I may not be the first person to receive one, but if I am, I'll post pics of its innards, answer all questions, etc.
I like the list of questions - I think it's a good idea to post all questions here. I'll answer them all when I get it.
I do have a variety of USB gamepads I'll try. If it supports USB HID in general, it may support more than a simple gamepad - I'll give it a shot.
...unless someone beats me to it.
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Looking forward to building a bartop out of it.What I'm wondering as well is if the FE is better than what those 60-in-1 boards have. I can't stand that grid layout with the multi-coloured font and gray background.
I still don't get the output resolution
the very best you could hope fore over composite is 576i and only if you have a PAL enabled Monitor/TV
will post what i find asapThanks for this, I'll be looking forward to your post. :D
i'm highly considering using this thing to build a vertically oriented arcade cabinet using an old CRT television, how well suited do you think this would be ?no i would not goto all that trouble of putting this in an arcade cab , a low grade pc would be more better than this i think
i tried to link to pc , pc found it , but could not load any drivers for it
Would you go into device manager and look up the Vendor and Device ID it's reporting to the system?ok i will do , i am at work now so will do so later tonight
Would you go into device manager and look up the Vendor and Device ID it's reporting to the system?
no i would not goto all that trouble of putting this in an arcade cab , a low grade pc would be more better than this i think
dont know how they are coing to put custom firmware on it though as it only reads gba or film files off of sd card , well lets hope anyway , think ile put mine away till some more news when others get one
This thing is neat and all, and I gotta admit the idea of a 'MAME Console' is appealing...Size? With a controller? With TV output? All pre-configured?
but you can snag an off lease Optiplex for the same money.....
:dunno
Just need someone to dump the flash either with a key or via USB. Once we know what's on there, it should be fairly easy to modify and put whatever we want back onyep i think if some can do that and with a re-written emu code , it might be quite a good little machine for $53
But is strange have not any menu to configurations,this way cant put other usb joystick,this will need configuration to work.
Have you tried plugging a PC keyboard into the first USB port and hitting keys to see what happens?
I have also plugged the included controller into a PC and the PC doesn't even sense that a USB device was plugged in
I Got this "wondermachine" two days ago.Wonder what this box is.GBA files works and CPS1 somes..and vids and mp3 etc.I have Dingoo 320 (Dingux GPX2Menu mod)Canīt find any settings(only..push left side 1 and 2 corner buttons)ONLY Language settings opens? What is mini USB connector on panel? Pc doesnt recognize on USB port.Linux or (Linux/Android flash?) there is many good question and answers.Bottle of Vodka and REM sleep :Dlooking at this does he mean he as got CPS1 games to load off of sd card ?
The manual talks "usb port is for debugging only", so in my view it should be possible to run a light Linux from a usb key to see what's happening inside :)
If joypad and usb port are not real usb the differences should be tiny...
Ok for proprietary 2-wire interface to communicate with the gamepads but what about the side usb port ? How do they debug (it should be suprising if they developed a proprietary system). If they do it should look like something existing. That what I mean in my previous post.
Came across this tonight - hold down the Select and Start buttons on the controller when turning on and an info screen comes up. Mine has the following details:
Device Model: JZ4755
Device Version: V1.0Build7c1
U Disk Size: 1.770 GB
U Disk Space: 298.944 MB
External Card Size: 0 BYTE
External Card Space: 0 Byte
And the board is labeled SDA and SCK where the wires attach, instead of the D+ and D- one would expect for USB. May or may not be significant.Judging to the names of the pins, it should be a NES/SNES-like protocol. You send pulses to SCK and read out SDA. Looks like a simple SPI protocol to me.
WLAN, Bluetooth and expansion
options are supported through high-speed SPI and MMC/SD/SDIO host controllers. The TS (Transport
stream) interface provides enough bandwidth to connect to an external mobile digital TV demodulator.
Other peripherals such as USB 2.0 device, UART and SPI as well as general system resources
provide enough computing and connectivity capability for many applications.
BOOT_SEL1 | Other Condition (PE25s internal pull up is disabled) | Boot From |
1 | PE25 is low or ADIN1 channel > 381 | NAND flash |
1 | PE25 is high and ADIN1 channel <= 381 | USB2.0 device @EXCLK=24MHz |
0 | PE25 is low or ADIN1 channel > 381 | SD card: MSC0 |
0 | PE25 is high and ADIN1 channel <= 381 | USB2.0 device @EXCLK=24MHz |
ftp://ftp.ingenic.cn/3sw/00tools/usb_boot/manual/USB_Boot_Tool_Manual_1.4_EN.pdfIndeed. Its the program to access the gamebox, I guess. Problems half solved?
this is promising.
I downloaded the drivers. Theres a tool folder there. It seems to be the program to allow writing and reading. It seems you put the data on the MicroSD, and command it via usb to copy to the contents to the drive.
I think only two people actually owned one to tinker with it. One of whom has already sold his.
someone send me one. I'll do some exploring :P
If the controllers are not USB and the unit comes with only 1 controller...why have 3 more plugs? I suppose they might sell the controllers separately (didn't check), but that's likely to cost nearly as much for 3 more + shipping as the GameBox from DX did in the first place. :dizzy:
I suppose they might sell the controllers separately (didn't check), but that's likely to cost nearly as much for 3 more + shipping as the GameBox from DX did in the first place. :dizzy:
DX does not charge for regular (slow) shipping.Duh, of course... :cheers:
This console have a lot of speculation,why you say not have eletronic for joysticks,in images made by mick,show board you can see electric track,this not a fake joysticks slot,and not we dont have drivers to be recognized on window we can say this not a usb or dont have usb controller.
RandyT , i not good with board and eletric but i can see 2 track passing in all 4 pads,anyway if second usb joystick is a dummy fo trick consumers maybe never selling any game for this console,in this case it is complete fake console,i hope not.
The 2, 3 & 4 player ports on the game box are not fake. They do work as i have tested them. It's not hard to just plug controller 1 into them to see.
Nobody said they were. There's either a reading comprehension or translator deficiency in this thread. Whichever it is, it's starting to get annoying.
Nobody said they were. There's either a reading comprehension or translator deficiency in this thread. Whichever it is, it's starting to get annoying.
I think YOU have the reading problem pal. Did i point out anyone said they were fake????? NO. This is just a standalone post. Calm yourself.
What was the purpose of your "standalone post" then ?
You'd be better off coming out with the truth and telling everyone that it's your product and answering direct questions about it. Hiding behind a user name and acting foolishly towards other members isn't going to help your case.What was the purpose of your "standalone post" then ?
Whats the point of Any post. It's called sharing information. You could all stop moaning and just say "oh thanks for the info".
and to you Pinballjim, as for being a "shill", if you like throwing away money you might as well buy one cos thats just a foolish comment.
What was the purpose of your "standalone post" then ?
Whats the point of Any post. It's called sharing information. You could all stop moaning and just say "oh thanks for the info".
and to you Pinballjim, as for being a "shill", if you like throwing away money you might as well buy one cos thats just a foolish comment.
You'd be better off coming out with the truth and telling everyone that it's your product and answering direct questions about it. Hiding behind a user name and acting foolishly towards other members isn't going to help your case.
Randy, just post a photo and the "dummy stick" will make sense. I wouldnt mind seeing the guts of this thing anyways.
If he's still here in a year posting something lucid about anything other than GameBox I'll donate $10 to the Special Olympics. Cause it sure feels wrong to participate in them for free.
If he's still here in a year posting something lucid about anything other than GameBox I'll donate $10 to the Special Olympics. Cause it sure feels wrong to participate in them for free.
There he goes again splashing the cash and this time insulting the disabled. :applaud:
Or you could like, I dunno, install FBANext on your PS3 and forget about this stupid thing?
:dunno
http://www.zonadepruebas.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11418&forum=8&post_id=111284#forumpost111284 (http://www.zonadepruebas.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11418&forum=8&post_id=111284#forumpost111284)
Looks like the boys in SA have figured out how to get it into USB boot mode.....
For those that can't read it, basically they've bridged a few points on the MOBO and are running the unit off a powered hub. They're able to control booting with it but haven't gotten a dump of the ROM yet. There is speculation on if the OS is MINIOS.
Run a mile from this lemon.
I was thinking about using a think client in a bartop, but I have no idea how to set one up. Do you have a good guide? What hardware are you using? What OS?
TPB: I also bought a Gamebox, and regret it. The construction quality seems flimsy, the video output is mediocre, and the inability to load any ROMs other than GBA is extremely frustrating.
Beware of some of the more positive reviews on DX. There are a couple of folks in particular who seem to want to post gushingly positive reviews - and attack anyone who is less than complimentary towards the Gamebox. I suspect they may be shills for the manufacturer not wanting to let on what an utter turd this machine is.
Unless the manufacturer helps get this box opened up for Linux and homebrews, it is a waste of $53+...
Game FORMATS support: MAME, CPS3, CPS2, CPS1, PGM, SFC, MD, PCECD
Over 5000 games supported in multi-game platform
I very much agree you guys should post the flaws... I just went back and re-read the DX site. ... "Duel shock game controler" "- With dual shock vibrating Joypad gamepad".. errr wouldnt that mean some vibration?
I was thinking about using a think client in a bartop, but I have no idea how to set one up. Do you have a good guide? What hardware are you using? What OS?
Randy ... we need your expert findings.
When you disassembled the GameBox controller, and discovered the right thumb-stick is a fake,
Did you see the circuitry for the supposed "dual shock vibration" ?
No motors, no "dual shock".
Word Ark!
You can get thin clients so cheap. I really want to do this for my next build and make a bartop classics cab
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I just bought an SD card Jamma board which offers XXX in 1 CPS etc.
After looking at the board for a while, I realized that its a JZ4755 based SoC, similar to the Gamebox above.
Some photos:
The board
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6924959717_480d586e05.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheedl/6924959717/)
3806a Jamma board with SD (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheedl/6924959717/#) by sheedl (http://www.flickr.com/people/sheedl/), on Flickr
Its a pretty simple board layout, mine isn't even fully populated - i'm missing the VGA decoder side of things.
Can run off USB power, or Jamma, or PC PSU.
Has an SD card slot for adding roms, and also USB for controller apparently, although I'm not quite sure how to interface that yet. I may take a trip down to the market and see what kind of skanky usb game controller I can pickup for 20rmb to see if it will talk.
Current draw is a bit over 500ma as my sacrificial laptop didn't quite like playing with it over usb and moaned quite a bit about that.
I told it to play nicely though, and its behaving now.
I stuck a serial port on the board to see what I could get out, and its running an embedded os - MINIOS. This does seem to be available, and there are some tools out there for flashing via USB, so I will be taking a closer look at this now I have a similar board.
Serial port connected up (I had to macgyver bits as I don't quite have a proper set of electronics parts at the office as I keep taking them to South Africa hehe)
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7041/6779056272_f36fd01534.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheedl/6779056272/)
3806a Board (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheedl/6779056272/#) by sheedl (http://www.flickr.com/people/sheedl/), on Flickr
Pin 1 is gnd, pin 2 is TX, pin 3 is RX. Speeds are 57600, 8,n,1 no flow control.
Heres the obligatory boot sequence to show that it does indeed work:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7065/6779058634_6133b08cfd.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheedl/6779058634/)
Serial output from the 3806a board (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheedl/6779058634/#) by sheedl (http://www.flickr.com/people/sheedl/), on Flickr
Next up will be dumping the flash though so I can see whats inside, and probably doing a better job at the connections.
Plus a bit of googling for data sheets, programming tools etc.
Engenic's website page for the JZ4755 is here - http://en.ingenic.cn/product.aspx?ID=57 (http://en.ingenic.cn/product.aspx?ID=57)
Rockbox page on the chipset range - http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IngenicJz47xx (http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/IngenicJz47xx)
Looks like the Dingoo-Tech A380 tools will work for playing with it. Anyone else interested in this kind of stuff and wants to help?
I'm almost getting to the point where I reckon I just design my own board, and spec it as I need it, sigh... Mind you I prefer software to hardware, as I'm more of a developer than otherwise..
Pricing will probably be in the $100-150 range
what kind of emulator does this "gamebox" use again..MAME?? :dizzy:
Seems like the software currently on there is a bastardized version of FBANext.
Screen output is via SDL
00000000 ff 55 55 55 55 55 55 55 ff ff ff ff 01 00 11 04 |.UUUUUUU........|
00000010 00 00 00 00 21 e0 e0 03 00 00 e9 8f 21 e0 20 01 |....!.......!. .|
00000020 00 80 1d 3c 00 40 bd 37 00 80 19 3c 90 06 39 27 |...<.@.7...<..9'|
00000030 08 00 20 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.. .............|
00000040 1b 43 02 3c 83 de 42 34 19 00 82 00 0f 00 02 3c |.C.<..--BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type--.......<|
00000050 10 20 00 00 40 42 42 34 82 24 04 00 1b 00 44 00 |. ..@BB4.$....D.|
00000060 f4 01 80 00 50 c3 03 34 21 60 a0 00 12 48 00 00 |....P..4!`...H..|
00000070 1b 00 69 00 f4 01 20 01 12 28 00 00 02 10 25 71 |..i... ..(....%q|
[NAND]
BUSWIDTH 8 ;The width of the NAND flash chip in bits (8|16|32)
ROWCYCLES 3 ;The row address cycles (2|3)
PAGESIZE 8192 ;The page size of the NAND chip in bytes(512|2048|4096)
PAGEPERBLOCK 256 ;The page number per block
FORCEERASE 0 ;The force to erase flag (0|1)
OOBSIZE 448 ;oob size in byte
ECCPOS 6 ;Specify the ECC offset inside the oob data (0-[oobsize-1])
BADBLACKPOS 0 ;Specify the badblock flag offset inside the oob (0-[oobsize-1])
BADBLACKPAGE 0 ;Specify the page number of badblock flag inside a block(0-[PAGEPERBLOCK-1])
PLANENUM 2 ;The planes number of target nand flash
BCHBIT 8 ;Specify the hardware BCH algorithm for 4750 (4|8)
WPPIN 0 ;Specify the write protect pin number
BLOCKPERCHIP 0 ;Specify the block number per chip,0 means ignore
[END]
strings *.bin
UUUUUUU
@BB4
4 "--BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type--
C$!(
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M4!0
4 "--BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type--
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B$+
Prepare to Download MINIOS.
Ingenic Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Loader Version V1.0
1: Bad Block
2: Bad Block
Uncorrect ECC Error
Jump to 0x
Launch...
Uncorrectable error occurred
stat = 0x
oob_size =
read 61th page error!,read next page
read 62th page error!
Stop here,please check nand status!
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It's good to have someone working with a standard set above the usual "knockoff copy BS" that China mostly offers with bad frame skipping etc.
Am curious if this is the illegal clone of Clay's latest board, in which case I would frown about it being talked about here.
That url doesn't work, (site doesn't load) so can't see pictures to check.
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.
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 :)
What is the current emulator and what is "better emulator" you want port?
Have you ever compiled MAME for any of those boards? Where did you get the source code and toolchain?I haven't compiled MAME for a while, but I'm going to assume its not going to be too much different from when I did it on Linux years ago.
Don't say you are going to sell it. This is MAME friendly site and selling MAME is not fair towards people who gave it to you for free.
To quote myself, as you didn't see/read what I wrote above -
Currently its FBANext bastardized Chinese edition missing bits edition.
Its a MIPS based SoC - Ingenic JZ4755. I have a cross-compiler toolchain already. If you read my posts above and took a look at some of the links, you'd see I've been doing a bit of work on that already. I also have source for FBANext on ARM (which is similar enough to MIPS to be usable without too much hassle to port). If you want to help great, if you're just going to be one of those people that shoots things down, then not interested. Go play 1942 instead then ;)
I haven't compiled MAME for a while, but I'm going to assume its not going to be too much different from when I did it on Linux years ago.
MAME isn't allowed to be sold commercially - as MAME licence explicitly doesn't allow commercial activity, so I could either compile the binary, and have a download available + source, so people can add themselves, or just ignore MAME support.
Any more questions Mr Oraap?
0x00000 -> 0x02000 = NAND Boot code (NAND.BIN) 8K
0x00A00 -> 0x01200 = Next bit of code (CODE_1.BIN) 2K BYTE / Pattern 21 20 00 02 00 16 93 92
0x01200 -> 0x01600 = Next bit of code (CODE_2.BIN) 1K
0x01600 -> 0x02000 = MINIOS_BOOT.BIN / FE FF 87 14...
0x02000 -> 0x1EA00 = ?? 34 bytes, then empty. / FF FF FF D0 1E 6F B7 F5 52 DD 5E CD 10 76 AB 5D A0 3C 77 08 8C A3 DD 0F 7B 74 34 A3 CF FB B5 D0 3D 41 0C 43 91 8A E4 8C 1F 2E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1EA00 -> 0x1EA0B = 12 bytes Page 61 NAND size
0x1F000 -> 0x1F1FF = ?? unsure, but data bytes. FF FF FF E2 4E 7B A3 3C 2D 49 89 8B 9A BB 30 F0 04 4B FC 3D 82 D2 DE 48 13 CC C7 83 37 04 4B FC 3D 82 D2 DE 48 13 CC C7 83 37 04 4B FC 3D 82 D2 DE 48 13 CC C7 83 37 D7 5A FE A9 26 then FF..FF
0x1F200 -> 0x1F204 = 12 bytes Page 62 NAND size
0x1F800 -> 0x1F9FF = ?? same as previous unsure sequence, repeated twice, so must be significant..
0x1FA00 -> 0x1FA0F = 10 bytes of 0
0x1FE00 -> 0x1FE3F = 40 bytes Start/ End is similar to our unsure, looks like probably code? Need to run through mips decompiler to check i think - FF FF FF D0 1E 6F B7 F5 1D 2A 39 E5 6E 72 DE C4 7E A9 EF 73 D0 83 AE 10 94 06 D4 E0 1C D7 5A FE A9 26 83 AE 10 94 06 D4 E0 1C D7 5A FE A9 26 83 AE 10 94 06 D4 E0 1C D7 5A FE A9 26 FFFFFFFF
0x80200 - 0x8c7ff? (probably to 0x80200+64kb) = 0xc600 bytes MINIOS? see i2c and chipset stuff in that. (called it i2c_nand - I think dump should probably be 64kb, but rest of data is FF's so can pad out if you want)
0x100200 - Filesystem :)
I don't know how nicer to say your posts lack justification and are in the wrong thread.
And in return you ignored my question and wasted my time with unnecessary information.I answered your questions, you went off on a tangent about MAME for some reason.
So how does you board compare, and why do you think anyone should choose it over, say:
- $10 bucks 1GHz PC?
- $24 bucks Raspberry Pi?
http://www.raspberrypi.org/ (http://www.raspberrypi.org/)
- $49 bucks Android PC?
http://apc.io/ (http://apc.io/)
- "Pricing will probably be in the $100-150 range."If you look at the thread - people specifically asked for board prices. Again, I don't make the board, I have zero to do with the board, except for buying a bunch off the factory for my own use.
- "Pricing will be reasonable, but will need to charge for all the work I'm doing on top of the board price."Thats in reference to the future when /if I actually get the work done, can reflash boards, can make improvements, and sell that as a package, eg board+better rom. Its not an enticement to sell or buy anything yet, and its similar enough to a lot of other people doing similar stuff. Classic example of this would be the NEO-GEO Universal Bios. If I've overstepped a line talking about that kind of thing, then apologies, but I really don't think I have.
- "If I could get enough people interested (probably 100+ pre-orders sort of level), then I can have the factory make some board revisions."I'm in China. I can speak Chinese (again, I'm not Chinese). This isn't even the business I'm in to be honest, we do Websites, and IT stuff, but I can organize things like that. Again, its not a sales pitch, its a comment on whats doable. If you really think I was spamming for sales, you're mistaken.
Plus, the info about sleep schedule and daily activities... that was awkward, wan't it?I don't think we all have to be robots, do we? I like my style of writing, and others do too. Informal, but informative is what people usually tell me.
You are suspect. Your daily activities, your future plans, connection with factories, buying/selling huge quantities... I tried to be subtle about it, even ignored when you kept talking despite my bona fide warning. -- In any case, I believe you now. You convinced me.
Quote- "Pricing will be reasonable, but will need to charge for all the work I'm doing on top of the board price."Thats in reference to the future when /if I actually get the work done, can reflash boards, can make improvements, and sell that as a package, eg board+better rom. Its not an enticement to sell or buy anything yet, and its similar enough to a lot of other people doing similar stuff. Classic example of this would be the NEO-GEO Universal Bios. If I've overstepped a line talking about that kind of thing, then apologies, but I really don't think I have.
CheffoJeffo - comments?
Not my board, so not my call, but the rules are that you can't offer to sell anything here that you don't have a right to sell.I should be perfectly ok then, if / when at some undetermined point in the future I get a lot further along, finish, get my shiyat into gear :blah:
I like the technical talk and am interested to see where you can go with this.Thanks. Its quite a lot like like detective work, I enjoy making progress on stuff like this, plus I get to (l)earn "l33t" skills in reverse engineering and reading fun fun fun data sheets. I started out as an embedded systems guy in the early 90's in South Africa, but then moved to China to do IT, so this is hobbyist level stuff for me, to keep my skillset up to date :)
Title of this thread: "Multi-Game Platform TV Video Game Console"
In case it wasn't clear, Orapp/DriverMan has been banned again.
No, its not dead, its er, resting.
I know nuffink about no parrots neither.
Back onto offtopicness - I have successfully dumped the rom properly, worked out the layout, and even worked out how to rip apart the minios.bin and res.bin files.
I have put that stuff up on http://forum.retrosticks.com (http://forum.retrosticks.com) though, as it was getting a bit tedious with Volde^H he who shall not be named spamming the :censored: out of this thread.
So far progress is good, I can now start either compiling my own goodies + sticking into the current bin file, or going linux. I shall see :).
I have successfully dumped the rom properly, worked out the layout, and even worked out how to rip apart the minios.bin and res.bin files.
The model i have here plays GBA games from onboard memory and can also emulate nes games.
I have successfully dumped the rom properly, worked out the layout, and even worked out how to rip apart the minios.bin and res.bin files.
:applaud:The model i have here plays GBA games from onboard memory and can also emulate nes games.
Does it output RGB?
If its dead dead, try flashing it with the Gamebox linux port
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByvCAHD9EnZhWFIyMi1OUXYzTVk
I'd open up the box first and take some photos though, post on here with chipset details, ram and flash size so we can see if would be suitable first though.
Also the GBPlus /GBASP units - I'm pretty sure that its a different ARM SoC in those.
The Gamebox is MIPS - similar, but not quite the same!
I like that - would almost make a good dev board - has most appropriate bits n pieces, although 88,89 for uart appear to be disconnected.
Can I bug you for a photo of the box and the plastic case also (so I can try find it locally and buy one)?
I'm assuming this is the GBA one, as I don't see a tv encoder chip, and the SoC is going straight to what I'm assuming is the plug for the LCD top GBA panel + buttons?
Nice photo - everything is nice and clear!
I could look at the video below in another country, but not from China :banghead:
Government :censored: :soapbox: :angry: :cry: :blah:
I never had a GBA so don't really have anything to compare it to.
Tried a couple of games - they are all annoying BS intro stuff, text, click a, more text, click a.. spent about 5 minutes doing that in 3 or 4 games (nothing wrong with the unit, its the games that had the annoying intros!), then the battery gave out.
I don't have a charger, as they shipped the wrong cable, so won't be able to take a closer look till Friday.
This one also doesn't have TF or USB like the one I asked my staff to buy, and gave the exact link for purchase to. So, will file this in the not so useful pile for now.
Will see if the "charger" is a usb style cable or not, if so will put it in boot mode and see if it will talk.
The ChinaChips ones use an *identical* bootloader to the JZ series, so shouldn't be too hard. I think Ingenic and ChinaChips either collaborated, or Ingenic bought the SoC off of ChipChips for the JZ47xx series. Not sure, but I do know that they're more separate now than they were before, as they've diverged pathwise since.
Hey folks....just a heads up, I haven't forgotten about this. Still plugging away.