Who was in the wrong?

[Anonymous No.10678670]

[Anonymous No.10678679]

>extremely rare piece of video game history
>"Let me put it next to a hot plate"

[Anonymous No.10678685]

>>10678670
Phillips

[Anonymous No.10678698]

>>10678670
Nobody was in the wrong and we need to stop pretending there were heroes and villains in what was in reality ordinary business. Everyone had their own interests and sometimes those interests didn't align. What's not in dispute after Ben Heck tore this thing apart is that the unit would have been garbage.

[Anonymous No.10678704]

>>10678698
Doesn't the MSU-1 Project basically replicate what it would've been? Anyway I agree, there is no real villain here

[Anonymous No.10678710]

>>10678670
Olaf Olafsson not throwing this thing in the garbage in the 90s, cursing us with years of overbearing speculative discussions.

[Anonymous No.10678712]

>>10678670
Imagine a world where the PSX was launched by nintendo and instead of bringing us the most awesome library all it had was games intended for kids 8-12

[Anonymous No.10678717]

>>10678670
It's kinda sad this guy passed on a seven digit offer for this thing then took it to Heritage Auctions where it sold for a third of that

[Anonymous No.10678739]

>>10678717
Good, fuck him.

[Anonymous No.10678763]

>>10678704
Sort of but not really. At a basic level, yes, it allows for SNES games to have CD audio and FMV, which is what the SNES CD would be able to do. But MSU1 is also way more capable, allowing data streaming and storage up to 2GB. The Killer Instinct Arcade patch shows just what MSU1 is capable of. A CD system can't just blast data in that way.

[Anonymous No.10678765]

>>10678670
faggot OP for making a template thread

[Anonymous No.10678784]

>be broccoli hair zoomer
>cluelessly find some ancient device in dad's basement
>decide to ask the internet about it
>turns out it's rare as fuck
>start fantasizing about being a millionaire and a celebrity
>try to do it
>all you get is annoying nerds trying to extract as much information from your device as they possibly can
>you didn't get any fame or money in the end
Was it fair?

[Anonymous No.10678828]

>>10678784
pretty sure all he gave a shit about was money

[Anonymous No.10678832]

>>10678828
he wanted fame, I remember he posting pics of himself or appearing on videos. If you just want money you just lend the device and get the money without interferring.
also, he is a zoomer, of course he wants fame. I bet he thought the SNES CD would kickstart his influencer era.

[Anonymous No.10678837]

>>10678832
>SNES CD would kickstart his influencer era.
that wasnt even a thing when this shit was going on

he wanted money and was glad it was worth shit but everyone was begging him to let them study it for preservation and he complied

[Anonymous No.10678976]

>>10678837
Yup. He was honestly a good guy when the alternative was to sell it for a mil to one of those rich hoarders who "nyah nyah" people asking about it. That he let Ben Heck open the thing on camera was surprising.

[Anonymous No.10678980]

>>10678837
wait when did the influencer era began? I'm so fucking lost...

[Anonymous No.10680537]

>>10678679
>my child is so retarded it could manage to destroy something by placing it on a counter that also holds an induction cooker that is not active and is cold
>"let it shitpost on the 4chan"

[Anonymous No.10680541]

>>10678670
>Who was in the wrong?
BenHECK

[Anonymous No.10680545]

>>10680537
Did you just "ackchually" my shitpost?

[Anonymous No.10680745]

>>10678717
>It's kinda sad

No it isnt, its a lesson in greed

[Anonymous No.10680782]

>>10678717

[Anonymous No.10682210]

>>10680745
This

[Anonymous No.10682647]

>>10678670
Sega

[Anonymous No.10682818]

>>10678976
Did Ben pay him? If Ben did then it was good enough. If I had some super rare piece of shit nerds have been quibbling about for decades. I would want to strike a balance of appeasement for the masses and appeasement for my wallet. I sure as fuck wouldn't go to Heritage. Anything worth money can have an escrow contract drawn, without those shits from Heritage.

[Anonymous No.10682830]

>>10678784
Don't ever post a white woman on this board again.

[Anonymous No.10683183]

How is this thing yellowed to shit?

[Anonymous No.10683190]

>>10682818
I don't know what Ben Heck's arrangement was. It sounds like the guy just plain trusted him to crack it open. Not a bad bet given who Ben Heck is. Plus he made the rounds in the convention circuit before the auction, letting people play the thing. I'm sure he enjoyed the 15 minutes of fame but it was still a cool thing to do. His only mistake was trusting Heritage Auctions. They're currently being sued from what I understand. They probably poured honey into his ear that whatever offers he was getting would be multiplied if he went through them instead. They're complete trash.

[Anonymous No.10683191]

>>10683183
Rare Yellow version

[Anonymous No.10683445]

>>10683190
What did Heritage Auctions do?

[Anonymous No.10683454]

>>10683190
Benheck more like is a fucking ben hack. He literally makes portable gore and all his "fixes" or "repairs" are bodged disasters and cringe.

[Anonymous No.10683504]

>>10683190
He let people hold it too. I got to hold it and have a picture to prove it. He was super friendly and really laid back, was just really excited to get all these opportunities to travel, meet new people, and see how excited everyone was.

>>10678784
None of this shit is true. You can go find the Reddit thread about how it was discovered. Someone posted about it and he was like "oh my dad has one in the attic, I can get pictures". Everyone called bullshit, then he posted the pictures.
I'm also pretty sure the guy is like 30 years old so not a zoomer?

[Anonymous No.10683516]

[Anonymous No.10683695]

>>10680541
What did he do wrong? Finding the obvious jumper wire that shorted everything out?

[Anonymous No.10683696]

>>10678670
Sony wanted to make interactive video content for it without 30% tax for Nintendo, for n it was unacceptable. N64 uses cartridges only because insane greediness of N

[Anonymous No.10683705]

>>10680545
No. I was only pretending to ackchually it.

[Anonymous No.10683731]

>>10678670
I used to be able to read NeoGAF on my work PC back when this was first revealed and EVERYBODY there was saying how it was a hoax, laughing about how fake it looked, etc.

>>10683516
I remember this; the guy ended up sending it back to Blizzard because he thought the FBI might track him down and all Blizzard sent him back in return was some plastic trinkets in the mail and a trip to Blizzcon.

[Anonymous No.10684323]

>>10683731
>I used to be able to read NeoGAF on my work PC
I'm sorry you can no longer read. Explains a lot.

[Anonymous No.10684416]

>>10683516
If he dumped this online he would've been seen as a national hero in worst Korea

[Anonymous No.10685197]

>>10684416
>worst
Other name for Southern.

[Anonymous No.10685609]

>>10678670
Nintendo fucked Sony, Sony says fuck you and goes and makes PS1. The rest is history.

[Anonymous No.10685616]

>>10683183
some plastics manufactured in the 80s and 90s had bromine in them, this shit caused the plastic to yellow up

only half of it is yellowed because they were probably manufactured in 2 different places for the top and bottom

[Anonymous No.10686384]

>>10683695
It was a lot more complicated than that. He had to replace the CD-ROM controller, some other random components, and run a bunch of bodge wires so the drive could properly interface with the RAM cartridge. Did you even watch the video?