Here is the Xbox 360 laptop prize for THQ’s “Darksiders” game. The casing / shell design was done by myself and then Colorware (over in Minnesota – go midwest!) printed graphics on it using Joe Madureira artwork as a basis.
It’s pretty slick looking, I’d heard of Colorware before but this is first time I’ve seen what they can do in person. Very glossy! The game itself comes out later this year I believe.
For the making of story and more pictures and video, click below.
(Note: Wow, amazing how much press a mod I did in like 2 hours can generate!)
It’s Guitar Hero 4, I don’t care what anyone says.
Anyway, I had a request to build an alternative to the GH4 drum kit’s kick pedal for a person who uses a wheelchair. Tour apart the kick pedal and a few hours later came up with this:
Yes that’s right, it’s wrapped in electric tape.
Basically this turns the kick pedal into an air pressure diaphragm. You can now “kick” the bass drums by blowing into a tube.
Want to do this mod for a friend in need? Check out the easy how-to instructions after the break. Please note: this is for the Guitar Hero 4 (ahem WORLD TOUR) drum kit, not Rock Band. A Rock Band suggestion is at the end.
For yet another video of me acting like a moron while demonstrating my projects, click here.
Olympia Resort, the location of the excitement. (Those lamps are very Helmut Ajango…)
It’s only 1 month away now! We’re doing a thing called the “Benheck.com Experience” where we’ll have some tables and be modding stuff and what not, so you can meet a lot of the forum members, modders and I’ll be there too of course. Bring whatever junk you want and I’ll sign it!
You can check out their website at www.midwestgamingclassic.com. Set in the Milwaukee suburb of Oconomowoc, which has a lot of O’s, it’s the biggest and game classic gaming show in the Midwest, if not everywhere!
See you there!
Did a live webcam interview with them today, you can check it out here.
Still sitting on the fence about getting an Xbox 360? Rumors in the press got you down? Well consider this:
What a bargain!
As we all know, Circuit City is going under. This is very sad for me as I always preferred them over Best Buy. But as James Earl Jones said in the Lion King “everything is a circle of life”… or whatever. Find opportunity in despair!
Right now Circuit City has 10% off on game systems and 30% off accessories. This means you can get an Arcade console for $180 and a 60 gig add-on hard drive for $70… a total of $250. Equivalent to the $300 Xbox in functionality, yet the same price as the Wii.
Of course the $300 Xbox would now be $270, but keep in mind with the Arcade you still have a much better chance of it being a Jasper, also the hard drive add-on comes with 3 months of Xbox Live as well!
If you need an Xbox and there’s a Circuit City close to you this deal is really too good to pass up. Also, strangely enough, our Circuit City has been getting NEW stock in yet, including a whole pile of Jasper 360’s, the newest lot number I’ve seen yet in fact (0850X) So why not check it out?
For information on how to spot a Jasper Xbox 360 in the wild, see this page. Happy hunting!
NOTE: It’s even cheaper now, 20% off minimum.
I guess it was inevitable, but Joel Watson has put me in a web comic, where I build some sort of monstrosity:
http://hijinksensue.com/2009/01/12/benheck-mod-scientist/
In other news, I hope to show the THQ prize laptop soon, and I have a new style of game controller coming [eventually] as well.
OK so yesterday I had my Facebook status as saying I was “being frustrated by potentiometers” – a rather normal day for me, really. For whatever reason this prompted one of my friends to suggest I build an Xbox 360 controller inside of an Atari 2600 controller shell. And I thought “That’s dumb enough to work!”
A mere 5 hours later I had what you see above – the 3600 controller! This is an Atari 2600 controller with wireless Xbox 360 controller guts inside of it – batteries too. The big red “fire” button is “A”, other buttons are attached to the top:
Granted this wasn’t a pay project (rather a UPP – un-paid project!) but it was a nice break from what I was doing. It isn’t usable for standard Xbox 360 games but adequate for many Arcade games and other low-level tomfoolery.
For the sure-to-be thrilling story of how I did it, check after the break. I kind of did a cheat to get controller guts into this small of a shell…
Oh you can also download this pulse-pounding demo video of the controller in action.
Note: despite the mention of Facebook, I prefer to limit it to people I know / acquaintances, so please do not be offended if friend requests go ignored.