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This is the GameCube Mini Nintendo should have made

XDA·Patrick O'Rourke·6 months ago
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Published May 4, 2026, 1:19 PM EDT

Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup , and earlier in his career, he worked as the technology editor at the Financial Post and Postmedia . He's based in Toronto.

Over the past 15 years, he's written thousands of articles. Patrick has also interviewed dozens of tech industry executives and covered GDC, E3, Gamescom, WWDC, Apple keynotes, Samsung Unpacked events and more.

Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University.

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Summary

Kawaii packs a Wii OMEGA board into a 2.36×2.36×0.62 in aluminum keychain that runs Wii/GameCube games.

Includes magnetic dock with GameCube controller ports and video out to play on TV with real controllers.

Open-source project with MCAD/ECAD/BOM files, but builds are tricky, run hot, and favor looks over practicality.

This very cool…

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