Ben Heck Talks Console Modding and Memories - The Retro Hour EP64
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
We're joined by the wonderful Ben Heck, the console modding king! We talk about repairing the Nintendo Playstation Prototype and will Ravi convince him to make an Amiga laptop?!
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Show notes:
Oliver Twins at NVA: https://www.thenva.com/dizzy
Apple Watch runs Gameboy games: http://gabrieloc.com/2017/03/21/GIOVANNI.html
Stoa Arcade cabinets: http://bit.ly/2nCuOIJ
New MegaDrive fighting game coming: http://bit.ly/2npKUEs
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties PC version found: http://bit.ly/2nGzpeB
Varcade station: http://bit.ly/2nCv8at
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:03.5 | Max has asked me to move in with him. |
| 0:05.9 | I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great. |
| 0:09.8 | Did you hear that, Joe? |
| 0:11.5 | Yes, thanks for letting us know. |
| 0:14.3 | I see you've updated your universal credit claim. |
| 0:17.1 | Now you're going to be living together. |
| 0:23.6 | If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, tell us too to avoid a penalty. Search tell DWP. Hello and welcome to the |
| 0:31.4 | Retro Hour podcast episode number 64, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me Dan Wood and. And me, Ravi Abbott. Now, I imagine we've got quite a few new listeners this week. So welcome on board, if you are a newbie to the retro hour, based on the fact that we were number three in the iTunes podcast chat last week. Which is amazing. And I would say that's down to our guest, but also our wonderful show, which was Ashen. Yeah, we did have Ashty. Ashen on the show last week, so if you did just discover us then, as there were so many new listeners, you know, IP addresses and towns and cities we'd never seen before, do make it a regular thing every Friday. And of course, an equally warm welcome if you do check up the show every week anyway. And of course, |
| 1:11.6 | we do try and bring you amazing guests every week. And I think this week, you're going to enjoy |
| 1:15.9 | this guy's stories. Now, I think it's fair to say, the guests we've got this week is the |
| 1:20.7 | ultimate console modder. Yeah, this is the modder king, and his name is Ben Heck, and he's from |
| 1:26.4 | Element 14, if you know these these guys and they're all over |
| 1:29.6 | YouTube. He's actually repairing the Nintendo PlayStation at the moment. The original prototype |
| 1:35.0 | that was discovered of course a couple of years ago. I think that says a lot about Ben, |
| 1:39.1 | the guys who've probably got the rarest console prototype in existence went to Ben to get it working. |
| 1:44.3 | Yeah, like, go mad. |
| 1:46.9 | He's soldering it and all like in the plane. |
| 1:49.0 | It's crazy, but, you know, he's built amazing stuff. |
| 1:51.8 | So he's built portable dreamcast. |
| 1:54.3 | He's built a C64 laptop. |
| 1:57.2 | Yeah. |
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