http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/ Engadget Comments for Bacteria's back at it with IntoGrafx portable TurboGrafx-16 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 30th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/
Sold it. Hated myself for it. Emulation helps but it's just not the same.]]>Jul 29th 2009 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/


head]]>Jul 29th 2009 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Even today they HU-Cards are futuristic.

IntoGrafx: Funny shape, great build IMHO.]]>Jul 29th 2009 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/
Now as for the portable, this is another Masterpiece, Bac. Love the red and black color theme, and its very clean and professional-looking as I've come to expect from you're work. I'd take that over the Turboexpress any day.]]>Jul 29th 2009 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/
I will quit running my mouth against those couple of splinter-cells. If anyone is interested in this stuff, benheck is the One True online community for it. Don't be conned out of your money! It is so much fun to dive into the community and build your own system from scratch.]]>Jul 29th 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/
Second, you say he "Tried to turn his hobby into a profit source", then re-direct people to the benheck forums? Laughable! BenHeck sold out long ago, and has made FAR more money off his "hobby" than Bacteria ever will. Bacteria only sold TWO of those case kits , you know (In fact, they are not for sale anymore because of low sales), yet Ben sells a few sheets of cut out plastic for more money, with less work, and you are able to back Ben and criticize Bacteria with a straight face? Ben has been selling far less useful kits for years, so I see no point in your attack on the cases Bacteria sells. And you say it is far more fun to design your own, and thus defend benheck? What do you have to say for his outdated, chock full of errors book that continues to be sold? Honestly, Ben SELLS instructions to make portables, and SELLS cases! How exactly is Bacteria any different?

Finally, though Bacteria was not the maker, you seem uninformed on the reason ModRetro was made. On modretro, any completed project you post entitles you to half of the ad revenue from that thread. In contrast, on the benheck forums, every penny goes straight into the pocket of Ben himself.

In short, Ben makes FAR more money than Bacteria, makes money selling kits even more useless and overpriced than the ones Bacteria USED to make. And who cares if you dislike Bacteria personally? He did not make modretro, and he does not pay the bills. If you don't want to get "conned out of your money", then maybe you can swing on over to modretro where YOU can get some of the ad money, instead of "rather than putting money in this guy's pocket" (Benheck, of course). If you want to slam something, the first step is to actually pick points you can DEFEND, instead of acting like a hypocrite and pointing people to a person who is far worse on all the charges you bring fourth (profiteering, selling out, acting like an ass, etc.)]]>Jul 29th 2009 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/You sound like a fcking troll.
I don't know about Bac or Ben but your attitude is a fcking turn off. Either be productive or GTFO.]]>Jul 30th 2009 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/
All in all, benheck and modretro can easily co-exist, different people will go to different places for different reasons.

Oh, and as long as we are getting the facts out there... If you want to go on a rampage about someone splitting the "scene", you can blame me, as I am the main admin of and the guy paying the hosting bill for ModRetro. ;) So if you take issue with that, please, take it up for private or public discussion, I welcome it; Just don't blame the wrong people.]]>Jul 30th 2009 1:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/
Since when is making a profit a bad thing?

If you can do what you love and live off of it, I say, more power to you.]]>Jul 30th 2009 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 30th 2009 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 30th 2009 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 29th 2009 10:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Actually traded my original Game Boy w some games to get the Lynx used back when they were both still current systems. It doesn't work with batteries anymore, only via the DC Adapter, but I loved that system! Even bought a Lynx II back 7 years ago on eBay, but turned out defective, so I returned it.
Wish I was more technically inclined and I would have both still working now!]]>Jul 30th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/
The problem, of course, is that NEC made a portable TurboGrafx-16 in 1990. It played all of the games in the TG-16 library. If you're going to do something like this, at least thrown in the TurboCD. Bacteria, I have a NEC TurboCD that I'd be more than happy to donate. I don't have the data cable or power adapter for it, but those are just minor details. This thing has a bigger screen and thats about the only thing going for it.]]>Jul 29th 2009 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/
Someone's going to get fired for this one.]]>Jul 29th 2009 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/Jul 30th 2009 1:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/bacterias-back-at-it-with-intografx-portable-turbografx-16/
Your posting in this topic Ashley is divisive and aggressive, which is a dent on your character not mine. Fortunately, people with knowledge on the subject have put you right. I think you might be bitter that I have directed all traffic to ModRetro and not BenHeck on this project, I am sure other people reading these posts will understand why, thanks to you tone. ModRetro is a far friendlier site to be on and has some excellent members.

For the record, not sold many of my kits you refer to, made about £200 loss in fact, so i'm not making any profit at all, I am quite happy with that though as it wasn't my reason for offering them in the first place - ego not profit. Ben in contrast makes a living off selling his book, promoting his projects, selling his cut bits of plastic, portables and forum profits! (I am just a hobbyist in contrast). I have had a few people asking me to take a commission to make them a system, I haven't accepted any for various reasons. You should also note that no-where have I offered anything for sale for the IntoGrafx at all - sorta makes your comments stupid, huh? Also I willingly give all my modding tips and guides away for free and have never charged anything for them: and give people advice and help whenever asked. So, rather than any profit, I don't do commissions, ran the kits sales at a big loss, give away my guides and help for free - do I need to elaborate further?

At least people here haven't said the usual comment of "why not use a PSP to emulate, dude"! ;)

There are always alternatives to systems, i've not played on the TurboExpress myself but I don't personally like playing games on a pokey screen, the PSone screen is nearly 4x the image size in contrast, and the buttons are placed exactly where I want them; these are good reasons to make your own systems (and others too).

One great thing though, everyone knows about the wonderful Nintendo consoles, however many don't know about the TurboGrafx. The TurboGrafx has some awesome games on it. Doing this project has hopefully helped to increase awareness for the system and encourage people who like to play console games to look into the system!]]>Jul 30th 2009 3:46AM