Articles, Video Games

Another interview for you all

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Recently I did an interview for a magazine, and there’s a full version of it here.

Sometimes people have noted that I don’t have links to every interview I do. Is this something people would like to see? Honestly I only post about half of them, I figure they have their own channels for distribution. Discuss!

What I’d really like to do is get some interviews for my podcast… Anyone famous out there read my site and want to come on over Skype for 2o minutes or so? I promise to ask interesting questions since I am fully aware of what it feels like to be asked the same 8 things over and over again. Email me!

In other news, I’ll have a new How-To on Engadget this week and, if all goes well, there should be a new portable before the end of February (the most stylish one yet, I promise)

Podcasts

Benheck.com Podcast Episode 13

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Here it is, an amazing 1 day early even. In this episode we discuss the best and worst games based off movies (and licenses) of all time, our experiences with online gaming and finally, movie sequels that come out far too late, such as Die Hard and Indiana Jones 4.

Goes a bit over an hour but you should be able to hack it, we even threw together another fun intro and everything. Enjoy!

Benheckpodcast.com Official Site

Video Games

I shall save the bandwidth of mail servers the world over…

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…by announcing that I plan to build no more XBox 360 laptops. I have been working on a second one and I’ll show it on the site when it’s finished, but with the time required and considering other projects in the works the 360 laptop is just not something I’m interested in these days. To be honest I’m getting… hm… weary of laptops in general and when I finished the new ones I have coming it’ll be time to move onto something else.

Making multiple copies of something is better suited to something simple (and cheaper) like an Atari VCS, or perhaps a NES-on-a-chip based unit.

On this same token I also do not have, nor plan to do/make any of the following:

  • N64 portables or plans. That system breaks if you look at it wrong, very hacker-unfriendly. Just buy a DS.
  • PS2 portables or plans. Much like the Xbox 360, too difficult to make worth repeating.

Remember there’s plenty of instructions and plans in my book and I sell kits for them as well. This is doable since it’s all been standardized, if I had to create custom kits for every person who emailed they price would be substantially more.

If you’d like me to take a stab at a project you’ve suggested the rule of thumb is to think of something really far out there that might peak my interest. Slogging out more PS2 / 360 portables… not interesting.

Articles, Video Games

Projects and article lists

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OK over on the right under “Quick Links” you can now click on “Browse all projects” and “See all articles” to bring up a list of, well, guess. Bingo.

I’d like to do it this way because otherwise the sidebar will be filled with even more clutter. Perhaps I’ll get some drop-link action going in the main header, but this will do for now.

Enjoy!

Articles, Video Games

New Book Section

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As I continue to work on the new site after last week’s “rush ‘o doom” I have added in the “Hacking Videogame Consoles” book section again. You can get to it using the link on the top over to the right.

It has all the content and links as the old site, plus the automatic eBay search links, but done up in the new format, using WordPress to manage the pages. I’m contemplating using WordPress pages to catalog ALL the old stories (right now they’re on the site in the old structure, you can find a partial list here or use the Search feature to find the article and link), but that will take me awhile. But hey, for now, if you’re new to the site you could type in a random system in Search and see if I’ve ever done it!

On the old site there was a list of all projects in the side column. I didn’t do that this time because I thought it looked a bit messy. But is this what people would prefer? I also considered a single page, linked to as “Browse Projects”, that contains all the projects in a list. Same for movies, podcasts, etc. That’d work, but it kind of defeats the purpose of a lot of the easy WordPress features.

I’m open to suggestion, email me! Or comment, I guess we can do that now too.

Articles

Welcome to the new Benheck.com!

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As you can see the benheck.com site has undergone a major facelift. The main news section, what you are looking at now, runs off WordPress and has much more functionality for our viewers/listeners, including RSS feeds and a commenting system.

Every post I’ve ever done has been put into the database, allowing you to look back as far as December of 2000! There were a few months older than that (the *original* GeoCities site) but I can’t find the files. No big loss, nothing really happened until December anyway.

The DNS changed before I was ready, so I’m having to rebuild a few things (including getting the forum data in the right place) Stay tuned, we’ll get it going!

Forums are now up, sorry it took so long, I basically made a fairly dumb mistake. Or a series of them. Thanks to Jason Jones for knocking me upside the head and setting it all straight!