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Isn't that easily fixed with underclocking the emu? Works for me man.

Didn't work at all. The emulator runs to slow and can't be used anymore to play with video out on TV. We fixed this issue with adding a perfect Gameboy/Gameboy Color SDL emulator to the custom firmware.

Even the K1 GBA hardware clones are not 100% compatible. If you want 100% GBA compatibility, then you need to get a GBA. However, if you want an all-in-one device and are OK with just "rock solid" GBA compatibility, then better start saving up for the Pandora 2 .

I will reserve judgment on Zero's credentials when I try my own favorite games on it, games where you know exactly what to look for at which exact locations to gauge its emulation prowess.

2013 at the earliest, I'm guessing 2014 or possibly even 2015

they're suggesting $700-800 price

2013 at the earliest, I'm guessing 2014 or possibly even 2015

they're suggesting $700-800 price

With pre orders still waiting in 2020.

i think one of the reasons why i also started this post was in hopes to have the good gba emulation out of the box. meaning i dont want to have to do 15 things to get a good gba emulator on my system. I want the community to be big but i hope this device is as polished as ever and not thrown onto the market for us to make it awesome..... like skyrim + mods, lol.

LOL I don't want this to turn into a Pandora bashing thread, but seriously... there's no silver bullet: good luck finding one device that can emulate everything accurately. The Zero has a lot of potential; now it all depends on the developers and how much effort they put into optimizing their emulators for the new CPU/GPU inside this thing.

Have you considered getting an Android device? It's pretty exciting times for Android gaming with the Archos GamePad coming out and the rapid (and slightly improving) releases from JXD and Yinlips. I can tell you from personal experience that the .emu series of emulators from Robert Broglia (http://www.explusalpha.com/) are very high quality and obviously a labor of love. The only minor downside to Android gaming is that you can hear a slight lag in sound, but I'm sure that will be fixed eventually. The great thing about Android is that it's such a huge market most emulators are updated very frequently relative to the more niche players like the Dingoo.

UPDATE: There are no details on Robert's site, but he also has an emulator for GBA: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explusalpha.GbaEmu

It's based on VBA-M, and I would argue that it's better than GBAoid. GBA.emu is not free, but you get what you pay for.

There are specific titles on GBA that even in the very good Wiz/Caanoo port of GPSP slow down and some break even the music. But most of the stuff already where smooth enough on the early consoles. I only bet that GCW gives quite a push to even those titles (as I witness from some vids, also the same with SNES emulation of the most intensive stuff). In terms of emulation improvement over Caanoo (with most of which I was already content though), GCW is the cheapest good solution to improve emulation where it lacks I believe (the other alternative is the over expensive Pandora, and then some recent chinesh android consoles which I don't trust).

K1 would seem best option if thats all you want.

Most games played fine on the Dingoo and Caanoo for me.

I also found the PSP emus decent.

But as with the JXD S601 and maybe all other devices likewise the screen size is not suited to GBA unless you run them scaled to 4:3 as when you stretch to full screen they look iffy on these 16:9 800X480 etc screens.

So i think the GCW could be the perfect device for all 16 bit Arcade and Consoles.