(By Ben Heck)
All the cool kids do it. There are a lot of people out there (known as hackers) such as *drum roll please* Benjamin J. Heckendorn. Some do it as handhelds, some do it as handhelds, some are emulators on small handhelds, some are just terrible. We're going to take a look at these, and a look at Ben Heck's work.
(Another one by Ben)
Older consoles and portablizing them is much easier. You can do it two ways. A) You can cheat and use emulators so the end product is extremely small and store all your games on it, or B)Actually shove it in their, switch around remove, add a chip or a heatsink. (Such as what some have did with the Atari or the Xbox 360 to help with heat problems.) The one console I haven't seen a really good shrunk down version of is the Gamecube and the N64.
Now, what about emulation? This can be done on freaking PSP's, no comment on the speed though. You don't need a strong processor(According to emulator-zone.com, Project64(N64 emulator) needs less that 1GHz of processing power to run, most netbooks are at least 1.6 GHz)This is probably the best way for emulation of older consoles. For newer ones, you'll more than likely need an uber 1337 computer to emulate an Xbox 360 (3 3.6GHz or so processors!).
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