Wii AVE revisions

Calling all Wii modders. @mks.bsky.social and I are trying to get to the bottom of the Wii’s 480p issues, and part of that is deducing when certain encoder revisions were introduced. If you’re opening up Wiis for any reason, any data would be very helpful. forms.gle/FWkdTdgF8z6M...

Had some PCBs made through DKRed to give them a try, and I'm honestly super impressed!

We have an ODE wired in folks! Not my first choice but, it'll have to do!

Have a baby duck 🦆

Er, uhm, uhh *runs and hides*

Video DAC relocation - takes in 24bit digital RGB and converts it to analog RGBS.

Trimmed off section of a PU-18 motherboard for the SPU + SPU RAM. Necessary since the planned PU-23 trim won't include the large combo SPU + CD Controller chip.

Fitting the SPU board into place. Seems like I'm gonna have to move the BIOS though! 🥺

Dead-bugged PU-23 BIOS ROM relocation

For those unaware, I'm working on building a Portable PS1 for the BitBuilt Summer Build Competition - lot of work needs to go into relocating various components to be able to trim the board very small. Here's a few of the things needed to do that!

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