against another contestant!? Seriously!

    Wait, what? Didn't you just tell Noah he was only allowed to make such comments if he entered the competition? ...

     

    The point is that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, and you have no place in accusing these people of trying to cheat the system when you haven't the slightest clue of what they have worked for. And please, do not ask me where my competition entry is.

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 8 years ago in reply to ogorman.amela

    ogorman.amela  wrote:

     

    I'm sorry but it does not seem reasonable to say "I discovered" to something that takes hundreds of hours of research, testing, re-testing, etc...

     

    That's stretching it.. if it really takes hundreds of hours to discover the current consumption of the 4-layer board.. it would not be something to be proud about. Five minutes would cover it with a multimeter.

    It doesn't justify alleging plagiarism or theft when there was no intention, because in his favor he certainly did mention people on his video (some user 'abs' etc) and web-sites are visible on his video too.

     

    ogorman.amela  wrote:

     

    The part that tipped me off that this project was plagarized was with how many different components it had and how "seamless" the video makes it seem for them to come together. 

    I'm no detective, but a lot of videos show the polished result only, and not the failures along the way.

     

    I don't get why so many people are laying into someone who is clearly passionate and wishes to share his project.

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  • davedarko
    davedarko over 8 years ago in reply to shank

    Thanks for the kind words about my video and portable image

     

    I have high respect for all the accomplishments in modding of the wii and every other scene that bends and "recycles" hardware to their own will. Having something like the Raspberry PI allows people to not have to heavily modify boards though and I like that aspect of "repeatability" for these projects. I don't think I could live with the amounts of consoles I would probably destroy first in my learning curve and the amount I'd actually play with the finished console.

     

    Would have been great to see the comments first and not the down-ratings and that the community give Andrew some room to wiggle out of the situation, since I think it could have been much worse with a lot less credit being given in the video. At least my interpretation/understanding of the word "research" leaves room for that, but in regards to comments written by Andrew on the audition video I see your side and frustration.

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  • shockslayer
    shockslayer over 8 years ago in reply to rocits

    I stand for the people I believe in, competition or not.

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  • rocits
    rocits over 8 years ago in reply to shockslayer

    You are still active in the competition and you're making derogatory remarks against another contestant!? Seriously!

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  • ogorman.amela
    ogorman.amela over 8 years ago in reply to shabaz

    I'm sorry but it does not seem reasonable to say "I discovered" to something that takes hundreds of hours of research, testing, re-testing, etc... and passing it off as your own discovery. I would be furious if someone did this without any mention of my hard work. Just a little acknowledgement would go a long way.

     

    The part that tipped me off that this project was plagarized was with how many different components it had and how "seamless" the video makes it seem for them to come together. Something just felt off... Very rarely do you get something put together correctly that works the first time around (without reading the instructions that came with it - that someone else wrote).

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 8 years ago in reply to shockslayer

    It's hard to see the cleats, because the examples are weak. It seems reasonable to say "I discovered" instead of "I discovered from a friend who may have read it on a website" and so on.

    Also, the video clearly does reference others. And the end result is that he's promoting engineering interest through his video - hats off to him, as well as to you and anyone else who shares engineering information whether its on a website or in a video.

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  • shockslayer
    shockslayer over 8 years ago in reply to shabaz

    True, but you're paying for those components, with the labels on them and all, and part of that is the freedom to do with it whatever you'd like.

     

    If he wants to stand on our shoulders, that's fine, but we ask that he leave the cleats at home.

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