Best Way to Emulate with a Handheld Device?

[opethfan]

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.

I agree on the PSP. Not that emulators really use any Memory Stick space. Not compared to music, videos and PSP ISOs. A few megs at the most.

[TheFallOfMan]

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.

I agree on the PSP. Not that emulators really use any Memory Stick space. Not compared to music, videos and PSP ISOs. A few megs at the most.

Yeah but I was talking about the cachefiles you need to include when playing the arcade roms, they easily double the size of the roms. Like for example, I could easily fit all CPS1 and 2 roms to my MMC, but with the cache files i need to play them, no dice.

If you are playing NES, GENESIS, or SNES, you should have no problems, even if you have fullsets, they should all fit into a 4gb MMC. I recommend getting something that is zipped. Some emulators (most of em) can run roms from .zip files, maybe even .rar files. You should however avoid 7z-compressed roms since emulators lack support of the format.

PS:Has anyone heard of a good PCE emulator for the PSP-1000?

[swiftzx]

I would recommend the gp2x wiz. I believe it can emulate up to the ps1. I would recommend that also because it can emulate snes perfectly.

[eSPy]

PS:Has anyone heard of a good PCE emulator for the PSP-1000?

cant recomend any by experience as i dont have a psp but, this site has quite a few PC-Engine/Turbo Grafix 16 emulators for PSP
http://www.emuwiki.com/index.php?title=Emulation_on_PSP

[Anapan]

I just got a Dingoo A320, and I'm really enjoying it. It's not as good as a PSP, but the native resolution (and the way it scales the games that don't fit) is very good. The RCA TV out is really nice too. The CPS1&2, NeoGeoMVS, and GBA emulators are nearly perfect. The 4 Gig built-in flashdrive in it let me put nearly all my favorite games on with room for some random anime episodes (no re-encoding necessary!). The only 2 big drawbacks are the native SNES emulation isn't very good, and some of the WIP emulator modules are a little crashy. I'll have to wait until the MiniSD card I ordered gets in before I can install Dingux (Dingoo Linux) and get those problems fixed. Then I can play around with SNES9x Mame and PSX4All on it.
I highly recommend dropping the $80 on one. Worth every penny.

[eSPy]

wow...didnt realize that the dingo could do PSX emulation. for $80 that sounds like a good investment

[neilencio]

just something to consider on the psp's support for ps1 games, you'd best be ready for the roundabout way it handles the lack of shoulder buttons.

[vash23n]

Getting a Dingoo for Christmas and can't wait. I had to promise my wife that she can play Sonic. I grew up Nintendo and she grew up Sega, but we get along surprisingly well. Just to be sure, Dingoo works on Mac right? I am just getting into emu on the computer and I am using Nestopia. Is it as simple as dling roms and loading them onto the Dingoo via a USB connection? Do you need a memory card?

[Anapan]

Yup, it's that easy. Just hook up to USB - the computer sees it's built-in storage as an external drive, and you can copy your roms onto it. If you want more emulators, you can get them from dingoo-digital.com and copy them into it's games directory (they're single-files).
You don't need a memory card unless you want to dual-boot to Linux or need more than 4 GB for your games/videos/music.

Re: PSX emulation, I suspect it's kinda slow and buggy at this point, but there's some nice looking videos of it at dingoo-scene 3 pages back