Huh, these things look fairly interesting. Did anyone have experience with the earlier model? I'm wondering if I should try one out, or just rig my DS up to play homebrew and emulation.
I have an R4DS that was dirt cheap, and which I love for homebrew. For emulation, you might try to find a used old-model PSP -- most of them can still be downgraded and run on custom firmware. The DS just doesn't have the grunt to do some of the "newer" systems (e.g. into the 90s), while the CFW PSP will actually run almost any PS1 game using Sony's own emulator.
I'd get one of these if I could only have a single device, but for not much more, I can get a cheap PSP and a Nokia 770 -- the PSP for emulation, and the 770 for whatever touchscreen-y things I need to do. The PSP is faster, and the 770's got a full VGA screen, which is absolutely *gorgeous* at that size.
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MomentoMori @ Oct 30th 2007 7:54AM
Huh, these things look fairly interesting. Did anyone have experience with the earlier model? I'm wondering if I should try one out, or just rig my DS up to play homebrew and emulation.
James @ Oct 30th 2007 11:11AM
I have an R4DS that was dirt cheap, and which I love for homebrew. For emulation, you might try to find a used old-model PSP -- most of them can still be downgraded and run on custom firmware. The DS just doesn't have the grunt to do some of the "newer" systems (e.g. into the 90s), while the CFW PSP will actually run almost any PS1 game using Sony's own emulator.
I'd get one of these if I could only have a single device, but for not much more, I can get a cheap PSP and a Nokia 770 -- the PSP for emulation, and the 770 for whatever touchscreen-y things I need to do. The PSP is faster, and the 770's got a full VGA screen, which is absolutely *gorgeous* at that size.