How-to transform the eeePC into an OpenPandora (eeePC, the ultimate MAME box)

[ryankoch38]

that craptop is about to shut down ;p

[xoen6]

you know..i can agree with author - while pandora is expensive, netbook IS a way, maybe not best but what else, but old PDA can be used as let's say, emumachine novadays? umpc(NOT)?

[agentgamma23]

How-to transform the Ipod touch into an Ipad: Get a magnifying glass. Ridiculous.

[Ragezort]

Who the hell likes play Snow Brothers?!

[Pyro903]

Great, now put that (with the controller) in your pocket.

[thrax63]

there are only like 4000 pandoras in existence and if you think the $400 price point ($500 if you wanna get one before your dick falls off) is totally reasonable for this hunk of shit then you must have a lot of fucking friends to casually whip it out if front of as a 'conversation starter' or no friends at all and all the time in the world to play it

[ozzybwild]

Jippie caaaaaaa yay... Thanks for bullshitting the retrogaming scene by advertising stupid emulator-abuse and copyright piracy.

It's noobs like you advertising this shit on youtube that fuck up the whole community.

If folks don't know what MAME is IT IS GOOD.

Anyone who fucking deserves using it already found it years ago or will do so him-/herself.

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

This fucks me up.

If we ever meet i'll slap you with my Atari portfolio WITH floppy attached.

:|

[thrax63]

@ozzybwild really your "Atari portfolio" thanks dad you miserable lifeless outdated fuck, thank you for being so comfortable with your experience, and for administering textual justice to the 'noobs' of this world that 'fuck up the whole community'

il remember you the next time i play pong at the retirement home

[ozzybwild]

@thrax63 ..So I guess you quit waiting for the pandora and feel like bashing the ones intelligent enough NOT to do so?

BTW: I'm four years older than you.. does your mom regularly do little, three year old boys or how comes you call me dad?

Anyway.. keep on raging, tool. "Lifeless fucks" like yourself obviously need to do so to feel useful on this big, bad planet.. lulz.

PS: Tell your mum she got a new achievement: "Birth of an EPIC FAIL!".. x3

[nuclearjong]

cheap, check.

portable, check.

next step, superglue the gamepad to the system, to play in bed or on the train.

[Brotasmo]

But does it fit in your pocket??

[woulfe42]

Is that like Dade Murphy's laptop from hacker's

[fanoultimatev3]

haters gonna hate

[zombee38]

OK the guy know what open Pandora does but he doesn't have the $ so stop the crap about it.

[supermariosunshine64]

You're missing the whole point of OpenPandora...

[eldino]

@supermariosunshine64: nope, i'm missing the money to buy it :-)

[supermariosunshine64]

@eldino hehe, touche

[gaberoc]

wtf? are you stupid?

[richyroolahs]

Why use a laptop as a portable emulator? One second of rational thought tells you that it's a shit idea. Besides the fact that it is nowhere near as great as a pandora, have you ever heard of the GP32, GP2X, Wiz, Caanoo, PSP, Any smartphone? They all emulate old games, have better controls, are lighter, have better batteries, and are more suitable to gaming.

[eldino]

@richyroolahs: dude, i have already a psp with all the emulators and i love it, but PSP (and other consoles) don't emulate everything, so a netbook is the way to go if you have not 300 euros for a pandora :)

[Exesta]

@richyroolahs shit idea? the pandora is £300 wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy over priced, an EEE PC is 60 quid on ebay, I MEAN COME ON? its essentially doing the same thing

[collector2002]

@richyroolahs

I disagree with you. ImHo there's nothing better than this to play MAME. This "thing" is a pc and has so much more to offer than a PSP. A smartphone? Wow that one made me laugh.. Better controls than a plugable gamepad or a regular keyboard for that matter? If those thoughts seem rational to you...

My opinion was exclusively regarding to: "Play mame on a eeepc/netbook". As for "pandora" i'm not much inside that subject.

"rational";"inside" the subject will appear in next replies;)

[collector2002]

@richyroolahs

Ok i'm now reading and watching videos about/of Pandora and i'm liking it :o)

[JackBandicootsBunker]

@richyroolahs Just tell me something: what's the point of using that netbook the way it should be used, if its power is not enough for in fact anything?

[noyboy125]

it's only 356 dollars, why go to all that trouble

[chriscchrisc]

most net books have intel graphics chips, even with "only" a 750mhz the pandora has the extra hardware (dsp too) that makes it preform way better that some intel graphics joke

[1Jinxed1]

id rather have a pandora.

[rayek4eq]

That 'joypad' looks terrible. I have an EEPC and emulate tons of things on it, yet in know way am I tricking myself into thinking it's even close to OP. EEPCs aren't designed with gaming in mind, there's no dedicated 3D processing. Invest in a good controller and stop pretending this is even 1/4 as good a setup as the OP.

[DrBeardo]

too big, battery life sucks, no dual analogue sticks, no touch screen, bad to non existent HD video playback, can't be connected to a TV unless the TV has a VGA in.

I don't see how this is anywhere near what the pandora is or is capable of.

[Vodd9]

Except the controller alone is bigger than the pandora. I really hope you were joking by saying this is a replacement.

[abar40]

where do you buy the joystick?

[djsyto2000]

you are a self-fooler

[nickbaldeagle01]

Hmmm. I was watching a Pandora video, and I thought it might be easier to get a netbook and a small joypad and run your emulator of choice that way.

I reckon the Eeee could out-emulate the Pandora. Not just the Eeee. There are lots of netbooks running Linux and Windows now.

[eyeball226]

@nickbaldeagle01

The Pandora is much smaller, has a better battery life and has proper controls.

[L337g4m3r]

Lets see you play this thing on the train like that! You would look like a moron!

[Synth3t1cs]

Well at least this is real, unlike the Open Pandora which will never see the light of day.

[QPOproZaC]

obvious troll is obvious

[PoisonPatric]

Mass production of pandoras have already started

[Synth3t1cs]

@PoisonPatric Yeah and I'm sure you'll be able to buy one a couple of years from now.

[DrBeardo]

@Synth3t1cs Its already shipping. youtube.com/watch?v=j_Sk_Tlbtb­w

[SuperSmashBros13]

pathetic

[Megajames32]

Oh, I needed to DOUBLE CLICK. Thanks!

[TYRONEBIGGLES]

just buy urself a real notebook and play modern warfare 2 all day. haha

[Notyu1459]

Where's the part when you put it in your pocket?

[anon645]

This is sad. You can't turn an eee into a pandora.

Sure, you can directly solder in another SD card slot, or do the touch screen hack, or gps, etc, but it's not a pandora.

It's an eee. a bulky-ass-don't-fit-in-your-po­cket EEE. The pandora is a truly unique effort in the field of consumer electronics, created by devs for devs. It's like FUBU for nerds. I own an EEE, but it's pandora all the way FTW. the Pandora is not the first open console, but it is the first _impressive_ open console.

[Megajames32]

5-stared out of pity.

[earthling10]

I was considering buying a cheap small netbook as a dedicated emulation box. Its not totally pocket sized but it should beat the crap out of Pandoras performance.

[eldino]

do it ;) it's worth the price ;)

[nori971]

u're all wrong .... if u just wanna play snes, or genesis games u can do it but u have to keep in mind dat the pandora got a 3D card (powerVR)... try to emulate n64 or psx games with a cheap netbook and see the results between the both ;)

[tom611]

I hate to tell you this, but all x86 based netbooks have 3d acceleration, most on par or better than the one in the Pandora. Paired with the more powerful processors in the Netbooks, plus two to four times the RAM, and anything the Pandora can run, the netbook could run better. There are already videos on Youtube showing full speed emulation of both PSX and N64 games on a eee pc.

There are really two main advantages to the Pandora over x86 netbooks: portability and battery life.

[iloveads47]

It would more exciting to own a Pandora to tinker with it. Have a GP2X F200 and the community is great... Did I mention free?

Also don't forget style. Image is everything.

[tom611]

The EEE PC has an active community surrounding it and free as well.

As for style, expect your attention to consist of "Hey, did you get New Super Mario Bros. yet for your DS?" (of course referring to your Pandora) or "What kind of phone is that?" I do hope you're not expecting to get style points for what amounts to a small sub-culture's toy.

I do agree that it would be fun to play around with the Pandora, however.

[TYRONEBIGGLES]

@tom611 and you can play halo on a netbook.

[thepeacemaker91]

I'd expect the pandora would shit all over any laptop/notebook of the same price as far as emulation. Not to mention the pandora has advanced 3d hardware, far greater portability, much longer battery life (10hrs plus), dual analog nubs, digital pad, L&R buttons, even a USB port. I could go on, but i wont. The pandora will be better for emulation, having all the other capabilities is just a bonus. There's no comparison between the pandora and a small laptop, they're two different things. period

[Cabroni2]

Dingoo A320 can run mame and retroemulations too

[CryptoDah2]

Wiz too

[b1llygo4t]

eeew

[maxtervan]

i don't like it

[SamSeriousStone]

The poor men's open-pandora... :D

[Brandon72196]

Change the name please...

[me1ne]

Does not fit into pocket. Nowhere near comparable portability. You need an extra pad, too. You've got no point really.

[thetylife]

I see a eeepc 701 for sale for $130 total...And I just got a DS Lite, perhaps I should of gotten a 701 instead. Then again I can do this on my 12" laptop too..just less portable.

Does it run all Mame games smoothly?? What about newer and larger file games? And ever try project 64 on it?

[eldino]

Well, the recent titles, such as King Of Fighter 2002 and above are not playble, they need a lot of cpu power and netbook are not for brute power, you know :) The older one I tested work flawlessly! I have not tested yet other emulators than Mame and Snes9x.. but I will do that soon ;)

[natanwekills]

cool i want to transform my eeepc 701 on a MucaE Multiple console arcade Emulator

[me1ne]

and the title -.-

[cyborgtroy]

Yeah it would take some sorta shrink to turn the EEE into an OP and it would still have worse battery life. :/

[eldino]

Yeah battery life is a pain, just 2.15h.. but i Dont play more than 1 hour, so for me it's an excellent compromise since OpenPandora is not yet in shops :-)

[wicky615]

@eldino You can get replacement batteries that are slightly more bulky and extend the back of the eeePC a little, but last for nearly 10 hours.

[eldino]

it's a very similar solution and it has similar portability than an openpandora, so the title will stay as it is

[delet0]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say, "no it doesn't have similar portability than an openpandora." Nothing against your solution, it's great, but you still have to carry the larger-than-pandora Eee, a game pad, and probably the Eee's AC adapter. Pandora's battery reportedly lasts around 10 hours, is about NDS size, and doesn't need an external game pad.

[TheRoflCop]

to bad ur never gonna get it

[b1llygo4t]

/generic comment flaming your video.

but seriously, could you see someone playing that on the bus on their way to work?

[eldino]

dunno, i don't play with my PSP on the bus, I fear to break it and being stolen, there is too much people in buses! But i play my eeepc in trains and works great :)

[me1ne]

Thi has nothing to do with OpenPandora. You're just showing how to use a gamepad in an emulator. Change the tags please.