If you were into that whole emulation thing, you could jam all of your NOT-downloaded games onto this little device from Chinavasion. The Multi Platform Portable Gaming Entertainment System costs only $87, but will play NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy Advance, Neo-Geo, and certain Capcom CPS1 and 2 arcade system games from a Mini SD card. Add on MP3, MPEG4, FLAC, FLV and WMV compatibility and you've got a serious little machine.
Oh, and I love this blurb from the product page:
The number of video and audio formats you can play is simply amazing, making this unit way better than the equivalent "name brand" units on the market today for playing your favorite digital media files. Everyone has seen those media players on the marketplace today called "MP5 player", well this one is so good we should be calling it an MP10 player!
I'm sold! Here are some of the other features:
- 4GB internal memory
- 2.8 inch QVGA LCD screen
- TV out
- mini USB
- FM Radio
- voice recorder
- e-book with text-to-speech
- nicknamed Delightfully Small (DS) gaming entertainment system
Seriously? I love China!
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4:20 PM on 03.31.2009
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Anyways, yeah, PSP homebrew is more powerful, but this is a bit cheaper, as far as I know.
Anyways, I'm not gonna buy it, but its cool.
Newer gamers often don't like the older games, and those that do often only have them on cartridge and really can't be bothered downloading them or getting them on a Mini SD format. I understand that a device can't have 10 different types of slots for different formats, but I won't be buying this. I appreciate what they've done, but it's still too much effort on my part.
While it can play the games, I wonder what's the quality of the voice recorder and radio that comes with it - it's my experience that usually such additions aren't very good - I mean, the voice recorder in most mobile phones is terrible. That's not saying that this one is bad - I'm just wary of any product that tries to cram many, many things into a small space all at once.
It has a USB port and 4gigs of internal memory .... so you don't need to have games on a mini SD
Like anything all you gotta do is plug it into your PC to get your roms on there. Roms that can be found and downloaded in seconds.
Doesn't really seem like a lot of effort.
You don't have to already have them on an SD card, just buy an SD card, plug it in to the system, then plug the system up to your computer through USB. I imagine its a drag and drop type of interface, like any flashdrive,or other portable media.
I'd really like one of these, but I might see what the mod community does with the DSi, if they can get a custom firmware on the system so you can run games out of the SD card slot....then I'll just do that.
But I waaaaaaaant iiiiiit!
Idea being key, it needs to be executed well to be worthwhile.
That doesn't look very well made.
I'm tempted to order but I want more color options.
"I've read reviews saying SNES and Genesis emulation doesn't work very well. Otherwise it looks pretty cool."
I've tried a number of Google search terms, nothing is bringing up a review.
Please link us to any reviews you might have. I'd love to know how this thing's 16bit emulation compares to how well PSP emulators run.
There are 4 reviews and some discussion here:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.20217
You can also buy it from the site.
As soon as some reviews roll in, and if the device can stand the test of time and not break a week after purchase (it is a knock off), represting value for money, I'll order one.
They SHIP to the UK!!! YES. :)
this would be a great add on when i get a dsi and loss gba support. and sounds easier than hacking a psp which to me sounds like alot.
but if someone hacks dsi properly......
Be sure to let us know how it turns out, if the feedback is good, I'm seriously considering picking one of these up.
Anybody know if it comes with a classic Gameboy emulator?