Posts Tagged ‘handheld’

Letcool N350JP handheld comes with two gamepads

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Letcool N350JP

Ever since the day the Dingoo A320 was released, the Chinese market is flooded with portable game consoles.  Most of them are able to emulate games from classic game consoles and do some media playback, but weren’t able to gain the popularity of the A320. However, the Letcool N350JP seems to be a pretty decent contender. It basically looks like a single screen Nintendo DS and comes with two small gamepads. This might seem silly for a portable device, but it also features a TV-out port and what’s more awesome than a two player game of Contra, Bubble Bobble or Street Fighter II on a boring flight? It’s also quite cheap, costing only $71.25/€58.39 at ChinaVasion. Peep the device running Doom after the break.
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$28.36 GB Station Light handheld looks quite familiar

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

As you probably guessed it, the GB Station Light is a total rip-off of the much more famous SP2 handheld. It’s apparently another version of those OneStation devices: cheap handhelds with cheap cartridges packed full with pirated 8 and 16 bit games. The big difference is that the GB Station Light has a rechargeable Li-Ion battery and comes with 111 built-in games besides the 328-in-1 game cartridge. So you’re basically getting a handheld with 439 games for $28.36/€19.35 with free worldwide shipping. Not too bad, although I’m pretty sure that at least 100 games are double listed.

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Cheap handheld console for awkward retro experience

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

This is the 100-in-1 2.4″ LCD Portable Handheld Game Console from DealExtreme, also known as the D-Cat8 8bit Game Console. As you’d probably guessed, this handheld runs on 3 AAA batteries and comes with 100 built-in 8-bit games. Only problem is that these aren’t the ones you grew up with. The 100 games are largely hacked versions of the original. So instead of everbody’s favorite plumber, you play as a fat green orge in the sprite-hacked Super Shrek Bros.  It still plays the same, but it’s quite strange to see a 21st century character in a 8-bit game. I don’t know why they replaced one intellectual property with another one, because they now violate both. My guess is that the outcome is so stupid, both companies won’t even bother to do something about it. However, $19.99 for a handheld console with a color screen and 100 games still isn’t a bad deal. It’s also available in black & blue.

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Gemei X760+ handheld gaming and emulator goodness

Monday, August 17th, 2009

The Gemei X760+ is now available at DealExtreme for $84.50/€59.11. The X760+ is more or less a bigger version of the Dingoo A320, with a slightly bigger 3″ screen and a higher resolution of 400×240. Like the Dingoo it plays most media files and is pretty good at emulating a lot of systems. GBA, NES, SNES, Master System and Genesis are all well supported, while CPS2 games(Capcom arcade games like Marvel vs Capcom and Street Fighter Alpha 3) run pretty well with some frameskips. Neo-Geo games are a bit more sluggish. Besides emulation, there are even a few 3D games available, with some pretty impressing PSX-like graphics. Nice feature is the tv-out. The X760+ also has 4GB flash memory and an SD card slot. The only downside is that unlike the Dingoo A320, the Gemei X760+ has no shoulder buttons, which may cause some problems with some games.

Video of the Resident Evil-like ‘7 Days’ game after the break.

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