Dingoo A330 Review

Yay!! i have bee waiting for this!!!

Thanks

 

This thing is such a rip off for $100. I'd get one if they cut the price in half. The put a little more ram in made it look like a cheap Chinese PSP knock off and call it successor to the Dingoo A320.

 

I bet that took you a while to do.

Photos are a little on the small side though....(I don't mean the thumbs)

 

I am sure I read this review pretty much word for word on another site a week ago. *starts looking for source*









EDIT: AcK! must be mistaken... Cannot find the review I had thought of. Oh well... No full speed SNES, I don't care.

 

Great review as always. It's a shame to hear about the failings of this revision, as it could have improved so many things. The controller sounds nice, but it kinda defeats the point. Why bother, you could just use a computer.

 

Well, that sucks. Quite a shame it's just a reshelled A230 with an unusable RAM extension and cruddy buttons. I was actually pretty stoked about this!

 

Would there be anyway to get the pad to work as a PC game pad?

I'm a bit disappointed that the controller's sticks are only mirrored direction and buttons. I guess this mean no Ape Escape

 

It must of taken you ages to compile that review. I know this only too well from my own experience.

As for the device. Its a head scratcher. Why did the "dingoo" team sink most of their resources into a poor redesign of the shell. Do they not understand the market they are selling to? The whole thing reeks of a cake with new icing, only now the same old cake is a little bit stale. They would of been better served to keep the old shape and just soup up the innards. Upgrade the CPU,RAM and add WIFI networking. These 3 additions would have made the product far more attractive to the homebrew crowd.

Seems like the "companies" recent internal wrangles have had an effect and thus this handheld appears to be a shallow cash in.

Shame.

 

My god, do people buy this stuff? The Psp out does it and a 1000 can be had for 60 bucks on ebay....

 

Nice review, glad I didn't buy one.

 

Just out of curiosity... with so many cons, why did it get the 'Bronze GBAtemp Award'? If it's essentially the same thing as the A320 with worse buttons and shell, why give it any award at all? Essentially based on the review, people should just avoid this product.

I'll stick with my PSP as my emulation 'game king'

 

i was thinking of getting it for GBA and GBC emulation, but stuff it ill wait for something better

 

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The ironic thing like all Chinese technology is that this A330 is not made by Dingoo but is a rip off clone with all the logos etc all over it. Dingoo are going after them legally to stop this product.

Dingoo only makes the A320. So be warned!

 

Another World, your reviews are the best. Very well written, well researched, you put the other folks to shame.

Re. the wireless controller, what exactly does this '6 axis' stuff mean? I've read that mentioned a few places, and of course it's part of Dingoo Tech's ad copy, but what is it supposed to do?

 

Ditto! Excellent review though as usual!