Best Way to Emulate with a Handheld Device?

[vash23n]

A friend of mine has a Dingoo and it seems very good for someone who is new or does not have a lot of time or desire to find the perfect emulator or tinker with their own. I have no clue about emulation, but have been researching since I saw his in action. Pandora is confusing to me, was there a previous one or is it just this same one that everyone has preordered and never received because of all the issues? The Gp2x does look pretty nice, especially the screen size. I think for ease of use and price the Dingoo is pretty great, but I am sure there are better systems out there for those who are willing to spend more or who really know what they are doing or have a lot of experience with this stuff. For instance, the Pandora does look like it could be the best, but it's $330 and my wife would kill me after spending so much money on collecting consoles: "You have all these consoles with all these games and now you want to buy one device that can play all of the games?" Yeah that would be the direction of that argument.

[Kyle]

A friend of mine has a Dingoo and it seems very good for someone who is new or does not have a lot of time or desire to find the perfect emulator or tinker with their own. I have no clue about emulation, but have been researching since I saw his in action. Pandora is confusing to me, was there a previous one or is it just this same one that everyone has preordered and never received because of all the issues? The Gp2x does look pretty nice, especially the screen size. I think for ease of use and price the Dingoo is pretty great, but I am sure there are better systems out there for those who are willing to spend more or who really know what they are doing or have a lot of experience with this stuff. For instance, the Pandora does look like it could be the best, but it's $330 and my wife would kill me after spending so much money on collecting consoles: "You have all these consoles with all these games and now you want to buy one device that can play all of the games?" Yeah that would be the direction of that argument.

I think the Dingoo looks promising too. The built-in Emulators aren't that good, but they managed it to run a Linux called "Dingux" on it. So You can run emulators like SNES9x. There's also a GUI for the Dingux.

[Funk, E]

Go for the Wiz, successor to the GP2X which emulated the SNES rather well. Don't bother with Pandora. It most likely will not come out and if it did it would be impossible to get a hold of.

Why do you say that? Aren't they already in production?

[elvis]

I pre-ordered a Pandora about a year ago. Then their credit card companies pulled out on them, and I had to get my money refunded. From that I was down $80 in combined conversion fees and my local dollar dropping.

Then I was offered to pre-order again via TT, which would have cost me another $40 (on top of the actual US$300 for the unit).

After all that, I gave up. It's a great looking unit, but it's getting beyond a joke to actually try and get a hold of the damed thing.

The Dingoo is looking great. It's a real product, 1/3 the price, and has a growing user community. I'm definitely considering getting one.

[neilencio]

A PSP is good enough for me. There are emulators for CPS2, Neogeo, Sega Gen/Mastersystem/GG, Snes and even GBA that run fullspeed when the processor is set to 333mhz mode.

A couple of stumbling blocks, though. You need a custom firmware, and most of the homebrews need a 1.50 kernel so you either need to downgrade the firmware down to 1.50 (which means you won't be able to play new PSP games) or flash a 1.50 kernel addon on top of the newer custom firmware. And flashing is a bit risky if you have no idea what you're doing or plain careless.

[eSPy]

i use my DS and a flashcard (edge). NES emulaton is pretty great along with Gameboy. Havent really tried genesis/mega drive yet but the NeoGeo emulator is mindblowing! amazing that they can get some games working on it at all, but the speed and sound are pretty great too.

you can get alot of these emulators at http://www.emuwiki.com/index.php?title= ... intendo_DS

[Ivo]

I'm really impressed with Neo Geo emulation on the DS. From my experience Genesis and SNES were not so hot. I hear the PSP has decent emulation of the 16-bit systems.

Ivo.

[vash23n]

If I were to ever get a Dingoo, which I want badly, but can't afford, how does this Linux thing work? Does it matter that I have a Mac? Keep in mind I have no emu experience. Is it something you download specifically for this purpose (and therefore does it come with very specific instructions?)

[Kyle]

If I were to ever get a Dingoo, which I want badly, but can't afford, how does this Linux thing work? Does it matter that I have a Mac? Keep in mind I have no emu experience. Is it something you download specifically for this purpose (and therefore does it come with very specific instructions?)

You can install Linux on Dingoo with a Mac easily. http://code.google.com/p/dingoo-linux/downloads/list Just download the latest dingux filesystem and dualboot installer.
In the read me are some important information for mac users.

And by the way, I've got my dingoo for 3 weeks now, and I really love it. It's really fantastic with all the possibilities you have. And Linux does work very well. It's just great.

[TheFallOfMan]

A PSP is good enough for me. There are emulators for CPS2, Neogeo, Sega Gen/Mastersystem/GG, Snes and even GBA that run fullspeed when the processor is set to 333mhz mode.

A couple of stumbling blocks, though. You need a custom firmware, and most of the homebrews need a 1.50 kernel so you either need to downgrade the firmware down to 1.50 (which means you won't be able to play new PSP games) or flash a 1.50 kernel addon on top of the newer custom firmware. And flashing is a bit risky if you have no idea what you're doing or plain careless.

PSP is fine for almost any retrogames, it can play most PSX games with popsloader too.
Some of the emulators lack usability though. the CPS and NEOGEO emulators are top notch!
Only downside is that you need to have the cache files in your memorycard, which takes quite a bit of room out of your MMC.