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I love both of my portable game systems dearly. The PlayStation Portable and the Nintendo DS both have their pluses and minuses, but one of the two manages to go with me wherever I go. I would've never imagined that these two prized possessions of mine would take a back seat to another portable, but I'm already sold on the Pandora. Pandora is an open-source portable videogame system, much like the GP2X. According to galagabug's Destructoid Community Blog, this little number can do full PSOne emulation without hiccuping, and Nintendo 64 emulation is also a possiblity. It sports a touch screen, video outputs, a microphone, dual analog nubs, WiFi, USB and more. Get the full rundown of specs here. All of this is packed into a system about the size of the Nintendo DS Lite. The official Web page says that this system is set to launch soon, spring 2008, and the cost is set at about $330. What do you think? Is this your dream portable? Would this be the ultimate emulation system? Do you agree with galagabug's "burn your DS" statement?
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I think the name "Pandora" is already taken by a billion companies already.
Otherwise, could be neat?
those images are just mock-ups. but this picture is very real, and taken from the developer blog of the pandora site.
you can lay to rest the 'is fake!' theories. this baby's coming, and boy does it look sweet!
pic taken from openpandora.org
thanks dale!
They need to replace the second Y key with a Z key, I would have thought this would have been fixed in beta.
Yeah LMAO i was about to say... No Zee?
Look cool if real. I purchased a GP32 years ago, to play rom games. A cool little hand held it was too.
Would Pandora give Nintendo more cause to push out a new DS? Who knows, but the plot thickens like gravy.
@cowboy TTop I doubt Nintendo would push a new DS for something like this. Handhelds like this appeal to a very niche group of people.
i love this system. been following it for awhile as i do with alot of small underground handhelds (zodiac, JXD301, GP2X, ect.)
and this one by far takes the cake!
heres a dev board running finalburnalpha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06hjDLMBaf8
heres a dev board running mplayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9RAPNa-55k
Only downside is that opening it unleashes all of the evils of the world. Which kinda sucks.
Why does it have a keyboard? Since the system has a touch screen, I'd rather see 6 face buttons and a minimalist yet beautiful GUI, much like the Eee PC.
I doubt this will push Nintendo to release the next DS; only Sony has the power to do that.
Yeah i've been following this since whenever the GP2X community had made a massive topic about such as thing, with the dev's as awesome as they are this will be great.
Umm...
the only downside is that it won't have any commercialy backed games(seems strange for a guy named linuxguy)
hehe.. great... b ut it doesn't look really mobile.. I coulldn't imagine myself walking with this down the streat :D
to the guy who sad why the keyboard... TEXT ADVENTURES! and other keyboard only games.
also someones got to contact yoyofr about porting LJP to this thing....
@welkstar: so that's why it rocks so much.
I'm totally getting one of these.
Woah. That is truly, truly awesome. I have to get one of those.
Now to check out that Wiki...
I've been waiting... 6 or so months for Openmoko to be released in a stable form? This looks interesting, but open-source consoles/platforms that are already flooded by markets of proprietary hardware just seem to do better. Granted, I haven't used an openmoko yet, so I could just be waiting for the stable release for nothing :P
Would probably make a decent portable MAME system as well it sounds like. But what about the battery life?
Why does this feel like a really late April fool's joke?
I know those are just concept mockups and it's not from a big name company, but it seems... bleh
Looks awesome to me. I'm thinking of getting one. I was going to try and learn programming so I could make my own 8-bit games (the good kind no one makes anymore) and if I could get them running on this then that would be sexy indeed.
Using a touch screen in that configuration would be annoying as hell. Holding it in book form would require crossing your input hand over the one supporting the system and in any configuration you'd be putting pressure against the hinge when you press on it, which I assume would lead to it snapping back like the DS hinge does. Not that it would break it, it'd just be a complete pain in the ass to use. That's something Nintendo got COMPLETELY right by having two screens and only having the lower one be touch-sensitive so that you're supporting the part you have to press down on, even though it isn't always the most ergonomic design.
If that's their final design I say put that shit back in the oven, because it's only half-baked. The specs look good though.
its like sex for the hands minus the bodily fluids and disease
It looks fugly enough to be fake.
So...it's a piracy machine?
Duuhhh! yeah! right! like the PC ,DS ,Mac or any Linux box, purely devoted to piracy, subtle code in the OS prevents any possibility of Indi code or open source ports running on it at all....NOT! :-p
@foxhound009
IT can't be much bigger than The sega nomad or the Original gameboy.
Especially for basically a really amazing and useful device.