One Mans Homebrew Dream - A Homebrew Console with Wifi

[alamosh]

Yeah, a universal homebrew machine would be great. It's theoretically not that hard to make one...

Would be great to have a centralized online homebrew sharing system. Not to mention the huge potential for new coders everywhere.

[ShuzzleBuzzle]

Apparently Xbox Live costs quite a bit to keep going, unless some company had the urge to throw away a few hundred million I couldnt see this happening.

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hmmmm......(dreaming....)......

[Elven6]

The closest thing to this dream is probably the Dremcast, unmodded it can do all of that stuff.

[emuking]

gp2x, just add wifi, 400 MHZ proccessor and a 2d/3d accelarator chip and there you go

[E.J.]

It could have been the Indrema, but lack of money and third party support killed the thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indrema

[Mazza]

Uh, it's called the XGP. The next "GP2X". It's pretty much like a GP2X except smaller, cooler looking, and has Wi-Fi.

The XGP is made by Gamepark and the GP2X is made by Gamepark Holdings. Gamepark Holdings made the GP2X for homebrew but the XGP was designed to play commercial games and not homebrew unlike the GP32 and GP2X

[10shu]

UMPC /origami...if only they have a decent gamepad and few gamebutton...they maybe good handle system for emulation...maybe in few year...

[gopherbob]

I just had this same dream yesterday and found this thread wondering if anyone else felt the same way!


My homebrew console would:

>have an opening inside for a laptop hdd

>wifi

>some type of popular media reader/writer on the front, probably SD or compact flash

>two usbs on the front (used for 2 gamepads or 1 keyboard & 1 mouse)

>case design that cools itself properly, not necessarily one that looks cool

>a choice of video output, output either to tv (rca) or monitor(vga or s-vid)

>audio out of L and R standard RCA

>NO cd-rom!!!

>USB plug that would hook TO the computer... this would allow the consoles hdd to act like a removable drive in windows (for formatting, defragging or just adding new games and apps)

[Instead of being really specific on the rest of the guts i will just say...]

>two processors works really well for separating sound functions with the graphical functions on the DS so i think i would go that route

>And for its power i would say look at the good things the psx, dreamcast and n64 had and combine them.

[goity]

Atchelly the XGP does support homebrew, but according to Craig Rothwell (AKA Craigix) it is complete vapourware, and since the GP32 went bust they have no money to make it anyways, and there probably won't be many people wanting to invest.