GCW-Zero: Open Source Gaming Handheld

[jutley]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gcw ... g-handheld

http://www.gcw-zero.com/

For all your homebrew needs and to help the homebrew community support the kickstarter.

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[xcanox]

It has a nice goal, but if it wants to keep relevance in today's market, it's going to need to be capable of more than just classic, "low-powered" games.
I'm interested in seeing how this plays out. Whether it's hot or not, I'm going to look into getting one of these.

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[wololo]

It has a nice goal, but if it wants to keep relevance in today's market, it's going to need to be capable of more than just classic, "low-powered" games.

My opinion exactly! ( http://wololo.net/2013/01/12/the-gcw-ze ... ckstarter/ )

[jutley]

Yes but come on guys its a retro game handheld its not there to compete against the likes of the vita and the higher spec machines out there on the market people like to play retro games and there is a huge fanbase out there this device is mainly marketed at that community of game enthusiast. It does a damm good job at what its meant to do as i have one of the early models and i feel that it will be very sucesfull yes i do have a psp vita that has the uno hack but i dont compare it to the gcw they are two different devices hope you can understand what i am trying to point out guys.

[snailface]

I can understand why people wish for the GCW system to be more powerful, but in the end it wouldn't matter if it was. Here's why.

Look at the top performing tablets of today and asked yourself if they're powerful enough to adequately emulate 2nd gen 3d systems (ex. gcn dreamcast xbox 1 ps2). I'll answer that for you, they can't. So why would you want the GCW to have price increasing, battery-killing extra cpu power and RAM to reach a plateau that $500 tablets can''t even reach? (Please don't say "for Web browsing" and other name-game apps. That's not the point of this product -- which is retro console emulation)

The bottom line is that the GCW Zero has 3x the power of a PSP (the current retro conslole emulator king) at the same price and is open source. It has a 1 GHz *MIPS* processor specifically chosen to provide beautiful emulation to all systems up to and including the N64 and PS1 (both these consoles have MIPS architectures, see?) It has all the power and freedom (and buttons!) you need to make it an awesome retro handheld with all the unnecessary price increasing stuff trimmed off.That's why you should take it seriously.

[wololo]

The screen is too small to make that device run Wagic

[jutley]

It won't be that small when you output it to a tv.

[lol x]

Its nice, i mean thats exactly what u wanted wololo, homebrews,... Emulators, open source, developer freindy and most importantly a stable gaming console..... So stop crying over the small screen - use hdmi and support them by porting wagic and other cool stuff.

Off topic: was that cavestory in demo?

[xcanox]

The screen is too small to make that device run Wagic

Maybe make a low-res port?

Off topic: was that cavestory in demo?

Yes.

[Kagaelus]

Very cool product hope it gets the support it deserves. On kicktraq it shows it will reach it's goal as trending