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Again, why wifi and an analog stick?

Wifi for multiplayer gaming. Quake, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Descent 1&2, Jazz Jackrabbit, Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and some other games already support multiplayer. And from my experience, they all play really good on multiplayer. There are also tons of emulators supporting multiplayer.
As for the analog stick, yes, it would be mostly used for aiming in shooters and for arcade games that originally used analog on their systems. Also could work better than d-pad as a mouse cursor in games like exult, fheroes2, or interpreters like scummvm.

Sure, but do they multiplay well on many of these smaller <4" handhelds?

Can't say for emulators, but I have playtested a couple of multiplayer games with my brother using Dingoo <-> Dingoo connection (yes, Dingoo supports multiplayer via usb networking with a PC host in the middle). We have completed the whole Doom I&II on coop mode, which was a really awesome experience. Besides that we have also tested Jazz Jackrabbit and Descent 1&2, which were ok, but not as epic as Doom.
As for Quake, currently there's a bug in the sdlquake preventing a player from joining a hosted game, but I have seen a patch for it somewhere.
Duke3D desynchronizes too fast, but eduke32 devs are working on a new multiplayer code which should play just fine on handhelds.

I have said that many times already, but I really think having an easy way of multiplayer connection (wireless or cable) between two handhelds can be a good selling point. Especially if the console itself is cheap enough to buy them in bundles

Quote from: Leftyright on November 19, 2010, 06:50:46 PM

Sure, but do they multiplay well on many of these smaller <4" handhelds?

Can't say for emulators, but I have playtested a couple of multiplayer games with my brother using Dingoo <-> Dingoo connection (yes, Dingoo supports multiplayer via usb networking with a PC host in the middle). We have completed the whole Doom I&II on coop mode, which was a really awesome experience.

I played Doom with my brother long ago and that was great fun. Good to know multiplayer works decent on the Dingoo.

I hope this doesn't turn into a Pandingoo, too many cooks and all.

I think I stepped on some Pandingoo once.

In china they have a fascination with the camera as we did in europe and america about 4 to 6 years ago. Ok things I know for certain now the built in wifi is a possability but not sure if it will drive costs up too much the same goes for USB Host.

I'm leaning more towards and pushing for USB host then people can use a WiFi Dongle for the wifi aspect.

I'm leaning more towards and pushing for USB host then people can use a WiFi Dongle for the wifi aspect.

The usb host would be perfect with the regular usb slot, not the mini we currently have in the dingoos. As miniUSB means you have to use a mini > regular converter, which takes a lot of space and after you apply wifi dongle on top of it, it sticks a lot too far out from the dingoo and makes it easy to fall out of the slot due to it's combined weight.

Surely bluetooth would make sense for a device this small and cheap, you could still access the internet by tethering to your PC using an adapter that costs < $2  and it'd be much cheaper to put a bluetooth chip in the machine. Also it'd have the added advantage of being low power and tethering to your phone.
Plus it could be used for peripherals like mouse/keyboard.

i hope DDU is ignoring most of your requests otherwise project creep will kill it before it's even prototyped.