Ben Heck's NEStari is twice the fun

You just can't put this guy down. Just when you think he's had his full share of soldering injuries and heatsink frustration, Benjamin Heckendorn goes and builds the NEStari, a flavorful combination of NES and Atari 2600 in a convenient, portable package. The story is half the fun, but short of it is Ben had a NES-on-a-chip lying around and a spare Atari Flashback 2 chip, but only a single 3.5-inch LCD, so he decided to make a nice, fat portable that can load both NES and Atari cartridges. Sure, the DS lite kids may laugh, but you can always bludgeon them with this monstrosity, while playing gaming classics that far surpass the Pokemons of today. Well, at least Ben can. He's not going to be making any more of these, since the hack wasn't exactly easy to pull off. Hit up the read link for the step-by-step and even some video of the NEStari in action -- if you can get it to load.

[Spanky @ Aug 23rd 2007 5:39PM]

sell the plans and instructions to a console maker.. someone will take it and its worth several hundreds of thousands if not a few million.

a few bucks here and there never hurt anyone.

[JohnTitor @ Aug 23rd 2007 6:48PM]

not with the GP2X in existance

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Aug 23rd 2007 11:17PM]

But will it play doom?

[me @ Aug 23rd 2007 5:40PM]

Cool!

Electro Need

[STIEN @ Aug 23rd 2007 5:41PM]

HA HA! I loved my NES back in the day. The good ole' days. I could never beat super mario brothers 3...that stupid bouncing sun...arg...

[CT A @ Aug 23rd 2007 5:42PM]

Playing Atari on that thing would be a pain..

[Argot @ Aug 23rd 2007 5:49PM]

It reminds me of the new iPod.

[Neebs @ Aug 23rd 2007 5:54PM]

*Obligatory post telling Ben Heck to get a real web host*

[kyle allen @ Aug 23rd 2007 8:11PM]

benheck.com

[Neebs @ Aug 23rd 2007 8:35PM]

Web HOST, kyle, not site.

[kyle allen @ Aug 23rd 2007 11:16PM]

oh...sorry

[Matt @ Aug 23rd 2007 6:24PM]

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[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Aug 23rd 2007 11:15PM]

@Matt

And the point to that post was what? That you can use whois database?

[John @ Aug 23rd 2007 6:31PM]

Man, I miss my NES... possibly because I've largely forgotten how frustrating it was to try and get the damned cartridges to load...

[strider_mt2k @ Aug 23rd 2007 7:04PM]

I wanna be that guy when I grow up.

[J3 L U N T @ Aug 23rd 2007 7:45PM]

i wonder if this guy has 2 brains. one for class and one for something utterly stupid

[-Tj- @ Aug 23rd 2007 7:59PM]

Woah! All that's left for Ben to do is to hook up Atari, Nintendo, AND Sega into one ultimate machine to make the Atari-tendo-sega!

[kyle allen @ Aug 23rd 2007 8:11PM]

more like "atrendga"

[Derrick @ Aug 23rd 2007 8:53PM]

Nestarega!

[Patrick @ Aug 23rd 2007 10:16PM]

We can just call that "pure genius".

[-Tj- @ Aug 24th 2007 2:24AM]

Aww, man! I guess no one has watched that episode of Clock Suckers. My reference went to waste.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1768570

[ed @ Aug 23rd 2007 10:25PM]

pretty genius....

http://www.techfiends.com

[Ben @ Aug 24th 2007 1:40AM]

kplzdiethx

[ed @ Aug 24th 2007 1:47AM]

umm why would u tell me to die Ben???? that is not polite, especially after i just called u a genius????

[Bad Beaver @ Aug 24th 2007 4:38AM]

This should be named NINTARI, and BOY would I love for someone to remake Willy Beamish.

[Joseph @ Aug 24th 2007 7:31PM]

obligatory

yeah, but will it blend?
What about a beowulf cluster of these
I for one welcome our new nestari overlords...