How did you get into portablization?

[RNS0504]

It all started for me when i was searching for NES REPAIR about 2-3 yrs ago, and found Tighe's uncompleted NES Repair page. I explored the site more, and the rest is history(not really...)

[s3ptic]

wow what are the chances of two people from such a small community being so colse?

Anyways I first heard about Ben's site a couple of years ago. My dad had found it somehow, and thought it was cool so he showed it to me. About a year later I found my old Playstation in the closet. Anyways I had a vague memory of a site where someone portablized systems so I googled it and wound up here.

[Geebs61]

I found Ben's site while going through Tighe's links, and soon after found out that NesDude on the old forums was actually a kid in my little sisters class.

It's one thing for that to happen, but how did you find out about that?

My sister was talking to him on the phone and mentioned what I was doing and he recommended me to the NEStable site. I told him I had already been there and then he mentioned Ben's site, and I told him I had already been there. So we talked for a bit, and thats how I found out who he was..

[gamer2]

well i was searching for a site that i have visited a few weeks before that had a bunch atari games truly emulated on the site. I clicked on Bens old site by accident and i read about the SNESp and i was hooked from that.

[scherzo]

'Twas Ben that did it for me. Besides his portables being cool, his little comic style adventures in the world of portablization really made me want to have an adventure of my own.

[Dave]

I saw his PSp sidebar in an old EGM.

[JackFrost22]

That two for me Dave.

[MM007]

Well, I had just gotten my first four-switch Atari VCS, as well as my first few computers to build, and was looking online for data on the power supply(Oddly enough, I got a 7800 power supply with a VCS. I'm glad I saved it since I got a 7800 3 years later. ^^). While searching, I stumbled across Ben's site.

After almost 2 years of electronics/computer training and absorbing data on portablization from many sources, such as Portables of Doom, the old site/forum, this site/forum, and NESDev(I explored the software side of NES a little), I built my first portable, the Super Famicom A, with the intention of making a portable that could still fully function as a console and then some.

After designing a FamicomA, PS1A, an NGCA, and an Atari VCSA, Light Sixer, here I am today. I have to get off my bum and build, though...

[cennar]

i wanted to play my snes at school...

[Unindentified Assilant]

I was looking for GBA websites on the internet because I wanted to see how the hell I could get my GBA to display on TV, and on the search engine was the nestable website, I was instantly hooked on portablization then.

[HK-47]

You should register...
Edit: I cant spell... Its corrected now.

[G-force]

When I saw that little pic of the PSp on the top of the page of that EGM, I freaked out! That was the one of the coolest things I had ever seen! I immediately went to the site and read everything. Then I went out to Radio Shack and bought a soldering iron, burned myself too many times to count , but I learned how to solder. I tore open my ps1 and compared it to bens wired up PSp, I was pretty much stumped at first. But I figured out how to wire it up after looking at the pic some more. I sure wish I had bens book back then...

[xxxeagle]

i dont remember how i found it all i remember was i went on classic gaming read all of the articles and a year later got back into the site when it changed to benheck.com