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Can you remember back when we interviewed WeskMods about his involvement with the Nintendo Kawaii, a miniature-sized Wii console on a keychain that's the size of a Game Boy Cartridge? Well,
Doing some sort of equivalent would be very expensive. I imagine getting the chips and redesigning the PCB and its traces could be a lot of money.
Doing an FPGA version would also be the same. People can barely do FPGA accesible for the N64 and PSX, and even then I think there’s limitations with those implementations.
Boards trims of the Wii seem very plausible as the hardware wasn’t as complex as other consoles from the era. I have no idea about sizes, but there’s a chance the Wii has a smaller processor thanks to die shrinks.