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Rhomb.io Terminates Partnership With Smach Z Team
In a blog post on the their website today, Rhomb.io, the developers of the hardware due to power the Smach Z have said they are pulling out of the project. Citing communication failures and a lack of...
View ArticleOut Of Nowhere – A New Controller For Your N64
Until recently options were pretty limited if you wanted to replace your ageing and increasingly waggly N64 controller. You could either buy a knockoff from China, pay a silly amount for a third party...
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Hooray, Another Way to Play GBA! Said No-one in Years.
Of all the things I could have posted on here in the past 6 months, for some reason it’s yet another GBA emulator that has piqued my interest. I can’t explain it and I’m sorry. Never the less, I...
View ArticleGPD XD Gets Revamped – XD+ Coming Early Next Year
Everything you need to know about GPD’s next handheld is eloquently and informatively explained by Phawx in the video below. To summarise, the RK3288 in the 2015 model is going out of production soon...
View ArticleGPD XD Plus Now Available
GPD did say it’d be available in the new year, but I wasn’t expecting it to arrive as quickly as this. The GPD XD+ can now be ordered at Fasttech for $198 shipped. I’ve decided I’m going to get one...
View ArticleHyperkin To Release An Aluminium Game Boy Pocket Clone
Hyperkin have apparently developed a Game Boy Pocket clone and will be releasing it in Summer this year. The unit will be clad in an aluminium shell and will of course house a backlit display. The...
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The Bastardised Revo K101
The original K1 hardware is apparently out of production now, though there are rumours on Baidu of a re-release with some changes to the original design. So it was with a mix of excitement and...
View ArticleOpenDingux and Gmenu2X For The RetroGame RS-97 (Discount Extended Until 24th!)
A minor miracle has occurred over the past few weeks, the “bastardised k101” from my previous post has been given the OpenDingux treatment thanks to a talented fellow on the Dingoonity boards named...
View ArticleGPD XD Plus – 15% Off Discount Extended Until 24th!
The GPD XD Plus is currently 15% off with discount code from Fasttech. A word to anyone who ordered previously and hasn’t had their machine shipped yet: although Fasttech are on holiday for CNY, you...
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The Digi RetroBoy May Or May Not Be A Thing
Early last year I discovered a Hong Kong website showing off images of what appears to be another GBA hardware clone. Click to view slideshow. The translation on mponline.hk implies that it was due to...
View ArticleGPD Win 2 Up For Pre-Order – $753 Shipped From Fasttech
The GPD Win 2 hit a whole bunch of Chinese stores today, available for pre-order only. By far the cheapest, as usual, is Fasttech who are taking pre-orders at $753 using coupon code “MAP”. The...
View ArticleSteward Releases CFW v1.2 for the Retrogame RS97
It’s been out a few days now, and the v1.2 update brings with it a slew of fixes and additions. For a full list of all changes, see this post by Steward on the Dingoonity boards. A couple of things to...
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A Wild RS97 2.1 Appeared
As rumoured on the baidu forums a couple of weeks ago, the V2.1 variant of the Retrogame RS97 has now made its way out to at least one customer. Discord user dribbletaint noticed there was a problem...
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Updated Retroflag NesPi Case+ Released With Safe Shutdown And Reset
If you’re looking to turn your Raspberry Pi in to a retro gaming machine you couldn’t go far wrong with a NesPi case for it. Like most cases though, the original NesPi doesn’t offer a proper means to...
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A Look At The GPD XD+ Hardware
After a lengthy and slightly worrisome stint at the sorting office in Heathrow, my GPD XD+ finally arrived earlier this week. I haven’t really had time to get to know it yet, but I have had a good look...
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MaxZhou88’s Digi RetroBoy Prototype
In a previous post I mentioned that the Digi RetroBoy could be a Revo K101 equivalent if it was ever released. Instead of relying on emulation it utilises a hardware solution to play GBA games from a...
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The Odroid-Go Is HardKernel’s 10th Anniversary Handheld Game Kit
HardKernel is a South Korean hardware manufacturer founded in around 2008, although best known for their RPi style Single Board Computers one of their first devices was an Android handheld bearing a...
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A Couple Of New DIY Style Raspberry Pi Handhelds From China
Pix Portable aka Gameberry Retropie The Pix Portable aka Gameberry Retropie (take your pick) is available on Aliexpress and comes in four price tiers depending on what exactly you want. For most people...
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The New Bittboy
The original Bittboy was released in Summer last year, it was a simple machine with a bunch of built in NES games. The only thing that really made it stand out from the mountains of other NES clones...
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New Open Source(?) Handheld Appears From Xiaolong Wang (Apparently called...
The Tieba Baidu forums have come alive with talk of a new machine from a new China manufacturer this week. The machine bears a striking resemblance to the handheld project that Steward-Fu has been...
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