Portable Gaming Systems for old console games?

[xan_racketBOY_fan]

in the footage they were playing SFA2.

I know, but I figured I'd post a pic of it playing a FX game. If I remember correctly, this guy even plays Star Fox

[TornadoCreator]

If you're going to go the emulation route, the Sony Xperia Play phone is a great choice, as is the new Playstation Vita... but if you're wanting something a bit different try the OpenPandora.



Best D-Pad I've ever seen on a portable, 2 full analogue sticks, full PS1 style buttons with shoulder buttons. Full QWERTY keyboard and it comes with a custom made Linux operating system, designed to run emulators. It can also double as a small palm-top PC and will run OpenOffice and other programs. Emulation wise it'll do anything classic, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Intellevision, Colecovision, Vectrex, NES, Master System, Commodore 64, Amstrad 464, TurboGrafx-16, Mega Drive, SNES, Sega CD, Sega 32X, Jaguar, Gameboy, GameGear, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS (screens side by side, and yes, it's got a touch screen), DOS Games, MAME, PSOne, CD32 and N64. It also plays it's own homebrew games and most Android games will run on it too. Oh, and it'll play Flash and Java so you can watch YouTube on it if you connect it to a wireless network.

A fantastic device which really is a geek-toy and a half, I thoroughly recommend.

[pakopako]

OpenPandora... A fantastic device which really is a geek-toy and a half, I thoroughly recommend.

Doesn't this also have two USB slots and VGA out? (For when you want to go big.)

Honestly, this system makes more sense than slates (iPads) to me because it's nearly instant-on and has (more or less) a full-fledged operating system.

[TornadoCreator]

OpenPandora... A fantastic device which really is a geek-toy and a half, I thoroughly recommend.

Doesn't this also have two USB slots and VGA out? (For when you want to go big.)

It has both SVideo TV Out and composite VGA, and it's got 2 USB 2.0 slots and 2 SDHC card slots.

Honestly, this system makes more sense than slates (iPads) to me because it's nearly instant-on and has (more or less) a full-fledged operating system.

Couldn't agree more. Like I say it's not as powerful as the new Playstation Vita, but it's pretty good. Unfortunately the company that makes it is getting messed around by it's suppliers for some of the parts so it's not selling any more of the console until the issues are solved but there are 5000 already out there so one or two show up on eBay and the like, occationally.