Hurray for 2008

**PSmonkey** · January 7th, 2008, 06:02

Well it's finaly 2008. Lets hope this year turns out fantastic.

Well my gf finaly returned on friday. Along with her return I got some new gifts/toys. One of the things I got was a JXD 301 mp4 player. My feeling about it are really mixed at the current time (i'll explain more later). My second new toy is a iQue Player. The N64 geek in me is foaming at the mouth to play this thing but sadly I can't at the moment.

The included AC adapter is 220v input ONLY. As well the Output is 5v (I have an AC adapter that could fit but it's 9v output). I was looking online at thesourcecc (formerly radioshack canada) but adapters are a little steep. They do have 1 that might fit the bill (3v-7v, supports 5v, and outputs at 2200 mA which I need) but it's $50. So I think I will wait a few days/week to see if I can find something better.

Christmas break was not as productive as I had hoped. I got tons of DD hacking done but still stuck at a massive brick wall. I hope once I get that resolved then the flood gates will open and I will have tons of new material to work with (like sample read/write commands). I also spent some time over the holidays working on a small psp puzzle game for kicks but I never got to finishing it.

Work side, 2008 will hopefuly be my big year when I FINALY get a comercial PSP game out (due novemberish). So I look forward to discussing this further when it's near launch (as well as give a copy away). The first game I was working on was due in 07 but it got cancelled early on (technicaly I was on engine development and not game but meh).

Well thats it for now. I plan to post progress of DD stuff as it happens as well as my adventures into the JXD 301. Hopefuly once I get an adapter I will also get some shots/video up of my iQue.

**DPyro** · January 7th, 2008, 15:30

Oh, would this work?

**PSmonkey** · January 7th, 2008, 15:54

Originally Posted by $n!pR

Oh, would this work?

Looks like it could plus they ship out of montreal.

Thanks.

**DPyro** · January 7th, 2008, 15:57

No problem

**PSmonkey** · January 8th, 2008, 17:28

Hehe, No need for that thing anymore. I found an old Linksys power cable that fits the bill (5v, negative outside, right plug size).

Here is my post on another forum (too lazy to retype)
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So I got to play my iQue last night. First impressions is this unit rocks. It's got to be the coolest plug in TV system. The controller kind of feels like a dreamcast controller but with xb360 trigger buttons (not the triggers bu the ones above them). It took a few seconds to get use to the different placement of the Z button but after a few seconds it was quite nice to play with (unit is not all that heavy).

Sadly I have some disapointment in my exact unit. It's not new at all. It was either a unit used in the store, a used unit sold to the store or an employies old unit he sold. I say this because besides Dr. Mario, there was zelda and it had about 3 saves on it (2 were pretty far in the game) as well the 3 demo were used up.

This is another disapointment. It's not like the demo on iQue are a simple "Play for 1-4 mins then it resets." No it's actualy only lets you play for 1 - 4 min (maybe hour, not sure) and then the game is locked up for good. Waverace was & starfox were 1m/h and Mario64 was 4m/h.

Still on the bright side at least my flash had Zelda in it (along with Dr. Mario which I got the game manual to).

Anyways I'll get to some pictures of this thing sometime this week. Man I really hope by chance I can collect the other game manuals/box. As well maybe find someone who has an extra flash cart with more games on it.

**PSmonkey** · January 8th, 2008, 17:30

Anybody currious. Here are some videos of iQue games in action. They are pretty much n64 games with the game translated to chinese. This device was officialy from nintendo (and quite well built).

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...&search=Search

***wraggster*** · January 11th, 2008, 01:44

you say your gonna do some jxd301 devving

it sure needs some decent emu ports

the ique is awesome, shame u cant put your own games on it, my GBA site has pics and a review of it

**PSmonkey** · January 12th, 2008, 20:11

Yo yo,
Just a quick update.

Not a whole lot new has happen on my side. I've not touched JXD 301 coding yet since I am waiting for any release that allows me to run code on the device. If nothing shows up by mid feb then I will try looking into it my self.

ATM i've been spending some time researching more into the iQue. So far this unit is really cool and had massive potential. Shame it's pretty much dead now. I think last game came out in 07 but thanks to iQue[at]home, they could still release a game or two but I dout it. All time is probably focused on getting iQue Wii out as well as continual push of iQue DS.

I have been putting some time into FF2 Anniversary for PSP as well as Ape Quest which came out on thursday's update of PSN. Looking forward to Pixel Junk Monster PS3 next week (it supports remote play).

Thats all for now.

Oh, after spending some time in though. Something I think would be awsome to see on the PSP is some form of Custom Robo HB (homebrew). Like people can build their own battle arenas or robots. Set their skills and do online battles (or local ad-hoc). That could be something nice (tho I dout it ever will be done, ***ing crapy lua games).

**PSmonkey** · January 15th, 2008, 02:57

***k!
***K ***K ***K.

I got word from a friend he might have found what we were looking for to progress DD emulation but ***k. someone informed me on this long long ago and I though it was for something unrelated. So sadly i've posibly been sitting on the answer i've been needing for some time.

Ugg.

I'm gonna go chear my self up by screwing around with zelda OOT (want to see what dd calls it makes on boot).