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Seems my Letcool is in the country (UK), but as it's a holiday weekend I won't get it until Tuesday! (unless DHL delivery on bank holidays.. I hope they do)

Did you get your tracking # in the end? Hopebuy have replied and they said DHL refused to ship anything with a battery in it, and so they used UPS instead. Reckon that's bullshit?

please let us know if you end up paying any import tax from hopebuy :-)

Absolutely. How did they manage to port Linux to the original Dingoo A320? Did some development software "leak" from the manufacturers site?

Booboo's hard work on reverse-engineering the hardware.

Mine was scanned as on Route to my city(Brisbane) last night at 7:18. Should get it today. Perfect timing as my Dingoo died last night.

sorry to hear about your Dingoo, man.  Hope the Letcool can hold you for awhile.  Also, can't wait to hear everyone's impressions about this device when they get them, since I'm planning on getting one in a month or so.

Looks about the same size as the DSi then, awesome.

Should be with mine tonight -- it's with the courier right now, but I'm at work until 5pm!

Will take lots of comparison photos when mine arrives..

The white version does look nice, I ordered a black one

 O.k. the small amount of charge it came with has run out. Have put it on charge so I'll post about it a bit more.



 The wall charging unit it comes with is exactly the same as the dingoo. Like the dingoo it can not be off while charging automatically coming on when plugged in. I did notice that unlike the Dingoo the battery is removable and easily replaceable.
 Unfortunatly the system is a mixed bag from my tests so far. Some of you may have read on other forums that when playing on the system controls(no mini pads) that the shoulder buttons do NOT act as L or R, unfortunatley I can confirm this is true. They operate as volume up and down with no button mapping available. Therefore for GBA the shoulder buttons are mapped to X and Y and for Snes there are NO shoulder buttons on the system.When pugging in the mini pads this is corrected for Snes but NOT for Gba with the buttons still being mapped to X and Y.And you would think with X bieng on the right side it would be mapped as R. It is NOT. Y is mapped to R.
 The screen on the unit is nice but there are NO options to change brightness. The level you are stuck on is not as bright as the Dingoo screen set to 3. I think the screen does not look as sharp as the Dingoos probably the same res stretched over a larger size.My unit also has 1 stuck pixel in the top right corner.
 For the Emus themselves, of what I've tested so far:

 NES - Very nice as you would expect detected a little slowdown in some games that the Dingoo does not have.
 GB - Again very nice SMB Deluxe doesn't work like on Dingoo Native but others I tested ran  perfectly.
 GBA - A big step down from dingoo. Games are very choppy and with the button mapping issue. Not Good.
 Snes - NOT playable without mini pads. Game performance is hit and miss. Less sound issues than Dingoo native but feels slower.
 MD - A definate step up from Dingoo native, games ran much smoother and with less sound issues.

 Initial findings are that two player MD is this units early strength. With any luck a firmware upgrade can fix some of the other issues. The manual gives instructions on how to do firmware upgrades so hopefully one will be released soon.
 
 Not tested T.V. out yet, or movie playback. Will soon. The operating system is very similar in function to Dingoo as you can see in new pic.

I also got my letcool, here are my first impressions. The corners of the case are also a bit sharp - this could be solved by using some silicone covers. The controls are nice if a bit clicky. One problem I've had is it only allows you to use the flash memory OR the TF card, not both at the same time. You have to manually go in and change the system settings.

Here's a vendor selling it for under $90 plus free shipping:

http://www.dhgate.com/wholesale-letcool-gamestation-portable-handheld/p-ff8080812884b553012890a17e017648.html

that's a strange word to have printed on the console front.
i guess it's a permanent reminder for what to do when it overheats 

well i was all set to buy the a320 but that nice larger screen is just what i want so now i gotta wait to see if and how well mame  runs on this letcool thingy so it's back to the waiting game for me.


rumours are if you put a letcool near to an a330 console a little hammer extends from the letcool and smashes the a330 to pieces

I'm collecting information/reviewing the Letcool in my thread here - http://boards.dingoonity.org/other-game-systems/the-letcool-n350jp-an-overview-(and-pre-review!)/

The topic is locked to discussion, but you can talk about it in this thread.

Currently in the process of dumping the Letcool nand. As it's a SPMP8K device, there are already tools around to dump the nand, and as you will read in my posts, there exists software that is compatible with it.

Boot process uses Redboot, and the OS on the device is eCos