Word Of Mouth?

[realyst]

I feel so old....

 

[Ardos]

I made a post on a DS Homebrew site and although not many responses, they were positive towards the Pandora. I know one person made a post on his blog in support of it.

 

[AireTamStorm]

I've just been word-of-mouthing it to my friends for a few months now, and they all respond: "But you just got a PSP!". I bought that thing over 3 years ago... It has served me well, but its a portable device, not a car.

Results in general mixed, a lot of skeptics. Not really to the legitimacy of it, but rather whether the device will perform as advertised hyped.

 

[whiskthecat]

All my friends seem to like it. I even managed to convert a few hard core psp'ers.

 

[Ravnos]

Anyone ever sit down and try to play some Street Fighter III or something with that controller? My thumb gets messed up like that. It's so difficult to pull off simple shoryukens or the special moves. I wanted to buy the Street Fighter Anniversary Controllers, cuz they had really good D-Pads...they were pretty much Sega Saturn controllers made for PS2. They were selling for like $10 at Game Crazy, but I never got around to it...tis a shame. Could've been useful on Pandora. Maybe I'll check back with them.

Honestly, I have one of those controllers and they're crap. I bought one for my XBox to use with emulators, and I have nothing good to say about it. The controller feels awkward in my hands, the buttons feel too solid, more like keys on a keyboard, and the whole thing just feels cheap. It sucks because I'd really like to get my hands on an XBox controller that would be good for the amount of emulators available for it, but the Street Fighter controller is the only one and it's shit.

 

[quadomatic]

Anyone ever sit down and try to play some Street Fighter III or something with that controller? My thumb gets messed up like that. It's so difficult to pull off simple shoryukens or the special moves. I wanted to buy the Street Fighter Anniversary Controllers, cuz they had really good D-Pads...they were pretty much Sega Saturn controllers made for PS2. They were selling for like $10 at Game Crazy, but I never got around to it...tis a shame. Could've been useful on Pandora. Maybe I'll check back with them.

Honestly, I have one of those controllers and they're crap. I bought one for my XBox to use with emulators, and I have nothing good to say about it. The controller feels awkward in my hands, the buttons feel too solid, more like keys on a keyboard, and the whole thing just feels cheap. It sucks because I'd really like to get my hands on an XBox controller that would be good for the amount of emulators available for it, but the Street Fighter controller is the only one and it's shit.


What you've described sounds like the build of a Genesis or Saturn controller, which is good. At least for me anyways.

 

[Tinnus]

Kyo and myself have been plugging the Pandora over at the Benheck.com forums in this thread. The sentiment about the device is mostly positive, with most people committing to buy one ASAP. The only real complaint is the price and the fact that most people own (or in the case of Benheck, built) a device that does similar things already. They'll be swayed to our side soon enough, methinks.

BTW, you should post there the link to the video featuring 190FPS Sonic 3

 

[nubie]

Kyo and myself have been plugging the Pandora over at the Benheck.com forums in this thread. The sentiment about the device is mostly positive, with most people committing to buy one ASAP. The only real complaint is the price and the fact that most people own (or in the case of Benheck, built) a device that does similar things already. They'll be swayed to our side soon enough, methinks.

BTW, you should post there the link to the video featuring 190FPS Sonic 3

Yes, that is a crazy video, also post the one with Batman SegaCD!!

They may have built/own a similar device, but most have not added li-ion batteries or a charger. And few have access to such a high-quality screen.

Ironically the Benheck crowd is the ideal purchaser, and this device won't stop them from building more portables, or even building more portables out of Pandoras.

They are an ideal market because they understand the worth of the components alone in the Pandora, the screen and battery themselves are worth the price of admission, and the dual SD/keyboard/micro laptop thing is a clincher.

I think that with an Atari/C64 emulator a lot of people will use it as a retro-PC I hope we get an Apple IIc emulator, I would love to play around with some of those games/programs.

 

[chad78]

Reply to topic - yes, I've made posts on other forums - UMPCPortal, Beagleboard group, and a local Linux users group. When "the community" here found out about my speaking out of turn - I was attacked for it. I haven't made any effort to promote it since, although I have mentioned it on my blog a couple of times.