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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

 

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  • 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…
  • noah_bb
    noah_bb over 8 years ago in reply to rocits

    I didn't enter but I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 8 years ago

    Why don’t all of you stop the organised back and front games? This community has been free of those until now.

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  • rocits
    rocits over 8 years ago in reply to shank

    Where is your competition entry?

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    rocits over 8 years ago in reply to noah_bb

    Where is your competition entry?

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  • shank
    shank over 8 years ago in reply to shank

    If needed, I can cite examples with timestamps to your video, along with links and sources of the information that was plagiarized.

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 8 years ago

    need popcorn ...

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  • shank
    shank over 8 years ago

    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 the Wii so it could be used in portables. I spent hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on the project, with no expectation of a return on investment. I reached out to engineers, medical xray operators, professors, Wii Hackers, portablizers who had left the community, and more, trying to find answers. I was bed ridden for a week due to health concerns from sanding wii motherboards, and failed a college class because of it. I purchassed dozens of Wiis, and shipped many of them for free to other members for them to help work on. I put my blood, sweat, tears, heart, soul, and wallet into development for wii for portablizing. All along the way, I documented it all, for free, so others could build their own portables. I love this hobby, and want to help and encourage everyone to create their own Wii portable.

    I would like you to imagine yourself being in my shoes. Imagine pouring everything you have into a cause you believe in so much, without asking a dime in return. Throughout your video, you claimed credit for many, many of the things we as a community worked so hard to accomplish. I encourage you to use any of my work to make better portables, but it truly saddens me that you feel the need to claim credit for everything I worked so hard to accomplish. I spent three years of my life, countless hours, and all of my disposable income on this so everyone doesn't have to. The least you can do is give credit.

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  • noah_bb
    noah_bb over 8 years ago in reply to millsdj

    Family name, sure. But having 4 "E Millers" and 3 of them being "Eric" is a little suspicious, don't you think? Also the fact that several of the accounts that voted for you have completely changed their names is a bit odd.

     

    Besides, perhaps the low ratings are from members of a community, as you say, who aren't very fond of people blatantly ripping off other's work. In your video, for example, you state that YOU found out there's a difference in revisions that's associated with shell color and that YOU "discovered" that the 4-layer boards use less power. That's not true at all. I've seen your work. You just pump out the same units over and over again (using other people's research, mind you) and sell them to pad your wallet. There is no improvement to the design. Your Super Hype 64 or whatever even incorporates the PSOne screen, an archaic and outdated panel that's been sworn off by the community due to it's rarity, high power consumption and cheaper alternatives.

     

    Most of the hardware elements featured in your video would not be possible without BitBuilt or our work. Yet you completely relegate our efforts to "trimming information" when you clearly used much more than the trimming guide. For example, your method of switching between controllers is directly ripped from JacksonS' latest units yet he's completely uncredited. Same goes for his Wii remote information. He put all of this information out there in the public so that everyone in the community could use it to better their systems and you rip it off claiming it to be your own? Truthfully it's both disgusting and disappointing. There are plenty of other examples throughout your video as well.

     

    There are also a lot of inconsistencies within the information you've provided about the games that this can run. I can guarantee you that you cannot get 200 N64 games to run on the Wii. There are only 21 titles that run through the Virtual Console meaning they'll be full speed. However, most games that run through Wii64 will experience heavy lag or be unplayable altogether. Had you actually done any of your own testing/research, you would have come across this issue and wouldn't have listed 200 games as working.

     

    Overall I wouldn't relegate a low rating to "pulling from a separate community to skew voting." Perhaps everyone can see through the smokescreen you think you've created and can really see what you're trying to do and are giving you the rating you truly deserve. If I recall correctly, your video even had a 1:15 like to dislike ratio before you turned off ratings and comments... I'm not sure if you're ripping off other people's work to boost your ego or if you really didn't think anyone would notice. At any rate, this is definitely not the kind of behavior anyone would expect or want to see from "The new Ben Heck." You claim it's all about "the thrill of the build" but for you I honestly think it's more about "the thrill of the Benjamins."

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  • mcb1
    mcb1 over 8 years ago in reply to Jan Cumps

    I believe one of the members showed this by getting his friends at varsity to create an account and vote.

    After the winners were announced he admitted the experiment and asked that the prize be awarded to the true winner.

     

    There will always be ways to cheat a system.

    There seems to be lots of video of multiple voting in the Russian election.

     

    In the end those that cheat have a hollow victory, and the community will always wonder why the result doesn't match the subsequent efforts and involvement.

     

     

     

    Mark

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  • millsdj
    millsdj over 8 years ago in reply to nobble

    I agree, and if you say such things, then I'd expect you to rate everyone accordingly! Ever heard of a family name, Nooble?

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