Emulation Handheld?

[TheLegendOfMart]

I was umming and ahhing over getting a 3DS and after looking at the calibre of games compared with cost I decided against it.

I have a PS3 for the latest titles and I was looking for something I can use to play games from my childhood, which imo was the golden age of video games 80s/90s.

I want something I can play games from gameboy all the way up to n64, I looked at getting a PSP but it struggles with n64 games, there are a few chinese/korean handhelds such as the Cannoo, Wiz, etc.. but I want something a bit more powerful than the generic 500-600Mhz ARM cpus that power most of these handhelds.

I did also look into playing them on my phone but I spent a good 3 hours trying to get my dual shock 3 pad paired with my phone but it was a pain and using my phone isnt very useful as the battery life drops dramatically and theres no way to comfortably put the phone and use joypad to control.

Whichever device needs to have the power to play n64/ps1 games, I don't want to spend any more than ?150/200 for a really good device.

Does anyone have any devices or any ideas as to which device would be best?

Just to add, it doesnt need to be android, I don't care which OS it runs.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingoo

[TheLegendOfMart]

Yeah I saw that but it looks really weak spec wise, doesn't seem to be able to do n64 either.

[The Teej]

Yeah I saw that but it looks really weak spec wise, doesn't seem to be able to do n64 either.

EDIT: Nevermind, I was thinking of something else. Delete this!

[Dotdot]

Im thinking about getting a GameBoy Micro to play GBA games on.

Ofc maybe this is what your after....

http://openpandora.org/

[TheLegendOfMart]

Holy crap that Pandora is 440 euros........

[Dotdot]

Holy crap that Pandora is 440 euros........

Didnt get that far.... YIKES!!

[NeoandGeo]

An Xperia Play from eBay is exactly what you are looking for. It plays everything from Atari to N64/PSX near perfectly.

Either that, or you are stuck waiting until the Vita is fully hacked and allows emulators.

[TheLegendOfMart]

What about something like that?

JXD S5110 Game Tablet PC Features:

• CPU: Amlogic M3, ARM Cortex A9 processor
  
• GPU: ARM MALI 400, support 3D Accelerator
  
• Display: 5.0 inch, capacitive 3-point touch screen, 800*480 pixels, 16:9 ratio
  
• OS: Android 4.0 OS
  
• Memory: 512MB DDR3, 4GB storage memory, support MicroSD card can max up to 32GB
  
• Camera: Built in 0.3MP Back Camera, support video recoding
  
• OTG: Yes, support
  
• Internet: Support Wifi (802.11 b/g/n)
  
• Output: Support 1080P HDMI HD output and TV-OUT
  
• Games: Support D64 3D, GBA, FC, MD etc. formats
  
• Video: Support RMVB, AVI, MPEG-4, ASP, DIVX, WMV, F4V, FLV etc. formats
  
• Audio: Support MP3, WMA, FLAC, OGG etc. formats
  
• E-book: Support PDF, TXT, CHM, UMD, HTML etc. formats
  
• Ports: USB2.0, 3.5mm Earphone Jack, TF card slot, OTG port
  
• Support OS: Windows2000, Windows XP
  
• Battery: Built in Lithium Polymer battery
  
• Dimension: 195*86.6*17 mm
  
• Weight: 249g
  

Specs look interesting, has hardware buttons, less than ?100.

Or the 7110, same specs but 7" screen:

[+Warwagon MVC]

Or take a look at an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X_Wiz

[migo]

I don't think the Wiz is available for sale anymore, and it had problems with screen tearing. Also, I'm quite wary of anything by GPH. GP32 lasted 4 years, GP2X lasted 2 years, and the Wiz lasted 1 year. The Canoo might be running a bit longer than that, but just by the time dev support really picks up, they axe their old model and release a new one.

[anarkhy]

too bad there is no cfw for vita, emulators would run nice on it.

[Snake89]

I play all my nes/snes/etc games on my PSP-1000 running cfw 3.42 still.

[Xilo]

Get an older PSP. You can play PSP, PS1, and all handheld/console games up to the N64 but like you said not perfectly. Nothing can really emulate N64 that well except a PC.

[Rudy]

- PSP with CFW

- Vita with VHBL

- Droid X360 (http://wololo.net/2012/07/26/droid-x360-the-best-vita-knockoff-ever/)