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I think it looks cool and am glad they dropped the price, but it's not for me. If the controllers were interchangeable with real AES ones and you could freely load your own roms onto the device I might be tempted, but having to pay $15 a pop for an emulated game is not for me.

I think it looks cool and am glad they dropped the price, but it's not for me. If the controllers were interchangeable with real AES ones and you could freely load your own roms onto the device I might be tempted, but having to pay $15 a pop for an emulated game is not for me.

The Game Card looks like an SD Card, so there's a possibility of loading your own roms. There's probably some encryption, but that might get broken pretty quickly, since game cards do not appear to be locked to a specific system. Not to mention, given an encrypted rom (Ninja Master), the unencrypted values are known.

This pages also mentions that it's linux based:
http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20120911_558737.html

Looks nice!

Here is the IGN Preview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXpEpcBfW58&feature=plcp

So... Aside from learning that this is using FBA for its emulation, other Dingux emulators for fc, gba, gbc, md, sfc and sms have also been found on it. They're all Dingux based emulators such as DINGUX GNUBOY etc.

So wait, this thing's confirmed to be running Dingux? Or just has some Dingux compatibility since it's running some form of Linux and uses the same family of CPU as the Dingoo? People are finding other emulators already installed on this thing? o.O Why?!?! It makes no sense that Tommo would have put other emulators on this thing if they only intended for it to emulate Neo Geo.

So... Aside from learning that this is using FBA for its emulation, other Dingux emulators for fc, gba, gbc, md, sfc and sms have also been found on it. They're all Dingux based emulators such as DINGUX GNUBOY etc.

Bit disappointed I thought this would be a dedicated neogeo device running the games flawlessly, not emulated. Anyway since it is using FBA for neogeo it would be interesting to compare the neogeo emulation with the Caanoo which uses FBA as well, although that is ARM device not MIPS

Why was everyone expecting perfect emulation? I mean even if it wasn't using FBA it would have just been using some other form of emulator, this thing was produced by Blaze and their products are very cheaply made and borderline junk.

Now that people have other Neo Geo roms running on this they've discovered that the emulation is rather poor, worse than the mainstream Dingoo/GP2 etc handhelds. They're probably running an older version of FBA and I believe that they clocked the CPU at 500MHz.

Tbh a lot of people were expecting the real deal because of the official licensing, apparent build quality (it looks great in pics) but most of all the price tag. If I was shelling out £175 for something with Neo Geo written on it I'd expect a serious piece of kit, Blaze or not.

Glad I didn't get one now though, and yeah I think it's underclocked to 500mhz, still with relatively poor battery life.

Fair enough. I think people are reading too much into the SNK side of things though, they really have nothing to do with the system aside from gladly collecting a licensing fee from Blaze and permitting the use of their logo.

I find it odd that people can understand this relationship where the Blaze Mega Drive clones are concerned but they expect something different from SNK.

It's kinda looking that way, happy to be proven wrong.

The main reason I thought Blaze might be doing a proper job is the general look of the console and the way they attempted to provide a genuine Neo Geo eperience with the hardware - after all why go to the trouble of copying the excellent microswitched pad and full arcade joystick if things weren't done properly on the software side of things?

The Megadrive ones looked cheap, this one looked like a lot of thought had gone into it and the dual shoulder buttons intrigued me - made me think it would have PS1 emulation somewhere along the line (why else are they there?). If it's just a quick and dirty cash grab with an old FBA on it then more's the pity, like I said I'm happy to be wrong on that one. I still like the look of it, looks really neat.