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Anyone tried a Dingoo? Interesting looking cheap mp4 player / handheld emulator

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RandyT:

As much as I hate to give the company good PR (waited about 8 months longer on the Kickstarter than was indicated) the GCW-ZERO is a very nice little device.  The thing that saves it, after all of the drama surrounding the launch, is that the developers have really done a great job with the software for the device.  The Dingoo would have had nowhere near the following it had, were it not for some of the same devotees who have turned their attention to the ZERO.  How long this lasts is anyone's guess at this point, but it may be worth taking a chance if you like the classics and indie titles.  How much further they can go with it will depend on whether they can get a good handle on the GPU, whether a developer decides to make use of it and ultimately, whether the producer of the hardware can get it together enough to iron out some of the QC and delivery issues to keep demand strong.  Media player support is a bit sparse at the moment, but I suspect that will change at some point.

For a more polished and ready to go platform, Android is really the way to go.  The iReadyGO Much i5 looks like a very interesting device and it's also a phone.

ark_ader:
Buy yourself a PSP and a Pandora battery which will soft mod it.

You can pretty much run all the emulators and it will cost you $70.

BobA:
How about an ouya?   Haven't heard much here about it lately.  Probably shipped late like some kickstarters.  It set the bar for hardware kickstarters.

dcninja:
ouya isn't portable, unless you make it portable. it is as small as a soda can. I LOVE IT. The actual games it has are few and far between in terms of good ones, but there are a few nice ones on it. There's also atari 2600, nes, snes, genesis, tg16, psone, n64, and mame all downloadable free from the ouya store. I combined that with a 64gb usb flash drive and I've got every console I want on my tv, just like I have every arcade on my arcade machine...i got ouya knowing full well i'd use it as an emulator box and anything else would be icing on the cake... where else can you find an emulator box that small with wireless control for $100 - oh and with plex (another free download) you can stream your movies and tv shows to it also - or xbmc, that's on it too.

it's probably my fav piece of hardware over the past 5 years.

rpgposer:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on January 11, 2014, 04:23:34 am ---Buy yourself a PSP and a Pandora battery which will soft mod it.

You can pretty much run all the emulators and it will cost you $70.

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This isn't a bad idea. I have an original fat model, but emulated SNES games won't run at full speed without a frameskip of 3 or 4.  Fine for Shiren, not so fine for Super Mario World.
Older consoles and PS1 work great.

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