Pocket Retro Game Emulator from ThinkGeek

[ComputerLunarVidGamR]

just get the friggen xperia play, its alot better in all possible ways known to human knowledge at the moment!

[Flizzop]

@ComputerLunarVidGamR Except that this is 75 to 100 USD, while the Xperia play requires you to sign a 2 year contract with a Cell Phone company and the price is upwards of 300 USD. 

[magicianofdhs]

Where can I get one and do I need a computer to play the games.ps please dont tell me ebay or amazon I always game ripped of from those sites

[forgtn]

@magicianofdhs You can buy it on thinkgeek . com. You would need a computer to download and put the ROMs on the device.

[txoptimusbob]

I WANT THAT SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BADLY!!!!!!!!!!!

[sonicfanatic4949]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NEVER GET A BLACK ONE

[danutzianu95]

Well this is kinda useless now since about any android phone can run these emulators.

[supermariosunshine64]

I don't usually say this...but has this guy ever touched a videogame before in his life?!

[GamingFool84]

This thing needs N64 support, even though it is still awesome!

[Davoc723]

HO

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SHIT

[aprilsorola]

THAT'S SO COOL :p

[pokenintendo]

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

[Spybreak9]

This is painful to watch lol. Also grab a DS and a R4 chip, play emulators from the card a lot less money with more features (since you're buying the DS to start with).

[sonicfanatic4949]

@Spybreak9

Also, emulators on DS make me want to punch people. Buy this thing, install linux on it, enjoy. If not, go with a psp.

[barb0720]

Thanks, but I have a hacked PSP which can play PSP games (obviously), PS1 games, run emulators for every old console, and run videos. No need for this little thing.

[heanzi]

he's a noob :D

[martinandreev]

@heanzi LMFAO SOO TRU



[GamerThreeThousand]

Can you play original Gameboy games?

[TheSethcast]

@GamerThreeThousand yes

[XxcoomiekidxX]

just wondering if anyone knows the max gb external memory (SD CARD) that it can handle? i guess 4 gb internal is epic but id rather have it external?

[BeatlesRoxx13579]

So, can you just download ROMs from any ROM site and add it to the device? Or is there some special site you have to get the ROMs from?

[TheSethcast]

@BeatlesRoxx13579 any site.

[Dia17DpoVNa]

хмм а как игры закачивать,есть русскоязычные?

[MasterJediKyleKatarn]

F-Zero wasn't the smoothest on the machine in this video. I noticed the repulsor lift flickering was a bit slow.

[jeffkid182]

How's the frame rate for the games? all smooth?

[DeltaAlphaNuStudio]

@jeffkid182

NES, GBA, and GB/GBC; 9.8/10 A slight slowdown from actual sound, but it's unnoticeable unless played side by side. Why you would do this, i don't know.

SNES, Mega Drive, 6.5/10: OK, some games don't play (Mode 7 Games: StarFox, Pilotwings, etc.) and the frame rate is noticeable on all games. It's slower than normal.

CPS2/CPS1, 3/10 Lots of games do not work, and it is very confusing getting the roms on there. Only a few games work, but the frame rate is good,and it's not too bad.

[jeffkid182]

@DeltaAlphaNuStudio

Thanks for the info. :D

[DeltaAlphaNuStudio]

@jeffkid182 no prob. :)

[goremister54321]

DO WANT.

[GreatScooty]

I'd be more inclined to buy it if there weren't already free alternatives, and maybe if this guy playing the thing knew what he was doing.

[JoshDave360]

How would i go about putting the original games on here, im not very PC savy .

[Jeffreyshnigity]

@JoshDave360 Probably like MP3 Player

[MasterJediKyleKatarn]

@Jeffreyshnigity Yep just load the roms and you're good to go.

[DeltaAlphaNuStudio]

@JoshDave360 First, you put the USB cord into the Dingoo and the other end into the computer. Go to Google. Search "Super Mario Bros. rom" (it can really be any game, but SMB is an example. You can download the file straight onto your Dingoo, unless it's in a zip file. Then you'd unzip it and drag the file from the inside into your Dingoo's NES folder (or whatever folder)

and then you'd unplug it from your computer then HAPPY!

[music2012]

No Turbo Grafx love:( I still want this thing!

[angie14tube]

he coin the yoshi coin! The coin! The F****** Coin! -_- You forgot the coin...

[JavaLuCpp]

Why not just use PSP or DS with emulators to play those?

[sr249productions]

@JavaLuCpp cuz this isnt illegal.

[JavaLuCpp]

@sr249productions wooops. i forgot there are still people out there who owns a Mac and bound by law.

[sr249productions]

@JavaLuCpp XD ya, i own an hp cuz theyre better, personally.

[JavaLuCpp]

@sr249productions Thumb up for the PC win

[sr249productions]

@JavaLuCpp hell ya...

[magnawaves]

I'm just curious, do the games lag? F-Zero seems to be running badly. I have the original on the SNES and it plays much smoother than that. I had been excited to get this but seeing that is a bit discouraging.

[WhyteEagle]

I don't suppose this thing has multiplayer functionality? That's the only thing I can think of that might possibly make it perfect; wireless multiplayer capability. Bomb shit.

[iepkiriakos]

WANT.NOW.

[DeltaAlphaNuStudio]

WHEN WILL YOU HAVE IT BACK IN STOCK?

[DudemanofAwesome]

Either this guy is just awful, or the system is broken and makes you play like a doofus.

[DeltaAlphaNuStudio]

@DudemanofAwesome Actually, the controls are one of the best I've ever played. He just stank.

[sanitoeter]

what a noob ^^

[TrollinFoLife1345]

the audio is shit on snes

[urmumzfat]

Ashens has proved that this device is evil.

[Chikun382]

@lamby0000 I guess it's pretty good (fits easily in pocket too!) - except that I'm using my mini SD card for something else and mine got broken, somehow, and now the card doesn't stay in the slot of my "dingoo A330" not a320, I can tape like a gift card but then it makes it look bad :(

[hare122275]

Not a bad showing. He showed us a good range of games/consoles this puppy can run.

[BanjoKiD2K]

Are these snes games on the native software or Dingux

[chilliningamestop]

i have 1 pwns

[urmumzfat]

Everyone go watch Ashen's review on this. The system actually has a lot of problems, and you'd be better off buying a GP2X Wiz.

[reishvedaur]

The timing for the SNES games is VERY inconsistant, as you can see when he is playing Super Mario World.

[dariian]

That web ThinkGeek is REALY REALY EXPENSIVE;DONT BUY

[Chikun382]

It's the FUCKING Dingoo!!! I don't really recommend that to all you retro lovers out there. Most default emulators on it a kinda bad and outdated. I suggest the GP2X Wiz or Caanoo (In my opinion: Caanoo).

[KaytlinandRich]

does it come with games already loaded on it

[FlyingAce1016]

@KaytlinandRich No but you can go to sites like Emuparadise and other rom sites and download them :) I use emulators on my pc

[KenshinXSlayer]

WIll this run Sega Saturn or PSXe? Also, are the roms slowed down?

[Chikun382]

@KenshinXSlayer No sega saturn. PSX is kinda slow and almost unplayable for most games. Read my other comment I made for better console handhelds.

[xXPosEiiDoNXx]

It's PERFECT at school!

[kiwi8990]

he sucks at is but its super cool

[Jemlink]

i heard there's a community developed gameboy & gameboy color emulator for this thing. anybody have experience with it, cause I'd buy one straight away if I knew the GB/GBC community emulator was reliable. Most of my favorites are GB and GBC.

[leshpar]

The guy in this video must not be a gamer.

[peterjussi]

quite possibly the greatest invention EVER.

[989jer]

im gonna buy that and download fake pokemon games lawl and im making my own so i could play it!

[ChristianBerck]

do u know a site where i can download super mario bros

[joefreak8000]

@ChristianBerck



[LordBling17]

@ChristianBerck Try starting at google dot com.

[CASSdaguy]

AAAAAH they're out of stock!  D:

[kickiwi]

Want to play earthbound zero, earthbound, and mother 3.

[BackwardsO]

LOL Even I play Mario better than that, I couldn't get past the first few levels... but I was five. Also F-ZERO YEAH!

[200zero]

basically it the gameboy micro but 8-bit games awesome! ^^

[TheStreetfightercody]

all the dingoo's on thinkgeek come in all used. NEVER buy electronics from thinkgeek.

[pimper37]

hay it say you Out of stock when well you be geting some in im thinking of geting one is there a way to bay one over the phone of so wath the number so i can cell thanks sind pimper37

[nameless527]

whar is this beuty called???? please answer somone

[Pikminiman]

@nameless527 Seriously, just look at the description. There you will find a link to the page where you can buy this thing.

[nameless527]

@Pikminiman ok thank you :D

[MarcoTUV]

@nameless527 dingo a320

[PumpkinHeaddy]

This thing is ALWAYS out of stock! :(

[b4ds33d2]

nice, but the games looked like they had crappy unplayable frame rates there toward the end of the video.

[TheSpeedOfDarkk]

@b4ds33d2 Yeah, its a great system, but some emulators get a little laggy. Mainly the GBA emulator, but most of the others work great. Sometimes it'll depend on the ROM, though.

[SmallTimeHalo]

@TheSpeedOfDarkk Make sure you use the open OS replacement for it.

[focus0306]

Gaming Console Modes:

- NES (Nintendo Entertainment System - 8bit)

- SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 16bit)

- Sega Genesis (Sega Mega-Drive - 16-bit)

- GBA (Nintendo Game Boy Advance)

- Neo-Geo (SNK Neo-Geo)

- CPS1 and CPS2 (CAPCOM, arcade game systems, 1st and 2nd edition)

[figaro589]

wait until this thing is running in linux or dingux as it's called

[youuualreadyknow]

super mario world looks a bit slow ?

[DeLe1000]

Check "Brilek", an Arkanoid Remake i'm working on. w ww.delek.com.ar

[warlockdemon18]

MY EARS!

[TechHeroPower]

@warlockdemon18 lol

[Supuhstar]

lol the URL changes to the wrong one at the end X3

[Chris11246]

Does anyone know if it works with gameboy games or just gameboy advanced games?

[focus0306]

@Chris11246 If you click on the link they gave in the information bar below the video, then all of your questions would be answered.

[IvoryGecko1993]

Can this thing play Sega CD games too?

[IvoryGecko1993]

This costs $99.99! So, one of you viewers who own this MUST tell me. Is it worth your money? If so, I'm just going to get old Megaman games (1-X 3)to play on this. They look fun.

[MCVenomOS]

@IvoryGecko1993 Ivory, this console is a rebrand of a Chinese one known as the Dingoo a320. You can buy it at for only $80, and get support, news, and homebrew games for it in the GP32X forums / Dingoonity forums and OpenHandhelds file archive. If you pay $100, you've wasted money.

[hyrulemusic]

Was he pressing "Y" to jump with original Mario? That ain't right...

[mcspazotron]

@hyrulemusic you can use both y and a

[Cheeco1988]

@hyrulemusic I read you can change the control settings to your liking.

[SLRMC93]

O.O I love thinkgeek

[BTVideos1]

The product isn't in mono is it because it is in the video and it looks like you got the audio directly from it

[BTVideos1]

@BTVideos1 gah never mind cleaned out my headphones it was fine

[UltraPrimus]

That looks Awsome, Dose it play Neo-Geo Roms?

[magicalmonkeyguy]

@UltraPrimus yes

[surfersat]

Don't know you in what pipes u can join in the first stage?

Sorry, but you are not a good player.

[sambluecat]

i am soooooooooo downloading doom

[justinbiebersucks10]

wat console is that

[Fonsie85]

This thing is brought from heaven. I...MUST...HAVE!

[xavierdude1324]

only one question: is the games pre-programed, or do you have to like, get them. because if the games are not built in, its not worth $99.99 and I'm not getting one.

[BTVideos1]

@xavierdude1324 no you download the games online from ROM sites which fyi are illegal unless you own a copy of the original software but no one (actually i do) really listens to that.

[DevTitanwood]

@BTVideos1

Actually, it's a common misconception that owning the original copy of a ROM is legal, but it's not. As long as the game has copyright, you can't play it on a ROM legally.

[MrSaturn33]

It's called a Dingoo A320...

[gurumed]

The SNES emulation seems really really bad. Listen to the music, and the framerate in F-Zero is awful. But really it's about equal to the SNES emulators on the PSP. The SNES is just hard to emulate on limited hardware...

[josher2021]

This guy sucks at all the games LOL, but this is a very cool,sleek, and incredible little thing higly reccomend it

[josher2021]

for anyone who dosent know this game system is call a dingoo a320

[Ultrox007]

To explain the missing sound in super mario world, I'm pretty sure that it's because the system runs mono sound and SMW is a stereo game

thusly everything out of the right speaker is missing

[surskit123]

@Ultrox007 Ahh, that would make sense.

[budwayz]

Very nice. I'm trying to decide between this one, or the GP2X Wiz, like, the one that can emulate arcade games. I noticed it was having a little bit of trouble running super mario world. Not a huge problem, but I dunno. What would you guys suggest?

[MuSiQMaTRiX]

Where do you get the roms from? I have demos! I dont want to refund this thing!

[zolorolo]

@MuSiQMaTRiX They say on the website.

[figaro589]

linux can run on these run on these things, just look up dingux

[Echuka]

You've got a point SpyBeSappinMahSentry, but how would it even be possible for Nintendo to sell older games on their system if it was not legal? They'd have like 10,000 lawsuits to deal with, and the Virtual Console service would shut down if they didn't have rights to sell them. The whole point of the Virtual Console is that you buy the games because you DON"T need the original games to play them. That's what emulators and ROMs are for.

[Echuka]

Guys... Come on now. Do you REALLY believe that the Virtual Console service is actually illegal? Seriously.

[SpyBeSappinMahSentry]

@Echuka It's legal if you own a real copy of the game.

[gulllars]

awesome...

*adds to thinkgeek shopping list*

[Protomasterexe]

When are you gonna get these thing back in stock!?!?

[Raneman25]

@Protomasterexe They are back now. Get them while you can!

[Protomasterexe]

@Raneman25 I know I found out yesterday.

[V3N0MDESTRUCT]

The racing game u played is a very fun game. I had it for the super nentendo.

[someguy8383]

so i heard the snes emulation is a bit laggy on this device? that sucks, because this thing looks awesome, but i'd be buying it primarily to play snes roms.

[geno344]

@someguy8383 There is a port of the pc emulator Snes9x on it that works much better. just a few games like super mario rpg that uses a special chip has problems.

[goldenmage]

I already have one of these. It's called a PSP. Lawl

[ranpo677]

yeah thats the reason i never updated the new models of the psp just so that I could play emulators.

[goldenmage]

@ranpo677

Well, the PSP slim is still able to emulate fine, but it does so slightly slower than the phat version.... so yeah. But the go is completely inept. At least for now.

[ranpo677]

@goldenmage

Yeah? That's a shame but eventually it sould get hacked.  The only redeeming vaue I see is the bluetooth.

[NockomuraLock]

@goldenmage i got a go when it came out and im still pissed that that dude who did manage to hack it wont release his firmware

[888chilly]

does gba work well?

[Pikerchu13]

@888chilly

LOOK ADVANCE WARS!!

[DarakuTenshi]

Wouldn't it have been nice to own one of these back in 1992.

[Hyrca]

It's legal if u own the game which rom ur downloading HH

btw, does it only have 4 bottons?

[Removes]

Controller Specs:

- 8 Position D-Pad on left

- Y, X, A, B buttons on right

- L, R shoulder buttons on top

- Select, Start buttons below controls

- All buttons user definable for gameplay

[monkey5711]

I'm confused, it shows f-zero, yet on the site, they say not to download roms

[mrgoodwil]

its like...your nor supposed to but you do...

like getting mp3's off file sharing

[AGsArmorWarrior]

@monkey5711 It's a joke buddy, downloading ROMS is illegal, so they are saying not to as a joke for them trying not to get in trouble with their legal consultants... Really you better be trollin'.

[monkey5711]

@AGsArmorWarrior alright, but how do they have an f-zero rom

[AGsArmorWarrior]

@monkey5711 It has built it emulators, so they Googled F-Zero rom and downloaded one, unzipped the file, and put it in the folder.

[monkey5711]

@AGsArmorWarrior  sooooo.... they did it illegaly?

[AGsArmorWarrior]

@monkey5711 Yes, but the law isn't enforced at all so it doesn't really matter.

[monkey5711]

@AGsArmorWarrior my point exactly

[digioverlord]

so do have to download the emulator alswell as roms?

[gmsmedia]

@digioverlord

no the emulator is the gaming console all you need to do is download the supported roms for the system and its a portable old school gaming console :)

[CheapBeer09]

will this thing emulate anything windows will??

like WinVice (C64) and DOSbox, or other NES/Sega emulators?? or can it only play whats put on it in production??

[ICURUOK]

what website should you download roms from

[sonikdude49]

@ICURUOK cool roms is good they dont have every thing though

[digioverlord]

emuparadice is the best in my opinion...

[AlecMayhugh]

@Strife56 yep

[AeonRider]

It doesn't come with it natively but yes, there are emulators for GameBoy and GameBoy Color.

[wessouthern]

For the price, you are better off buying a used 2000 PSP and a PANDORA battery.

[Protomasterexe]

I notice 2 odd things in the vid: 1 the sound for super mario world sounds kinda broken, and 2 at the end of the video the url changes.

[CryptoDah2]

wiz!

[souljaboy9761]

i like pie

[bobewreckem]

can you save states on this thing?

[GideonHaitis]

yep

[hardrocker90]

how can i get the games to load on this thing? i got one for christmas and none of my files show up. For every rom it says "No File Found!"

[GideonHaitis]

put your games in the GAMES Folder, go to Games, dont click on the first button, klick the second. The Dingoo (this thing here) only plays SNES,NES,GBC,GBA,Neo Geo,CPS1,CPS2,SMS,SGG

[darklordgunz]

btw... where did u all get urs? i'm only 13, i dun have a paypal or any cards... i'm wondering which game shop i can buy this from?

[vinsin22]

@darklordgunz: you cant buy it from any retailer.

[whitadow]

Give your parents money and have them use their card to purchase it at thinkgeek

[darklordgunz]

@whitadow lol... i considered that, but they dun want me to play video games anymore... so i plan to buy a psp or a dingoo or a ds secretly... but i dun like d psp games.. i just want a nice 2d game in harvest moon and some other gba games and probably some music...

[Clifurd]

Grr, I can't tell if it's the console or his camera that isn't at the correct framerate. this thing looks awesome but I don't want to buy it if I get lag

[Jcrexxor]

@Clifurd it is the camera it probably wouldn't lag whilep laying Mario

[darklordgunz]

can this game console play new gba games?

[Clifurd]

Yes it can, and that is awesome, why buy a gba micro when you can get this?

[darklordgunz]

wew... thnx... 4gb plus u can add a 16 gb micro sd card..., $80, worth it... thnx a lot, i'mma go get it nao... me thinks it's his cam that's laggy... is it?

[releveee]

lol this guy sucks at videogames

[yoyocat]

So I'm trying to get games on mine, but none of them show up or play. Any ideas?

[kingofmyworld324]

did you try unzipping them?