Clone hardware - from the days of real hardware clones

So did those things actually turn out to be able to play ps1 CD's or was it never confirmed?

 

Really interesting clone. Laughed with some of the typos like "Moral Kombat".

 

There are a few other typos too

 

When I moved house I left it with a mate, he can't find now, he thinks he may have thrown it away
It had stopped working anyway, the CD drive wasn't reading discs. He is moving himself soon, so fingers crossed it turns up again...
From what I can remember, it's at least 10 or more years ago now! I believe it played original PS1 discs via a built-in emulator.
I have seached all over the internet to try and find another one, or someone esle who had, or still has one. But no luck yet Any search ends up coming back to this forum or the ulitimate console database webpage?
Anybody that has any info on this elusive console please let me know

 

Reminds me of an Atari Jaguars

 

That makes sense. I wonder how it might be able to do that though. I'm guessing from the box that it was from the early 2000's and PS1 emulation was still in its infancy then plus the likes of Android didn't exist so making something like that with a built in PS1 emulator would have been no easy task. There are lots of Chinese devices now I believe that run PS1 ISOs from SD using an emulator but I would guess that most of those are Android powered and just run PCSX.

 

Cosmos Game Engine



Originally came with stock UMC CPU/PPU chips, but got replaced with real Famicom CPU/PPU chips. Caps were replaced in the power section as well. With real Famicom chips, Akumajo Dracula played flawlessly with proper audio. The expansion port was also cloned perfectly, as it was compatible with all the standard Famicom accessories (Ie. Family Basic + keyboard worked great).

Too bad I had to sell it (^_^);

 

With those modifications that was a really cool clone!

 

Can't believe there exists a perfect clone.

Unrelated: 100th Post!

 

Easy 100th post haha !

 

Where did you find the Taiwanese Batong Sunsonic Multimedia Computer?

 

I recently got one of those GameBoy Advance hardware clones (no emulation) called GameBox. Here's a little video I made of it.

 

Back in the early 90s, we had quite a few different famicom/nes clones here in Greece. My most favorite of them, is still the CrazyBoy Gaming System. Even though I never personally own it, I never forget it's superiority over the NES console, when it comes both to options and its sturdy design.
Notice: These are not my pictures, but stock ones I got from ebay and retromaniax.gr
http://s33.photobucket.com/user/Getta_Robo/library/CrazyBoy?sort=2&page=1

The CrazyBoy is region free to NTSC/PAL/SECAM, and fully supports Famicom carts through an adapter. It's also among the rare few ones which had infrared wireless controllers. While I always wanted one, I never got to track it down, even though I already had a genuine PAL nes.

 

Those controllers look very painful to use.

 

Crap, I forgot we actually had a family computer clone which was blue, its had a keyboard and it used 9 pin controllers. I don't know if we still have it. The controllers it had were very similar to the Genesis, albeit that it had 4 RGYB ABXY face buttons, it was beige. But the sad part was the controllers were Literally PAINFUL to use. the D-Pad is pretty much non existant, and in its place was a nub which where apparently a D-Pad used to sit. And the nub was not really a nub. it was stiff and it felt like 4 seperate buttons.

 

Really interesting clone Yakumo. Was it cheap?

 

They're still sold new in Russia and go for about 25-30 usd.

 

As americandad said, it cost about 31USD with shipping included. Of course with it being a China item the box was bashed in one corner. Everything from China seems to have a damaged box.

 

Yakumo, does it run 100% speed? i heard a few of those run at like 85% speed, not perfect.

 

Seems full speed to me on the 20 odd GBA games I played. The 999 in 1 cart has Famicom/NES stuff on it too. Most of those run full speed but a few have speed issues with the audio. The GBA games those seem perfectly fine.