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I wouldn't mind updating the Caanoo, except you have to open those awful flimsy covers to get to the SD card and USB port. Every time I open one of those I feel it's about to break off in my hand. :unsure:

Sorry for the wishy-washy answer, but... it depends. Its main advantages are its low cost, long battery life and better video playback than the GPH consoles. It emulates the GBA, NES and Megadrive pretty much perfectly (Megadrive needs Dingux + Picodrive). The SNES emulation isn't as good as the...

Niiiiice. Gonna hopefully try this out later. Has anyone tried the Wiz version of Pocketsnes using this? Does it run better than the current Caanoo version? (Especially difficult games like Kirby Super Star, Yoshi's Island etc.)

Chrono Trigger is a great game and the boss battles are really good but the regular battles are like watching paint dry. Everything happens soooo sloooowly and you rarely have enough MP to do the cool area-effect stuff, so it's usually just A, A, A like Final Fantasy.

I might do that; playing FF4 on my Caanoo has reminded me how fucking boring JRPG battles are without a fast-forward function. Ah, nostalgia...

Nice review, but it really makes me want a Pandora with an OLED screen. :) Oh well, maybe the Pandora 2 will have one.

They're probably holding the good battery back because they want to release an "upgraded" version after a couple of years like they always do. The "upgraded" version will have a proprietary headphone jack and no backwards compatibility, of course.

Craigix said in the official board thread that they only have 3 people assembling at the moment. If you look at the date stamp on ED's post, it's from April last year, back when something was actually happening <_< . They presumably let people go when the boards stopped coming in. EDIT: Source

I can imagine all this back and forth between different companies might have partly accounted for the prices going up. But yes... you would think that if the components are the same, Pandoras should be cheaper to make now than they were three years ago. Personally I suspect they just screwed up...

This all seems pretty desperate. It's a bit of a kick in the balls for the people that patiently waited for years (yes it is a kick in the balls, stop pretending it's not!), but after so much other bullshit I guess I don't see much of a choice. It seems like a decent way to get a quick injection...

A jailbroken one of those would be every nerd's dream machine... I'm waiting with bated breath. :)

I quite like the mental image of a room full people leaping around with Wiimotes, all watching a tiny little Pandora screen. Wii Sports on the bus? Sounds like a riot! :lol:

Doesn't look like the Pandora scene is doing that much better at the moment. I think there are too many systems out, that's all. Plus I think some devs are a bit hesitant to do anything fancy for the Caanoo when the Wiz got replaced so quickly, but that might change over time if GPH can exercise...

The only version I know of is Dr. Sudoku on the GBA which isn't anything special. It'd be nice to have a touch screen one if there is one.

Sweet! Do Blip videos work?

I'm using 1.5.0 and PocketSNES works mostly fine. Although it's ironic that the menu image for PocketSNES shows the cast from Chrono Trigger, when actually PocketSNES kind of sucks at emulating that game (it's better in the new version of Snes9x4C).

Damn, amazing what these people get away with these days. I agree with you though, if you stick to your guns there's a good chance you'll still get a refund, since the problem started so soon after purchase it's obvious it was defective from the start. In my experience most high street stores...

500? Too bad this couldn't have happened for Christmas, but still, this is GREAT news! Hopefully the scene will start to pick up now that there are more of these things out there. Might be high time I ordered mine..

If you bought it at a shop, why not take it back?

Ah yeah, I gotcha. Yeah, that kind of touchscreen would suck ass for actual gaming on FPSes and some other mouse-based games, so you'd need a USB mouse to get the most out of this thing (oh and isn't that convenient, Razer also sell gaming mice). I guess the interface does need work if they want...