GCW Zero - Open Source Gaming Handheld

[hi-ban]

You should also add a menu button. It comes very handy.


Look at all the emulators for Dingoo. There is no standard way to access the emulator menu. Select+Start, Power button, L+R, even some weird combinations of L/R+some buttons. It is difficult to remember which emulator uses which key combinations to access the menu.


Select+start is not a good way IMO. There are some cheats in console games, which require to press select+start, and a menu popping up makes impossible to do them.


That's the reason why i mapped the menu to the "power" button in Dingoo Ohboy.

 

[Nintendo]

@ Saber


I guess the other folks have already answered for me. Sorry for being so slow.

So are preorders going up tonight?

No, not that I'm aware of, anyway.

 

[Saber]

@ Saber


I guess the other folks have already answered for me.

Yeah, they beat you to it. If battery life isn't affected much, I wouldn't mind the screen upgrade. On my Caanoo, I haven't noticed the text problem with the 320x240 resolution myself, but I guess it can be a frustration. What i'd like to see with this GCW Zero is the ability to read ebooks in portrait mode. :wub:

 

[erico]

IMO I´m quite happy with 320x240 as that is the resolution I kind have a love for.


For some reasons (owning an amiga), I never really got much into the 640x480 old pc games with a very few exceptions, like syndicate.


I don´t quite like the consoles game from this point on, I take them too easy or replay-to-finish kind of stuff.


Better resolution should do better for me on the likes of porting gfx2 or milkytracker or homebrew games, I would not bother emus.


That is, if battery life is good and price point won´t rocket.


The rest of the specs seems perfect.

 

[jutleys]

Oled touchscreen with android will do nicely captive screen.

 

[Nintendo]

OLED would be pretty sweet, mate.

 

[hi-ban]

OLED would be pretty sweet, mate.

...and pretty expensive. remember that GCW should have a price of about $100 or lower. (well... that if he want to compete with Dingoo/Caanoo)


Otherwise, forget my post.

 

[erico]

Ops, I forgot to answer the original question, the one about a possible pre-order.


I currently can´t afford, but if the online store is solid and, let´s say, GLBasic can compile to it, then I would try and get a dev version of the console.

 

[Nintendo]

Justin, your motto for this console should be...


GCW Zero is the best hero!

 

[gcw]

Partial payment for the GCW Zero 512MB Special Edition is live on the blogspot website!!!


game-consoles-worldwide.blogspot.com

 

[Nintendo]

It's live!

 

[quartercast]

Paid. I'll need to change my address by August though.

It's live!

Orly?

 

[quartercast]

Gcw - will you be pushing for an android distro for the zero?


I wasn't aware of this but ingenic is focussing on android tablets with its 4770 chipset.


http://www.linleygroup.com/newsletters/newsletter_detail.php?num=4822

 

[jutleys]

@GCW can you add google checkout payment method I don't have paypal or any other payment methods.

 

[Nintendo]

Just make a new PayPal account.

 

[jutleys]

Done and ordered proud to be one of the first and have 512mb ram bring it on baby

 

[hi-ban]

Android would eat all the memory resources of the console. It is not a very efficient OS. Besides, all apps must be written in Java, and Android has to run them under a virtual machine (which is like an emulator to run java apps).


So... do i want a console which emulates something, to run a software which emulates a console, to run a software? No.


Anyway, if you want Android, there are already some Android consoles.

 

[vampire8bit]

I would have also suggested using an OLED screen, the main reason why the Wiz was popular, but I guess it is too late too change now. Please make the d-pad atleast upto Pandora quality. I don't have one but heard it is very good. Build quality should be better than Dingoo and Wiz, atleast upto Caanoo standard. Does the GCW have an FPU? I don't see that in the current spec.

 

[Nintendo]

@ Saber


I guess the other folks have already answered for me.

Yeah, they beat you to it. If battery life isn't affected much, I wouldn't mind the screen upgrade. On my Caanoo, I haven't noticed the text problem with the 320x240 resolution myself, but I guess it can be a frustration. What i'd like to see with this GCW Zero is the ability to read ebooks in portrait mode. :wub:

All good, mate.

 

[jutleys]

I always say a removable battery would be a great idea and adds to the shelf life of the product you can easily replace the battery when needed I don't know if this could be done to the zero but would be a great idea.