And here we have yet another new handheld that also doubles up as a media player for MP3s and cartoons on cartridge. http://www.digiblast.nl/ Not sure what to say about the design really :smt042. But it has got some big(ish) licenced games. And the website is only in Dutch(?) or French at the moment.
erm... i'm not even sure you can call that ''french''. from what i understand, it's a cartrige based console aimed at kids for educative purposes. it can also be used to play video games, watch cartoons, play mp3s and take pictures with an optional digital camera (?) doesn't seem powerful enough for any homebrew or emulation interest too. :-/
Here's a rather crap translation (cheers Babelfish) of the techspecs - Technical specifications: Graphics high resolution screen LCD Possibilité of looking at drawings animate, video, of photographs JPEG and to listen to music High speaker interns a pied(standard)/intègre the screen if need be can be enlightened a keyboard blocable Dimensions: width 12.5 cm, height 11cm, depth 3 cm Connections: A connection for the following cartridges:vidéo, plays, music. but also for MP3et a digital camera Connections for the cable of television (this cable could be only used with the cartouche DigiBlast TV - out) Other connections: For an ear-phone Socket-outlet Buttons: To light and extinguish the buttons for video, music. Jouer/stopper/avancer/recouler 5 buttons of plays 1 Joypad Start// to start to choose Volume Running: Refillable NiMh accumulator Charger for accumulator Seems you need a special adaptor to connect to TV and there's a cart with a 1.3megapix digicam too.
This is the basic pakage You get the console with 5 Atari games and a cartoon (Spongebob or Winxclub) Game list here http://www.digiblast.nl/gameList.php Video list here http://www.digiblast.nl/videoList.php Music list here http://www.digiblast.nl/musicList.php Unbelieveble graphic apperence, cool game, the best cartoons, the latest videoclips and interesting edducative programs. You can do this all one one new multimedia player. DigiBLAST is a rechargeble handheld player, based on preprogrammed cartridges with cartoons, video's and games. With Optional accessories it's easy to transform it into a MP3 a player or a digital camera. technical specifications: technical specifications: Full collor, high resolution LCD screen Abilety to play cartoons, video's and music (mp3) and jpeg photo's Intern speaker Intergradet basic (?) Keybord lock 12.5 cm wide, 11 cm high and 3 cm thick Slots: Cartridge slot: for video, games and music cartrigdes and the optional MP3 player and photocamera cartridge Tv-out slot (can only be used with digiBLAST Tv-out cartridge) Connection: (Stereo) Headphone Electricity connection Buttons: On/Off Special video and music buttons: Play/Stop/Forward/Backward 5 game buttons 1 Joypad Start Select Volume Contrast Electrisity: Rechargeble NiMH battery Charger (for UK: 4 x AA needed, the don't have rechargeble version) When I look on a Toy shop a see the price for a DigiBLAST with Spongebob cartoon is €80. The Camera is €40, also is the MP3 player (265MB).
So from looking at the page, the Tony Hawk, Spiderman, and X-Men games are all in 2-D. But when you look at the page for the Rayman game, its in 3-D and looks like pretty good 3-D too. Now my question is, is this a 2-D system or a 3-D one. The Rayman "screenshot" looks as if it could have been ripped from the Dreamcast game, I'm just curious as to if this system is actually 3-D capable or if they are just full of crap and trying to make themselves look cool.
It have this kind of graphics Digiquad Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 Pitfall: the lost expedition Winx Club is some stupid fary cartoon http://www.digiblast.nl/videoDetail.php?videoID=34
So its all Pseudo 3-D in the vein of Gameboy Advance games? That was pretty much my impression of it, but if you look at the screen shots for Rayman, it looks almost like the DC version. In my opinion this is either taken from opening CG sequences (PSX tv commercials anyone?) or else they just posted screen shots from some other system's game and called it their own. Dunno, my 2 cents, but I would love to hear what other people have to say about this.
Yeah, the Rayman screenshot is a stock image. System looks to be about GBA quality in ability or so. Will these come out in the USA?
I don't know, It's released at the end of September in Europe. Activision and Konami are going to publish games for it. They are still looking for developers I read on a Dutch developers site ! lekker@mac.com
