XGP Kids - New Homebrew Contender ?

[kpaul_nyc]

well it does have the thumbstick the psp is lacking (burnout crashes aplenty) i neva did like the weird thumbpad thing on psp...at first i thought it was a speaker!

haha I thought it was the speaker also and i was wondering why it moved...

[Broadus]

Yeah, I wander what the logic was on making it flat and textured just like a speaker.

[Exophase]

Although very cheap this platform has a serious weak point that makes it significantly worse than the original GP32: the resolution. GBA has shown us that we can still get okay emulation with downscaled graphics but it's definitely a disadvantage, plus this won't have any way of efficiently filtering with the scaling. The aspect ratio is also weird, they claim 4:3 but it's actually longer than that. For GB/GBC/GG this should be okay. Most home consoles people are interested in emulating require 256x224 or greater to get correct graphics...

The thing with GB/GBC emulation (which is what this would be best at, like I mentioned) is that a GBA can do that for cheaper. Still, may be good as a cheap media device, although the resolution hurts it for movie playback too...