The Dingoo Digital A320 is an attempt to "break the monopoly of foreign brands into the game market." Dubbed 'China's PSP', units are now slowly making their way to the West, and gamers in the UK can now pick up a Dingoo for under £70.Destined to remain an underground console, the Dingoo A320 is building momentum thanks to its bargain price, out-of-the-box support for classic emulators and a vibrant development scene – thanks to its open source nature
Enthusiast developers have already coded a wealth of applications, with attentions now focused on Dingux – Linux port, which opens up the console to further possibilities
Available in a choice of black or white, the Dingoo A320 packs in 4GB of built-in memory, with a miniSD slot for a further 4GB.
Through its variety of built-in emulators, the Dingoo plays over 8000 classic games originally played on Nintendo and Sega consoles such NES, SNES, MegaDrive, as well as arcade platforms.
A dream console for fans of classic gaming formats, the A320 is a nightmare for legal teams across the globe.
The Dingoo is not supplied with any of the classic games it plays for good reason – the rom images themselves are illegal. Whilst you can easily find these games in darker corners of the internet, you run the risk of being saddled with a massive fine if you download them.
With its tiny 320x240 QVGA screen, the Dingoo delivers performance close to its quoted seven hours of battery life, even when regularly switching between the console's in-built Aladdin's cave of features.
As far as the interface goes, never before has a console been graced with such a shameless Sony XMB rip-off. Yep, it's very very similar the the XrossMediaBar interface found on the Sony PS3, PSP and new Sony Bravia TVs.
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, as the A320's front-end allows you to easily find the function you want to use within seconds of switching the console on – despite Dingoo's amusing use of English
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Tie me kangaroo down sport, tie me kangaroo daaaaaawn. This is awesome. It's not the first handheld marketed at the homebrew scene but is the most impressive I've seen (especially considering it can run a cut-down linux). I just hope there are enough bedroom-coders left motivated just by the technology and what they can create with it. Most of them young whipersnapper devs are now enticied towards the lucritive iphone and (soon to be lucrative) Android platform as these would keep them in cider-tokens rather than just rewarding them with geek-credability.
ReplyDeleteImagine if there's ever a Nintendo DS emulator on there - then the piracy police would really be hot on their tail!
seeing as the only thing i ever play on my PSP is that damn sega collection umd this would be a perfect buy, plus it has all that homebrew and emulator stuff. i just want to poke around in it's little silicon soul and make it squeek.
ReplyDeleteuber sweet little unit that, tempted.
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