Hi All, Just wanted to give my comments on the Caanoo which I finally got and have been playing..
Firstly, The Thumbstick: Seems OK to be honest. Not brilliant but not terrible either. I suppose I would have preferred a D-Pad but the thumbstick is no real problem as far as i'm concerned. The other various buttons on the console are all fine and feel and work great. The screen is clear and a nice size and I don't care that some lines of pixels are lost around the edge because of the whole bezel problem thing. The overall weight is good. Build quality is good and better than the Dingoo which I found weak/easily breakable! Running emulators I find is a mixed bag. I bought the Caanoo mainly to run Mame and most of the games I like run great or really great. Am really enjoying Shinobi (fast and smooth), The Wonderboy games (running fantastic), Hang On (ace), P.O.W (great but not sure it's fullspeed) and Ghosts N Goblins (perfect). There are lots of great Mame games running excellently. Then there are the let-downs: Outrun, Double dragon, Street fighter 2, Golden Axe, all too slow and so on. Snes emulation is ok, Amiga not so great, Nes emulation is ok. The things I don't like are: The speakers on the back which get covered by your fingers during play. Terrible! Also I would have wanted the minimum volume setting to be lower because I play at night when it's really quiet in the house and the same goes for the minimum available screen brightness setting when playing in the dark which is way too bright in my opinion. Also the large USB port at the bottom of the console has a sharp edge on it which digs into my finger when i'm holding the console. So, was it worth buying? ..Well it is if you can get one for 70 quid or less. It's just another imperfect console to have some fun with while waiting for that perfect handheld to come along someday. I do kinda like the Caanoo overall despite lacking the serious power needed to run everything properly at fullspeed. To end on a positive, I will say that I'm now gonna go upstairs after a long day, switch on the Cannoo, lay back, run Shinobi in Mame, and definitely enjoy it and that's what counts
Firstly, The Thumbstick: Seems OK to be honest. Not brilliant but not terrible either. I suppose I would have preferred a D-Pad but the thumbstick is no real problem as far as i'm concerned. The other various buttons on the console are all fine and feel and work great. The screen is clear and a nice size and I don't care that some lines of pixels are lost around the edge because of the whole bezel problem thing. The overall weight is good. Build quality is good and better than the Dingoo which I found weak/easily breakable! Running emulators I find is a mixed bag. I bought the Caanoo mainly to run Mame and most of the games I like run great or really great. Am really enjoying Shinobi (fast and smooth), The Wonderboy games (running fantastic), Hang On (ace), P.O.W (great but not sure it's fullspeed) and Ghosts N Goblins (perfect). There are lots of great Mame games running excellently. Then there are the let-downs: Outrun, Double dragon, Street fighter 2, Golden Axe, all too slow and so on. Snes emulation is ok, Amiga not so great, Nes emulation is ok. The things I don't like are: The speakers on the back which get covered by your fingers during play. Terrible! Also I would have wanted the minimum volume setting to be lower because I play at night when it's really quiet in the house and the same goes for the minimum available screen brightness setting when playing in the dark which is way too bright in my opinion. Also the large USB port at the bottom of the console has a sharp edge on it which digs into my finger when i'm holding the console. So, was it worth buying? ..Well it is if you can get one for 70 quid or less. It's just another imperfect console to have some fun with while waiting for that perfect handheld to come along someday. I do kinda like the Caanoo overall despite lacking the serious power needed to run everything properly at fullspeed. To end on a positive, I will say that I'm now gonna go upstairs after a long day, switch on the Cannoo, lay back, run Shinobi in Mame, and definitely enjoy it and that's what counts
