Most of the times I have read anything about the Wii Mini things are said that come down to what a piece of useless junk it is! And for the most part I would even have to agree for the following reasons:
- No GameCube ports!
- No MemoryCard slots!
- No SD card slot!
- No WiFi adapter!
- No USB Ethernet support!
With the idea of maybe trying to hack it myself, not that I have any illusions I would be good enough or anything , and the limitations in mind....I just bought one last year! Tested it, worked, then put it in a box and never looked at it again ....until last week when I found out that there was finally an easy enough exploit for the Mini using only Bluetooth!!! So I dusted it of and searched for all the cables and stuff to test this new thing....for me anyway...out on my own Mini! Everything worked as advertised and even my Homebrew game runs on it now....but I still feel the missing items from that list above should make it even cooler!
From the video's made by DeadlyFoez I know about the testpoints on the bottom of the mainboard that should at least give access to the SD card and GameCube pins! What I could not easily find anywhere is a list of the pinout of those testpoints I need to solder wires on. I have only scrolled through the video's to be honest and I saw the part where he solders the SD card pins to the board and a list is visible that I could kind of read from the screen a little, but I like to confirm this kind of info from multiple sources or at least in a more readable form. No offense btw DeadlyFoez, I am sure you got it right in the video as it worked later in the HBC
That group of testpoints on the board used to give the Wii Mini an SD card slot and GameCube ports I would like to call the "Extension Port". It's location and grouping of the pins are very suspicious to me and it must have been either a service port or something was meant to be soldered on to it. Not that it matters to me as I am happy the pins were not left floating deep inside the board on impossible to solder to little tiny via's! I have also been thinking of creating some kind of testing connector on my 3D printer that will fit this "Extension Port" exactly. Makes it a lot easier to use and not require any soldering at all!
Just to show what I am talking about:
This group of testpoints should be able to provide SD card, GameCube ports and MemoryCard pins to the Wii Mini!! I have been searching like crazy on the internet (ok just google, but with lots of search methods ) but I could not find any description of these pins! Any help on putting this together would be greatly appreciated and ofcourse once I have all these pins mapped I will share my findings here. Just in case anyone wonders why I would even bother....I just think it's going to be fun and educational. And maybe even helpful to someone else if I document the pinout of this port.
EDIT: Just notice the little error in my thread title...can't seem to edit the title anymore! Sorry about that!
- No GameCube ports!
- No MemoryCard slots!
- No SD card slot!
- No WiFi adapter!
- No USB Ethernet support!
With the idea of maybe trying to hack it myself, not that I have any illusions I would be good enough or anything , and the limitations in mind....I just bought one last year! Tested it, worked, then put it in a box and never looked at it again ....until last week when I found out that there was finally an easy enough exploit for the Mini using only Bluetooth!!! So I dusted it of and searched for all the cables and stuff to test this new thing....for me anyway...out on my own Mini! Everything worked as advertised and even my Homebrew game runs on it now....but I still feel the missing items from that list above should make it even cooler!
From the video's made by DeadlyFoez I know about the testpoints on the bottom of the mainboard that should at least give access to the SD card and GameCube pins! What I could not easily find anywhere is a list of the pinout of those testpoints I need to solder wires on. I have only scrolled through the video's to be honest and I saw the part where he solders the SD card pins to the board and a list is visible that I could kind of read from the screen a little, but I like to confirm this kind of info from multiple sources or at least in a more readable form. No offense btw DeadlyFoez, I am sure you got it right in the video as it worked later in the HBC
That group of testpoints on the board used to give the Wii Mini an SD card slot and GameCube ports I would like to call the "Extension Port". It's location and grouping of the pins are very suspicious to me and it must have been either a service port or something was meant to be soldered on to it. Not that it matters to me as I am happy the pins were not left floating deep inside the board on impossible to solder to little tiny via's! I have also been thinking of creating some kind of testing connector on my 3D printer that will fit this "Extension Port" exactly. Makes it a lot easier to use and not require any soldering at all!
Just to show what I am talking about:
This group of testpoints should be able to provide SD card, GameCube ports and MemoryCard pins to the Wii Mini!! I have been searching like crazy on the internet (ok just google, but with lots of search methods ) but I could not find any description of these pins! Any help on putting this together would be greatly appreciated and ofcourse once I have all these pins mapped I will share my findings here. Just in case anyone wonders why I would even bother....I just think it's going to be fun and educational. And maybe even helpful to someone else if I document the pinout of this port.
EDIT: Just notice the little error in my thread title...can't seem to edit the title anymore! Sorry about that!
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