This is definitely my favorite build. My life and career never went into electrical engineering, but I would do stuff on par with this a kid. In fact, in the 90s, I had suspended an old black and white portable TV under my brother's bunk bed above mine, and I rigged together a connection to play my N64. It was life.
Same. Luckily, with the internet and a little fortitude, I've learned alot since I was that kid. Never dne anything with the knowledge, but as I get older and hoard more things, the urge grows lol
Yes yes ,in 1998 I had almost the identical pocket tv to the one BEN is using in this video except the brand name was"Optimus", for fun I would play GENESIS Alladin and Sonic2 ,then I would connect my Saturn 🪐 and play Quake and StreetFighter Alpha2 Gold,,,great times,,
I had a little portable TV, almost exactly identical to this one, back in 97. I got it for $20. It was 'hot'. But it was so awesome at the time because i rode the bus a lot. My Washington DC trip was in 94 i think it was. My parents wouldn't buy me crap though, we were too poor, and my father was too stuck in the past. But i did manage to get myself a gameboy, and i had Zelda Link's awakening. Was my favorite game for years... so i had that for the ride, along with my Walkman and my nirvana tapes.
I was a Nomad and CDX kid. Found them at yard sales for dirt cheap in like 2001. Mind you, I was 9 then. Lost them ages ago, and I'd love to just build my own portable Genesis now lol
It still makes me happy to know that back 20 years ago I saw you make the OG playstation portable. That disc slapped on back and exposed really stuck with me for 20 years lmfao. I don't do a lot of modding, but seeing shit like that made me a lot more confident in tearing into electronics
When I was a Kid I took My Father's Portable TV and ran it off Batteries (until I got a second Cigarette lighter adapter) and used the Cigarette lighter adapter from the TV and powered my NES from that. Then I took a 3.5mm Jack to two screw antenna Adapter, to a two screw coax barrel adapter to the NES RF to use in the back of my Father's car for car trips. "D
Yay, fond memories flooding back of when I managed to get my Atari 800 wired up to a two inch Radio Shack Pocketvision LCD TV back in the early 1990s. (98% sure that those PocketVisions were Casios wearing Realistic-brand skin-suits.) The sort of amazing thing was you could *almost* pretend you were able to read the 40 column text despite the letters only being about twice as wide as the pixels.
You know, B. I know that the focus of this video is to re-do your childhood project right using materials that were available to you back then, BUT... and hear me out. If you wanted to go all in on this, Amazon does sell 9 volt batteries in 2-packs (They also sell usb rechargeable C-Cells, and D cells, and AA and AAA) that have micro usb charge ports built in. You could snag 2 packs and wire them in parallel for a higher capacity bank. You might even be able to recharge them with 1 cable by working your magic on the charging ports as well. :)
I did something similar with my N64 to take camping, but I didn't build a nice wooden enclosure. Everything was just thrown in a bag and flopping all over the place with haphazard wires everywhere. I didn't have a cool little portable TV so I used my families old camcorder that we no longer used for cam cordering.
@corey Babcock it really annoyed my dad though. He wanted me to go and do outy doory things, but instead I was in a tent staring at a tiny camcorder screen playing mario cart.
I'm really confused by that 9v battery capacity stat. I was trying to figure out runtime with one for a project and everything I found was like 500mAh max for a really good battery and it would drop out before then anyway. 2400mAh sounds insane, thats like 2/3 the current capacity of an 18650 at like ~2.5-3x the voltage and in a smaller package too. Even with seemingly the same search I can't find that result you showed. I must be missing something here.
Did you see Adrian's recent video on Adrian's Digital Basement about a new old stock flat CRT? It's only monochrome, and the contrast is so bad it's basically only good in the dark, but it could be a cool basis for a console conversion. It would probably have to be a pretty basic game with lots of contrast, like Pac-Man or something.
Dang, I've already been working on one of those for a little while. I have a Raspberry pi setup, powered by a lithium battery going through this thing. Bitluni did this first!
This was super fun! Made me think back to when I bought a Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox.. Flashed the drive, replaced it with a 10GB laptop drive, and wired up D batteries as a power source so it didn't die so fast. I wore JNCO jeans, so the Nomad in one pocket and the D cell pack in the other with a few foot lead and I was set! Used that thing on the bus, at school, and at work! Only downside is that it took 4+ min to boot with 10GB of mp3s on it!
I did the same thing with an NES and a 9-volt battery and a pocket TV when I was 13. We were trying to play Gun Smoke [worked great!] and Duck Hunt. But at the time we didn't know the light gun didn't work with an LCD. This throws me back. Thanks Ben
In the 80s my dad won salesman of the year at his company and got a Black and White portable CRT TV. I used one of those RF to headphone jack convertors to hook a 9V up to our Atari 2600 for "portable" entertainment :D
Man this takes me back, somewhere around 97 I did this with my SNES, CASIO TV and a 9.6V Tyco Fast TRAXX NiMh battery pack. No RF in my my TV thought, I trust added a crocodile clip on a phono cable and clopped it onto the antenna.
"Blast processing" wasn't a specific thing in the Genesis. It was really just the combination of the 68k having a wider bus, the VDP DMA unit, and faster memory which could outclass the SNES in raw throughput.
IIRC the Gamehut guy said it wasn't even something you could do during gameplay as it ate all the bandwidth. But yeah in terms of sheer operations per second the Genesis was way ahead. Most console wars tend to be between a really complicated but feature-rich architecture and a simple yet speedy one. Except now we have two PCs and a tablet.
The CEO of Sega back in the 90s said they made up the term for marketing and that it doesn't really mean anything. So a definition such as a this more of "ret con" of history (much like the term "PATA"). That doesn't mean there aren't valid points about the hardware features. I would like to point out Street Fight 2: Turbo is a thing that exists for SNES despite the CPU slower clock speed. Special daughter board in the cart I assume.
@@tildesarecool7782 It looks like Super Streetfighter Turbo uses the same chipset as Mortal Kombat 2, which doesn't use any special chips. That kind of illustrates a point about these older consoles. Performance mostly boiled down to how well developers knew the system, their experience, and special tricks they figured out. From there, certain things depended on the specialized hardware in the cart, so a company's ability to execute those kind of changes also plays a role to some degree.
That's awesome. I did something similar about the same time only it was an NES and rather than mounting everything on a board I put them in a backpack. Took it on several quiz bowl trips. Two thumbs up Ben.
"Yes, the Sega Genesis is so rare and valuable." Why do some people think that anything over 20 years old belongs in a museum? The portable is a thing of beauty, by the way.
Same reason people on ebay think everything 2 console generations is RARE and vintage and worth a HUGE PILE OF MONEY lol. I've got 2 sealed pristine condition Mario bros and a Mario 64 sealed so does that mean I'm a multi millionaire or that some auction house has pulled off a complex clever money laundering scam🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔. Usually someone on ebay who has alot of a game. Inflate the price of one of them and someone buys it and maybe sells a few but once they are sold the arse falls out the market as it's been flooded with them and then they worth SWEET .F. ALL. It's a pain for us collectors, as joe bloggs suddenly think everything's worth thousands. And they still don't realize after 7 months of it not selling that it's worth sweet nothing. I contacted a guy who was selling a game for £500 I have 8 copies of the game. He was adament it was worth that😂 so I said I have 8 copies and he can have them for £300 a piece. Funny he didn't reply,😂😂😂
i have all models of Casio pocket tvs except for the two vcr models. absolutely love them especially the Casio TV-330 can tv and the water resistant basic shockproof models
It's funny you should mention nitroglycerin becoming safe as there's a neat story about that. In Western Massachusetts is a railroad tunnel called the Hoosac Tunnel. During its construction there was a local factory to manufacture the stuff. One freezing cold night the guy transporting the nitro had his cart overturned. Once he realized he wasn't going to blow up he noticed the nitro had frozen solid and it was relatively safe to transport that way.
DF Retro did a video about it: th-cam.com/video/rvvL6S5Buiw/w-d-xo.html You could "blast" pixels in to the screen, bypassing the video circuitry or something which allowed an expanded color pallette but it was very tricky to properly sync with the TV.
15:27 Also Cost... 9v were expensive and the comparison between batteries in those traveling tool tents and retail batteries was Gigantic! Both in cost and quality. Now batteries are closer in cost, except for D cells. Prob because of some underwritten insurance policy where somehow you are liable for personal damages by making D batteries to people putting them up their own “battery slot.”
Fun to see that 1 screw could hold everything, even the antenna. Nowadays, 100 screws barely keep the shape of the box protecting poorly the circuit boards.
Back in the day my dad had a Montgomery Ward boom box that had a small black and white TV in it. I brought my NES to the local bowling alley with me. Carried the radio and had everything else in a backpack.
I had one of those! I broke the antenna off and forced the RF adapter from my PlayStation onto it and put the PlayStation in my backpack and took it to high school. I would snake the power cord through a hole in my bag and play it at my desk. It has an auto tuner and I had to mess with the channel buttons to get it locked into channel 3. Good times...
I have either that exact Casio TV or a very similar model bought at Canadian Radio Shack (now the Source) circa 1999 or 2000. I used to have another Casio TV with a slightly bigger "TFT" LCD screen but I lost it on a bus soon after I moved to Ottawa at the end of 2004. I like playing Ghouls N' Ghosts on the Sega Genesis Mini for about 15 minutes at a time until I get frustrated and quit. I'm not nearly as "adequate" at it as a middle-aged man compared to how "adequate" I was when I played it as a 15-year old in 1990. (And I say "adequate" instead of good since, even back then, the only way I could get to the later levels was thanks to the infinite continues.)
How funny, me and my dad did something like this but with my Super Nintendo when i had to go on a business trip with him, i had the Gameboy, but i remember my Dad was like "lets make the Super Nintendo portable and take it with us", that was one of the very, very few projects i ever really did with my Dad, and i wish i still had that portable rig up still, its a nice memory id liked to still have but alas it was lost to time or parted out for something else
I rarely used a switch box with any console because as a tech nerd I loved unplugging/plugging stuff in. That was part of the fun just hooking up stuff lol. But yeah the Nintendo switch box was a good one.
I had one of these. I took it apart and stuffed the bare lcd onto a slide projector so I could have a really crappy video projector until the bulb burned the little panel.
Heh, I had the Casio TV-470 and hooked up my NES to it. back in the 90's I was about 13/14 at the time. I also went to DC in '93 and then True Lies became my favorite movie lol.
In the UK it was SEGA that won the 16-Bit wars. Not many people I knew growing up had a SNES and if they did, they were usually some spoilt brat who would have both consoles. Even the Master System was very popular over here too. The Master System II with Sonic built in was still sold here as late as 1996!
funny thing is, i actually have this exact same portable tv out yesterday and i wanted to hook it up to my Sega master system but forgot i needed to make a different cable lol so funny i found this vid :D thx
Can I put in a formal request for more Dave Jones impersonations? Perhaps with some more of his splendid Aussie turns of phrase such as: "She's a bit how ya doin'", "Good enough for 'straya", and the classic: "Cor, this is tighter than a nun's nasty" (surely the almighty algorithm can't understand Oz slang yet).
Dig'n'Save? Dang, we dont have anything below Goodwill here, I think it goes to the dump/recycling after it cycles through Goodwill/Value Village here in Canada.
First thing i did with one of those, was hack an A/V input. Some stuff was ok, but input signal was too high from others. Guess i could have added a trimming pot for video-in. Oh well, that was long ago.
I remember getting a second hand sega master system that came with a few games and sega magazines; this was probably 1991. In the magazines they'd publish letters and pictures kids had done and a lot the pictures featured sonic killing Mario; one that particularly sticks in my head is one of sonic holding a knife dripping in blood and in his other hand the decapitated head of Mario. I wonder if Nintendo magazines of the time had a similar hatred for sonic.
I still have mine Sega Genesis 3 console. I always thought be neat to take Sega Genesis console and turn it into a portable console make it look like some sort of laptop from the same era.
If you ever try it, look at pipe from a hardware or hobby store for the hinge: you can get copper, brass, and bronze, all of which are solderable with conventional solder, and they're available with sizes that just barely fit into each other, but are still large enough to run cable through. Then get enough channel or square pipe (or round pipe, I guess) to form the edge of the case, cut then solder the pieces together (I would use a hot plate or gas stove instead of an iron, because of size), and boom, you have a frame for your laptop, so you can go for more normal stuff for the rest.
It's interesting how one can learn about history, which could be about the game industry or the nobel price, and at the same time watching him building something. By the way I strongly recommend the book "Console wars" by Blake J. Harris. It gives you a really good picture about how the game industry skyrocketed thanks to Nintendo, SEGA, and lastly Sony. I recommended it for people who born after the NES, SNES and Genesis era, like me jajajajaja
Hehehe I was born in 91 and grew up playing Pitfall, True Lies, Gargoyals, and Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genisis until we finally got a PS1. I sorta miss my Sega, but I mostly miss my Gamecube... and My old GameCube disks of Lego Starwars the videogame, and Sonic Adventure DX...
Ben is that kid that tears apart your favorite toys to find out what is in them but never bothers to put it back together and just leaves it in pieces because he found new toys to ruin.
Incidentally, both switching regulators & LDO linear regulators actually existed back in the 70s, it's just that they almost never got used for whatever reason.
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite as described, TNT is a whole different thing. He established the Nobel Prizes after his obituary was mistakenly printed and the headline called him "The Merchant of Death."
This is exactly the sort of thing I would have done as a teenager. Unfortunately I never progressed further with the electrical skills. Also I should say my wood work would have been considerably worse with only access to a drill and a hacksaw.
I did the same with a NES toploader once carried it and the TV i a Whitman's sampler box to a Mormon church. played it while the congregation was doing sunday school.
Goodwill sucks here in NJ, unless you wanted clothes and glassware , anyway, I had one of these TVs as a kid back in the day, couldn't get reception any where, oh this reminds me back in the early 2000s I used to babysit, but I couldn't use the TV there because the kids I was watching would be using it , so I did this same thing only with the OG Xbox , the portable tv I used had a AV in
This is definitely my favorite build. My life and career never went into electrical engineering, but I would do stuff on par with this a kid. In fact, in the 90s, I had suspended an old black and white portable TV under my brother's bunk bed above mine, and I rigged together a connection to play my N64. It was life.
Same. Luckily, with the internet and a little fortitude, I've learned alot since I was that kid. Never dne anything with the knowledge, but as I get older and hoard more things, the urge grows lol
I used to have that TV. Watched every James Bond film on it while "camping" out in the garden. Awesome build.
Nice. Back in ‘91 I had little Sony Watchman that I’d watch in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping. Good times.
Yes yes ,in 1998 I had almost the identical pocket tv to the one BEN is using in this video except the brand name was"Optimus", for fun I would play GENESIS Alladin and Sonic2 ,then I would connect my Saturn 🪐 and play Quake and StreetFighter Alpha2 Gold,,,great times,,
@@MrCumstein the pocket TV was also a hoot for"SonicJam"and"MortalKombat Trilogy", ahhh those days,,,
@@wyldelf2685 Yeah my Watchman got replaced with a Turbo Express and a TV tuner. A color TV AND video games! More good times. lol
I had a little portable TV, almost exactly identical to this one, back in 97. I got it for $20. It was 'hot'. But it was so awesome at the time because i rode the bus a lot.
My Washington DC trip was in 94 i think it was. My parents wouldn't buy me crap though, we were too poor, and my father was too stuck in the past. But i did manage to get myself a gameboy, and i had Zelda Link's awakening. Was my favorite game for years... so i had that for the ride, along with my Walkman and my nirvana tapes.
26:55 _“And then the Sega Nomad came out, rendering all of Ben's work pointless.”_ That one legit cracked me up.
Same. I had one of those 😂
I was a Nomad and CDX kid. Found them at yard sales for dirt cheap in like 2001. Mind you, I was 9 then. Lost them ages ago, and I'd love to just build my own portable Genesis now lol
I love this build, it looks like something you would use in a post-apocalyptic situation.
Yes ,from Hyperkin the MadMax Genmobile for the low price of three cans of gasoline,,,,🎮🎮
Pure dirt. 3.2 kilos. How'd you come by so much of it?
@@BenHeckHacks The Book of Ben Heck: Genesis
@@nextlevelgamez9243 that's actually Waterworld.
I'm more impressed that you came up with a second verse for "Can I borrow a feeling" than the actual build
It still makes me happy to know that back 20 years ago I saw you make the OG playstation portable. That disc slapped on back and exposed really stuck with me for 20 years lmfao. I don't do a lot of modding, but seeing shit like that made me a lot more confident in tearing into electronics
Me too i never had internet back then but i had his book :)
When I was a Kid I took My Father's Portable TV and ran it off Batteries (until I got a second Cigarette lighter adapter) and used the Cigarette lighter adapter from the TV and powered my NES from that. Then I took a 3.5mm Jack to two screw antenna Adapter, to a two screw coax barrel adapter to the NES RF to use in the back of my Father's car for car trips. "D
Dave Jones singing Aladin made my laugh so hard I almost fell off the chair!!!
Yay, fond memories flooding back of when I managed to get my Atari 800 wired up to a two inch Radio Shack Pocketvision LCD TV back in the early 1990s. (98% sure that those PocketVisions were Casios wearing Realistic-brand skin-suits.) The sort of amazing thing was you could *almost* pretend you were able to read the 40 column text despite the letters only being about twice as wide as the pixels.
You know, B. I know that the focus of this video is to re-do your childhood project right using materials that were available to you back then, BUT... and hear me out.
If you wanted to go all in on this, Amazon does sell 9 volt batteries in 2-packs (They also sell usb rechargeable C-Cells, and D cells, and AA and AAA) that have micro usb charge ports built in. You could snag 2 packs and wire them in parallel for a higher capacity bank. You might even be able to recharge them with 1 cable by working your magic on the charging ports as well. :)
honestly, this was enjoyable because of your humor and anecdotes.
I also appreciate Ben's return to his chaotic good roots. All of the voices, singing, and random references really liven things up.
"im pretending its 1993"
"i pulled this hinge off of the flash forge"
hahaha
Keeping with the theme, this should have been recorded on a 90'd VHS-C camera haha
Yeah , partially recorded over an episode of"Home- Improvement",that would be visible toward end of video,,,lol 😆
Haha yes
Never knew about the Winchester Mystery House until you mentioned it. What a very bit of history.
I did something similar with my N64 to take camping, but I didn't build a nice wooden enclosure. Everything was just thrown in a bag and flopping all over the place with haphazard wires everywhere. I didn't have a cool little portable TV so I used my families old camcorder that we no longer used for cam cordering.
@corey Babcock it really annoyed my dad though. He wanted me to go and do outy doory things, but instead I was in a tent staring at a tiny camcorder screen playing mario cart.
So glad to see a return to basics vid. I'm doing the same trip to the family cabin labor day weekend.
I'm really confused by that 9v battery capacity stat. I was trying to figure out runtime with one for a project and everything I found was like 500mAh max for a really good battery and it would drop out before then anyway. 2400mAh sounds insane, thats like 2/3 the current capacity of an 18650 at like ~2.5-3x the voltage and in a smaller package too. Even with seemingly the same search I can't find that result you showed. I must be missing something here.
You point aligns with the 45 minute battery time I remember as a teen.
@@BenHeckHacks if we ask really softly ,Ben will grace us with the testing meter once again,,,🤘🤠🤘
Did you see Adrian's recent video on Adrian's Digital Basement about a new old stock flat CRT? It's only monochrome, and the contrast is so bad it's basically only good in the dark, but it could be a cool basis for a console conversion. It would probably have to be a pretty basic game with lots of contrast, like Pac-Man or something.
I did!
Dang, I've already been working on one of those for a little while. I have a Raspberry pi setup, powered by a lithium battery going through this thing. Bitluni did this first!
Ben sings Al Stewart's Year of the Cat at 28:36... last thing I ever expected and I haven't heard that song in forever. Hahaha!
Wire strippers?! What have you done with the real Ben Heck?!
He doesn't have his razor tooth installed yet.
This was super fun! Made me think back to when I bought a Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox.. Flashed the drive, replaced it with a 10GB laptop drive, and wired up D batteries as a power source so it didn't die so fast. I wore JNCO jeans, so the Nomad in one pocket and the D cell pack in the other with a few foot lead and I was set! Used that thing on the bus, at school, and at work! Only downside is that it took 4+ min to boot with 10GB of mp3s on it!
I did the same thing with an NES and a 9-volt battery and a pocket TV when I was 13.
We were trying to play Gun Smoke [worked great!] and Duck Hunt. But at the time we didn't know the light gun didn't work with an LCD.
This throws me back. Thanks Ben
And finally in 2021 we have a new version of the Nomad :D
Ben Heck doing Dave Jones singing Aladdin made me laugh so hard. Good Lord!
In the 80s my dad won salesman of the year at his company and got a Black and White portable CRT TV. I used one of those RF to headphone jack convertors to hook a 9V up to our Atari 2600 for "portable" entertainment :D
Man this takes me back, somewhere around 97 I did this with my SNES, CASIO TV and a 9.6V Tyco Fast TRAXX NiMh battery pack.
No RF in my my TV thought, I trust added a crocodile clip on a phono cable and clopped it onto the antenna.
What cracks me up is the "HIGH DEFINITION GRAPHICS" on the sega with the casio just resting on top of with visible pixels. The 90s was amazing kids!
This is what it's all about right here. This is some Richard Dean Anderson resourcefulness.
Finally an improvement on the Game Gear, which was perfection so this is an amazing creation.
"Blast processing" wasn't a specific thing in the Genesis. It was really just the combination of the 68k having a wider bus, the VDP DMA unit, and faster memory which could outclass the SNES in raw throughput.
IIRC the Gamehut guy said it wasn't even something you could do during gameplay as it ate all the bandwidth. But yeah in terms of sheer operations per second the Genesis was way ahead.
Most console wars tend to be between a really complicated but feature-rich architecture and a simple yet speedy one. Except now we have two PCs and a tablet.
B L A S T M A R K E T I N G
The CEO of Sega back in the 90s said they made up the term for marketing and that it doesn't really mean anything. So a definition such as a this more of "ret con" of history (much like the term "PATA"). That doesn't mean there aren't valid points about the hardware features. I would like to point out Street Fight 2: Turbo is a thing that exists for SNES despite the CPU slower clock speed. Special daughter board in the cart I assume.
@@tildesarecool7782 It looks like Super Streetfighter Turbo uses the same chipset as Mortal Kombat 2, which doesn't use any special chips. That kind of illustrates a point about these older consoles. Performance mostly boiled down to how well developers knew the system, their experience, and special tricks they figured out. From there, certain things depended on the specialized hardware in the cart, so a company's ability to execute those kind of changes also plays a role to some degree.
Always felt Nintendo wanted backwards compatibility (hence that CPU, same as Apple IIgs) then changed their mind and kept the gimped CPU
That's awesome. I did something similar about the same time only it was an NES and rather than mounting everything on a board I put them in a backpack. Took it on several quiz bowl trips. Two thumbs up Ben.
"Yes, the Sega Genesis is so rare and valuable." Why do some people think that anything over 20 years old belongs in a museum? The portable is a thing of beauty, by the way.
@@zombieplasticclock What exactly is his “fault for shopping at Goodwill”? That makes no sense.
Good luck with that attitude in 15 years when YOU'RE over 20 years old... 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Same reason people on ebay think everything 2 console generations is RARE and vintage and worth a HUGE PILE OF MONEY lol. I've got 2 sealed pristine condition Mario bros and a Mario 64 sealed so does that mean I'm a multi millionaire or that some auction house has pulled off a complex clever money laundering scam🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔. Usually someone on ebay who has alot of a game. Inflate the price of one of them and someone buys it and maybe sells a few but once they are sold the arse falls out the market as it's been flooded with them and then they worth SWEET .F. ALL. It's a pain for us collectors, as joe bloggs suddenly think everything's worth thousands. And they still don't realize after 7 months of it not selling that it's worth sweet nothing. I contacted a guy who was selling a game for £500 I have 8 copies of the game. He was adament it was worth that😂 so I said I have 8 copies and he can have them for £300 a piece. Funny he didn't reply,😂😂😂
Speaking as a 30 year old exhibit...
These young whippersnappers don't know the value of age and experience.
Here you can get a Sega Genesis for like $10 and there's ton of them
I was 19 in 93, gawd I feel old. Nice work on the protos.
finnaly a build of bens im not jealous of lol but dude u taught me everything i know
I love "portable" handhelds. When they're not quite pocket sized, but they are technically portable.
Ah, 1993. That really takes me back. This build may not have involved intensive minification, but this is peak Ben right here.
Could do a crazy zoom livestream of The Amps Are Right! With random volunteers from your viewers....
i have all models of Casio pocket tvs except for the two vcr models.
absolutely love them especially the Casio TV-330 can tv and the water resistant basic shockproof models
Maui, Demigod of the rice and peas.
My son loves that movie (he's 1 and a half)
we watch it every day.
That looks like it should be on the hood of a Delorean. Such a work of art.
ha ha ha ben singing in the key of "The Greatest American Hero" pure class lol
Come for the old school electronic goodness ,stay for the puns and singing too.Great vid!
Awesome build... Looks like a bomb. Haha!!! Super fun video per usual. Yea those restart points were never very fair...
This video was awesome! I love the thought of building something out of junk laying around.
It's funny you should mention nitroglycerin becoming safe as there's a neat story about that. In Western Massachusetts is a railroad tunnel called the Hoosac Tunnel. During its construction there was a local factory to manufacture the stuff. One freezing cold night the guy transporting the nitro had his cart overturned. Once he realized he wasn't going to blow up he noticed the nitro had frozen solid and it was relatively safe to transport that way.
I had that pocket TV growing up! It's weird to think how useful it was, back in the day.
Thank you, now Al Stewart is stuck in my head!
Blast Processing was a thing, but ironically it never actually got used. Apparently it was a configuration of the DMA system.
DF Retro did a video about it: th-cam.com/video/rvvL6S5Buiw/w-d-xo.html
You could "blast" pixels in to the screen, bypassing the video circuitry or something which allowed an expanded color pallette but it was very tricky to properly sync with the TV.
The Genesis absolutely smokes the SNES when it comes to the CPU. SNES had DMA as well but the busses were all 8 bit!
I wouldn’t take that into any store they might call the police especially with these batteries at the front..
15:27 Also Cost... 9v were expensive and the comparison between batteries in those traveling tool tents and retail batteries was Gigantic! Both in cost and quality. Now batteries are closer in cost, except for D cells. Prob because of some underwritten insurance policy where somehow you are liable for personal damages by making D batteries to people putting them up their own “battery slot.”
Fun to see that 1 screw could hold everything, even the antenna. Nowadays, 100 screws barely keep the shape of the box protecting poorly the circuit boards.
Back in the day my dad had a Montgomery Ward boom box that had a small black and white TV in it. I brought my NES to the local bowling alley with me. Carried the radio and had everything else in a backpack.
You are the only TH-camr I can watch for 45 minutes in one go just because of your personality lmao
I had one of those! I broke the antenna off and forced the RF adapter from my PlayStation onto it and put the PlayStation in my backpack and took it to high school. I would snake the power cord through a hole in my bag and play it at my desk. It has an auto tuner and I had to mess with the channel buttons to get it locked into channel 3. Good times...
"The champagne of beers" Thomas had never seen such bullshit before
They should be sued for that line.
Hey High Life is a great beer to drink while using power tools!
Came for the complete and total Ben Heckness of the build, stayed till the end for the cat. :D
I have either that exact Casio TV or a very similar model bought at Canadian Radio Shack (now the Source) circa 1999 or 2000. I used to have another Casio TV with a slightly bigger "TFT" LCD screen but I lost it on a bus soon after I moved to Ottawa at the end of 2004.
I like playing Ghouls N' Ghosts on the Sega Genesis Mini for about 15 minutes at a time until I get frustrated and quit. I'm not nearly as "adequate" at it as a middle-aged man compared to how "adequate" I was when I played it as a 15-year old in 1990. (And I say "adequate" instead of good since, even back then, the only way I could get to the later levels was thanks to the infinite continues.)
Heh, funny enough I became aware of your website back in the 2000s when I was looking for a way to play game consoles on the bus during band trips.
How funny, me and my dad did something like this but with my Super Nintendo when i had to go on a business trip with him, i had the Gameboy, but i remember my Dad was like "lets make the Super Nintendo portable and take it with us", that was one of the very, very few projects i ever really did with my Dad, and i wish i still had that portable rig up still, its a nice memory id liked to still have but alas it was lost to time or parted out for something else
I rarely used a switch box with any console because as a tech nerd I loved unplugging/plugging stuff in. That was part of the fun just hooking up stuff lol. But yeah the Nintendo switch box was a good one.
I had one of these. I took it apart and stuffed the bare lcd onto a slide projector so I could have a really crappy video projector until the bulb burned the little panel.
It's nice to see the spirit of Robin Williams alive and well inside of Ben. Lol the zip tie support group joke.
Disneyfied Williams or back when he had balls?
"Maybe I shouldn't say things like that" --- You are correct, sir.
Heh, I had the Casio TV-470 and hooked up my NES to it. back in the 90's I was about 13/14 at the time. I also went to DC in '93 and then True Lies became my favorite movie lol.
In the UK it was SEGA that won the 16-Bit wars. Not many people I knew growing up had a SNES and if they did, they were usually some spoilt brat who would have both consoles.
Even the Master System was very popular over here too. The Master System II with Sonic built in was still sold here as late as 1996!
I got my current job because I used the word serendipitous in the interview.
Do you recall the context?
funny thing is, i actually have this exact same portable tv out yesterday and i wanted to hook it up to my Sega master system but forgot i needed to make a different cable lol so funny i found this vid :D thx
Oh, Road Rash. Never owned that one. But I did rent it a bunch. I had the even more 90’s ROLLER BLADING equivalent… SKITCHIN!
one of the few channels that gives me a good belly laugh.. Ben keep doing you...
I used that TV hooked to an 8mm camcorder in my foot locker and was able to watch movies in my rack while I served on a submarine in the Navy.
I laughed at the random The Room quote, "Oh hi Mark."
Can I put in a formal request for more Dave Jones impersonations?
Perhaps with some more of his splendid Aussie turns of phrase such as: "She's a bit how ya doin'", "Good enough for 'straya", and the classic: "Cor, this is tighter than a nun's nasty" (surely the almighty algorithm can't understand Oz slang yet).
That Charlie Day impersonation was spot on. Nice work the Ben
Super Mario World is still my fave Mario game. The story points are what got me. I liked that better than just play level, play level, play level.
Dig'n'Save? Dang, we dont have anything below Goodwill here, I think it goes to the dump/recycling after it cycles through Goodwill/Value Village here in Canada.
We have a value village here in wisconsin and wow is it a dump
@@rs.7610 Which is worse, Dig'n'Save or Value Village? Just the name Dig'n'Save conjures up visions of dirty bins with people digging through them
That is exactly what it is. So. Many. Belts....
I saw the drive
It opened up my mind that mega drive
Hey life is demanding without understanding ,,,😁😁
Ben screaming I'm pickle rick will forever be burned into my memory lmao
Awesome work, Ben, thank you.
you need to put a brief skit with Bud at the end of every episode a bit like DankPods does with his snake Frank.
First thing i did with one of those, was hack an A/V input. Some stuff was ok, but input signal was too high from others. Guess i could have added a trimming pot for video-in. Oh well, that was long ago.
I remember getting a second hand sega master system that came with a few games and sega magazines; this was probably 1991. In the magazines they'd publish letters and pictures kids had done and a lot the pictures featured sonic killing Mario; one that particularly sticks in my head is one of sonic holding a knife dripping in blood and in his other hand the decapitated head of Mario. I wonder if Nintendo magazines of the time had a similar hatred for sonic.
I still have mine Sega Genesis 3 console. I always thought be neat to take Sega Genesis console and turn it into a portable console make it look like some sort of laptop from the same era.
If you ever try it, look at pipe from a hardware or hobby store for the hinge: you can get copper, brass, and bronze, all of which are solderable with conventional solder, and they're available with sizes that just barely fit into each other, but are still large enough to run cable through. Then get enough channel or square pipe (or round pipe, I guess) to form the edge of the case, cut then solder the pieces together (I would use a hot plate or gas stove instead of an iron, because of size), and boom, you have a frame for your laptop, so you can go for more normal stuff for the rest.
It's interesting how one can learn about history, which could be about the game industry or the nobel price, and at the same time watching him building something. By the way I strongly recommend the book "Console wars" by Blake J. Harris. It gives you a really good picture about how the game industry skyrocketed thanks to Nintendo, SEGA, and lastly Sony. I recommended it for people who born after the NES, SNES and Genesis era, like me jajajajaja
When I was deployed in the mid 90s I used a Game Gear + GG TV adapter (it has an AV in) + a SEGA CDX to so something very similar
I tune in for the knowledge that you provide but secretly I tune in for the ranting and impressions. LOL Thanks for the video Be.
Hehehe I was born in 91 and grew up playing Pitfall, True Lies, Gargoyals, and Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genisis until we finally got a PS1.
I sorta miss my Sega, but I mostly miss my Gamecube... and My old GameCube disks of Lego Starwars the videogame, and Sonic Adventure DX...
Ben is that kid that tears apart your favorite toys to find out what is in them but never bothers to put it back together and just leaves it in pieces because he found new toys to ruin.
I got a public safety alert near the end of your song. Seems appropriate.
Incidentally, both switching regulators & LDO linear regulators actually existed back in the 70s, it's just that they almost never got used for whatever reason.
Expense. It's always the reason.
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite as described, TNT is a whole different thing. He established the Nobel Prizes after his obituary was mistakenly printed and the headline called him "The Merchant of Death."
Its amazing how the resolution is so low that in the areas with solid colors, it looks more like stripes of that color than an area of that color lol
Used to use D cells everywhere before Lipo's became dominant. Never heard of anything using a C cell since erector sets in 1980.
Great. I had a Sega AND one of these TVs. Guess I'm prehistoric!
This is exactly the sort of thing I would have done as a teenager. Unfortunately I never progressed further with the electrical skills.
Also I should say my wood work would have been considerably worse with only access to a drill and a hacksaw.
I did the same with a NES toploader once carried it and the TV i a Whitman's sampler box to a Mormon church. played it while the congregation was doing sunday school.
Oh wow, I had that exact model back in the day. I think it was a birthday gift.
Goodwill sucks here in NJ, unless you wanted clothes and glassware , anyway, I had one of these TVs as a kid back in the day, couldn't get reception any where, oh this reminds me back in the early 2000s I used to babysit, but I couldn't use the TV there because the kids I was watching would be using it , so I did this same thing only with the OG Xbox , the portable tv I used had a AV in
Well that's New Jersey for ya. They don't call it the armpit of the nation for nothing.
I miss my Geocities sites. I designed a lot of sites on there for myself and others. :(
You could always replace the CFL with LEDs to extend battery life, right? They existed in the 90s :)