Top 10 custom-built consoles
by Christopher Grant 
{ Jun 6th 2006 at 1:00AM }
TechEBlog has assembled a list of the "Top 10 Strangest Custom Gaming Systems." It should come as no surprise that more than one of their selections was created by console hacker-extraordinaire Ben Heckendorn. In addition to variants of popular consoles like the NES and Genesis, the list includes portable versions of famous flops like Atari's Jaguar, and Sega's Genesis add-on, the SegaCD. We're hoping these aren't ranked in order 'cause that portable Colecovision totally houses that NESPlusSega monolith!
[Via VH1's new game blog, Game Break]
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Nick @ Jun 6th 2006 1:07AM
Links are broken?!
Curtos @ Jun 6th 2006 1:22AM
Yeah, whats the deal with the links
Sol Dowdal @ Jun 6th 2006 1:33AM
That site is down
Nick @ Jun 6th 2006 1:43AM
Wonder if its been /.ed...
Or in this case, Joystuq!
Yuki~Summer Ver.~ @ Jun 6th 2006 1:53AM
Now if only Sony had made their own Playstation 2 Portable instead of the PSP.
cringer8 @ Jun 6th 2006 2:17AM
LOL @ the Colecovision! It even has the four color buttons for games using the Super Controller (though it's missing the "fly wheel" that was at the bottom [the only game I remember using the wheel was "Frontline"]).
I think I will commission him to build me one. Portable "Spy Hunter" and "Venture," sweeeeeet.
Pixelbox @ Jun 6th 2006 2:20AM
I have to say that Ben Heck's latest stuff is not strange at all. That dude has some awesome engineering skills. (I was partly inspired by him for my own project.)
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=50248.0
bob @ Jun 6th 2006 3:23AM
The Dreamcast Portable is something I would actually love to buy. It deserves the number 1 spot. PS2 Portable is just a slim PS2 with superglued controller/screen. Not portable at all.
fanan89 @ Jun 6th 2006 3:44AM
The portable PS2 coulb be nice unless the PSP was out.
Right now, I'd love a portable Xbox.
The short 5 min. recesses at school is enough time for fighting some random matches in Soul Calibur 2, and really cool, especially if I don't have to drag my box and a TV with me through the all school and the school bus.
striderhayasa @ Jun 6th 2006 7:47AM
@ Cringer, there was a football game that used the flywheel too to throw passes. That was the first football game that allowed you to run back 30 yards to throw a 60 yard pass lol! My father couldn't stand that tactic!
I wouldn't mind having the portable jaguar for Tempest 2000. I loved that game and the soundtrack was insane. In this age of Rez and geometry wars, why hasn't anyone ported Tempest 2000 to DS or PSP or XBLA?
Fashion @ Jun 6th 2006 7:56AM
Here, you’ve got everything from the GameCube To Go (Cube goes portable) to Game Break’s favorite, the NEStation, an old school Nintendo console that looks like the PS2.
vrf @ Jun 6th 2006 8:09AM
Jeffler, you forgot the link to the Xbox :)
http://www.portablesystems.net/xbox%20page1.htm
That's awesome. I'd love to figure out the vacuum forming stuff. My project will be a basic laser-cutting at a sign shop, but making your own molds and such is just so cool. I love the curvy look to the final case.
marshallh @ Jun 6th 2006 9:32AM
I think you forgot my portable N64...
http://gamesoft.dyndns.org/l64
DG @ Jun 6th 2006 10:01AM
Wow. That L64 is beautiful. Not that it needs it, but where is the D-pad?
I like the Ben Hack stuff, but it all tends to look like hacked consoles. The L64 referenced above, however, looks like a work of art.
Exbzurg @ Jun 6th 2006 10:18AM
Also where was the z trigger in the L64?
perhaps the angle wast right but i didnt see it in the picture of the back/top end of the system.
Maurik @ Jun 6th 2006 10:32AM
@ 15 :
quote:
"I left out the d-pad and L button because they aren't used much. However, for aesthetics, I made the L button act as the Z button. This way it looks like a big GBA."
vrf @ Jun 6th 2006 11:06AM
okay, marshallh's L64 takes the trophy in my book. Awesome work.
Hewie @ Jun 6th 2006 12:50PM
Yeah, the L64 is pretty fuckin' bad ass.
zsavior @ Jun 6th 2006 2:08PM
UMM..... Marshallh that Damn THING ROCKS HARD! Please tell me you work in the game console industry some where WOW, it looks cool. You should have one.
Marc @ Jun 6th 2006 4:43PM
I like the "gamecube-to-go". If it was painted black, i'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Think about it, SSBM on the go? How can you argue with that?
Imadogg99 @ Jun 6th 2006 8:39PM
I checked out benheck.com... the dude is simply amazing. How the hell does he make all of those by himself?
marshallh @ Jun 6th 2006 10:35PM
#14-19
Thanks for the comments! In fact I'm not any bigwig of the game industry, I'm just a 16 year old with too much time...
Rocketboy @ Jun 8th 2006 7:43PM
So, glueing a controller to a slimline PS2 makes it somehow portable? Totally freakin lame next to Ben Heck's work...