The internet’s infamous fake portable GameCube has finally been brought to life

The “Nintendo GameCube Advance” is a wierd piece of web gaming historical past: a whimsical render of a conveyable model of the GameCube that has made the rounds on-line since 2005. However whereas the render has lengthy been dismissed as a fan-made faux, YouTuber GingerOfOz has taken issues into his personal arms and constructed an actual, practical model of the idea, as noticed by Eurogamer.

Ginger didn’t simply construct his personal actual GameCube Advance, although: he additionally tracked down the unique artist behind the 2005 mockup and acquired the news on how and why they made it within the first place.

Ginger is not any stranger to creating slick customized Nintendo mods, like his spectacular Wii Boy Shade from 2020 that someway managed to shrink a complete Wii into the scale and type issue of a Recreation Boy Shade.

The practically 20-minute video particulars Ginger’s quest to re-create the console (primarily based on only a 2005-era render of a single angle of the gadget) and the trials and tribulations alongside the best way. Some points of the unique render merely weren’t viable in actual life, just like the hinge (which Ginger as a substitute constructed to perform just like a Nintendo DS for a extra comfy show angle) or the joysticks (which had to get replaced with 3DS-style sliders so the display screen can truly shut).

The largest sacrifice, although, is the shortage of a practical disc drive. The elements have been just too massive for the modded console, though Ginger does depart in a slot to permit for a disc to be (uselessly) inserted to match the render’s aesthetics.

Ginger additionally technically didn’t construct a conveyable GameCube. As an alternative, he used a Wii motherboard, which makes use of much less energy, is bodily smaller, extra simply modded, and is extra reasonably priced to come up with. Regardless of that, Ginger did exit of his manner so as to add a number of the GameCube’s distinctive software program (together with the enduring boot brand).

The ultimate construct is impressively practical: it seems like the unique render and performs GameCube video games, though it will get about an hour and a half of battery life.

As for the unique render, it was created by an artist who goes by the title Demond. They stated they created the unique picture for enjoyable as a strategy to follow product rendering in Autodesk 3D Studio Max. Demond went on to create different futuristic renders — like a well-liked PSP2 picture that made its manner across the web a couple of years later — and has gone on to do work for precise online game corporations like Ubisoft and Epic Video games.