The New Dingoo A320 Topic

[surt]

I've just got me a dingoo and its working quite nicely, with the exception that I'm getting random pixels in the middle of the screen.
They appear mainly along one horizontal line, with a few other pixels below that, they always and only appear against full black when redrawing (viewing a black PNG doesn't reveal it but viewing a two-frame black animated GIF does).
Is this normal? Fixable with a firmware upgrade? Or should I return it for a replacement?

 

[W-Ring]

That is exciting news.

One of the things holding me back from buying an A320 so far has been the lack of PCE emulator.

If it runs well, and has the option to map a button as autofire then I will order one for sure.

Anyone tried it out yet?

 

[euleberlin]

Had to log in and post replies that will most likely get me banned to get access to the information needed to get it.

Hey Auritribe, thanks for registering there. Maybe you can start a topic like "Greetings from the western Homebrew-Scene" and invite them to here. I´m dreaming of a wonderful Coorperation between chinese and "western" developers and Homebrew-Fans.

Found another spot, where the PCEngine-Emu is mentioned:
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http://a320.freeforums.org/pc-engine-emulator-found-wip-t124.htm

Chinese are nice developers, i think. ^^
edit: Haha, i just made a nice post on this chinese forums, not easy, i can say:
http://www.a320home.cn/read.php?tid=394
Hope they´ll like it
B)

 

[Auritribe]

Had to log in and post replies that will most likely get me banned to get access to the information needed to get it.

Hey Auritribe, thanks for registering there. Maybe you can start a topic like "Greetings from the western Homebrew-Scene" and invite them to here. I´m dreaming of a wonderful Coorperation between chinese and "western" developers and Homebrew-Fans.

Found another spot, where the PCEngine-Emu is mentioned:
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http://a320.freeforums.org/pc-engine-emulator-found-wip-t124.htm

Chinese are nice developers, i think. ^^
edit: Haha, i just made a nice post on this chinese forums, not easy, i can say:
http://www.a320home.cn/read.php?tid=394
Hope they´ll like it
B)


I somehow have my doubts.

 

[euleberlin]

we´ll see... don´t forget, it´s late night in china, i think.
OK, i uploaded a few programs and a game to rapidshare...
look here for the game (hellstriker 2 or world road or heaven and earht, i have no idea, thank google for shitty translations ^^):
http://a320.freeforums.org/more-official-g...-t127.html#p483
And look here for two (homebrew?) programs:
http://a320.freeforums.org/homebrew-f11.html A TXT-Reader that supports vertical reading and a PictureViewer supporting up to 30 MP... :blink:

Hope you like it. And please test it, i have no dingoo and these apps make my decision between to buy or not to buy.

 

[rookie1]

I do understand both Chinese and English. I have frequented Chinese Dingoo forums. So far I don't think there is much advanced hacking happening in the Chinese scene. There are a few applications written using Dingoo's S2D SDK. That's about it.

Following are some of the Chinese forums,

Official Soft3D forum
Official Dingoo forum
Baidu (Chinese equivalent of Google) Dingoo forum

and of course http://www.a320home.cn/index.php

This is the list of S2D SDK tutorials and articles available in Chinese. Are you guys interested to get it translated to English?

1. S2D SDK installation
2. Drawing a black screen
3. Drawing pictures
4. Texture (picture) conversion
5. Audio file conversion
6. Playing audio
7. Reading/writing files
8. Supporting multiple languages
9. Drawing text string
10. Writing logs
11. Brief description of loader.cpp

 

[euleberlin]

Hey, awesome! Sure, english would be great, but Google may be good enough. Guess it would be a lot to translate ^^
Hope you keep us tuned about interesting new things for the Dingoo!

 

[sold]

CODE
http://mp4nation.net/blog/2009/03/linux-ported-to-onda-vx747-jz4732-based-players-really/


Linux running on a device with the same type of processor as the dingoo. I was wondering, could this mean an easy fix for porting emulators and apps for the meantime until the hardware and sdk are better understood?

 

[rookie1]

There is additional info about the ChinaChip platform Dingoo uses at http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/ChinaChip

In Rockbox svn, there are tools to split and merge HXF firmware images. I think this would be great for those want to modify the firmware.

 

[Atomic Man]

Nice find. I managed to grab the PC Engine emulator off their FTP.

CODE
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QPOW5U2K

I can confirm that this is indeed a PC Engine emulator.

...but... it has no sound, many graphical glitches, games do not work properly, it froze my dingoo, it is very slow, all the menus are in chinese....

Anyway, heres how to use it:

It cant scan the folder for ROMs so you have to put the names of your ROM files in the pceroms.txt file (leave an empty line at the end too). All the files go in the same directory as the neco760.app program.

You need to run neco760.app from the 3D game menu, it will then show you the list of ROMs you made.

Buttons:
Y - Select
X - Start
A - |
B - || ( i think... )

X+Y (hold X first) - some sort of reset

X+Left - menu

Hold X to quit (this works in all 3D games)

The menu:
1 - return to ROM select
2 - return to game
3 - show palette
4 - show info
5 - view ram? (debug?)
6 - exit

I tried a few games:

Deep Blue - title screen works but once you start playing the graphics get glitched out
Devils Crush - blank screen
Gradius - a few graphical and game glitches, otherwise it works
Magical Chase - it keeps going into demo mode when I press start and I cant play it
Ninja Spirit - graphics are half off the screen, when you first start you die instantly, it works for a couple seconds then everything goes funky
R-Type - blank screen
W Ring - title screen shows up with graphical glitches and if you try to start it freezes

It looks like this is very beta, but it is exciting to see the A320 run a homebrew emulator!

 

[Auritribe]

Nice find. I managed to grab the PC Engine emulator off their FTP.

CODE
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QPOW5U2K

I can confirm that this is indeed a PC Engine emulator.

...but... it has no sound, many graphical glitches, games do not work properly, it froze my dingoo, it is very slow, all the menus are in chinese....

Anyway, heres how to use it:

It cant scan the folder for ROMs so you have to put the names of your ROM files in the pceroms.txt file (leave an empty line at the end too). All the files go in the same directory as the neco760.app program.

You need to run neco760.app from the 3D game menu, it will then show you the list of ROMs you made.

Buttons:
Y - Select
X - Start
A - |
B - || ( i think... )

X+Y (hold X first) - some sort of reset

X+Left - menu

Hold X to quit (this works in all 3D games)

The menu:
1 - return to ROM select
2 - return to game
3 - show palette
4 - show info
5 - view ram? (debug?)
6 - exit

I tried a few games:

Deep Blue - title screen works but once you start playing the graphics get glitched out
Devils Crush - blank screen
Gradius - a few graphical and game glitches, otherwise it works
Magical Chase - it keeps going into demo mode when I press start and I cant play it
Ninja Spirit - graphics are half off the screen, when you first start you die instantly, it works for a couple seconds then everything goes funky
R-Type - blank screen
W Ring - title screen shows up with graphical glitches and if you try to start it freezes

It looks like this is very beta, but it is exciting to see the A320 run a homebrew emulator!


It's exciting to see any progress at all at this point. Thanks for the good news. :3 I'd test myself but I've been too addicted to Pokemon lately.

 

[rookie1]

The blog of neco760's author is here. neco760 is ported from neco, an open source PCE emulator. The author said it was ported from neco 0.22, which has not been updated for a long time. Guess that explains the poor emulation.

He has other apps developed for X760+ using S2D, which should be compatible with A320.

 

[eksasol]

Some people state this device is supopsed to be more powerful than the Wiz? I can't seem to find any specific hardware information on this device such as what cpu it uses? MIPS?

 

[Chip]

I can't seem to find any specific hardware information on this device such as what cpu it uses? MIPS?
It's a Ingenic JZ4732 (functionally identical to the JZ4740) @ 430MHz. Manufacturer's info page: www.ingenic.cn/eng/productServ/App/JZ4740/pfCustomPage.aspx