hurt Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 Anyone else using a Dingoo A320? I have had mine for a week or more now and am pretty happy, but it does have some issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurt Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 I have just added a SD card to the system today and just noticed that the 4GB of space on the device does not support long file name support (A real pain for naming roms). The add in card how ever does support long file names! Looks like I will just be getting a nice big mini sd card for keep everything on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Is it emulating any Atari stuff yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 I'd never heard of this thing before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingoo When it emulates Atari stuff I will have to check it out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 I have a longer discussion going somewhere on here. Have your overclocked yours yet? You should look into it. There are fixes for the emulators also to enhance and make them work better. You should download them. There's also a few additional emulators available and homebrews. Also some modifications such as a reset switch, better directional pad, etc. You should try some. I tried to ask Ben Heck if he wanted to try a mod of this for me.. 7" screen, better batteries, maybe SVIDEO output, etc. I also thought we could have joystick ports on the front to plug in an NES, SNES, Genesis, or NEO GEO controller. This way when I am using it on the TV I could use a real controller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 List of community made emulators: * Gameboy & GameboyColor * NeoGeoPocket * Sega Master System & GameGear(in progress, No Sound for now) * WonderSwan & WonderSwanColor(in progress) * PCEngine(in progress) * Centipede & Millipede * MSX(through GBA Emulation) * Pacman & Ms Pacman (Arcade) * Mikie (konami arcade game) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurt Posted June 15, 2009 Author Share Posted June 15, 2009 Is it emulating any Atari stuff yet? No I have not tried overclocking it. I dont really have any issues with speed yet. I am noticing a issue with games that would normally have a batter save state like Super PunchOut. They crash when the game tries to save to the battery. Hopefully another update to the emulator will be out soon and fix this. Also games from SNES that used the FX Chip don't work. Overall though it is a pretty great little system for the price and even just for NES games I am happy. Not sure but I bet the linux version has some people working on porting stella to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 There is NO Linux version. However you can dualboot Linux which supposedly came out. I have no intentions of using it for Linux, so I don't follow that end. You should however try some of the emulator updates as they fix and make games run better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurt Posted June 16, 2009 Author Share Posted June 16, 2009 I dont see any emu updates on the offical site? Are you talking about custom firmware? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoyx Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 A good dingoo forum... http://a320.freeforums.org/ Just got mine 2 days ago, haven't much time to hack at it. Would really like a 2600 emu for starters. Claims to have mp4 support, but the file I tested it with, didn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurt Posted June 21, 2009 Author Share Posted June 21, 2009 A good dingoo forum... http://a320.freeforums.org/ Just got mine 2 days ago, haven't much time to hack at it. Would really like a 2600 emu for starters. Claims to have mp4 support, but the file I tested it with, didn't work. I am pretty sure it comes with some sample mp4's installed on it that worked for me. Yes a 2600 emu would rock! I really hope some more homebrew emulators start to come out for the dingoo os, but I have a feeling the linux booting will turn into the standard and most stuff will run under it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorsten Günther Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 Is it emulating any Atari stuff yet? Hatari (ST emulator) was just published in version 1.0 under Dingux (the A320 Linux). Hopefully, Stella and Atari800 will follow soon. Thorsten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 After reading about it in detail, I bought a Dingoo off of eBay today! I think it sounds pretty cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerSpaceFan Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 Kombo recently did a review of the Dingoo as well http://www.kombo.com/article.php?artid=13424 Too bad it sounds like the SNES emulation is so rough. Between that and (so far) no 2600 emulation, I'll pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurt Posted August 13, 2009 Author Share Posted August 13, 2009 I am hoping for a update the snes emu and a 2600 emu that works on the standard Dingoo firmware. Snes emulation is not horrible, mind you it does have some issues. But is completely playable for most games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted August 13, 2009 Share Posted August 13, 2009 anyone tried the MAME emulator on it yet? Any good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 (edited) I received my Dingoo A320 this afternoon and have spent maybe three hours playing with it. Some observations: - as a portable video player it is superb. I have thrown several video files at it in different formats: AVI, WMV, MPG, MP4, etc. It doesn`t seem to play FLV format (which I didn`t expect it to). Other than that, great: good picture, sound, playback. No stuttering or other problems on the various videos. - the FM radio, text file reader, picture viewer, MP3 player, etc. all work well. - the GBA and NES emulators are very good, but not great. I tried perhaps a dozen or so ROMs or so of each format just to see how they behaved. (Obviously I didn`t have much time to test them thoroughly.) About 80 to 90% of ROMs run without issue; a small minority of NES files just don`t seem to run (could be a bad ROM dump), and I found a couple of GBA files that stutter and have a jerky framerate. - someone has ported a Colecovision emulator to the native Dingoo environment (it doesn`t come with Linux out of the box). This actually seems to run great, but with mediocre sound. - I haven`t had a chance to test any of the other emulators. I`ll probably post an update in a couple of days. - The instruction booklet is a very poor English translation and is next to useless. In its native mode out of the box, the emulators and other apps recognize files by their three-letter extension. To put files on it, you just connect to a PC with the supplied USB cable, copy files to it as if it were any kind of a USB drive, and make sure the file extension is one that will be recognized by the internal apps (ie. *.MP3 for a music file, *.GBA for a GBA file, etc.) The unit is very light weight, just a few ounces, and not much larger than a Gameboy Advance Micro. The screen is 2.8 inches on the diagonal, so about the same size as a GBA screen. The display is very good: well lit, clear and sharp, easy to view in different lighting and angles. No complaints there. The tiny speakers are fairly loud for their size, and standard earphones fit. I haven`t tested the TV out yet... When I press on the buttons, or just handle the unit in general, it seems to have a solid, quality feel despite the light weight. It doesn`t seem flimsy or have creaky seams at all. Overall I think that if you are looking for a small portable multimedia unit for watching movies while on a plane or bus, and want to play a few of your favorite retro games, this is what you are looking for. If you want a more serious gaming unit, you might want to consider hacking a PSP. I think the A320 is ideal for me and I am happy with my purchase. Edited August 21, 2009 by ls650 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerSpaceFan Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 Good review ls650. How is the battery life? Let us know if/when you try a decent 2600 emulator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 Other comments: - the included Neo Geo emulator runs very well - the hobbyist-written native emulators for the Colecovision and the Odyssey 2 also work well. - the SNES emulator is so-so. Some games run well, some poorly, some not at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 If you are willing to install Dingux (Linux) on your Dingoo, there is now a port of Stella for the Atari 2600: http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/49309-stella-dingux-preview-0-1-atari-2600-emulator/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoyx Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 (edited) Yep, I am off and running. Copied this image on to my mini-SD. Recommend a fresh FAT32 re-format on you mini-sd before doing that. Then used this for dual-boot. Edited September 9, 2009 by Zoyx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddgjinla Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Anyone out there working on an Atari 8bit emulator for the Dingoo or Dingux? There is a port of the Atari 800 emulator on Linux which with a little work can be ported over to Dingux, but my knowledge is limited on linux in general. I've tried a few times, but can't get the version up and running in Dingux. Anyone else wanna have a shot at it or already working on one? I'd love to see the Atari 800 running on this device! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurt Posted September 27, 2009 Author Share Posted September 27, 2009 In case anyone is interested there has been a unofficial update to the Sega Genesis emulator for the native Dingoo OS. Removes a lot of the issues from the last one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 (edited) A beta of an emulator for the Atari Lynx was released today: http://boards.dingoonity.org/dingoo-development/lynx-emulator/msg893/#msg893 It runs great with the native environment - no Dingux installation required! I have tested it with a few ROMs of games I own; I find the emulator works very well for many ROMs. - Blue Lightning, KLAX, BattleZone 2000, and a few others I tried ran quite well; I didn't notice any slow down other than some choppy title music in BL. - STUN Runner has some messed up graphics; but is playable. - Ms. Pacman runs about 15% too fast! - "Lynx Diagnostic cart": when you push buttons on the button test, a speaker beeps like it should but the button display doesn't light up. Awesome for a beta release! Sorry for the lousy quality of my cell phone pics... The quality of the emulation is quite good, with clear sharp graphics and smooth framerate. Edited October 21, 2009 by ls650 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 noticed that a 7800 emulator was released this week too http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/397-Dingux-7800-Atari-7800-Emulator-for-Dingux-v1.1.0.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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