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Odroid-Go Review: An Affordable DIY Portable Game Console

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Post by duxup »

vibrolax wrote: post #7
141421 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Part of it I imagine is these hacker game systems are designed and marketed towards other gamer hackers and require, or at least the apparent need for,a more technical skill set than a regular game system. However I can imagine something like Lego and Ninteno making a package that is designed for children to learn from.

Nintendo wants their customers to purchase games, because that's what drives their revenue. While the act of "making" is integral to Lego customers, the company hopes to sell customers more and more kits/bricks. A self-contained user-programmable video game device probably needs more support and offers less recurring revenue opportunity than mass market game consumption platforms. It's a terrible thing for a owners o…

I duno about the games focus. Nintendo loves selling the consoles too, over and over again if at all possible.

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kweks wrote: post #11

Of similar ilk and made by the community super star sprite_tm: https://pocketsprite.com

> PocketSprite has 16 MiB of flash,

Is this from 2002? Why does it have such a laughably small storage size in 2018? The ESP32 should be able to address more than that, and it could be connected over SPI.. espressif even gives an example: https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tree/master/examples/st...

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Post by micheljansen »

kweks wrote: post #11

Of similar ilk and made by the community super star sprite_tm: https://pocketsprite.com

Great to see Jeroen is still at it. I used to live across the street from him and it was always fascinating to see what he was up to. Hanging out at his place was the closest thing to what I imagine Silicon Valley must have been like during the heydays of hardware hacking. Probably why he moved to Shenzhen. His writeups at https://spritesmods.com are also good reads. I see he has also done a miniature Mac Plus: http://spritesmods.com/?art=minimacplus
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