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404:
Shanghaiguide, how much did the board cost you and where can i get one? I have some limited embedded hardware experience. contemplating on getting one although i don't even have a arcade cab at the moment.
Vigo:
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Site works fine for me. It might be your firewall, the big one. :lol
--- Quote from: 404 on June 08, 2012, 10:43:07 am ---Shanghaiguide, how much did the board cost you and where can i get one? I have some limited embedded hardware experience. contemplating on getting one although i don't even have a arcade cab at the moment.
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Here is the website of the manufacturer. I can't find the actual product...It must be too new and not listed yet on there. It looks like you can make a product inquiry on the website though.
http://www.chowhe.com/index.php
shanghaiguide:
Can PM me if you want to order.
I'll have my website up soon ( retrosticks.com ), still getting the staff to add stuff in there, then I need to turn it all into English.
I've been buying samples of different boards from different manufacturers here, so far the "King Of Game" seems to be the best for modding software wise, and again, its quite stable.
I've been buying samples of pretty much everything that I can get my hands on here, and checking what I deem acceptable. There is a lot of dross :(
I also bought and took apart a "Blue Elf 2012" board as I got one of those this week.
Its quite similar to the King of Game, but older CPU.
This one is ARM based, but looks like a much more expensive board to produce. No USB, No VGA though (in the one I bought, although there is a version with both that I found, but probably won't buy). Not sure why they didn't go with a SoC version, unless they basically have been using the same design since day 1. (Most probably..)
Its a slower CPU - PXA270. Roms come on a SD Card, which is FAT formatted.
I didn't see a serial option on the board yet, but didn't check too carefully. Probably its similar to the Ingenic chipset, and will turn out to use a usb bootloader.
I have to say I prefer the ingenic MIPS one though, even though I'm *way* more familiar doing ARM dev stuff.
Some photo's here -
Untitled by sheedl, on Flickr
Untitled by sheedl, on Flickr
Untitled by sheedl, on Flickr
Untitled by sheedl, on Flickr
Untitled by sheedl, on Flickr
Untitled by sheedl, on Flickr
I've had a quick look at the SD card files, one file is called something .dat (its all at work, so can't remember exactly what), the rest are rom's or similar.
Again, looks like FBA is being used, vs MAME or similar.
I'm guessing this is going to be common to all the arm / mips based embedded solutions vs the typical x86 based (the larger GameBox et al - (not the gamebox referred to in this thread)).
If anyone is interested in assisting me with the firmware side please feel free to ask. The more people, the faster it might go!
My plan is to port a better emulator version, and then sell the board with that :)
iscariot:
I can help a little if I know what to look for. What's the OS it's running? Is it still minios?
iscariot:
Yeah that's the second version of the Blue elf. The first one had the SD on the board and it was in some weird locked format. Could you dump the image of the SD and post it somewhere for me to look at?