Oppo's Muse G11 gets real

In our perpetual search for the perfect "miniature PMP that just so happens to play SNES games with a reasonable control scheme," the Oppo Muse G11 is certainly a forerunner. We swooned when we saw those swivel-display technical drawings, and now Oppo has the first prototype of the device out and about. We're still a little short on tech specs, but as long as that mystery processor is prepared to draw Chrono Trigger with pixel-perfect precision, we couldn't care less.

[Via PMP Today]

[KEROLiUKAS @ Sep 26th 2008 11:56PM]

iPhone UI ripoff ofcourse, but the device itself looks very nice though.

[imacmatt09 @ Sep 27th 2008 12:18AM]

They ripped of more than just Apple. They also stole Sony's buttons and SNES from Nintendo.

[Flashpoint @ Sep 27th 2008 12:33AM]

In Chinatown, they sell prepared memory cards with a bunch of NES, Master System, Genesis, TurboGraphyx16, Super NES, gameboy and game gear games on it for the PSP.

I'd like to see more game chips like that.

This PMP is very cool, but i've had alot of experience with Chinese made PMP's and the one reason I can never buy them is because everynow and then, their firmware goes corrupt and you're stuck with a device that barelly works. There are no sites in China providing online support for international buyers of these devices.

whenever Engadget shows these, I give a good, thanks but no thanks.

[JohnTitor @ Sep 27th 2008 2:11AM]

call UI iPhone rip if you want, but the device itself definately got a few design elements from this;
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2335/2256832179_53017e0ccf.jpg
but with more of a 99 cent store look and feal

[tha-don @ Sep 27th 2008 2:46AM]

in soviet russia, prepared memory cards sell you.

[Juxtah @ Sep 27th 2008 4:45AM]

@ KEROLiUKAS

So now Apple invented organising icons into rows to control functions? That's quite amazing considering how they have been beaten to the punch by almost every other phone manufacturer, and probably Oppo themselves.

[Chris @ Sep 27th 2008 9:44AM]

He's talking about the design of the icons, not the positioning. The rounded square with shiny reflection. One of them looks very much like the iphone address book. I guess Apple should be flattered that others like their style so much.

[Aex Dorman @ Sep 27th 2008 12:04AM]

Want. But how much will it be?

[SteveeJobs @ Sep 27th 2008 12:07AM]

RIP OFF??

[Jash Sayani @ Sep 27th 2008 6:19AM]

Why is everyone after Apple's GUI. Cant people stop copying and make something new and better...?

[Fernando @ Sep 27th 2008 12:07AM]

Chrono Trigger is so hard to render...

[kyle allen @ Sep 27th 2008 3:15AM]

not even close to starfox tho

[)law( @ Sep 27th 2008 12:09AM]

Hmm wonder if it can be hacked to play gba roms. Also what's the codec support?

[IsleOfMan @ Sep 27th 2008 12:28AM]

Knowing Oppo, the codec support as well as multimedia performance should be top notch.

[Einhanderkiller @ Sep 27th 2008 12:11AM]

Does it come with Matthew Bellamy?

[Michael @ Sep 27th 2008 6:56PM]

haha damn you beat me to it.

[John @ Sep 27th 2008 12:46AM]

Nah, it's probably only going to come with Chris Wolstenholme.

[The Mad Mule @ Sep 27th 2008 12:31AM]

That actually looks kinda decent.

[zenstylejunglist @ Sep 27th 2008 12:39AM]

Straight up! All I want is perfect PSX, SNES, GBA, & N64 Emulation in one device. I don't know what the specs are on this, but the controls are nice.

[Benjiro @ Nov 6th 2008 5:13PM]

zenstylejunglist, if you want PSX, SNES, Amiga, MegaDrive etc emulation, then your better off looking at the Pandora.

http://openpandora.org/

Pandora running Megadrive-Genesis with external USB support
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=QDbLQI91510

Pandora running FF7 ( psx4pand )
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=a7sx8CrVLW8&feature=related

Battery life while running SNES @ 500 MHz ( can do 900Mhz ) got 8,5 hours and that was without dynamic CPU control ( aka, one low CPU usage, it did not downclock its CPU to save power ).

Pre-Ordering is going to start 30/09/2008, and shipping of the first batch 2 months later.

[wootman @ Sep 28th 2008 7:08PM]

erm, good luck with that. the only thing that can do that (besides a laptop) is the pandora.

[lorddshadow @ Sep 27th 2008 1:39AM]

wow those buttons are really annoying me. iphone ripoffs are commonplace, but the ps buttons take it too far. TOO FAR MAN!

[TareX @ Sep 27th 2008 2:54AM]

I think I found my perfect PMP.

The SNES library is HUGE.... I mean think of all the Mortal Kombats, Street Fighters, and Donkey Kong islands you can get!!

[TareX @ Sep 27th 2008 2:55AM]

But I thought the SNES required a 6-key configuration.

[oar @ Sep 27th 2008 3:33AM]

a google search of "muse g11" reveals a list of sites' blog posts identical to this one, all the way down to quoting pmp today as a source (and presumably the css). who broke the news? why aren't their specs? who the hell is oppo? why would they go from making dvd converters to pmp? so many unanswered questions.

i've got a gp2x and i love it. i can play every pre-n64 (not including n64) off of an sd card. plus native mp3, ogg, flac, mov, mp4 support, and an open source os? you can't beat that. well, until they release the newer model anyway.

[wilcoholic @ Sep 27th 2008 5:01AM]

So do you mean you can play ps1 and saturn games too? The new gp2x wiz model looks extremely tempting. Its even more compact then the DS lite.

[Smileypanda @ Sep 27th 2008 12:08PM]

Protip for web marketing:
Don't put "Web Marketer" in your sig.

[peruser @ Sep 27th 2008 1:10PM]

i think you've got a dead "read" link, I saw an extra %20 in the address...

[vgm106 @ Sep 28th 2008 4:38AM]

whoa, poor Gameboy Micro + powerful hunks PSP + iPhone = Oppo muse G11,
REAL BAD ORGY

[Sean D @ Sep 28th 2008 5:32PM]

Can someone please explain to me why they would want a band new device that runs old SNES games? Am I missing something here? I mean, don't get me wrong, I love to play them on my computer in MAME emulations and what not, but a brand new handheld device that runs old SNES games *only*? Er.... wtf? Show me a handheld device that runs Wii games, or Xbox 360 games, yeah... but SNES? Whew... that one escapes me. I guess I'm not the geek I thought I was.

[Bagel @ Sep 30th 2008 12:08PM]

@Sean D: I guess not. Do you have any idea the kind of hardware it would take to emulate a current generation console? The devices that run the console natively are already huge, and you'd need way better specs to be able to run a shell program that mimics all that hardware on top of whatever core software is on the device. Then to cram all that into a device that can easily fit into the palm of your hand is asking for a lot, my friend.

Also, consider that emulation on top-end computers is still not perfect for the last gen (I'm not as informed as I used to be, but as I recall, PS2 support is still pretty spotty) and there are even some SNES games (Chrono Trigger, DKC, StarFox) that run pretty crappily on most portable systems.