How did you find BenHeck Forums?

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:44 am

Years and Years ago (2003 i think) i came across an article linked from milkandcookies.com about someone who had built "portable" N64, it ran on a whole ton of regular AA batteries. I thought it was pretty cool but didnt put much thought to it.

Years later i started an Electronics Course at school and remembered that, so i thought i'd have a go at making a portable SNES (as it was smaller) and found an article that contained parts of the How to from Ben's book and one thing led to another and i ended up here.

I still intend on finishing that portable i started all those years ago

lovablechevy · Post by **lovablechevy** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:16 am

i can't find it definitely, but i'm fairly certain that i first heard of ben in an issue of nintendo power (circa 2001-2002...?). i remember there being a letter that was sent in with a picture of an atari portable. if memory serves correctly, it was this one:

anyway, i thought it was really cool, but kinda forgot about it until i was in college and had free internet access at all times. it was around my jr year in 2003 or 2004 when i remembered the atari portable and started researching. i've been following his progress since then. it just took me a while to actually sign up to the forums he started. and then it took me a little while longer to actually become active.

you can learn a lot by being a lurker...

Nonsense Man · Post by **Nonsense Man** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:34 am

The popular science article on his snesp. I lurked for a bit then left then came back to lurking then signed up.

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:47 am

I think I read about ben in EGM way back in the day and then sometime later found portables of doom, then stumbled onto the benheck forums and lurked for awhile and then joined.

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:03 pm

Well, two years ago, I typed in "dreamcast" on google, and a portable DC showed up. awhile later, i found the picture again, and clicked on it. it took me to some web page(can't remember which) with people's portables on it. Ben's jagaur portable was on it, with a link to his site. i went to the site, and started lurking for months. after a few minor projects, I joined.

ghost0001 · Post by **ghost0001** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:43 pm

i ran across this article about the ps3 laptop. led me here, then i lost this site bc i didnt bookmark it. then, surfing the acidmods forums i ran across portable hacking. that turned me here for an xbox 360 laptop. this site has been a great help in building mine.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:55 pm

From timmeh, before the PopSci article, I think. Not sure how HE found them, though.

Arrow--> · Post by **Arrow-->** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:57 pm

themadhacker showed me this site
(my story is the shortest)

Post by **Triton** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:01 pm

I found Ben's original website on ClassicGaming. around the same time i found PoD and lurked there then found out about the old forums around the time it died and the new one was made, 39th member to join IIRC.

daguuy's evil twin · Post by **daguuy's evil twin** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:37 pm

CronoTriggerfan wrote:I kid, SS, I kid. No clue who that Xiro dude was, but on the rest, I agree. Daguuy hated me! Then again, he thought all mods were Nazis, so whatever.

Still do, you're a fine example of the type of human scum that causes everything that's wrong with the world

. The other mods are relatively cool though. I haven't been here in a long time (long enough to forget my password) but extreme boredom made me pop in today.

Post by **Triton** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:55 pm

Still do, you're a fine example of the type of human scum that causes everything that's wrong with the world Mr. Green . The other mods are relatively cool though. I haven't been here in a long time (long enough to forget my password) but extreme boredom made me pop in today.

your names an oxymoron

Ben Cebhrem · Post by **Ben Cebhrem** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:59 pm

I'm pretty sketchy on how I found the site. I was probably bored and surfing the web.

Kazaryster · Post by **Kazaryster** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 10:04 pm

it was either game informer or popular science cant remember pretty sure it was popular science it had cool websites to check out and i found bens website along time ago i was pretty young didn't know what the forums were for so never checked them out until the multi platform system made it to the front page then i checked out the forums

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 10:11 pm

ShockSlayer wrote:I bought an n64, to relive my childhood, and hook up all my gameboy color pokemon games to PKMN stadium 2. I got bored after a while, and I think at that time I had a hacked ds. Anyways I searched n64 modding and found marshallh's first n64p. I was inspired by it. I searched to see if there were more and found rpgt_nick's(is that his name?) and ben's. I found the forums on his site, and after beginning my adventure, I registered.

I don't know if you have acknowledged my existance yet marshall, but thanks for making that first n64p! It managed to bring me here!

SS

Um, it hasnt changed. I figured I should let everyone know that, since this officially a long bump.

SS

Tibia · Post by **Tibia** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 10:15 pm

Friend of mine built his first portable and showed me. He hasn't had much time lately, being in Uni, though.