Handheld emulators (dingoo A320)

[Atreides]

Just got one of these:
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Dingoo A320, and this thing is so fkn sweet. Does anyone else have one, or one of the other ones on the market?

For me, it was kinda a no-brainer since I really don't want to mod my PSP, and it's pretty cheap (only $85-100 depending on where you order from). It's loaded with features too:

-Built-in emulator plays nearly all (some exceptions, see below) NES, GBA, Genesis, SNES, NeoGeo, and Capcom CPS1/CPS2 arcade games, and supports button mapping and save states, and rapidfire for most of them
-FM radio tuner
-TV out jack (cable included), doubles at headphone jack (also included)
-MP3/mpa/wav music player
-mpeg/avi/real/mp4 movie player, also supports swf (flash) movies/games
-image viewer (with slideshow for easy fapping!)
-microphone voice recorder
-ebook reader (allows music to play in background)
-Built in 4gb memory, miniSD expansion slot

And it's significantly smaller/pocket sized, with a bright screen:

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I don't have a pic, but it's actually thinner than a GB Micro... so about as thin as the bottom half of a DSlite.

it also comes pre-loaded with about 15-20 games, some decent puzzlers but I found this nifty suvival horror adventure game called "7 Days Salvation":

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Here's a shot of the emulators in action, the first is the CPS1 emulator running King of the Dragons, and the 2nd is the Mother 3 fan translation on the native GBA emulator:

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I also got an adapter so I could use my 8gb microSD card in the miniSD slot. There's a fledgling homebrew community, which has actually gotten Linux running on it (called Dingux).

Dingux is still relatively early so there are some bugs, but you can use it to run:
-SNES9x (slightly better compatibility than the native SNES emulator)
-PicoDrive (just about the same as the native genesis emulator)
-Gnuboy (Gameboy/Gameboy Color)
-SMSPlus (Master System/Game Gear) - actually someone just released a native emulator for this too
-Mame4All (MAME) - I've gotten TMNT and Simpsons working fine, having some problems with the 6-person XMen game though.

Under Dingux you can also run ScummVM, which lets you run a lot of the point and click adventure games like Monkey Island and Beneath the Steel Sky, as well as ports of Doom/Duke Nukem/Hexen/Heretic/Quake/Wolfenstein and some other popular freeware linux games:

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There are some cons to the system, though:
-The DPad is decent, but not great. It's sufficient for most games but pulling off moves in fighting games can be a bit tough.
-The native SNES emulator can't play some games, unfortunately this includes some RPGs, most notably Super Mario RPG, Secret of Mana 1/2, Illusion of Gaia, and FX chip games like Starfox. The Dingux SNES emulator allows you to play Illusion of Gaia but that's about it until they fix it.
-From what anyone can tell the chinese company that makes it is no longer supporting it, so fixes from this point will be community-based. There's rumors of a newer model in production (that apparently uses some different kind of processor so it most likely will split the homebrew community at first)
-Dingux has some problems (about what you'd expect for something that came out relatively recently). Most notably you can't shut the unit down directly from Dingux, you have to reboot to native first. Also, for large lists of roms in SNES9x you have to manually scroll through individual roms, no page down and subfolders don't work.
-It's not exactly plug-and-play. I've spent a long time tinkering with it to get things to work, but there are some decent guides online on getting things up and running.

I guess those are relatively minor complaints, especially considering the price. I really love the thing, I already have like 2000+ roms loaded up (as well as a fair amount of porn, lol). I have it split up with NES, CPS1/CPS2, and GBA roms on the internal memory, and then SNES/Genesis on the SDcard under dingux, although the native emulator can still access anything on the SDcard if it's not partitioned.

Anyway sorry for wall o' text, but I'm in love with this thing. Feel free to ask any questions you might have!

[thestalkmore]

Are you a reseller or something? Jeeeeeeez

[Atreides]

nah, i just like it a lot and wanted to share :<

[Retrieving/C.D/Searain]

does it run WinUAE (aka Ultimate Amiga emulator for Windows) as well?

[Zumi]

PSP is better if you have the 1000 or 2000 series. Flashing custom firmware isn't hard at all as long as you read the directions.

[Sol-Blackguy]

Pretty good find and looks to be almost more than worth the price. I was considering a PSP for a while but this is way better in terms of my emulator/rom addiction. If this thing is compatible with Playstation and Sega Saturn emulators in the near future, I'm sold.

[Kiarax]

I was considering a PSP for a while but this is way better in terms of my emulator/rom addiction.

Wut? Pretty sure PSP can run all of the listed emulators and more.

[Minions]

Looks like this, however this one comes w/ 8gigs of internal memory for a very similar price, as well as a joy stick.

Sony may or may not have given up on the UMD format, but it's safe to say that KIRFsters never really got on board in the first place. There's a long and storied line of PSP knockoffs, and none have had room for little spinny discs. This latest one doesn't either, but it will play 720p video in a slew of formats, serve up game ROMs in a variety of flavors, tune in FM radio, and take two megapixel pictures. It sports a 4.3-inch, 480 x 272 screen, which won't do much justice to those 720p vids, but with only 8GB of storage there's not much room for high-def content anyway. Just $88 gets you one, but if you order 15 you can save a whole buck!

Keepin' it real fake, part CCXXXIV: JXD1000 PSP clone has no UMD drive, shame

Actual Link to site
Buy cheap JXD-1000-MP5-Player JXD1000 4.3 inch Game PMP MP6 Player with camera and TV-out - 8GB from china JXD Multimedia MP4/MP5 Player wholesaler and dropshipper

[Atreides]

does it run WinUAE (aka Ultimate Amiga emulator for Windows) as well?

i didn't see an amiga emulator, as far as I can tell anything released needs to be ported from linux to dingux or written specifically for the native OS, so if someone does release an amiga emulator it'll be called something else. Currently the only other things people have released emulators for are atari 2600, some other atari model I forget, colecovision, sega ms/gg, wonderswan, and (poorly working) turbografx

Pretty good find and looks to be almost more than worth the price. I was considering a PSP for a while but this is way better in terms of my emulator/rom addiction. If this thing is compatible with Playstation and Sega Saturn emulators in the near future, I'm sold.

I saw a video of someone attempting to run a ps1 game on this, but it was going at like.. 15 fps. It does have some impressive stats for the price but without a dedicated 3D accelerator I doubt it'll be able to run most ps1 games effectively. I'll be a while, but if you're really interested the makers of the OpenPandora have promised PS1 emulation, however, although it's significantly more expensive:

OpenPandora.org - Pandora The OMAP3 Powered Handheld Linux Console



Anyway, I have a psp3000, which for a while was impossible to mod. I know psp can do almost the same stuff, but it's literally more than 2x the size. The JXD1000 looks neat as well (although it can't emulate psp games), but it's got similar stats as the dingoo and is exactly the same size as the psp so it similarly doesn't solve my space issues. If it could emulate psp games, I'd pick one up though.