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Offline j_talbain

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China game player
« on: August 13, 2012, 03:21:57 PM »
What in the eighth circle of hell is thing?

http://www.chinabuye.com/gb-advance-sp-portable-2-7-lcd-game-console-with-tv-out

Anyone seen something this blatant before? I love the N64 screenshots though.
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Offline gibberish

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Re: China game player
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2012, 10:32:04 PM »
there are almost literally hundreds of these things if you hunt around. they're mostly Ingenic JZ4732 machines running a port of gpSP. Some of them aren't bad, but if you want a new GBA get a K1 or K101 because they're way better.

Nice marketing ploy with the Mario 64 screenshots though, can't help but smile when I see such blatant lying.
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Offline Pardue

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Re: China game player
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2012, 01:54:34 AM »
*glances at the mess on the rug*
*places hands on hip*

China! China!! China!!! You ripped off someone else's hard work!

I've said it before and I'll say it again- I'm tired of waiting for the next 20 junky Android PSPs and GBA clones to trickle out, each with slightly more features (and bugs) than their newly released handheld from a month ago.

I'd prefer to wait for a GCW Zero or Wikipad as I feel they have some actual give-a-damn business ethos.
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Offline NoeL

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Re: China game player
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2012, 07:45:52 AM »
Quote from: gibberish on August 13, 2012, 10:32:04 PM
Nice marketing ploy with the Mario 64 screenshots though, can't help but smile when I see such blatant lying.
Hey, the A320 can play God of War: http://www.chinabuye.com/a320-2-8inch-lcd-gameboy-mp3-video-player-fm-digital-multimedia-player-white
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Offline gibberish

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Re: China game player
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2012, 08:16:37 AM »
amazing  :o
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Offline j_talbain

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Re: China game player
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2012, 07:40:02 PM »
I was already kind of wary about these guys. I think their poor marketing skills have killed my interest in anything  they might have to offer.

Thanks for responses btw. I still have yet to purchase a china handheld due the sheer amount of effort it seems to take to make one of these devices acceptable. Hopefully someone will get it right soon.
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Offline cutterjohn

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Re: China game player
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2012, 05:31:27 PM »
Quote from: j_talbain on August 15, 2012, 07:40:02 PM
I was already kind of wary about these guys. I think their poor marketing skills have killed my interest in anything  they might have to offer.

Thanks for responses btw. I still have yet to purchase a china handheld due the sheer amount of effort it seems to take to make one of these devices acceptable. Hopefully someone will get it right soon.
I wouldn't count on it as most of these "manufacturers" are clearly just living off a true manufacturer's products and assembling kits plus any provided fw(hence few fw updates).

i.e. they likely buy populated PCBs, casing, etc. and just put it together "brand" it, box it, ship it for a few months then onto the next kit...
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Offline MightyJAK

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Re: China game player
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2012, 10:30:17 PM »
The more I look at this thing, the more intrigued I get. The pictures and description seem to point to it being a proper GBA hardware clone (albeit a shoddy one), with the same extention ports, speaker in the proper position, and even a modified copy of the orignal GBA's back sticker proclaiming "MODEL NO. AGS-001", "©2002 Nintendo". "it has built-in games, also support card catridge. Classic games like Super Mari, Tank, will make you recall your fun once." Once, and only once?  ::) The cartridge slot looks like it takes GBA cartridges, and most devices that play those 77777/99999-in-one have at least one of those cartidges included, and show it in the example pictures. For $2.18 more you could get one of those (GB Station Light 2). Perhaps this clone is cheaper because the screen isn't backlit?

What's really troubling is if you scroll down to the discussion section, you see this:

Quote from: katelyn, ChinaBuye Staff
Hi, we support to download advance gameboy game for customer if pay extra extra 7USD. After you pay you can contact our service department sales@chinabuye.com
 After we receive your request we will do it for you as soon as we can(*^__^*)

tl;dr = ChinaBuye wants to sell you GBA roms. This raises another question; how would you even play downloaded games on this? There is no USB port (or GBA to USB cable included), nor does it come with a flash cart...

Quote from: NoeL on August 15, 2012, 07:45:52 AM
Quote from: gibberish on August 13, 2012, 10:32:04 PM
Nice marketing ploy with the Mario 64 screenshots though, can't help but smile when I see such blatant lying.
Hey, the A320 can play God of War: http://www.chinabuye.com/a320-2-8inch-lcd-gameboy-mp3-video-player-fm-digital-multimedia-player-white
To be fair, that's actually one of the example pictures that comes with an A320 (it was on the one I bought from DX).
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