add gba and snes and it's as good as bought.
solar powered stuff is best if you also can run it with batteries so it's bi powered like some calculators.

Himiko

@dead_red_eyes:
Dammit! I was gonna reference Boktai! Oh, well, I still will:

太陽！！

BPM III: 3rd Strike

I couldn't ever beat Boktai because of the weather around here, there's just not that much sun. Sucks.

I think that the model looks nice. I wish that it had GBA, SNES, and Sega Genesis support. If it did, I'd buy it. I go camping a lot during the summer, for 5+ days, so this would be awesome for that.

dead_red_eyes

Not bad! though i echo the longing for SNES emulation, something many consoles dont seem to do well so far.

TheIrishNinja (PSN), IrishNinja2099 (XBL)

@fyren:

Or anywhere in the Pacific Northwest.

@kuromankuro:

I hit him up.

@myxylplyx:

Knock it off.

dead_red_eyes

@fyren: Yeah, then the vampires come and take it from you. It's really annoying. Then when the battery runs out they bite you, I'm sure it's only out of annoyance though.

kuromankuro

But, you kind of lose in Alaska.

fyren

I give it a month before Nintendo drops in.

Torusan

awwww I'd buy it in an heartbeat if it had SNES emulation =(

QC8472

@myxylplyx: Hmm, I wonder if Witzbold is on right now.
I think it's a great idea actually. Either side of my house has a window facing the sun all day and I do like classic games.

kuromankuro

And by Wow I mean 'What a fucking enormous pile of retarded monkey shit'.

myxylplyx

Wow. Not something I'd get myself, but Nintendo should so pick up on this.

Sabre_Justice

The thing is, I don't want to put something that cost me more than 10 dollars, let alone 120, in one place, alone, outside long enough to get charged. I'm in the kind of place where it would just disappear... The Twilight Zone! DEE DA DEE DA!

kuromankuro

Christ's sake . . . I just realized that it can't do GBA games either.

EvoAnubis

Swiss army knife is quick use. I don't think this taking days to charge would help me.

Shindokie (PSN and XBL)

Hmm. If it also had SNES and maybe Genesis emulation, I'd call it full of win. As it turns out, it really doesn't do much that a PSP can't do.

EvoAnubis

How long would you have to charge this crazy thing, anyway? Or for that matter, anything you connect to it with a USB port?

ManekiNeko

its a shame the screens on the outside and solar panels are on the inside, unless the panels work not as good if scratched, i wouldn't know.
what i do want to know is: how big is this? will this fit in my pocket? and can i get this for less?

Capt Castellanos

But the sun...
It hurts us....

psycoking

All I can say is, Wow.

myxylplyx

I'm not too into the emulator part, but being able to charge things via the usb cable, solarly if you will, sounds like a neato idea.

paulink

And it's not hideous! Awesome!

The-red-terror

@The-red-terror: ...

moshakirby

You guys don't get it. They obviously aren't going after just Nintendo fans. They are going to corner the gamer stranded on a desert island market. Niche, but lucrative.

HanSolomente

@Himiko: on this particular device, you'd need a mirror in order to do that.

Gantz: Your Trusted Friend in Science.

In case 12 hours of battery life wasn't long enough? I guess it's targeted toward those who have money but no outlets?

CyberGlitch

We need this technology bad...I wonder for the next ds revision. Wouldnt it screw up the lcd, by the heat alone?

HYKEWNE

Damn. The weather over in Manila's nice now that summer's approaching...maybe I can play continuously for months, lol.

Frank

That looks awsome, but what about the specs as in weight and other things like that? It sounds damn cool.

Irenicus-the one and only

@Korbei: Yeah hmm does these emulators on PSP actually work well?

Snappywave

@Korbei: but there isn't a solar-powered PSP, now is there :P

not_tom_brokaw

Cute, but does it come equipped with its own built-in taser? Any MP3 player that doesn't is pure junk.

Purple Dave

Why wouldnt you just get a PSP? Screw having just Nintendo emulation.. throw in some Sega Emulation, classic console and Arcade emulation and PS1 emulation to boot.

Then on top of all of that, you have your media and PSP games too.

Korbei

There's also the slightly cheaper and battery powered: [www.chinavasion.com]

hawkerm

Yay, useless portable something.
I sure hope Nintendo does NOT pick up on this.

The only use I see for this is to be able to charge your phone, via the USB slot, during a 7day festival. Preferably in Roskilde, Denmark.
But I dont know, might just buy 5 extra batteries instead..

Krellie

you know if im in a sunny place that has enough power to energise a portable gaming device. I doubt i'll want to sit around and play it.

and that's not just because i'll burn up in the sun.

(because i will. it'll ruin my moon-tan )

Onizuka-GTO

Has anyone already ordered at Chinavasion.com? Are they legit? This looks pretty neat as a portable Zelda machine...

@BTownDesignGuy: Your watch probably works slightly differently from this. The idea with this gadget is that you leave it in the sun to charge the battery. The idea with your watch is that you carry it with you at tall times (I assume).

L_K_M

Funny story. I got a solar-powered watch from my parents when I was growing up in California. Then I moved out to the midwest, where the sun won't shine for weeks on end some times in the winter. I can't imagine how bad it must be in the Pacific Northwest.

Needless to say, my solar powered watch doesn't do as well out here. If my watch struggles to maintain full power, how will a device like this perform?

BTownDesignGuy

Waitwaitwait...So the solar panel is UNDER the game screen? So, if I want to play while things are charging, I have to be lying on my back holding this over my face to play it without being blinded? Fuck you China. Fuck you very much. Complete mockery.

chaos242

holyfuckingshithowdidImissthis!?!?!??

chaos242

This is going in my post-apocalypse emergency crate.

kidko

WHAT! no spork or magnifying glass? psh... swiss army my ass

hawaiianactor

What? It doesn't play GBA?

Dr.Chocobo

HOLY CRAP!!! Something from my site made it Kotaku... that makes me, like, famous now. Doesn't it? Anyways, I'm the dude who wrote the original post over at albotas.com (who technabob cites as a source in his post). Nice to see our ish making its way up in the blogosphere!

brownkidd

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! Any chance to play me some Link's Awakening is always a reason to spend 100 bucks!

Cpryd001

i want one, it lookes entertaining when do we get it in the U.S?

DarkLuigi

@psycoking:

Ha! Have you ever heard that joke the only reason WoW players stepped outside of their houses was to get Burning Crusade.

DELICIOUS_BUNNY

lapsed patents are awesome

mizzle

Ick, get a GamePark or a PSP. This thing isn't worth it for emulation.

Xagest

Waiit... you mean I have to leave the house?

Catina

Is this endorsed or supported by Big N?
I kind of doubt it.

Wookiee1

Why am I not surprised that something so obviously violating copyright laws is made by a company called Chinavision?

ultimatepancakesensation

i wonder how fast that would break as well.

toneroni

is it me or does it look like a pokedex xD

OtakuHat

Got mine in the mail, and I am in love. It does GBA and NES emulation, it played PAL and NTSC divx movies I put on it, it even made me coffee. It also had a keylogger virus living on the USB drive when I mounted it. It wouldn't mount on my Mac, so if you are an Apple user, you can only get games to the thing by using a card reader. Anyways, I am totally happy with my gizmo.

oldbenway