Your dream handheld GameCube is finally a reality 20 years later

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An almost 20-year-old handheld GameCube concept has been dragged out of your childhood and into the harsh reality of 2022. And like all of your other pre-pubescent hopes and dreams, it hasn't quite survived the test of time. 

This homemade GameCube handheld does a great job at mimicking the sexy 2002 render it's based on, but its insides are a butchered hodgepodge. It doesn't have the energy to play anything for more than an hour and a half, and some functional features are now purely aesthetic. The comparisons between the portable and your middle-aged husk just keep on coming.

GingerOfOz, who builds portable video game consoles over on his YouTube channel  took on the task of bringing the fake GameCube handheld to life, and solved the mystery of where it originated from while he was at it.              

Y'know that fake GameCube portable that has floated around the internet for 15 years? Well, I got tired of it being fake. It's real now. pic.twitter.com/Ihox29CoP0March 12, 2022

«I just want to tell you how stupid it is to build a GameCube portable,» says GingerOfOz, who uses a Wii motherboard in this project. He explains that, compared to the Wii, the GameCube motherboard saps more power, can't be trimmed down, can't be modded easily, needs a large cooling system, has less battery life, and doesn't output at 480p natively. So a 'true' GameCube portable just isn't feasible, hence why most people who've attempted attempt to create one have opted to use the Wii motherboard instead.

That doesn't make much of a difference though, because the Wii is backward compatible with the GameCube, so for all intents and purposes, it IS a GameCube. GingerOfOz even customized the system software so the handheld would have the GameCube's boot