@@RussCottier I forgot about that. But I would prefer to see an actual cabinet. Like the Virtual Boy arcade cabinet created by Tighe Lory that Nathan Barnatt used to have (now in the possession of Arin Hanson.)
A new Ben Heck video, what a glorious day! If you have a chance Ben, can you show us what you have in your lab and give someone new into electronics what you’d need for a lab, and some use cases? That would make quite a few of your fans’ year! Also a step by step for how you model for 3d printing. Happy New Year!
This is one of my favourite designed projects, i mean in terms of looks the front laser cut plastic looks amazing, Ben is a designer and engineer, pretty spectacular
I still think the coolest thing to see you do would be to UN-portable-ize a few systems. Like a PSP to PSNP (PlayStation Not Portable,) specifically, because that's a console I think could really benefit from the treatment. Alternatively, if you ever wanted to do another briefcase-style build, I think it could be neat to see what you could do with the final/smallest hardware iterations from the 360 and PS3 combined into a single briefcase unit. Those systems might not have shrunk down over their lives quite as much as the PS2 hardware did, but they did squeeze them down quite a bit, so seeing how power efficient you could make such a unit -- possibly even GO battery-powered this time -- would be awesome.
I been waiting for these. Your creations are superb. Glad to see you doing these videos and projects. Your portables make the retail systems look amateurish. Your attention to detail shows. Thank you for this. You mentioned you made this one in the video for someone. Are you building these to sell as a MOD? If you have website for requests I would like to purchase one of your creations. As far as a project I’d like to see you do, I’ve seen a few months back someone made a portable PS2 and called it the PS2P cause it looks like a PS Vita. It looks cool and it’s using a PS2 board that they somehow made to fit in a hand held. I think your version would be dope. I’d like to see that.
I have a Pixel 2. The USB-C port is a joke. Oh I saved half a second not having to check which way I plugged it in, but I waste 5 seconds gingerly aligning the cord so it actually stays connected to charge. #fail
@@BenHeckHacks USB type C is terrible.... especially when people carelessly let dongles and heavy cables dangle off the side of laptops and expect them to last as long as a full size HDMI connector.
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Hmm... The print lines look rather rough. With resin printers being so cheap, why not just use them to print the buttons, joysticks and board mounts/ implements?
9:32 Wish all gadgets were throughly tested as Ben does with his creations, and if the PS5 happen a pocket version the size of the Neo Geo mini would be spectacular ;)
I remember one of my room mates had the TurboExpress back in the early 90s. The screen was TINY and it got very warm. I had the Atari Lynx, still have it somewhere in a box. Good times.
Thinking about it, I think you've made the best circular D-pad that I've seen. All the other ones I've played with either get stuck in the diagonals, don't have any feedback when hitting diagonals, or just plain suck. But just looking at this one just looks like it's accurate in every direction. I hope you share this D-pad design, or at least patent it if you're no comfortable, as this could be a really cool D-pad mechanism.
Neo Turf Masters is one of my favourite games too, as you say it is an excellent fun golf game. Why not use a little acetone brushed on the buttons, case and joystick to smooth out the printing marks?
Great job as always. I wish they had sold the Neo Geo Mini as a portable device. I would love to see an Atari 2600 portable that also accepts 7800 carts. Thanks again!
@@BenHeckHacks Not sure if this is completely out of bounds but making and selling kits for this could be something that people like me would go for. I don't want to shop around for pcb manufacturers and 3d printers but I would love to solder and glue one of these together.
That form factor and control layout and design is waaaaaaay better than what SNK released as their mini. I have no idea what modern SNK is thinking lately.
Ok, X-er. I joke, I joke. I was born in 85, I was in the same school year as 4 month's worth of people born in 84. Now... what's the millennial catchphrase... 90s power... X-treme... roller blades...
Looks awesome, but I feel the buttons & the top of the joystick could do with either plastic buttons with a matte shine finish or some kind of cap in to of them, so it is identical to the AES controller.
I know you did 2 already... But any chance of doing a portable NeoGeo Mini using the original mini internal component but replaces the D-Pad with clicky one?
I think it would be really interesting if you made a modernized mini-Gameboy. Redesign the entire Gameboy PCB to minimal thickness, load games off of solid state, crisp OLED display, and have stereo speaker sound. That would be quite a project, I know. Also, I still think the red and white portable looked stellar.
@@returnofbeaux I thought the gameboy outputs stereo from the headphone jack. Might be wrong about that, but there is definitely a world of difference between the speaker and headphone.
There is a hidden spot on the waterfalls to shoot, there you can rescue some men coming out of the waterfalls at 11:49. If you rescued ALL and found ALL men WITHOUT dying once, you get bonus points!
That looks cool. By the way, does the player 2 usb port allow for the use of an usb hub so that both players may connect separate controllers through it? If it is reserved for the player 2 only, and player 1 is supposed to use the built-in controller, how does the HDMI cable feel while playing? I'd assume it's not inconvenient?
You should buy a Portable neo geo for a video. I’d totally watch you play and see what’s wrong with it, crack it open, and possibly make improvements to the existing hardware. Btw, personal story below if you want to read. I bought some wireless earbuds online for super cheap and one of them wasn’t working. The other sounded good and the price was cheap enough that i felt like I should crack it open and have a look around inside. Turns out one of the speaker wires wasn’t soldered. I, never really having soldered in my life, tried to take the easy way out and superglue the wire to the board. I know, good idea right? After wiping away the plastic that melted from the superglue, I asked my dad if I could use his old soldering iron to give it a proper try. Because of your videos, I had the confidence to pick up a soldering iron for the first time and see if I could fix my earbuds. You should’ve seen the solder I built up on the components around what I was actually trying to tin. The tip was huge and the components in the earbud were SUPER tiny! In the end, I was able to fix it with no bridged connections, and it works! The sound is a little tinnier than the other, but they were suuuuper cheap, so I’m happy. Hopefully, the story wasn’t too long for you to read through, I just wanted to let you know that you inspired a fairly recent subscriber to try something new. Thanks!
I love your projects I have been following you since season 2 of the Ben heck show, at the time I didn't even understand English since I'm not a native speaker, but your videos still managed to interested me One project I particularly liked was the brain games project, I always thought it was very cool how you combined the 2 systems on such a low level. but you never really finished it by adding a third system and the episode seems to have ended very abruptly. So I would love to see you revisited the project. It would also be cool if you made a custom PCB and case for it.
I know it has been addressed before but it kills me to see people doing mechanical design in AI. Great video Ben. Please keep up the great and interesting builds! Edit: You need to get yourself a decent SLA printer. Yes dealing with the resin is kind of a pain however the resolution/quality when printing smaller pieces will blow your mind man. I personally like the Form2 from Formlabs in Cambridge MA but there are a number of them on the market.
Just bring back Alyson to collaborate in one entirely dedicated “regrettable acting” video once every two months, keep posting project videos when you feel like it and we’re all set. The Real Ben Heck Show that I used to love is back.
Max, Alyson and I are planning a "Hero with a 1000 Faces" book-club like discussion video sometime this spring, now that we've all read it. Not electronics related so no one will care, but I'm doing it anyway.
Ben Heck Hacks really? I just can’t wait to see you guys all together. Life isn’t just electronics you know? What about some videos about B-movies like Plan 9 of Outer Space or Attack of Crab monsters? They’re so bad that they’re so good. To know your opinions and critics about them would be fun.
might as well be a mix of a D-Pad and an analog. I'm really thinking about designing such a thing myself, based on a wireless PS2 controller, which has a really nice D-Pad, easy to use, little force required, moves really well and just pivots with a single spring. It has rubber pads, and hence no clicking sound, but it works smoothly just like this judging by how it moves, but with enough force all directions are pressed, and so it lacks a true pivotal separator.
Groovy NG portable! I commented on the part 2 video before seeing this, but I'd like to suggest a version shaped more like the original NG home joystick but with the smaller 24mm arcade buttons instead of the original 30mm ones, a joystick closer to an original arcade joystick (don't know if they come a bit smaller than the normal size tho), and the display embedded in the thing.
Ben Heck case design is always top notch. I would like to see what Ben's ideal console case would look like for things like the GBA consolizer or even the MiSTer FPGA project! Things that have cases but not with the polish of a Ben Heck design.
haYUGE shout out to Neo Turf Masters! I think they don't use it much anymore because they got sued by the masters golf tournament, so they call it Big Tournament Golf on the Switch Shop now (which i think was the Japanese title)
Id love to see if you could do something interesting with one of those cheap sf2000 handhelds, wether it be hack it into something else, or modify it to do more/be better in some way, i really like the form factor of it and it feels good for a cheap handheld, be interesting to see what you could come up with to do with it
Looks really neat. Not that I could build such a thing but if I could and were to, I'd probably see if I couldn't find some cast or molded plastic buttons, those printed ones look really rough, I wonder how long they'll last.
I feel like the Print quality of the buttons and the joystick really hurt the over all awesome effect of a very complex, skill and time intensive project. still, Its a great device and a fun video and I hope you keep it up. I really enjoy seeing the process.
@Ben Heck Hacks - What material do you use for the front panel of this? The material you laser etched. And how do you secure it to the 3D printed top part of the body?
I have a request for a design, Have you seen the MISTER FPGA systems ? A custom case with keyboard like a C64 / atari XL with custom IO and USB expansion boards to fit would be a great addition to the growing project. I am currently looking at a modded Amiga 600 case with a cheap mechanical keboard.
Great work. If you designed digital drop-in replacement joysticks for the Neo Geo Mini and the Mini Pads, I think you could easily sell them. Lots of people would want this. Also, do you really need the digital to analog conversion circuit? The Mini Pads seem to output digital despite having an analog stick, at least my system recognizes them as digital. I would assume the Neo Geo Mini would accept digital input just fine.
that kind of finish it's not ok, look the "tomb of 3d printed horrors" channel, you'll be amazed with the quality a well tunned 200 usd printer can get
Hey Ben, great one :) Is a small resin / sla printer not a good addition to your collection? It can print those buttons with an amazing quality! If have the longer orange 10 for 250 dollar and it is amazing!
Have you ever thought about putting some of your designs on a site for sale as a kit, like I am sure a hand held retropie kit would sell, then you could have PCB for sale on PCBWAY and you could earn a small bit for sale on those too. Your designes are always so good, I know I would buy one.
For a handheld, the 4 buttons straight line layout doesn't work. Nor does the diamond shape (like the SNES) for that matter. The best approach would be the Gameboy Advance SP layout: 2 buttons for your right thumb and 2 shoulder buttons for your index fingers. That way you can perform buttons combinations properly. Maybe a new video to complete the Ben Heck Neo Geo Mini saga?
Wondering if you have heard of an lcd upgrade for the version 3 and 4 gamegear? Any idea why one is unobtainable? Seems to me that if there is a will there is a way?
Love seeing these portable systems being made but what about going the other direction. Are you able to make a home console version that connects to the tv for a Neo Geo Pocket Color, Sony PSP, or Nintendo DS?
Hey Ben. Got an idea for a build. Since the Nintendo 2DS XL is already an instant classic console, could you mod it to have a nice capacitive touchscreen instead of the lame resistive one?
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Time to flip the script. Make an arcade cabinet out of an old portable.
Pancreaticdefect he did. Ben Heck Show giant Gameboy
@@RussCottier I forgot about that. But I would prefer to see an actual cabinet. Like the Virtual Boy arcade cabinet created by Tighe Lory that Nathan Barnatt used to have (now in the possession of Arin Hanson.)
Pancreaticdefect that could be cool....you should do it..go to your local makerspace and there will be a ton of help.
Man, seeing stuff like this makes me wish I could afford to comission you for something. I'm so glad you're still making videos, Ben!
Ben I love these kinds of project videos! Keep up the great content!
Ben I've been following you since Highschool, please keep up the great work. You're an Internet Treasure!
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A new Ben Heck video, what a glorious day! If you have a chance Ben, can you show us what you have in your lab and give someone new into electronics what you’d need for a lab, and some use cases? That would make quite a few of your fans’ year! Also a step by step for how you model for 3d printing. Happy New Year!
The modelling is probably more important tbh, but the comment was long enough as is.
Awesome of course!! I wish they made something like this from the beginning!
That Black/Gold looks like the Bandit Trans Am. Bad ass content and informative.
This is one of my favourite designed projects, i mean in terms of looks the front laser cut plastic looks amazing, Ben is a designer and engineer, pretty spectacular
Those buttons sound very satisfyingly clicky. Looks awesome in that colour scheme too.
I still think the coolest thing to see you do would be to UN-portable-ize a few systems. Like a PSP to PSNP (PlayStation Not Portable,) specifically, because that's a console I think could really benefit from the treatment.
Alternatively, if you ever wanted to do another briefcase-style build, I think it could be neat to see what you could do with the final/smallest hardware iterations from the 360 and PS3 combined into a single briefcase unit. Those systems might not have shrunk down over their lives quite as much as the PS2 hardware did, but they did squeeze them down quite a bit, so seeing how power efficient you could make such a unit -- possibly even GO battery-powered this time -- would be awesome.
I always thought that a 'game boy player" for psp umd discs would be cool!
Incredible. This would have been the coolest gadget on the block when I was 12. 😄 You sir are an inspiration to all scientists.
I been waiting for these. Your creations are superb. Glad to see you doing these videos and projects. Your portables make the retail systems look amateurish. Your attention to detail shows. Thank you for this. You mentioned you made this one in the video for someone. Are you building these to sell as a MOD? If you have website for requests I would like to purchase one of your creations.
As far as a project I’d like to see you do, I’ve seen a few months back someone made a portable PS2 and called it the PS2P cause it looks like a PS Vita. It looks cool and it’s using a PS2 board that they somehow made to fit in a hand held. I think your version would be dope. I’d like to see that.
Tons of people do that for every console imaginable
But Ben builds the best one I’ve seen.
I agree completely about mini usb. Much more rugged and with its shape, just as easy as USB-C to plug in correctly on the first try
I have a Pixel 2. The USB-C port is a joke. Oh I saved half a second not having to check which way I plugged it in, but I waste 5 seconds gingerly aligning the cord so it actually stays connected to charge. #fail
@@BenHeckHacks USB type C is terrible.... especially when people carelessly let dongles and heavy cables dangle off the side of laptops and expect them to last as long as a full size HDMI connector.
And what about this ?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_hardware#Micro_connectors
For this one I don't know of durability but the cable is reversible on both ends ;o)
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So far this is the closest thing I’ve seen to the legendary neo geo pocket’s D-pad. Would love a modern controller with that D-pad on it
Hmm... The print lines look rather rough. With resin printers being so cheap, why not just use them to print the buttons, joysticks and board mounts/ implements?
Nice build! Neo Geo is legendary. No console came even close
Looks great. The black and gold really evokes the look of the AES console.
So good to see the Ben back in business making cool protects! :)
Yup! Just awesome... nothing else to add!
9:32 Wish all gadgets were throughly tested as Ben does with his creations, and if the PS5 happen a pocket version the size of the Neo Geo mini would be spectacular ;)
The Neo Geo was amazing. It had some huge tiles and sprites which allowed for very detailed backgrounds and lots of animation.
Always amazing watching these videos. Fantastic stuff
that joystick is a really well thought out idea
Very, VERY nice! I really love the look of that.
Is there a way to smooth off 3D printed objects? Like with sandpaper? Or would that destroy the integrity of the structure?
Awesome work. Congratulations.
USB-C and Mini USB, madness. Throw a DB-9 on the 3rd even more improvederer version. DB9 is the peak of mechanical reliability.
That new joystick is genius! Thanks for keep making videos.
Pretty cool, Ben! The gold and black does look pretty cool.
I remember one of my room mates had the TurboExpress back in the early 90s. The screen was TINY and it got very warm. I had the Atari Lynx, still have it somewhere in a box. Good times.
You are awesome and i wish i could buy one of these. Greetings from Holland.
Thinking about it, I think you've made the best circular D-pad that I've seen. All the other ones I've played with either get stuck in the diagonals, don't have any feedback when hitting diagonals, or just plain suck. But just looking at this one just looks like it's accurate in every direction.
I hope you share this D-pad design, or at least patent it if you're no comfortable, as this could be a really cool D-pad mechanism.
Neo Turf Masters is one of my favourite games too, as you say it is an excellent fun golf game.
Why not use a little acetone brushed on the buttons, case and joystick to smooth out the printing marks?
Very nice work. Awesome!
Great job as always. I wish they had sold the Neo Geo Mini as a portable device. I would love to see an Atari 2600 portable that also accepts 7800 carts. Thanks again!
You'd be a blast to go to the old arcades with!
Love all the portables you make, I'd love to see the Mega Drive Mini (Sorry, Genesis Mini) turned into a new Nomad with microswitch controls!
Love this project! It would be nice if they had built the mini as a portable like this. I would have bought it if they had!
Ben are you offering up the design files for others to download and build? Either for free or as a paid version?
Good idea, I should collect up the files and put this on my gitHub.
@@BenHeckHacks Not sure if this is completely out of bounds but making and selling kits for this could be something that people like me would go for. I don't want to shop around for pcb manufacturers and 3d printers but I would love to solder and glue one of these together.
@@Ill_look_back_on_in_disgust I second that. Maybe a series of "educational" kits that progressively get harder. All game related of course.
That form factor and control layout and design is waaaaaaay better than what SNK released as their mini. I have no idea what modern SNK is thinking lately.
Awesome! Snes mini portable next 🙏🏻
So cool. Love Ben's projects. Mahalo for sharing! :)
You should get a Resin Printer (Formlabs Form) for the Buttons etc. for a nicer finish. Great Project
Ben, you're such a Gen X-er. 😎
I was born in 84 and I've been called a boomer by my nephew. Lol
Mike G --- Hope you set the ignorant little shit right... (I'm sure he's lovely btw).
Ok, X-er.
I joke, I joke. I was born in 85, I was in the same school year as 4 month's worth of people born in 84.
Now... what's the millennial catchphrase... 90s power... X-treme... roller blades...
@@Liofa73 I only just saw your comment now (good job youtube) but that gave me a good laugh! Lol
Looks awesome, but I feel the buttons & the top of the joystick could do with either plastic buttons with a matte shine finish or some kind of cap in to of them, so it is identical to the AES controller.
That stick design is brilliant, PSV stick sucks because the very short shaft length, you move the axis behind the pcb so the shaft is longer.
OK, I'd like to see you do a collab with Chris the Perifractic and the people he mentioned and make the Commodore HX-64 a real thing!
You're so great as an independent creator, Ben!
Really nice project. Looking at the specs and it was better than SNES but not comparable to Sega Saturn.
SNK: We couldn't reproduce clicker D-Pad at this point in time.
Ben Heck: Hold my 3D printer.
I know you did 2 already... But any chance of doing a portable NeoGeo Mini using the original mini internal component but replaces the D-Pad with clicky one?
I think it would be really interesting if you made a modernized mini-Gameboy. Redesign the entire Gameboy PCB to minimal thickness, load games off of solid state, crisp OLED display, and have stereo speaker sound. That would be quite a project, I know. Also, I still think the red and white portable looked stellar.
Would you warp one of the channels since it's mono? Some kind of spatializing?
@@returnofbeaux I thought the gameboy outputs stereo from the headphone jack. Might be wrong about that, but there is definitely a world of difference between the speaker and headphone.
@@doc_sav ah. thanks. it has been years.
There is a hidden spot on the waterfalls to shoot, there you can rescue some men coming out of the waterfalls at 11:49. If you rescued ALL and found ALL men WITHOUT dying once, you get bonus points!
That looks cool. By the way, does the player 2 usb port allow for the use of an usb hub so that both players may connect separate controllers through it? If it is reserved for the player 2 only, and player 1 is supposed to use the built-in controller, how does the HDMI cable feel while playing? I'd assume it's not inconvenient?
You should buy a Portable neo geo for a video. I’d totally watch you play and see what’s wrong with it, crack it open, and possibly make improvements to the existing hardware. Btw, personal story below if you want to read.
I bought some wireless earbuds online for super cheap and one of them wasn’t working. The other sounded good and the price was cheap enough that i felt like I should crack it open and have a look around inside. Turns out one of the speaker wires wasn’t soldered.
I, never really having soldered in my life, tried to take the easy way out and superglue the wire to the board. I know, good idea right? After wiping away the plastic that melted from the superglue, I asked my dad if I could use his old soldering iron to give it a proper try. Because of your videos, I had the confidence to pick up a soldering iron for the first time and see if I could fix my earbuds. You should’ve seen the solder I built up on the components around what I was actually trying to tin. The tip was huge and the components in the earbud were SUPER tiny! In the end, I was able to fix it with no bridged connections, and it works! The sound is a little tinnier than the other, but they were suuuuper cheap, so I’m happy.
Hopefully, the story wasn’t too long for you to read through, I just wanted to let you know that you inspired a fairly recent subscriber to try something new. Thanks!
I love your projects I have been following you since season 2 of the Ben heck show, at the time I didn't even understand English since I'm not a native speaker, but your videos still managed to interested me
One project I particularly liked was the brain games project, I always thought it was very cool how you combined the 2 systems on such a low level. but you never really finished it by adding a third system and the episode seems to have ended very abruptly. So I would love to see you revisited the project.
It would also be cool if you made a custom PCB and case for it.
I know it has been addressed before but it kills me to see people doing mechanical design in AI. Great video Ben. Please keep up the great and interesting builds! Edit: You need to get yourself a decent SLA printer. Yes dealing with the resin is kind of a pain however the resolution/quality when printing smaller pieces will blow your mind man. I personally like the Form2 from Formlabs in Cambridge MA but there are a number of them on the market.
Love neo turf masters!
Just bring back Alyson to collaborate in one entirely dedicated “regrettable acting” video once every two months, keep posting project videos when you feel like it and we’re all set. The Real Ben Heck Show that I used to love is back.
Max, Alyson and I are planning a "Hero with a 1000 Faces" book-club like discussion video sometime this spring, now that we've all read it. Not electronics related so no one will care, but I'm doing it anyway.
Ben Heck Hacks really? I just can’t wait to see you guys all together. Life isn’t just electronics you know? What about some videos about B-movies like Plan 9 of Outer Space or Attack of Crab monsters? They’re so bad that they’re so good. To know your opinions and critics about them would be fun.
I would definitely buy one of these from you Ben.
Ben you're awesome man!
That would be cool to have a brass or aluminum enclosure. Or even delrin.
So, “the person”? Is it actually MJR? 😂
Pretty sure it is
He referenced mjr in the beginning of the vid
Mjr?
@@TheStuartstardust metal jesus rocks
might as well be a mix of a D-Pad and an analog. I'm really thinking about designing such a thing myself, based on a wireless PS2 controller, which has a really nice D-Pad, easy to use, little force required, moves really well and just pivots with a single spring. It has rubber pads, and hence no clicking sound, but it works smoothly just like this judging by how it moves, but with enough force all directions are pressed, and so it lacks a true pivotal separator.
The inset logo should definitely have chrome inserts. Take it to the next level my man.
YASSS HE DID IT
Groovy NG portable! I commented on the part 2 video before seeing this, but I'd like to suggest a version shaped more like the original NG home joystick but with the smaller 24mm arcade buttons instead of the original 30mm ones, a joystick closer to an original arcade joystick (don't know if they come a bit smaller than the normal size tho), and the display embedded in the thing.
Brilliant.
i never played metal slug, and this looks awesome think i'll try it soon.
Ben Heck case design is always top notch. I would like to see what Ben's ideal console case would look like for things like the GBA consolizer or even the MiSTer FPGA project! Things that have cases but not with the polish of a Ben Heck design.
I think the d-pad with that screw in the middle, and the buttons and d-pad texture could use a bit more of a polished finish.
haYUGE shout out to Neo Turf Masters! I think they don't use it much anymore because they got sued by the masters golf tournament, so they call it Big Tournament Golf on the Switch Shop now (which i think was the Japanese title)
Id love to see if you could do something interesting with one of those cheap sf2000 handhelds, wether it be hack it into something else, or modify it to do more/be better in some way, i really like the form factor of it and it feels good for a cheap handheld, be interesting to see what you could come up with to do with it
Looks really neat. Not that I could build such a thing but if I could and were to, I'd probably see if I couldn't find some cast or molded plastic buttons, those printed ones look really rough, I wonder how long they'll last.
Love it!
You fuckin' rock Ben!
I feel like the Print quality of the buttons and the joystick really hurt the over all awesome effect of a very complex, skill and time intensive project. still, Its a great device and a fun video and I hope you keep it up. I really enjoy seeing the process.
Yeah its unfortunate that the top of 3D prints are usually the worst looking part.
daaamn, i would really pay some numbers to get my hands on that portable.
@Ben Heck Hacks - What material do you use for the front panel of this? The material you laser etched. And how do you secure it to the 3D printed top part of the body?
I bet if you gave the buttons, and stick an acetone vapor bath it would look even better!
EDIT: only if your using good quality abs
I was thinking Plasti-Dip (if its PLA)
resin printer will do the job
I have a request for a design, Have you seen the MISTER FPGA systems ? A custom case with keyboard like a C64 / atari XL with custom IO and USB expansion boards to fit would be a great addition to the growing project. I am currently looking at a modded Amiga 600 case with a cheap mechanical keboard.
Great work. If you designed digital drop-in replacement joysticks for the Neo Geo Mini and the Mini Pads, I think you could easily sell them. Lots of people would want this. Also, do you really need the digital to analog conversion circuit? The Mini Pads seem to output digital despite having an analog stick, at least my system recognizes them as digital. I would assume the Neo Geo Mini would accept digital input just fine.
He's DONE IT AGAIN! Damn it Ben. Damn it.
Very cool.
I love 3d priniting but man I really do hate the finish it leaves.
That's pretty severe underextrusion. Calibrate your esteps, ben!
that kind of finish it's not ok, look the "tomb of 3d printed horrors" channel, you'll be amazed with the quality a well tunned 200 usd printer can get
Hey Ben, great one :) Is a small resin / sla printer not a good addition to your collection? It can print those buttons with an amazing quality! If have the longer orange 10 for 250 dollar and it is amazing!
Amazing
Have you ever thought about putting some of your designs on a site for sale as a kit, like I am sure a hand held retropie kit would sell, then you could have PCB for sale on PCBWAY and you could earn a small bit for sale on those too. Your designes are always so good, I know I would buy one.
Amazing! Please tell me there’s a way to purchase a DIY kit. I’d love to own one of these!
For a handheld, the 4 buttons straight line layout doesn't work. Nor does the diamond shape (like the SNES) for that matter. The best approach would be the Gameboy Advance SP layout: 2 buttons for your right thumb and 2 shoulder buttons for your index fingers. That way you can perform buttons combinations properly. Maybe a new video to complete the Ben Heck Neo Geo Mini saga?
8:23 just the force... it is strong with you
Man, if you could manufacture a professional kit with a real thumb-stick etc you could make bank, I'd buy one.
Wondering if you have heard of an lcd upgrade for the version 3 and 4 gamegear? Any idea why one is unobtainable? Seems to me that if there is a will there is a way?
Now I Wish a Pandora Box Portable style with Raspberry PI 3 CM and Capcom 6 button alike
Apparently the TurboGrafx-16 Mini has a TurboExpress filter mode. You should make a TurboExpress!
@Ben Heck Hacks; would you be able to make a gamegear style handheld with a bigger screen that plays emulated games?
Love seeing these portable systems being made but what about going the other direction. Are you able to make a home console version that connects to the tv for a Neo Geo Pocket Color, Sony PSP, or Nintendo DS?
USB-B is the MOST mechanically sound. 😜
This is a cool project! But I'd like to see a 3D-printed case get sanded shiny or at least satin-smooth!
Awesome! I want one!
Needs to be mass produced in China, it would sell well. BHH edition. Better plastics etc.
Hey Ben. Got an idea for a build. Since the Nintendo 2DS XL is already an instant classic console, could you mod it to have a nice capacitive touchscreen instead of the lame resistive one?