ScummVM 1.4.1 "Subwoofer Release" Is Available!

The ScummVM Team is pleased to announce ScummVM 1.4.1, a maintenance only release that fixes several bugs in 1.4.0. The most notable changes in this release are:     Support for the Beneath a Steel Sky Enhanced Soundtrack by James Woodcock     Slight graphical improvement for the PlayStation version of Broken Sword 2     Several bugfixes for Lands of Lore     More logical sound settings for SCI games     A fixed crash in the VGA version of Quest for Glory 1 The full list of changes can be found in the release notes and the release binaries for many platforms are located on our downloads page. Enjoy! Download now!

One open handheld comparison chart to rule them all

BAFelton and crew have posted a stunning chart that sets out every major “open handheld” available today:

I can’t begin to think how long the above took to make! Go here for the original in google docs format. Discuss here: http://boards.dingoonity.org/other-game-systems/open-handhelds-comparison-sheet/msg36432/?topicseen#new

DeenOx’s monster YDPG18 Review

Not really new, but Deen0X has written an fantastically in-depth review in Spanish of the Yinlips YDPG18, covering just about everything to do withthe hardware side of this system. Highly recommended: http://www.gp32spain.com/foros/showthread.php?t=87985

Alien Grey posts new firmware for Dingoo A380

New Dingoo A380 firmware backup/unbricker. Enabled NEO-GEO zip support. Enabled CPS1 fba support. Download and extract the Dingoo A380 FBA Conversion Tool from Dingoo Technology. Copy the neogeo.zip from the rom folder to your Dingoo A380 neogeo folder with your neogeo rom zips. It's also possible to convert CPS1 zip files to fba to store them in the Dingoo A380 CPS1 folder. I also tried to enable sg support for SEGA Master System but it didn't work. There' only sound and no graphics. I've tried to fix the emulator option issues but it also didn't work. It's strange that there's only 1.8mb of free space on the ext2 partition. It should be enough to save the emulator configuration files but it's impossible to copy them all to the EXT2 partition. Some of the files on the EXT2 are corrupt. I think that the reason why emulator settings can't be saved and some of the options can't be changed is because of the files become corrupt when they are written to the partition. There's one thing that I didn't try and that is to format the EXT2 partition and then try to use the firmware MicroSD with the formatted EXT2 partition in my Dingoo A380. Maybe someone should try that and if it doesn't work just overwrite it again with the backup/unbricker. Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/525714/V20016NG.img.zip

Chip’s mini review of JXD7100 (with capacitive screen)

Chip has posted a concise and informative review about the JXD7100 that get’s straight to the money shots:

I have both the G18 and S7100.  As seems to be standard with Chinese PMPs, neither are perfect. The S7100 has a much better dpad.  It's an actual dpad with a pivot in the middle, not just four buttons arranged like one.  I't not the greatest dpad in the world, but it's not so bad as to completely ruin the experience (like the G18).  The buttons on the S7100 feel better overall, with less squishiness and less "sticking" due to better tolerances on the buttons/holes.   I got the S7100 with the capacitive screen, and that's really the only way to go these days.  I find the resistive screen on the G18 to be it's biggest weakness.  That said, 7" is really too big for 800x480 resolution.  Perhaps I'm just spoiled by high resolution smartphones and the 1024x600 IPS panel in the nook color, but the pixels on the S7100 seem enormous.  It's OK for retro games, but distracting for android games or web browsing. However, the lack of shoulder buttons on the S7100 is really frustrating.  Maybe it's just because I have big hands, but I have no problem at all wrapping my index fingers around the top corners of the device where shoulder buttons should be, so it seems idiotic that they were not included.  Forget about playing most SNES games, PSX games, or any Genesis games that required six buttons.  GBA games are possible by mapping the shoulder buttons to the other two face buttons, but still less than ideal. A close second in annoyances to the missing shoulder buttons is the software.  JXD decided to make their own customized launcher, and it's kind of a mess.  There are a lot of non-removable programs that are useless (they're in chinese), and you can't even move or remove objects from the home screen.  You can get around this by installing an alternative launcher, but this crap is still there, hogging system resources.  I don't know if it's just mine or a common problem for all devices, but mine won't stay in suspend mode either.  You press the power button to turn off the display, and five minutes later some program brings it back on.  It will shut off again after the screen timeout, but 5-10 minutes later, it will come on again all by itself.  This means you have to turn it off if you don't want it draining the battery while you're not using it. The one good thing they have included in the software package is a sort of ROM market.  They have a few hundred ROMs that you can browse and download, at least until whatever server they're pulling them from gets shut down. I'd be glad to answer any other questions you have about the S7100.

qbertaddict’s guide – How to install bitrider’s new YDPG18 Firmware

qbertaddict’s video is a great guide as always:

As you can see from the post below, there is now some real potential for Android 2.3.4 to be released soon, if some clever community members do their clever thing … however, while we wait, I wouldn’t hesitate using in Bitrider’s new firmware.

Another YDPG18 with Gingerbread reported

Chip on Jan 26, 2012 04:16 PMin a comment here: I just got my G18 today, and I can confirm gingerbread also. http://i.imgur.com/Po3MN.jpg

They are out there!

Chip,

bitrider posted this message on the Spanish GP32 forums yesterday – would you care to try this?:

Well, to try to pave the way for everyone who receives a console with a firmware higher than we have and want to collaborate, I created a small application that simplifies the process. Instructions: - Rootea console - Install the attached application - Run the application and wait for it to end, may take a few minutes. - If all went well end up with a message: "Success!" and files in the folder will FirmwareDump micro-SD. - Copy the folder FirmwareDump micro-SD to PC, compress it and let me go. The folder contains two files "boot.img" (the kernel) and "system. tar "(the rest of the OS). The application is quite simple and not very polished in terms of what that user interface is concerned. For any questions, feel free to write here or send me a PM. Greetings PS: with This avoids having to install the terminal emulator FirmwareDump.zip and type into the command line itself (which is usually quite tedious). Attachments FirmwareDump.zip (13.2 KB, 4 views)

UPDATE 28/1/12: Sadly, it may be the case that new YDPG18 hardware models were shipped instead of the old ones, which would explain why 2.3 is on them … but stay tuned

Android 2.3 Gingerbread IS on Yinlips YDPG18 after all!

Kudos to jlpotocki from the Dingoo-Scene YDPG18 Forums for confirming that his recently shipped Yinlips YDPG18 (old model was ordered) comes with none other than Android Gingerbread 2.3!

jlpotocki obtained the first available imaging device he could and sent through these pics:

And a video! :

Android 2.3 has the potential to resolve the controller combo issues that have been experienced on this device, and may result in the analog stick really acting like an analog stick!

Now for a dump and update! jlpotocki, you da man today!

UPDATE 28/1/12: Sadly, it may be the case that new YDPG18 hardware models were shipped instead of the old ones, which would explain why 2.3 is on them … stay tuned

New Dingoo Wiki – Welcome to the Dingoonity wiki

The new Dingoonity Wiki is now live! January 25, 2012, 04:27:38 PM by omgmog After a couple of months without a Wiki, Dingoonity has now launched its own hosted Dingoonity Wiki. You can access the wiki through the old 'Wiki' link in the Dingoonity header menu, or by going to http://wiki.dingoonity.org If you've already got an account on the boards you can use your username/password to log in to the wiki and get contributing! Currently we've got a partial backup of the old wiki (from April 2011) on the boards, but in time hopefully the new wiki will be full of useful information!

JXD S601 running Onlive smoothly with dpad – Batman Arkham City, Assasin’s Creed Brotherhood and Fear 3!

Watch and salivate – JXD S601 running Onlive smoothly with dpad – Batman Arkham City, Assasin’s Creed Brotherhood and Fear 3! - thanks again to BAFelton!

BA Felton video tests of JXD S601!

Including a wealth of great information, and a size comparison with the YDP G18!

Pictures of JXD S601

BAFelton has posted 2 piccys of the JXD 601 … merci, BAFelton:

For the Market, just use the same tutorial of the G18 by QbertAddict. For you ruffnuts Video coming.

Puzzletube

Puzzletube A Puzzlegame. On a tube! Licence: GPL and MPL Operating Systems: Dingoo Linux Download

How to set the YDPG18 to English

Out of the box, the YDPG18 default language is Chinese. To set it to English (or any other supported language for that matter) watch this video from 3:54:

OK, it’s not a new video, but it can’t be any clearer!

New modified Firmware (two actually!) ROM for YDPG 18

We’re back from the black, to some great news from Bitrider, over at the Spanish GP32 forum:

Because the factory ROM finishes I like the garbage he has taken and I had to reinstall a few times by big hands, I decided to create a modified ROM that suits my needs. The public here in case it was useful to someone else. v1.1 Features: - Based on 1073 firm - Emus removed (including apks, libraries and data) - Games removed (including apks, libraries and data) - Aplis Chinaco eliminated ( including apks, libraries and data) - Kernel at 850MHz - Flash 11 - Default Language: Spanish - Market and installed the patch to impersonate the mobile device (which was published in this forum do not know where exactly XD) . - Root series - the effect Timezone: Europe / Madrid - build.prop small modifications to get some more speed in emus (debug.sf.hw ro.kernel.android.checkjni = 0 and = 1) Thanks to fredrerico by the necessary files from the firm 1073 (new console only comes in). Note: to be based on the 1073 kernel eliminates some problems with the buttons (eg that after a while you have left down right press automatically ). Download: http://www.multiupload.com/FBW5QO59P0   v1.0 Features: - Based on 1063 firm - Emus removed (including apks, libraries and data) - Games removed (including apks, libraries and data) - Aplis Chinaco removed (including apks, libraries and data) - Kernel at 850MHz - Flash 11 - Default Language: Spanish - Market installed and the patch to impersonate the mobile device (which was published in this forum do not know where exactly XD). - some other things I have forgotten. Download:http://uploading.com/files/8d2m4f93/update.zip/ Note: These files are published without any warranty.

Update 26 Jan 2012: How to install the new firmware -

Quick tutorial on how to install the newest custom firmware from Bitrider. It is pretty straightforward but you do this at your own risk. Get the custom firmware here but ignore the megaupload link use one of the others: http://www.multiupload.com/FBW5QO59P0 Newer market.apk is located here:http://www.box.com/s/sbolvml39h7nzj29t72n

Dingoo-Scene is going black: Stop SOPA + PIPA!

For most of 18 January, we will be going black in support of a wider campaign to stop proposed US legislation that would make the ‘net as we know it unworkable.  Cory Doctorow puts it best here: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/14/boing-boing-will-go-dark-on-ja.html , and I’m sure he won’t mind a bit of the usual Dingoo-Scene cut ‘n paste treatment:

Boing Boing will go dark on Jan 18 to fight SOPA & PIPA By Cory Doctorow at 4:08 pm Saturday, Jan 14 [Heck, so will we then! - Gadgetmiser] On January 18, Boing Boing will join Reddit and other sites around the Internet in "going dark" to oppose SOPA and PIPA, the pending US legislation that creates a punishing Internet censorship regime and exports it to the rest of the world. Boing Boing could never co-exist with a SOPA world: we could not ever link to another website unless we were sure that no links to anything that infringes copyright appeared on that site. So in order to link to a URL on LiveJournal or WordPress or Twitter or Blogspot, we'd have to first confirm that no one had ever made an infringing link, anywhere on that site. Making one link would require checking millions (even tens of millions) of pages, just to be sure that we weren't in some way impinging on the ability of five Hollywood studios, four multinational record labels, and six global publishers to maximize their profits. If we failed to take this precaution, our finances could be frozen, our ad broker forced to pull ads from our site, and depending on which version of the bill goes to the vote, our domains confiscated, and, because our server is in Canada, our IP address would be added to a US-wide blacklist that every ISP in the country would be required to censor. This is the part of the post where I'm supposed to say something reasonable like, "Everyone agrees that piracy is wrong, but this is the wrong way to fight it." But you know what? Screw that. Even though a substantial portion of my living comes from the entertainment industry, I don't think that any amount of "piracy" justifies this kind of depraved indifference to the consequences of one's actions. Big Content haven't just declared war on Boing Boing and Reddit and the rest of the "fun" Internet: they've declared war on every person who uses the net to publicize police brutality, every oppressed person in the Arab Spring who used the net to organize protests and publicize the blood spilled by their oppressors, every abused kid who used the net to reveal her father as a brutalizer of children, every gay kid who used the net to discover that life is worth living despite the torment she's experiencing, every grassroots political campaigner who uses the net to make her community a better place -- as well as the scientists who collaborate online, the rescue workers who coordinate online, the makers who trade tips online, the people with rare diseases who support each other online, and the independent creators who use the Internet to earn their livings. The contempt for human rights on display with SOPA and PIPA is more than foolish. Foolishness can be excused. It's more than greed. Greed is only to be expected. It is evil, and it must be fought. SOPA Strike is compiling a list of sites that are also going dark for Jan 18. If you want an Internet where human rights, free speech and the rule of law are not subordinated to the entertainment industry's profits, I hope you'll join us on it. Thank you.

Go here, to do something about it: http://sopastrike.com/strike

Rest assured, we shall return to normal on 19 Jan, and stick around until at least the act becomes law!

Yinlips reports no android 2.3 Gingerbread for Yinlips YDPG18 :( – ….

Fonseca9001 over on this thread on the Dingoo-Scene YDPG18 forum has some sad news to report:

Received an answer [From Yinlips about updating from 2.2 to 2.3]: Dear Joao, Thanks much for purchasing our product. I am sorry to tell you that impossible to update the android OS from version 2.2 to 2.3. Best Regards,   Liya

Boo hiss! Is it really impossible? Or is it just the case of Yinlips moving on? It’s been, after all, a good 5 weeks(!) since this device started the whole Android gaming console thing … The YDPG 18 must be past its prime:)

UPDATE: The above is quite wrong, as jlpotocki reports Android 2.3 on his recently received Yinlips YDPG18 on 26 Jan 2012 - http://dingoo-scene.blogspot.com/2012/01/android-23-gingerbread-is-on-yinlips.html ! This is big news; thanks jlpotocki

UPDATE #2: Sadly, it may be the case that new YDPG18 hardware models were shipped instead of the old ones, which would explian why 2.3 is on them … stay tuned

New videos of JXD 601 in action

New videos of JXD 601:

OhBoy Emulator For The Dingoo Native OS Updated!

OhBoy Emulator For The Native OS Updated! Today at 10:33:22 AM by qbertaddict OhBoy has been updated to sim format. Quote Now the emulator is in SIM format (instead of APP) so you must delete other Gameboy SIM emulators. Remember to read the Readmes. Enjoy! Discuss it here: http://boards.dingoonity.org/dingoo-releases/new-ohboy-release-for-native/msg36003/?topicseen#new Ohboy_Dingoo_Native_20120116_Unofficial.zip Author/Porter: hi-ban Download: http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/dingoo.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,561

Yinlips announces updated YDPG18 with 1.5ghz chip

Thanks to DrAltaica for the news!

Source: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=zh-CN&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yinlips.com%2Fnews%2Fdetail.aspx%3Fv%3D577

Yinlips smart handheld YDPG18 core A10 upgrade As the well-known brand tablet game, Yinlips time to provide users with the strong performance of the game flat products, as listed in November last year new 5-inch screen A9, Andrews e palm Q YDPG18 been a lot of the players attention. And today, according to Britain Philip said, YDPG18 officially upgraded A10 core. This product is equipped with 5-inch touch screen, support for 2-point touch, with a 1.5GHz processor, support for 2160P HD playback, 3D video playback, 1080P/3D HDMI dual-mode output with front and rear dual cameras, WiFi Internet access, and also using DVFS + Smart PMU dual-energy technology, and price was only 799 yuan / 8G. It is reported that recently upgraded YDPG18 will be listed, so stay tuned. Andrews 2160 e palm Q YDPG18 with HD playback capabilities, supporting up to 2160P (3840 × 2160 resolution) high definition video, higher resolution than 1080P. Here, we use e palm Q YDPG18 Andrews to see what nowadays popular movie "Jinling 13 hairpin." In practical point of view, e charge Q can be YDPG18 Andrews can support 1080P RM / RMVB, MKV (H.264 encoding), AVI, MOV, FLV, MPG, VOB, MPE, DAT, 3GP, MP4 and many other video formats, the user From the Thunder, eMule, ideas, SIMPLECD download 480P, 720P, 1080P, and many other video formats can be encoded directly copyed machine, you can play without transcoding. Meanwhile, the machine also offers high-definition HDMI digital video output interface, supports up to Full HD 1080P video output. HD video can be output to large LCD TV display device, web browsing, software applications, 3D games, also compatible with this feature. It is reported that Andrews e palm Q YDPG18 A10 will debut an upgraded version of the core, so stay tuned. Interested players please consult the major digital stores, or visit Taobao Mall:http://yinlips.tmall.com understanding.

799 Yuan = approximately $130 USD

It’s also interesting how the press release is focussed on video playback – while I can think of another great reason for a faster chip, the market for these devices in China (from the press release anyway) seems heavily geared towards A/V. Worth remembering, folks.

Update 17/01/12 – these are apparently available from February from isharegifts , but you can pre-order one here if you absolutely need to do something today: http://www.isharegifts.com/yinlips-ydpg18-core-a10-upgrade-version-pre-order-p-1616.html