Odroid Go !

[voljega]

https://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G152875062626

very good price, it's sad they limited themselves to two buttons, 6 boutons would have been so awesome

[noktambule]

good! but six buttons would be useless because the system only supports Nintendo Game Boy, Game Boy Color, NES, or Sega Game Gear or Master System emulators.

The board features an ESP32 application processor that can be clocked to run at speeds between 80 Mhz and 240 MHz,

[voljega]

@noktambule oh yeah didn't see it was so low frequency, and already thought about integration with you-know-what

[Gaetan]

Unless you can overclock it till 1000mhz

[noktambule]

@voljega I also believed that at first, but for 32 € it would be too good to be true! (sorry if my English is not correct...)

[voljega]

@noktambule for that price it's already good, I'm gonna buy one for my nephews

Edit : bought 3 because I have three nephews

[noktambule]

@voljega ok, we wait your review! Best oncle ever!
I'm curious, what is the O.S.?

[voljega]

@noktambule looks like retropie, but maybe it's their custom thing again, the one they used with the N64 box for Odroid XU4 ?

You need to create an id on their wiki to be able to see the page apparently

[noktambule]

@voljega thanks!

32$ is cheap, but be careful with the custom costs...

[Dragu]

Ok, cheap, but 80-240Mhz is poor, triple-core ?
Concerning import it should just be TVA to pay. Games and toys are free (for the moment)

[noktambule]

@dragu said in Odroid Go !:

Ok, cheap, but 80-240Mhz is poor, triple-core ?

But sufficient to play 8 bit systems.
30 dollars is more cheap than a game boy, and you can play more game.

more information (in french, sorry) here: http://www.minimachines.net/actu/odroid-go-une-console-portable-en-kit-pour-jouer-et-apprendre-66286

[Dragu]

@noktambule
Yes, for price sure, but they are blowing up big balloons "007 World is not enough".....
So this animated Gif not really correspond to reality, I think.

[voljega]

@dragu why ? It's the Game Boy Color game

[Dragu]

@voljega
You are right, I was even not knowing that this was existing. The bell at my door sounds better, I am not freak from this games. But agree if somebody like.

[noktambule]

@voljega how much including shipping? I read 48$, that is correct?

[voljega]

@noktambule tooking three and paying through PayPal, it seems I didn't have any shipping

[Dragu]

Looking for the price, honestly, I think that a Chinese RETROMINI has more features for the same amount, CPU 384Mhz, also NEO GEO and SD-Card for own games.

[voljega]

@dragu The aim here is to build it yourself with a kid, I'm not expecting anything revolutionnary

[noktambule]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=1kQ79ytZKJA#dialog

[voljega]

got mines, mounted one in 15mn more or so, the speakers and screen were a little tricky, they could have done that part better, but I would do a second one in 5mn I think, nothing too complicated

it's pretty good ! off course there are a few things which could be better :

• no jack for headphones, biggest issue I think
• not possible to use subfolder for systems, so all roms are in the same folder and it can take a while to navigate through
• a few hit and miss with the interface which will likely be corrected
• the screen is a little small (smaller than the one from the first game buy, i would say it's 3/4 compred to it) so it might a issue with NES RPG or things like that.

but otherwise it's really good looking and pretty impressive !! the games I tried ran flawlessly, I'm amazed
There are nonetheless already some issues on github with games not working

The biggest issue might be that the OS must be updated through firmware updates, and it seems a bit tricky and old school