Dingoo A360?

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Take a look at this - I was looking on the Dingoo Technologies website today, and I found... the Dingoo A360. How long have they had this for? I dunno what the menu is like, but it looks like it can play GBA games and is designed exactly like a GBA SP. Doesn't look like it's the same firmware as the A320 and A330 (look - only A and B buttons, no X and Y), but instead has other special emulators and GBA cartridge playback.

So, what do you guys think?
 
The link is dead for me
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tj_cool said:
The link is dead for me
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only for you
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Here to suffice your problems for now
QUOTEModel?Dingoo A-360
Dimension:3.33*3.23*0.96inch
Weight:43G.
Processor: 32bits rise CPU, embedded memory.
Screen size: 2.9inch transmissive TFT screen/.
Resolution: 240*160
Speaker: 0.90inch
than 95% GBA cassette games.
Power supply: Li-battery inside, 5 hours .
Available colors: Black, Sliver, Sapphire Blue, Pink, Apple Green, Red.
Accessories: 1 charger, 1 warranty paper.
Games: Internal more than 200/400 Chinese/English 8 bits/16bits/32bits games. Also adapt more
It looks like the SP
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Weird, I clicked the Google cached version, and now the site works
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It looks almost identical to a GBA SP o.o
There seems to be a DS logo on the top too
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Looks simple.

I don't know why the model is called "A360" though. It seems like this would be less advanced than both the A320 and the A330 by any standards.
 
It looks like a step backwards to me. These sort of units have been readily available for ages at places like DX, and the lack of face buttons means you wouldn't be able to play things like SNES and so on. Dont see the point in it at all really.
 
tj_cool said:
btw, I thought the official site was dingoo.cn, and not .hk
Or am I wrong with that?
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I just clicked the link for the Official Dingoo Technologies website from Dingoonity and it took me there. So unless they're wrong, that's the official Dingoo Technologies website.

...Ah, just took a look. dingoo.cn is Dingoo Digital's official website.
 
If they made one like this with the extra buttons for SNES, I'd get it....


or maybe not... I have a Dingoo A320 and I never use it...
 
What would be the point of SNES buttons when you can't even emulate a SNES on a Dingoo A320 or the original SP properly?
 
Just my thoughts, you probably know about the two so called "Dingoo" companies with each claiming the other to be the fake, like how apparently the A330 that looks like the PSP is apparently fake with the other Dingoo releasing their own A330, etc.

I'm guessing there is a fake company, they used to work for the real dingoo but resulting from a dispute, decided to copy the hardware and reshell it in things like the A330 PSP look-a-like and this A360 GBASP look-a-like.
 
RupeeClock said:
Just my thoughts, you probably know about the two so called "Dingoo" companies with each claiming the other to be the fake, like how apparently the A330 that looks like the PSP is apparently fake with the other Dingoo releasing their own A330, etc.

I'm guessing there is a fake company, they used to work for the real dingoo but resulting from a dispute, decided to copy the hardware and reshell it in things like the A330 PSP look-a-like and this A360 GBASP look-a-like.
From what I understand (I get all of my information from Another World), in the beginning there was only one company - Dingoo Digital. Then, because of some events, Dingoo Digital split up. Some people remained in that company, but others made Dingoo Technologies. One company has made the HK model of the Dingoo, although I don't remember which (I believe it was Dingoo Technologies). Dingoo Technologies has also made the Dingoo A330, and apparently the A360 as well.

Another World, feel free to come and help me out here. You know a lot more about this than I do.
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EDIT: Aha, here's an excerpt from Another World's Dingoo A320 review:

QUOTE said:
The Dingoo A320 was introduced by Dingoo Digital in February of 2009. The unit was originally manufactured with a white shell which included a Dingoo Digital “Paw” print logo on the back. The initial release met with satisfactory results, some hardware imperfections, and minor firmware bugs. Following an undocumented discussion, Dingoo Digital split as a company and team members went on to build Dingoo Technologies. One or more of the original team members stayed behind, due to unknown reasons this person or persons have relentlessly slandered the new company. After claiming ownership of the rights to the original “Paw” print logo, some of the default software offerings and the homepage design, the accused has publically stated that the 8 month old “Dingoo-HK” design was a fake and could blow-up during charging.

What is known is that at some point the Dingoo-HK (Hong Kong) version was released. Users experienced an incompatibility with native emulators and applications, and a bricking of the system during custom firmware updates due in part to a hardware revision. One can only speculate if the hardware change was an attempt to grow away from the problems Dingoo Digital was causing for the newly formed Dingoo Technologies. Users who were unhappy over the unaddressed and widely publicized hardware problems began to turn a small hardware revision into a conspiracy lost within its own Bermuda Triangle.

Presently, Dingoo Technologies continues to publish comments which state that the Dingoo-HK never existed. The Dingoo A320 community has collected images, both external and internal, of the “HK” build. Dingoo Technologies adamantly protests that there is only 1 Dingoo and that the “HK” issues are non-problematic.

And, some from the A330 review:
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Dingoo Technologies has attempted to pull themselves away from the Dingoo Conspiracy through the release of the Dingoo A330. This new unit features the internals of the currently produced Dingoo Technologies’ Dingoo A320, with a new design and logo attempting to distinguish the Dingoo A330 as its own entity. The native Dingoo Digital applications have been removed in favor of newly compiled Dingoo Technologies offerings. The case features a new Dingoo Technologies logo on the back in place of the old “Paw” print logo, and the firmware has a new theme further distinguishing it from the Dingoo Digital A320. I commend Dingoo Technologies on their attempt to “do their own thing” but fault them for the poor execution of a device with such potential. Dingoo Technologies clearly has a great concept but as a company it is my opinion that they need to spend more time with design, development, and product testing.
 
It looks really cool, but I doubt whether it'd have proper SNES capabilities, and if it did, why not just use the L and R buttons to substitute for the X/Y buttons...? 100% GBA compatibility would be the only meaningful thing to me... >_< lol Lost Age...
 
I2aven's_Sage said:
It looks really cool, but I doubt whether it'd have proper SNES capabilities, and if it did, why not just use the L and R buttons to substitute for the X/Y buttons...?
Then what would people do if they wanted to use the L and R buttons?
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trans am said:
What would be the point of SNES buttons when you can't even emulate a SNES on a Dingoo A320 or the original SP properly?

The Dingoo A320 emulates snes just fine for the most part actually.
 
Skyline969 said:
I2aven's_Sage said:
It looks really cool, but I doubt whether it'd have proper SNES capabilities, and if it did, why not just use the L and R buttons to substitute for the X/Y buttons...?
Then what would people do if they wanted to use the L and R buttons?
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Well, I was talking about SNES only =P IIRC SNES doesn't have L/R buttons does it? (as far as L/R being Shoulder buttons like on the GBA).
Besides, I doubt the 360 could run both simultaneously xD
 
Actualy... Snes does have shoulderbuttons...

If i'm correct, it's one of the first controllers to have them.
Most games also make use of them!
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