The Wii U was a bit of a disaster for Nintendo and it ultimately relied almost completely on first-party games to sell any units. With the Switch now proving extremely popular, the Wii U is fast becoming a distant memory. However, one owner decided to modify his Wii U's GamePad and succeeded in turning it into a Windows 10 handheld PC.

The mod was carried out by Sudomod forum member banjokazooie who last year crammed a Raspberry Pi 3 inside a GamePad to make a portable RetroPie console. This latest mod is even more impressive, though.

Banjokazooie gutted the GamePad internals and squeezed in an Intel Core M vPro Compute Stick, a 1440p IPS touchscreen LCD panel, 4,000mAh battery, USB DAC sound card, stereo amplifier, and a battery charger module. The Compute Stick offered access to an Intel Core m5-6Y57 processors (1.1GHz base clock boosting to 2.8GHz), 4GB RAM, and a 64GB SSD. He also added a 128GB SD card into the available port.

With Windows 10 installed, the GamePad offers up a handheld PC that's very comfortable to hold. However, the performance offered by the Compute Stick also allows the GamePad to run the Cemu Emulator, meaning it's possible to play emulated Wii U games. Banjokazooie has effectively created a portable Wii U.

Any hardware capable of running emulated Wii U games is easily going to cope with older console hardware. So this handheld PC could be turned into what is essentially a more powerful version of the RetroPie GamePad banjokazooie created previously.