'World's smallest' Wii is the size of a deck of cards, uses custom PCBs

Photograph of the world's smallest Nintendo Wii, "Short Stack", alongside a deck of playing cards for scale.

The world of custom console (re)building is brimming with makeshift handheld and "Mini" versions of classic or current consoles — recently, the custom Nintendo Wii scene saw the introduction of another contender for "smallest Nintendo Wii." The Short Stack, posted on GitHub with recreation instructions by James Smith aka "loopj", is a fully-functioning Nintendo Wii trimmed and stripped down to the size of a deck of playing cards with the use of custom PCBs and 3D printing.

So, is the Short Stack really the world's smallest Wii? It just might be! On the YouTube side of this scene, Noidtronics showed off a Wii Nano that he claimed to be the smallest but ultimately seems slightly larger or the same as the actual prior crown-holder, Shank Mods' aptly-named Kill Mii.