Portable SNES - Supaboy - Now Available on GameGavel

This thing seems like it would be awesome until you actually try to haul it around with some games, especially when you've got your smart phone right there.
 
This thing seems like it would be awesome until you actually try to haul it around with some games, especially when you've got your smart phone right there.

Indeed, smartphones are taking over portable gaming. Nintendo are losing the battle for portable gaming with the rise of touchscreen smartphones and 99c apps.

If it had an SD card slot (or at least had some built in games) and was a bit smaller like the Sega Gopher it'd be a lot better. Maybe a future updated model?

- James
 
This thing seems like it would be awesome until you actually try to haul it around with some games, especially when you've got your smart phone right there.

Indeed, smartphones are taking over portable gaming. Nintendo are losing the battle for portable gaming with the rise of touchscreen smartphones and 99c apps.

Could be worse!

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(I realize this is a Ben Heck design and is actually pretty awesome in its own regard)
 
This thing seems like it would be awesome until you actually try to haul it around with some games, especially when you've got your smart phone right there.

I was thinking exactly this.... I actually prefer my DSlite which has a bunch of games and apps loaded onto an sd card. Including a word processor and a Bible reader.

(And yes I only loaded games onto the card that I actually own the carts for.)

But this way, there is no fumbling around with game cards, and the dslite fits perfectly in my pocket by itself.

This is why I still haven't bought a 3DS, even though it's technicaly "better" it is functionally and convenience-wise, worse in my view. It would feel like a step backwards having to carry cards around again, seriously who would do that? I prefer to carry around as little as possible. Phone in left pocket, DS in right pocket is all I want.

P.S. The Neo Geo thing looks awesome, but many games require ABC or BCD buttons to be hit simultaneously, (like Samurai Shodown) and I don't think the SNES/DS layout would work well for the thumb alone in that respect.

What does the small print say on that console at the top? Looks like it says "Portable Multiplayer System", is it two player like the SupaBoy?
 
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This thing seems like it would be awesome until you actually try to haul it around with some games, especially when you've got your smart phone right there.

But the issue with emulation comes with the poor performances with games like Mario RPG & Star Fox. I have yet find an emulator that can run these games appropriately.
 
But the issue with emulation comes with the poor performances with games like Mario RPG & Star Fox. I have yet find an emulator that can run these games appropriately.

If you think that justifies the cost and physical annoyance of carrying a separate device, well I guess you're a more hardcore gamer than me :)

It's only a matter of time before the emulators are 100% anyway.
 
I got one of these a couple weeks ago. It's great besides the annoying noise it puts out. It provided me with a lot of fun during downtime at work.
 
I got one of these a couple weeks ago. It's great besides the annoying noise it puts out. It provided me with a lot of fun during downtime at work.

I have been back and forth with deciding if I was going to sell them in the store or not and decided not to because of that issue. I was hoping it was just an issue in the prototype I had to give feedback on, but it seems to be with the final model as well.

I look at portables as more of a play around the house thing than something you'd take on the bus or whatever. It'd be really nice if not for that horrid high pitched sound. Maybe they'll fix it at some point and we will sell them.
 
The noise intrigues me.. wouldn't this thing have no moving parts? It's not spinning a disc, it has no hard drive, I can't imagine it needing fans for an snes processor or gpu (or even fitting fans into something that small lol)

So all I can think of is a noisy audio chip?
 
The noise intrigues me.. wouldn't this thing have no moving parts? It's not spinning a disc, it has no hard drive, I can't imagine it needing fans for an snes processor or gpu (or even fitting fans into something that small lol)

So all I can think of is a noisy audio chip?

I think so. It's just an awful high pitched noise that goes louder with the volume.
 
Fixed the noise issue? Was it a hardware defect? Would that be covered under warranty for those who have one with noise?
 
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