I Made a GameCube Gaming PC

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In this video I'm not restoring something but building a custom gaming PC inside a Nintedo Gamecube shell. Don't worry next video will be a usual restoration.
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[@OddTinkering]

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[@Gigcomplex]

That mini pc is more powerful than my $2000 gaming pc

[@bendyjjuniversity3333]

Dumbass

[@bendyjjuniversity3333]

Ass

[@bendyjjuniversity3333]

Shit in the hole

[@bendyjjuniversity3333]

I'm a vergo

[@kennynakawaki]

1:00 I’m used to him opening things up and it’s all nasty inside 🤣

[@ImnotZaz3n]

Somethings wrong I can feel it

[@TopTechSavvy]

@@ImnotZaz3n Just a feeling I've got, like something's about to happen, but I don't know what If that means what I think it means, we're in trouble, big trouble And if he is as bananas as you say, I'm not taking any chances

[@elivile.]

Same.

[@EndgameThor16]

If it ain't my man kenny

[@kennynakawaki]

@@EndgameThor16 yo!

[@HailHydra27]

Man that ad was so jarring that it made me realise that in years of watching restoration channels not a single one of them had ever had ads before

[@RestoreTechnique]

He's done a couple of Ads before. One where it was his voice talking, another with no voice and him thanking the sponsor for not making him speak 😆

[@GIRGHGH]

@@RestoreTechnique Is it his voice, or is it just an ai text to speech? It kinda has that sound to it that makes me think it's not him.

[@RestoreTechnique]

@@GIRGHGH Nah that's not his voice. AI speech.

[@jasonnordine8839]

@@RestoreTechnique I saw that video too 😂

[@PizzaFreaak]

I was wondering if you could put a mini pc inside a child laptop like a vtech or barbie laptop haha

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

Its definitely possible. Someone made a whole gaming pc based off a barbie/hot wheels pc shell

[@PizzaFreaak]

@@adventureoflinkmk2 yeah but the insides of those are way bigger than say a child's educational Laptop yk

[@GabrielTorres-bx2oh]

I remember seeing that video and from what I remember the ventilation system he put in the Hot Wheels one was PRETTY LOUD.​@@adventureoflinkmk2

[@gentoru4591]

Search barbie laptop diy dr.k, video is in korean, but has eng subs.

[@starbird6]

god just seeing the name vtech takes me back

[@DxCrepp738]

As a former mechanical CAD Drafter & Engineer, you've done a fantastic job on the custom 3D printed parts and the metal plate. Very elegant end product.

[@DaMu24]

Kinda wish he just put the pictures of them on the community instead of slipping them in videos.

[@aidenradu-fw9lk]

Finally a sleeper that's not held together by hopes and dreams

[@quentin99999]

Underrated comment holy shit

[@kennynakawaki]

4:50 wow, unexpected ad 😂

[@GilWanderley]

Also, unexpected human voice (even if AI generated)

[@myaperson]

Voice jump scare 😂

[@Boss-rm7wr]

Yeah a unskippable f*cking ad. 😂

[@crazygamer646]

@@Boss-rm7wr there is ways around it, not going to say what you can do cause i like to support odd tinkering cause of the fantastic work he does but there is ways

[@johnnygrind77]

"Gentle Violence" is now my new favorite phrase. Kiitos!

[@Supermitsuba]

Title: "Needs some gentle violence"

[@BagginsWulf]

Reminds me of Mrs. Doubtfire. "Are your kids well behaved, or do they need, like, a few light slams every now and then?"

[@Leron...]

"Gentle Violence" is exactly what an edgy 16 year-old would name their grunge band.

[@GODZILLAx_OFF]

You have Made a Sleeper PC very Good Idea!👍🏻

[@Sanguinerix]

0:06 just like me

[@tabhaqiyoriansyah8442]

Me too

[@CBaller]

Love that the GameCube shell was handled very non-destructively!

[@audenlundquest5211]

I love the branch out into new ideas and things while still keeping the kind of idea. keep up the good work.

[@DarkSaharaRose]

We respect Backblaze for letting him do a robot voice. Definitely makes me more inclined to try it out. I remember that he did an ad read himself a good while back. Felt like the sponsor didn't understand the channel.

[@foto-nio2913]

This is the first time you make a custom change to a console, love the concept and hope we can see more!

[@rickrobertson8335]

This is awesome! GC is my favorite console ever. Nice work.

[@davidminton6905]

Definitely going to watch this tonight. Loved the ducktor inside the cube hahahahaha! 🤣🤣🤣

[@LaSandWitch]

This is an amazing sleeper build! You should put LEDs under the disc drive lid to light everything up when you pop it open!

[@gullugadha]

Gaming PC exclusively designed for Ducktor.

[@Aldo.flores]

It’s so admirable the amount of work and effort behind this, countless hours measuring and modeling to fit on an existing thing it’s not easy, but it fitted perfectly and the result it’s outstanding

[@RestoreTechnique]

Great idea, very cool build! 👏 (i would just be concerned about the wires at 9:20, contacting those resistors they're sitting on top of)

[@ParkTaeChan]

Wow! Looks like a real gamecube!

[@theplaugedoctor123]

That is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while I’ve always seen people put computers in random but cool cases and seeing this being back the great memories of when the GameCube took over the world

[@LeslieLanagan]

I'd like to do this to my own mini-PC. So many things I could do with it, thanks to you. You're my inspiration in turning trash into treasure. What I have noticed is that the way you get amazing results is being "Detail Geek" clean.

[@Geofcraze634]

Holy cow. You are a mad genius when it comes to turning this console into mixing together with its original way (Gamecube & etc.) and small gaming PC.

[@ericmoeller3634]

no hes not that computer he used isnt gaming pc he was running dolphin emulator on it any mid range computer can run that

[@Agumon94]

@@ericmoeller3634 Yeah well there’s a lot of games that don’t need a 3060 or a 4090 GPU dude. 😂 Just saying. You can absolutely game on that thing. And do a lot of other stuff too. Probably best sleeper build I’ve seen. “your gaming pc” and “somebody else’s gaming pc” could mean two very very different things. 🤔 Orange GameCube PC with working power button and ports? Killin it.

[@mrbub_notblob]

You never fail to amaze me with your designs. Unsurprisingly, this was well put together like always. Nice work 👍

[@HoldandModify]

ASTONISHING BUILD!!! This is great! Also love that you sanded the 3D printed parts for the shell. So many folks settle for the “3D printed” look. Just awesome!

[@Insanabiliter_In_Linea]

Building a small PC that fits into a Gamecube shell and then running Dolphin on it has to be the most round about way to play Gamecube games ever devised lol. Build looks fantastic though!

[@TavoMadrid]

Just when I thought that you couldn't surprise us, you show this! Amazing!! Congratulations!

[@horstszibulski19]

Impressive how you made the GC stuff fit to non-GC stuff! Great little thing, thx a lot for showing! 👍👍👍

[@DatKakashii]

0:21 is the best part. Never get tired of the Ducktor

[@1sforthemelta913]

Why did we stop selling colourfull consoles? Or see trough colours. Truly the primetime of electronics

[@RaeDawna]

I think companies think regular colors (black, white, etc) look more "modern" or something.

[@RaeDawna]

Kind of like how company logos have turned more plain and boring. Or how McDonald's have turned from bright colors to dull and darker colors.

[@trakido7337]

@@RaeDawna minimalism has taken over logos, look at old pringles, firefox, instagram, warner bros etc... all of them used to be way more detailed, but the color and form association makes them still recognizable a mile away, even though they don't have much detail. big companies understood it and said "fuck it". (which is sad)

[@RaeDawna]

@@trakido7337 that's the word! Minimalism! I couldn't think of it last night. I think in certain instances colors can apply with that.

[@porterde08]

@@RaeDawnathere is a recent video on it. Can’t remember whose channel. But yes, it is everything. Company logos, fast food places, drinks, color. They’re all becoming minimalistic. Was an interesting vid to see just how much. You’d have to search minimalistic theory or something along those lines.

[@Blanquette]

Je crois que ce que j'aime dans ce genre de contenu, c'est le silence, et la délicatesse avec laquelle il fait son job.

[@techrestoread]

You really have up your game in this video. l love your work and a big fan that got me into making my own channel 😃

[@aliali-ce3yf]

this is so cool. gamecube was the last of the cool designed systems

[@roguemo]

i loved how you did not have to destroy the shell from the inside to make that project. in the upper lid you can add a 90mm fan or something to help it with cooling but I don't think it will heat up that much anyway. keep it up ❤

[@lockout5731]

perfect build idea your building skills are repairing are great to watch unlike them fake restraion videos this is real perfection

[@ls190v2]

Odd Tinkering, what in the name of all that is holy did you do?! (love your videos, you're crazy in a good way)

[@Jensunami]

Ive wanted to do this with my dead original xbox. Neat build!

[@GODZILLAx_OFF]

I love the Idea it's have some Nostalgia, you can make with Xbox 360 too PLS❤️

[@LumiousSage]

Do more projects like this thanks for the video 😊

[@jjalert]

Very cool! I love the design and the custom 3D printed parts! That’s a huge soldering iron for that size work. Might want to consider getting a T115 or one of the little USB powered soldering pen that uses the T115 tips for this kind of work. And maybe some 24awg wire for those USB2 ports, unless you plan to have a USB vacuum cleaner. 😉

[@IslamicTalksPodcast]

Wanted it to be purple... other than that, it's a great idea and hoping for more videos like this

[@PrettyFlyForATyGuy]

Atomic purple baby!!! 🎉

[@twocvbloke]

Reminds me of the days of people stuffing Mini-ITX boards into just about anything they could lay their hands on about 20-odd years ago, converting many things into PCs that could run emulators and such inside of shells of all kinds of things like retro computers, ammo tins, old tube radios and even one was a model of Leela from Futurama (goodness knows why!)... :P

[@Beckibird]

That’s a really cool sleeper pc and I swear you got spawn camped at the end

[@cy8646]

I'm just about to start the same project. Our mini PCs are a bit different so it won't be exactly the same but I'm even more excited for it now.

[@nolimi7_]

DUDE THIS IS SO COOL!

[@thtrandmguy]

This is one of the most impressive sleeper builds ive seen good work my guy!

[@Walid-mk4jo]

Pls make more videos like these it gives your channel diversity then just doing restoration videos everytime

[@BetaJJ009x]

12:51 That looks real nice

[@johnroch.a]

Love the idea, so cool!

[@Arcipellaggio]

Oh man, talking ads are criminal in asmr videos :(

[@JoeNerdShow]

some avdertisers force you too.

[@JoeNerdShow]

also he wasen't talking.. it was an ai/text to speech

[@StefanBlurr]

"gentle violence" - lmao

[@YoutubeGuy0000s]

I swear you make everything so easy, actually want to start repairing stuff myself, good content🔥👍

[@Dudleymiddleton]

How hard drives have shrunk in size - from the washing machine scale mechanical beasts from the 70's costing a fortune to a solid state device smaller than a credit card, alongside millions times the capacity.

[@AccAkut1987]

First family computer we got in 2000 had a whooping 6 GB HDD. 64 mb RAM, 500 MHz.

[@porterde08]

Those damned silicon pads gettin smaller and smaller. Microscopic. Made by refracted laser tech. 😉

[@Fortuna1]

A great work, and very nostalgic too

[@MRomano127]

Someone finally made it, thank you

[@jonesy2112]

18:03 "AAAGGHH, MY EYE!!"

[@charlesmanary2936]

I'd like to point out that the part at 1:30 is an M.2 Solid State drive. While it fills the same role as a hard drive, it probably wont come up if you search for "hard drive" and nothing labelled as a hard drive will work in those ports

[@MelodicTurtleMetal]

"thin hard drive" gave me a couple. Regardless, nobody taking on this endeavour would likely make that error

[@themustangmachine]

Correct me if I am wrong, however, both solid state drives (NVMe & SATA) and hard disk drives can all be referred to as hard drives. I'm just bringing this up for the sake of technicality. I do agree with you that if someone wanted to find what he was using, specifying "M.2 SSD" would be much more appropriate.

[@cremer2027]

@@themustangmachine I would disagree and say that, no, SSD and HDD should not be referred to as hard drive. HDD, or hard disk drive, are called that because of the platter inside is a hard disk. Where as SSD, solid state drive, are more like memory modules with no moving parts. I would argue that the term "storage" should be the more appropriate word to use when referring to either storage device. There are plenty out there that would agree that using hard drive to refer to an SSD would be incorrect. Just like when I hear people who want to add more storage to a phone or tablet saying "I need to add more memory."

[@themustangmachine]

@@cremer2027 Yes, you are correct. I didn't mean to suggest that a SSD is in any way similar to a HDD besides the fact that they are both forms of persistent storage. I was trying to articulate that both SSDs and HDDs are often referred to colloquially as "hard drives" rather than "storage" because HDDs have been the dominant form of persistent storage until fairly recently. I always find it a little funny when people say they need more memory in their mobile devices. I am also amused when people think their SIM card has some impact on their system storage.

[@cremer2027]

@@themustangmachine I hear you. We have used HDDs for so long it can be hard to break using hard drive as the term. However, we have been using SSDs for long enough to where they are replacing HDDs that the confusion needs to recognized and corrected. Have not heard someone trying to use the SIM card as the storage means. But that is also quite silly.

[@fijlap4945]

The ducktor be like: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE Odd tinkering: nope. *closes at ducktor*

[@TheCod3r]

At least you don't need to secretly swap motherboards like you did with the Switch "repair" video

[@JustJoshIsUnavailable]

That’s sick af, I’d buy one frfr

[@lily_skye]

It turned out so clean! I've thought about doing this a few times before but could never think of a way to preserve the memory card doors and power button. You did both masterfully, and more than that, actually did it instead of just thinking about it ;p bravo!

[@collyboy187]

Hats off man. The thought and planning that went into this, and the care is obvious to see. Amazing project

[@mskayla7747]

You are a master magician, sir. 👍

[@BobtailEntertainment]

I love your videos! I learn a lot of techniques and such from them. I really appreciate the effort you put into them 😊.

[@umbrellacorp.]

4:32 That's OddTinkering Real voice guys. 😏 Awesome build I love it. Can you do a PS1 next?.😎👍💯

[@kedaousadama]

This dude took one look at this Asus and went “I can stuff that In a GameCube shell” and didn’t look back lollll

[@JasperPerri]

Ive always wanted to do exactly that. Youre livin my dream friend.

[@ChuckFinley-b1g]

You could probably use a MicroSD to m.2 adapter as well as the Laser Bear Industries LED diffuser mod to install a MicroSD slot into the empty space for the LED difffuser, to not only maintain the LED functionality but also give you a removable storage option. I dunno if it works like that, but it may be worth looking into.

[@Dolmeca_the_Knight]

There are gamecube 3rd party cases that allow using full size CDs/DVDs, so an optical unit for this PC is doable.

[@JAGplayz]

I miss the gamecube

[@medowucha]

Actually looks pretty easy. Nothing as complicated as eg. grabbing a DeskMeet or DeskMini X600 and trying to stuff it all in :)

[@i0315]

To say I'm envious would be an understatement.

[@rayc1602]

When you said "just an empty shell", I felt that

[@starzander]

I'd love to see you build a GameCube Nano! Trim down a Wii motherboard to the smallest functional size and make it work. Would also be very helpful to have a detailed video of it being built, rewiring the power needed and stuff. Build it into a GBA shell or something if you want to make it portable!

[@midnight1978]

This is interesting! I was expecting videos like that on your second channel, but it's a bit of a fresh air to see you working on stuff like that on your main channel as well! Edit: This is amazing! Always facinated about the things you can do with just a bit of tinkering with the cables and such! Also obviously 3D-Print went a long way too!

[@Zaylin999]

I saw this in my feed and was like 😲I love Odd Tinkering!!!

[@guilhermelopesfotografo]

Nice! I just think the silver shell would look cooler.

[@eduardoguardavelasco546]

Awesome quality as usual. Question: looking back, how would you have avoided soldering so many cables?

[@MKF30]

That's so cool! Great job dude! So weird seeing a perfectly GC shell then opened with nothing but that rubber ducky thing in there at first lol.

[@kennynakawaki]

Man this was such a complicated project 🤣 must’ve been fun for him though

[@totallytubular69]

Reminds me of the Wii Mac Mini someone did! Very cool

[@8bitnation419]

I hope the GameCube gets put into a custom shell. Should do a video on that. Custom shells are cheap and plentiful.

[@MajesticDai]

This is cool I've been thinking of making a switch inside of a gamecube shell and having the ports work for it

[@TeddieBean]

This scratches an itch I've had for years 😂 as a Nintendo lover this is EXCELLENT

[@user-wo5be5ky7j]

you always exceed my expectations with the quality of your content!

[@Devastator0]

Tip, I'd recommend replacing the wifi card there too. The Mediatek cards are horrible and are prone to a lot of issues if you're using the device on Wifi. Replace it with an Intel wifi card and you're good.

[@Zenpookie]

I enjoy watching you refurbish, recycle, and repurpose devices and materials other would just throw out. As always, awesome work and keep on tinkering 👊🔌

[@dgpsartscrafts]

Just add a RGB led fan in the top of Shell, AND you have am awesome retro mini PC

[@niche_creation]

This is a well built build, love the effort to keep the original formal factor. Did you consider making a custom PCB for the controller ports that had the usb converter built in?

[@loicprl9805]

Great work !

[@yousseffathy2519]

Good job👍. Batocera Linux distro is recommended for emulating games such this

[@DistinctlyAverageRepairs]

Impressive and very creative - nice work!👍

[@Aether_Solace]

the sponsor segment really ruins the asmr of these vids, i think itd be better to do them near the start so it doesnt interrupt the flow of the video!

[@Lichti82]

Next project: put a Game Cube into a mini PC. Good about it: you have the spare parts already.

[@baska-]

Amazing.

[@camisdabomb]

Oh fantastic!!!

[@GlennTillema]

Nicely done, @8:55 looks like it was a tedious pain to get soldered!

[@Malodexz]

Okay, this was freaking awesome!