Console Collection

I’m glad to see you’re interested! I have a handful of consoles, mostly ones I accrued during my childhood.
I’ve modded them all to make them a bit more useful and usable.

Nintendo DS

Completed: 2025-01-04
This is the oldest console mod I still own, and has also been the only one with an untroubled history. You’ll see what “untroubled” means as the collection grows bigger, even easy mods are hard! But they’re almost always worth the cost!

At least it has a DSpico flashcard, that one is very good. But there’s still nothing yelling “wow, this thing is modded!”.

The magic of this Nintendo DS is in its capture card. I can take perfect screenshots of the screens and take full recordings of them and sound with nothing but a USB-C cord and cc3dsfs.
The capture card I installed can be found here. It also got a batteryless mod installed.
The latter mod is mostly a consequence of the fact that all the original batteries I had laying around kept dying and third-party batteries sometimes like to die too. The mod still lets me use batteries just fine as well.

Here’s a picture of when I installed the capture card. The mod is really not hard at all!
Since this picture is decently old (I installed it in late 2024), it doesn’t show the batteryless mod (which I installed in May 2026).
I also don’t have any pictures of the other side, and I don’t wanna open up the console just for pictures.

Nintendo Wii U

Completed: 2025-11-01
The console itself is actually very boring in regards to modding, in my case anyway.

The only actual mod this Wii U got in the end was a USB-C Power Mod. Initially I wanted to install de_fuse, but it was too much to bother with separate SD Cards just to be able to use this dumb brick of a console.
The GamePad was also thoroughly ruined by the people that used it before, and buying replacements would be financially ill-advised. In the end, vanilla solves the GamePad-shaped problem this console had.
vanilla allows using computers with compatible WiFi chipsets (like the Steam Deck!) to connect to a Wii U and act like a real GamePad. It works fine, although mine loves disconnecting. But at least the Steam Deck is orange! That’s objectively the best color.
You can find the USB-C Power Mod here.

Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP

Completed: 2025-11-01

It’s in Clear Blue! My wife likes clear shells. It also has a bafflingly good looking IPS panel!

I also like being able to charge my consoles with normal charging bricks, so it got the same USB-C treatment as the Nintendo DS (although the Nintendo DS gets charged through the capture card).

This console also ended up needing new hinges, because the old ones broke while swapping the shell. Thank god replacement parts are a thing!

The USB-C Power Mod can be found here.

Nintendo New 3DS XL

Completed: 2026-04-10
This one received the least love from my soldering iron.
Is it perfect as is, or unworthy of said love? Who knows.

It looks even more unassuming than the DS above, but this one has endured a worse fate: the previous owner of this console (my wife bought it used) really hated the corners of the screen.
How they damaged it like that is beyond me, I’ve only ever bricked NANDs by toying with files too much. :P

I was a bit too aggressive with the adhesive when I removed the old display, since the border of the display is glued to the LCD (it’s a piece of transparent plastic).
I fixed it a bit with some screen adhesive tape, but couldn’t be bothered to do it properly. My wife sure doesn’t mind, it plays Mario Kart DS just fine, since I still can’t figure out how to beat her. :P

Once again, I hate old and hardware-specific chargers.

The USB-C Power Mod can be found here.

Nintendo GameCube

Completed: 2026-05-19
This one was difficult. Unfortunately, like the Nintendo DS, the outside doesn’t really reflect the work that happened inside.

The Nintendo Shitcube. I only own a single chocolate chip cookie for it.

Wow, finally some signs of work on this box!
I hate dealing with analog equipment. It’s expensive, requires extra hardware that needs extra maintaining, and in the end you’re just trying really hard to turn analog signals digital as fast as possible with as little noise as possible.
So, to save myself from the curse of analog equipment, I installed a Retro GEM. It now supports the handy dandy movie interface! How convenient!
I also installed a PicoLoader and got an SD2SP2 adapter that sticks out to the side, so I don’t need to remove the Game Boy Player mounted to the console to get to the microSD Card.
And, yes, this console has a troubled history: the original motherboard died in the process of modding the console. I replaced it with a relatively cheap NTSC-U motherboard from ebay, since I didn’t want the rest of the console to go into the trash.

Here’s the only in-progress picture I remembered to take.

Here are the mods: Retro GEM, PicoLoader, USB-C Power and SD2SP2.

Nintendo Wii

Completed: 2026-06-28
This one was honestly the roughest one to do. Just like with the GameCube, the first console I tried this on died in the process, and replacement motherboards just aren’t as easy to find as entire new consoles for a console that sold this well.
So I bought a new console plus fresh modding parts (sans the Retro GEM that I could confirm was functional on the GameCube) and, well, unsurprisingly, it went off without any hitches on the second try.

It got a clear case, because, you know, clear cases can be cool. It also got a USB-C Power Mod and a Retro GEM, like the earlier consoles you’ve seen in this collection.
I also chose to region swap it from PAL to NTSC-U since most of the game dumps I have these days are North American copies, and because the GameCube we have is also a North American one.

Here are the mods: Retro GEM and USB-C Power Mod.
The clear case was from some random ebay reseller.

The Special Guest

Completed: 2024-09-11
This one is actually the oldest mod that I still have pictures for.
Too many people bite when I bring it up, and I’m not someone that’d disappoint anyone with this.
I hope you’re not looking at this at work.

Adult Toys ahead!

Yup. It’s a Hitachi Magic Wand. Not really a console, but you sure can play with it.

Vibratex unfortunately doesn’t sell these in Europe (the person that owns this brought it here from Canada), and third-party power bricks are inconvenient.
So, obviously, it’s USB-C modded with some random USB-C trigger board set to 15 V and a buck converter to step it down to 10 V.
It passed the field test with flying colors many times so far.