so far I've got the motherboard stripped of ports gamecube solder has a very high melting temperature my desoldering iron couldn't even melt it I had to heat up the iron even more on a gas range to desolder the ports I just ripped the non- essential ports off..
and then I used arctic alumina adhesive to glue the flattened thinkpad heatsink to the main chips.
so far the MB still works.
next step will be soldering ide cable to the motherboard and then wait for a breakout board for the wiikey.
wires connected to CG motherboard. waiting for breakout board to hook it up to the wiikey. I'm looking for a wavebird with a burnt out chip to use as part of the case wire up these controls to the third party controller's mainboard. I want a wavebird because it will be acting as the right and left sides of the portable and it is pretty square so it will integrate into a frankencase better I'm sure I 'll be using a lot of sheet styrene and bondo on this project
going to use an older leapfrog as the base cut the front off use sheet styrene and plastic epoxy to make it flat to attach most of the psone screen bezel
update: 6/30/2011
got the breakout board soldered up and was desoldering the controller ribbon connector and pulled up 2 traces arrggghhh!!!!! I thought the part let go but it just barely held on. anyone know of a smd leg,hole through or pad further away than a 1/2" from the connector the reset and battery can attach to?
