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That's one slick cube, I'm planning to do similar but no custom paint job

That is a nice colour red, it looks beautiful. I normally don't like overdone leds, but these orange ones on the controller ports look very nice.

Home etched adapter...nice

Really nice work!
How did you made this "Controler-indicator"?

does anyone knows how to do this "LED-Controller-Indicator-Mod"?

Sorry it took me so long to reply. Thanks, I worked my ass off on this cube, glad you guys like it. Also the etched adaptor has it's own power regulator for the wasp, so I didn't have to tap into the 3.3v on the motherboard. I made 2 of these, the other one doesn't have the large ground wire and makes all it's connections through the ffc connector. Not as cool as the megadrive, but I'm proud of it, lol.

Anyway, to tell the truth the orange LEDs are still on when a controller is plugged in. I used switches that I harvested from a couple dead cd-rom drives to turn the green ones on, and they drown out the orange completely. My original plan was to use some 3 pin micro switches, that way the orange LED would shut off and the green LED would turn on. But I only found 2 in my parts drawers.. And instead of ordering some, I just used regular on/off detector switches out of a cd-rom drive, and made the orange LEDs stay on.. Anyway I removed the metal pieces that are in the top part of the controller ports, and mounted the switches in their place using some jb weld. It's kind of hard to explain the wiring details, but it is actually very simple. Here's a closer picture inside the controller port to give you an idea how it works.



I did finally order some 3 pin micro switches to do another one using blue and white LEDs. I've already started on it, and it works but the switches are a little bigger and I'm having problems with them hanging up on the controller plugs. I just haven't felt like trying to figure it out. I think I can just file the edge of the switch down some and fix it, but that would require me to remove the switches. Which wouldn't be a big deal if I didn't already jb weld them in... next time I'll test with hot glue.

Okay so it is a physical switch and not something about changing voltage while the Controller is plugged in?

I d love to see a picture of this wireing

Thx anyways for the reply

Its not quite my gamecube, but heres the SDGecko I made last week! Not terribly fancy but hey I havent done very much soldering stuff.

suppose its not technically a game cube anymore but a pretty bad ass retro game PC case

Evlspcmk wrote:suppose its not technically a game cube anymore but a pretty bad ass retro game PC case

Holy shit that's very cool! I wouldn't mind having one of those on my workbench.

That's retro alright, hardware probably older than what was originally in the GameCube itself

yea I think the original psp would have been just as powerful as this, but it plays all those 90s pc games I love and runs full blown x86 windows... Next one I'll stick a Rpi in it as a cute little emulator.

Hardest part was the usb brackets, I've got the laser cut files all down now so next one will be easy.

I hope you're using dead cubes for this. Otherwise that's pretty cool.

of course, had one with a dud dvd drive and another with a dud motherboard so I had to do something with the remains. Just happened to score a bunch of those AMD single board computers for free so this was born from the bits from my parts drawer.

Not anything special but different for me

almmiron wrote:I'm selling it. Just because no one made the component cable clones to sell, i'm not able to pay 300 obamas in a oficial one and i'm only playing cube on wii. Great Boy!

I'd buy it but you're in US I'm guessing..

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No sales in this area, read the rules, go to the market place.

Here's mine (hi, i'm new by the way!)
I'm not one to care much for modding (but have a xenogc on its way for homebrewing purposes), so all of my cubes are stock*, no mods, no paintjobs, nothing

In the pic:

• pal dol-001 silver
  pal dol-001 indigo
  pal dol-101 pearl white
  ntsc-j dol-001 black *with region switch
  ntsc-j dol-001 spice orange
  Wavebird and ASCII keyboard controller

Not in the pic/not visible:

• another indigo pal cube
  another spice orange one on its way
  bba x 2
  component cable
  sdml, home made sdgecko, WiSD/sdgecko
  a huge collection of cube games
  10 official controllers in total, with two more japan-only colors on their way

I'm kind of lucky that I spend extended periods of time in Japan, so i run into gems every now and then, and pay no import taxes.
Actually used to have two spice orange cubes, but a friend of mine had all of his game gear and hdtv stolen so i replaced his.

My ASCII controller is halfway done with its retr0bright treatment, just need to finish up on the keys and control stick

I'm so happy to see a strong love for the little cube, i've recently reignited my interest in the platform for homebrew purposes and now find myself scouring ebay and amazon for good deals on official color variations that I don't own yet. Kind of eyeing those starlight gold, char custom, and tales of symfonia cubes at the moment, but those dev and test units will probably always be a dream for me.

Nice collection right there.

Here's my Cube running with a Streetwalker XenoGC Via Raspberry Pi with a swapped out LED.


I'll swap out my Pi for a XenoGC Atmega8 once my Arduino gets here in the mail and thus put the back plastic back on and perhaps use some regular screws instead of tape

Nothing fancy here:
- earliest gen PAL model
- viper chip with USB module running cobra 1.6
- white power led
- a row of 5 leds which currently dont work (and lazy me didn't fix yet)

it has been some years...

If megalomaniac would finally ship my WASP, this cube could become way more awesome that it is already

I'm new to these forums, but here's mine. It was originally a silver one

Those lights look very cool; not to in your face but not tucked away either.

Was doing a little paint project, so I painted some cubes. Wanted to make it look as stock as possible, so what is grey in the original colours remains grey. Most of them had faded colours so now they look like new again. The white one sadly is a bit busted at the open button; my impatience screwing it all back together got the better of me before letting the paint dry, and I was out of paint to rectify it. So will sand it a little in the future and then paint that little spot again whenever I can get hold of some cheap paint. Anyway, it took me a few days in several weekends; first unscrewing everything and seperate all the parts that needed painting, then painting+letting it dry (except the white one which I did recently seperately), and ultimately putting everything back together. A lot of trouble and will probably think a second time before attempting something similar. Anyway, I think I have most of the standard colours now and, despite the trouble, very pleased with the result. Here they are;





























Let me know what you guys think.