Buying a classical biz console like a Gamecube online is always a bit of a gamble . Even if it arrives in gross workings order , there ’s a chance the residual of the console could look like it was handled by a cult - occupy tot . reestablish retro computer hardware is a metre - consuming process , but asYouTuber Peter Knetterdemonstrates , you’re able to always take a crosscut and justrebuild a console ’s external using Lego .
It was just last week that another YouTube channel dedicate to retro gaming ironware demonstrated the versatility and usefulness of Lego as a computer hardware restoration tool by rebuilding aGame Boy Advance SP ’s caparison from Lego brick . The physique even preserve theGBA SP ’s folding flexible joint , but with the final product cover in protruding Lego rivet , it did n’t look terribly comfortable to hold for longer gaming sessions .
As withRetro Stash Repairs’sGBA SPrebuild , Knetter was n’t able to rebuild the Nintendo GameCube ’s electronics using plastic brick . Ascomplex as Lego has gottenover the old age , even the electronic components from itsnow defunct robotics building kitsaren’t powerful enough to recreate the 22 - year - previous console .
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To make the puritanic ( Lego does n’t make enough purple pieces for this build to be color exact ) Lego GameCube operative , Knetter transferred the guts from a veridical GameCube inside it , which was a fairly piffling transplantation give the Lego computer hardware is slightly orotund than the original .
A working Lego Gamecube controller
What did n’t plough out as well was Knetter ’s attempt to revive the GameCube ’s first-class gamepads from plastic bricks . Although they coiffure out to ramp up a completely self - contain matching control with all of the electronics stuffed inside it , what they ended up with was an original GameCube controller with a Lego facelift on the front , include buttons , joysticks , and a d - inkpad all made from Lego pieces . It works , but as with the Lego GBA SP , it looks incredibly uncomfortable to hold , and seems quick to return apart under the slightest of tension . Unlike the nearly indestructible NES gamepads , this controller definitely wo n’t survive a rage - induced flip across the room .
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