SD card relocation on 6 layer Wii
My Wii needed to boot into bootmii after trimming so I am posting the sd card relocation points here for anyone in the future that needs or wants to relocate SD. This is a CPU-01 board but I would...
View ArticleGameboy Macro Screen Swapping
This will let you switch what screen is displayed on the bottom screen of a phat DS. This is usefull for playing some DS games on a Gameboy Macro. It's not easy, but the main idea is to have DCLK2 go...
View Article[Rough Draft] U10 Troubleshooting Guide
Here's a draft of my U10 Troubleshooting guide. If you have any suggestions, let me know U10 Relocation Troubleshooting If you cannot get your board to boot after relocating the U10 chip, following...
View ArticleScreen with the tiny board
Hi everyone, I'm making a portable and am using the screen with the tiny motherboard (pictured below). The problem is that whenever my battery is running out the screen gets underpowered. I remember a...
View Article960i Compatible Gamecube games. (Swiss)
Swiss for Gamecube has the ability to field render 60fps games to 960i, effectively doubling the perceivable resolution (640x960i). There are caveats to this and it doesn't work well for all titles....
View ArticleConfiguring your PS2 portable for SD loading (79k models)
For the latest version with updates and improvements click here: Click me! With the recent advancements in SD loading for the PS2 it's now viable for portables to use this feature for booting games....
View ArticleHow to Trim a Wii (in video form)
When I first got interested in portablizing, the specifics and methods behind Wii trimming and how it worked were some of the more confusing parts for me when I was a complete beginner in electronics....
View ArticleN64 Advanced VGA
I bought a few of these N64 Advanced boards from https://retrogamerstuff.com/. These are a great solution for N64 VGA as the UltraVGA's aren't easy to get your hands on. If you want to build your own...
View ArticleUltimate N64 NTSC -> PAL Region-Switch Guide
Besides woring on my N64p, I did a little sideproject. I wanted to know if it's possible to modify a NTSC N64 Board to play PAL games (because of RGB-Support, of course..). I searched all around the...
View ArticleBuilding Internal USB Drives Into Portables
The ability to use USB to run homebrews and such is awesome because of how easy it is to transfer new software and games onto it, but it's not totally perfect. The tiny USB drive in the BOM is super...
View ArticleShank's Wii Super Thread
About Shank's Series of Guides Spoiler: Introduction Shank's Guides are created as a separate entity unaffiliated with BitBuilt. The information within them should not be considered official BitBuilt...
View ArticleDreamcast, PS1, N64 Undervolting info (incomplete)
Unlike the much more complete Wii undervolting "guide" this is just a smattering of info found when undervolting the DC, PS1 and N64. Dreamcast info (8w to 5.5w) N64 info (5w to... Dreamcast, PS1, N64...
View ArticleLMAOv2 and NAND relocation "Guide"
With the surge of completed LMAO trims, I'm releasing some of my notes from my personal compendium. If you're new to Wii portablizing or don't have finely developed soldering skill, you may want to...
View ArticleThe Definitive DC Trimming Guide
Introduction This guide and its graphics were created by me, to the best of my knowledge and certain. But without guarantee of correctness! (Even if everything has been tested by me)! So make sure that...
View ArticleDiscontinued BitBuilt Custom PCBs
Here are some of the legacy Bitbuilt custom PCB. If a PCB is not listed here, you can probably find it's documentation here: https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.php?forums/bitbuilt-products.151/ RVL...
View ArticleXbox Trimming Guide
This guide is the culmination of months of research and work and a failed contest entry. I have put a lot of time and effort into this guide and there were a LOT of ups and downs, but I hope it is...
View ArticleResin Casting / Molding Buttons
Making your own buttons has a particular appeal to those of us in the portablizing community because it allows for more versatility when deciding on a color scheme. Why settle for colors Nintendo made...
View Article3DS Slider to analog stick diagram (SS's work)
This was up on MR for a while and then got deleted in the photobucket genocide. Someone over there was able to find a cache of it and I reuploaded it to imgur and now to BitBuilt. Not my work btw. All...
View ArticleWii Undervolting "guide" and stats. (incomplete)
Here is the first dirty release of the Wii undervolting "guide". This isn't an official release yet because: I'm not really sure how to structure this information in a forum post yet. I need a larger...
View ArticleThe Definitive Wii U Trimming Guide
Preface The Definitive Wii U Trimming Guide only supports WUP-50 Wii U motherboards. WUP-50 motherboards consume much less power than earlier revisions, making them usable for portables. An addendum...
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