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Dingoo or Caanoo?
SammyWI:
Interesting topic. Got me looking into all of these. I'm thinking about a Caanoo for myself. I'm mostly into Mame - classic era stuff so I think I may like the Caanoo's joystick better than a D pad. The reviews seem good.
I'm kind of disappointed that all the current models seem to have gone to built in rechargeable batteries instead of AAs. I prefer to use rechargeable AAs whenever I can. This seems like the best of both worlds to me. Recharge in the device or swap out for a fresh set and recharge in a separate charger.
gman314:
So my Wiz arrived yesterday. It is an awesome device, but I have some questions. (I wanted to post this on the GP32x forums, but I am having trouble registering for some reason). By the way, I successfully updated to firmware 1.2.6 with a 8GB Sandisk HDSC card.
1) Is there some type of global "exit emulator" (or exit to the emulator's menu) button? Some emulators, such as the NES and Genesis ones that I am using, allow you to assign some type of button combination to exit into the emulator's menu. However, for SNES (and other emulators that I have looked at but have not yet tried), the only way to seemingly exit the emulator is to power off the system. I had to do this twice, and am scared to even try out other emulators because I do not want to have to do this again.
2) For some emulators, such as Atari 2600, SMS/GG, TG-16 (and probably a few others), I have been unable to locate the .gpe file which starts up the emulator. Do I have to place each one in a specific folder or something?
3) Is there a way, when searching through an entire romset, to skip around by letter / page or something? I was playing Abadox last night, and then wanted to play SMB 2. It took me a good couple of minutes to scroll all the way down.
4) I have not been to connect to WiFi. I though the 1.2.6 firmware would allow me to do so.
I would greatly appreciate if anyone could answer all or some of these questions. Thanks. :)
gman314:
Update: Well, I figured out how to scroll quickly (either L/R or Left/Right). I also figured out that you can quit PocketSNES by holding the two volume buttons. However, I have some more questions.
5) How do you get to a control config screen in PocketSNES?
6) How do you exit MAME? Also, does anyone know the default button combinations associated with MAME? For example, I figured out that "Menu + Select" result in the tab menu and that "L + R" pauses, but what combination results in "ESC"? I'm assuming that ESC will enable me to exit back to MAME's main menu. Also, I'm assuming that I need escape in order to clear the default button assignments in the Tab menu.
7) When I click on a Gameboy rom in OhBoy, it takes me back to the Wiz's main screen (the one with Launcher, SD, Flash, etc). How can I get the roms to work? I can't even locate the .gpe file (I'm just clicking on the roms in the roms folder).
I will continue to experiment to see if I could figure anything out, but any help would be great.
Bender:
keep us posted
I caved and have one on the way ;D
ids:
fwiw, I've had the Wiz for a while. No real complaints, but also not using it much (no reason). The Mame games I've run have worked flawlessly. The only issue I'd say is that the controls are... what they are. You're probably not going to get near your old high-scores with this. A D-pad, another d-pad like set of buttons, etc. My Galaga score is suffering with this, ymmv. Some games can be a bit frustrating, especially for me when I panic and my thumb slips off the d-pad. The hardware quality has not been an issue, it's just that playing games with these types of controls is sometimes challenging. Otherwise, it makes for a great little mini-mame portable. You can rotate the screen for vertical games, and the controls seem to follow the re-orientation. I've jammed a 16G SD-HC card in there, and have plenty of room to spare; no console emulators at the moment, but plenty of the free games from http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi
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