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-Near perfect out of the box NES emulation
-Near perfect out of the box GBA emulation (from what little I saw)
-SNES emulation is pretty good if you turn off automatic frameskip and set your own and/or disable sound (frameskip is under Misc in the optionsI like "1" for most games)
-Solid feel for relatively cheap hardware
-Plays music, pictures and videos (including older/low quality FLVs from youtube)
-Bonus TV out, voice recorder, FM radio
-Comes with headphones and charger
-Internal memory large enough to hold a lot of games (4 gigs)
-Many options including button configuration, state saving and customized rapid fire
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-Not all emulation is smooth (Donky Kong Country always ran either too fast or too slow, Super Mario World always felt a little off and sound can be funky)
-This is only $100 (or $80 if you shop around)the hardware is very good for the price but not great
-All audio is software controlledthere are no volume buttons
-D-pad and buttons are very small (about the same as the GBA micro)
-Very little documentation with the box
-File browsing via USB link and rom uploading is easy, but my screen freezes and I have to use a paperclip to restart it after disconnectsI got this portable emulator so I can play old video games on the go. A portable video game emulator sounded awesome on paper, but my expectations were rather short lived. In my perspective this was marketed as a portable emulator, more than just a multimedia player, and as for the criteria of emulators, it's about so-so to me. One gripe I have with this is that the emulation software is rather pathetic, it can do 8-bit games just fine, but when it comes to anything that's 16-bit, it lags a lot. Another issue I have with this is that the RCA cable that came with the system doesn't work. I plugged it into my TV; all I got was the sound, no picture. And the last issues I have are rather minor, but the D-pad is not sensitive like every other D-pad I experienced, I have to hard press it for it to respond in game, and also the L and R buttons are not like the GameBoy Micro's (Or any other L and R button ever made). Personally, if you want a portable video game emulator, there might be other great contenders that treat the games you throw at it much better in terms of performance, but for this one in particular, I'll let it go with an overall score of a 2 stars, mostly because of the emulation flaws for the more advanced games.The other reviews cover a lot of ground. I will only say that I agree with much of what they say.
Right out of the box this device can play a wide variety of video formats, music files, has an FM radio, displays text files and photos, etc.
I use it about 50-50 between watching TV shows or movies while travelling, and playing classic video games. Not only does this handle NES, GBA, CPS1/2, Neo Geo, etc. as is, but there are some homebrew emulators for Colecovision (!), the Odyssey 2, the SMS, the GameGear, and others.
For less than $100 you have a 4-gigabyte media player/gaming device that handles all this and fits easily into a pocket.
I highly recommend the A320!First off, i was hestitant on getting one.
I already had some nes/snes roms downloaded, and i was also looking for an mp3 player with radio/video capibilites with built in speakers. This had everything i needed. The hardest part is figuring out how to load roms successfully. I just dumped all of the roms into the corresponding files. All my nes roms worked successfully, but only a handful of my snes roms worked. So what I am addicted to is trying to figure out how it will work. It will take some tinkering to find the right roms etc.
You can read other reviews to help you, but i will talk about the stuff other people didn't talk about. The Dingoo i got had some games already loaded on it, which is great beacause free games are always a good thing. The tetris that comes with is is awesome beacause you only need onle hand to play it.
You can hook it up to your PS3 and unload movies/pictures/MP3's onto it, which could be a time saver.
so far i am very happy with it. it can do alot, its a great competitor to an ipod.
Its very hard to brick one of these, just keep a safty pin with you at all times, sometimes games get stuck or loading processes get stuck, you can always hit the reset button. Its idiot proof.
This is a great toy for tinkering, totally worth the money.
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