You just can't put this guy down. Just when you think he's had his full share of soldering injuries and
heatsink frustration, Benjamin Heckendorn goes and builds the NEStari, a flavorful combination of
NES and
Atari 2600 in a convenient, portable package. The story is half the fun, but short of it is Ben had a NES-on-a-chip lying around and a spare Atari Flashback 2 chip, but only a single 3.5-inch LCD, so he decided to make a nice, fat portable that can load both NES and Atari cartridges. Sure, the DS lite kids may laugh, but you can always bludgeon them with this monstrosity, while playing gaming classics that far surpass the Pokemons of today. Well, at least Ben can. He's not going to be making any more of these, since the hack wasn't exactly easy to pull off. Hit up the read link for the step-by-step and even some video of the NEStari in action -- if you can get it to load.
posted Aug 23rd 2007 5:32PM
sell the plans and instructions to a console maker.. someone will take it and its worth several hundreds of thousands if not a few million.
a few bucks here and there never hurt anyone.
not with the GP2X in existance
But will it play doom?
Cool!
Electro Need
HA HA! I loved my NES back in the day. The good ole' days. I could never beat super mario brothers 3...that stupid bouncing sun...arg...
Playing Atari on that thing would be a pain..
It reminds me of the new iPod.
*Obligatory post telling Ben Heck to get a real web host*
benheck.com
Web HOST, kyle, not site.
oh...sorry
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@Matt
And the point to that post was what? That you can use whois database?
Man, I miss my NES... possibly because I've largely forgotten how frustrating it was to try and get the damned cartridges to load...
I wanna be that guy when I grow up.
i wonder if this guy has 2 brains. one for class and one for something utterly stupid
Woah! All that's left for Ben to do is to hook up Atari, Nintendo, AND Sega into one ultimate machine to make the Atari-tendo-sega!
more like "atrendga"
Nestarega!
We can just call that "pure genius".
Aww, man! I guess no one has watched that episode of Clock Suckers. My reference went to waste.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1768570
pretty genius....
http://www.techfiends.com
kplzdiethx
umm why would u tell me to die Ben???? that is not polite, especially after i just called u a genius????
This should be named NINTARI, and BOY would I love for someone to remake Willy Beamish.
obligatory
yeah, but will it blend?
What about a beowulf cluster of these
I for one welcome our new nestari overlords...