Project Ninja


According to the website, there will be no touchscreen, and no battery/capacitor for the RTC. The RTC will be battery backed, but by the main batteries. It will be able to charge standard rechargeable batteries. And there will be a headphone jack.

I'd want a touchscreen, though (I love RTS games). Some things can be added on and some things cant. So with the things that cant be added on, there must be careful selection.
 
16:9 would be nice for homebrew and multimedia, which is where I was coming from with my comments. However, I am actually more in support of 4:3 just for the fact that it will preserve the nice GP32 dimensions better. I was just trying to put all possibilities on the table. ;)

I don't know about this cap thing. It might be nice since this thing's batteries will probably need charged moderately often, so it would be nice to not have to input the time each time you have to recharge the batteries. I don't know what kind of life these things give, but if it's at least a half-hour, I think we should go for it.

Touch screen would add a great deal of functionality, and I'm sure that the developers would make good use of it. Price is a big issue, of course, and if it's too drastic, might be best not to.

This will use SD cards, right?
 
and a touchscreen can emulate the gun we use is some MD games :p
Seriously, i know that it will be a gaming handheld, but dont you think that a touchscreen will atract more people (i think that most of the people who will buy this system already have the GP32, but if you want to attract them, you need a new fonctionnality....)
 
for 30 dollars more I would buy it, with a touch screen.
I would be awilling to pay up to £150 maybe a bit more for this system the way it's shaping up.
Then I'd be willing to pay up to £80 more for a building in hard drive of a 4gb min.
With that I would have to worry about cards and running out of room...Plus it would attact people from the ipod scene, for an mp3/0gg player
 
I think Mirko's idea is that you place a set of rechargable batteries in the thing and you never need to remove them, as you can charge them whilst they are in the Niinja, so the battery never gets reset, and you don't need the cap.

However, as we have seen, there are some nutters that remove the batteries after every gaming session ;)

For the people that do like to change batteries when they are flat however, I think a cap would be an inexpensive, useful feature to have.

As for the touchscreen, well I wouldn't of thought it would be useful. However, after seeing the emulators on the Zodiac, I do find that it's incredibly useful - look at the configuration screens of the LJZ multi-emulator for example.
 
Please, Please make it better looking than the gp32, more like the proffesional zodiac :)
 
i agree, forget about the HDD, forget about the WIFI (a addon can still be plug on the ext connector), forget about a 640*480 screen and a 16:9 screen, but a touch screen would be very nice

Nova posted on Jun 21 2005 said:
Please, Please make it better looking than the gp32, more like the proffesional zodiac :)
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I think the GP32 is well made, of course the zodia has a nice design, but the design is very expensive i think.
If the "ninja" looks like the GP32, i think it is a good point.
 
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greven posted on Jun 21 2005 said:
i agree, forget about the HDD, forget about the WIFI (a addon can still be plug on the ext connector), forget about a 640*480 screen and a 16:9 screen, but a touch screen would be very nice

Nova posted on Jun 21 2005 said:
Please, Please make it better looking than the gp32, more like the proffesional zodiac :)
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I think the GP32 is well made, of course the zodia has a nice design, but the design is very expensive i think.
If the "ninja" looks like the GP32, i think it is a good point.
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The GP32 looks shite, i certainly didnt buy it for its looks.

and being a ninja it needs to be black :ph34r:
 
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we have USB and another port, this gives many possibilies to upgrade the system with Wifi, bluetooth or whatever, many of us dont need those so they are finde for an upgrade.
Some things just are nice to have cause they are really cheap and wont bother anyone, like a mic, Irda or battery for the clock... he those whole updates together dont cost more than 3€...

Again about the touchscreen ;) yes i know im anoying, but it would be just awesome..
you have to face that this console will have a realy small community, much smaller than the gp32 one... so face it, specs that would be intresting for devs and not that expensive should be build in the system, like a touchscreen. i have many friends who would love to buy a nice PDA for under 200€... and so the community could get quite bigger. which is just good for everyone.
hey think about it, you get a pda for arround 10-30€ thats a awesome price. even if you dont really need it.
 
I agree with the point that it should look a bit more professional than the gp32, but I don't really think that it should be black. As a result of that it is a portable console you'll carry it around in the summer and black is getting much hotter than white.
 
I have a little question : this console will have a USB port, we will be able to transfert data from a PC, but we will need a software like gpdrive or it will be useless ?
Because if we can transfert data without reseting all the time it would be nice..
 
For anyone looking for Ninja ideas...

We came up with a pretty good list of specs. we wanted when the fake "Gamepark Extreme" picture was released.



(Click on Picture for Topic) ;)
 
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I for one would not be willing to pay the extra $35-40 for a touchscreen. I think that software development for the Ninja32 will be few and far between to begin with, and that it will only be worse for touchscreen apps.

One thing that I would like to see is some sort of low voltage reporting (ie battery meter) either in hardware through an LED of sorts, or through the bios like a power bar in the top corner of the screen. It really pisses me off when my FLU just shuts off mid-game. :angry: My doesn't flicker with rechargeables when it is about to die.


Cheers! :p
 
GPJosh posted on Jun 21 2005 said:
For anyone looking for Ninja ideas...

We came up with a pretty good list of specs. we wanted when the fake "Gamepark Extreme" picture was released.



(Click on Picture for Topic) ;)
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I would think that the hinge mechanism would make it 1) more costly, and 2) complicate design. Definitely though, Ninja32 needs to be black.
 
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reaper79 posted on Jun 21 2005 said:
I for one would not be willing to pay the extra $35-40 for a touchscreen. I think that software development for the Ninja32 will be few and far between to begin with, and that it will only be worse for touchscreen apps.

One thing that I would like to see is some sort of low voltage reporting (ie battery meter) either in hardware through an LED of sorts, or through the bios like a power bar in the top corner of the screen. It really pisses me off when my FLU just shuts off mid-game. :angry: My doesn't flicker with rechargeables when it is about to die.


Cheers! :p
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Accurate battery status display is only possible with a PDA- style battery. But since they aren´t very popular around here, most of you would prefer some standard mignon cells.
However it is possible to give out a warning ~3 minutes before they run out of power, even with common batteries
 
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