Rise from your grave.

[eagle5953]

I hadn't considered that. At least the multiplayer would still work.

[eagle5953]

... and we're back!

[Black Six]

... and we're back!

Yay!

[eagle5953]

... and we're back!

Yay!

Any cool NDA stuff you can't talk about?

[Tchay]

I'm glad the forums are still around

I think I was 16 when I first discovered one of Ben Heck's goofy mods online: an external analog stick for the PSP. I remember buying a soldering iron that same day and staying up until 4am taking apart my PSP and soldering...6 wires.

[Harlequin]

Hey gang.

Was reading this and missing pretty much the entire scene from back in the day. I remember daily spending an hour or two going through BH forums and XS forums to go over all of the happenings.

Recently I got into re-capping GameGear consoles that suffer from Black Screen/No Audio. Few things I wondered about:

1. Why does the solder/old caps smell like fish? seriously... why?
2. one of the caps that is supposed to control contrast may not even be required, I accidentally broke the connection and it still functioned without the cap.
3. McWill has created an LCD replacement that on the fly converts to a very close resolution for the GG in native state. This fantastic device costs more than ten of the consoles unfortunately, so I will probably never own one. The difference is quite simply fantastic.
4. some guy in Japan made a consoled version of the GameGear that looked like an SMS but blue instead of red and rather mini. I thought it would be neat (and probably impossible) to mod up an add on that was a GameGear cart slot similar to the card slot on the SMS.

Miss you guys

[eagle5953]

I don't know the answer to any of those questions, but that new screen you mentioned is interesting. Have you got a link?

[Raizer04]

Well well well...the forum is still here....lol.

[dman762000]

Well, hey guys been a loooooooong time. Been gone almost 13 years now. I'll admit it, been in prison, nuff said bout that please don't ask. Thought I would pop in and see how things are, surprised to see this is still here. Spent some good times here and built a cool thing. Now I have a question, anyone still modding stuff? And has anyone played with modding those my arcade handhelds? Can't find anything about them in search. I'll be around guys

[segasonicfan]

Its great to see the love here. And Im glad these forums are preserved!

I still do lots of retro gaming stuff, but more designing than modding nowadays. Although I have hundreds of repair videos on youtube so thats been cool. But its not the same as having the oldskool communities on forums like BenHeck.

Man, I miss those days when everyone looked out for each other and some random person would mail a few screws you might be missing, and visa versa. Good times

[gamemasterAS]

I just figured I'd make my annual pilgrimage and come by to say hello. If anyone wants to reconnect feel free to add me on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/Adamwashere

[benheck]

Hey the forum isn't completely dead yet! Just mostly dead

[dman762000]

I still pop in from time to time, I am going this weekend to dig my old truant out of storage. I think I may do a total rebuild and update on it. I'm glad to see that you are still around Ben. I would love to see things pick back up around here. When I rebuild and make truant mk2 I will do a write up and post it.

[benheck]

Did an Ubuntu update, just checking that the forums still work. I assume a lot of legacy stuff still links here.

I've been doing pinball coding full time for a few years now, our most recent game was Evil Dead. Check them out here!

https://www.spookypinball.com/

I will try and keep the forums alive as long as I can "I promise. I will never die!"

[Metallica Man X]

The forum lives again!