came out I wanted to try to build my own Wii U or own Nintendo switch so I just
use some extra hardware I had laying around the first thing I used was an
extra HP EliteBook 8470p I chose it because one it was an extra one two I
could get the RAM up pretty high I could put a decent harddrive in there and I
already had an AMD Radeon 75 70 M which really can't handle the games all
that well but it can't actually run so I wanted to see if it could be done first
it also had an i-5 3340M and so I put 12 gigs of ram in it and loaded a Wii U
emulator on it so this was the prototype build I ended up with it's pretty
durable it's all foam I do have a back door if I need to access any of the
hardware and for the most part it's got a four hour battery on it just because
it's had the laptop battery on it it's pretty light because all the casing has
been taken off I redid the heat sinks and a couple things I'll show some
pictures in the video of the actual assembly off this little portable Wii U
box that I created literally it's just a matter of turning it on and then
plugging up an Xbox 360 controller to it and I'll show you some stuff that it can
do right now
now I'm sure if I wasn't using a junk laptop it would work a little better but
keep in mind that laptops a couple years old and it's still able to run the games
at about 15 to 25 frames a second. So if you have a pretty fairly decent couple
year old laptop you may want to consider creating a little interesting machine
like this until next time have a great one.