The battery life is locked at 2.5 hours, but with all the new friends you're going to make when they see you walking down the street playing the SupaBoy, that's all the time you'll have to game anyway.
Now you can play SNES while crossing busy streets with SupaBoy
by Jessica Conditt 
on Dec 4th 2011 1:30PM
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The battery life is locked at 2.5 hours, but with all the new friends you're going to make when they see you walking down the street playing the SupaBoy, that's all the time you'll have to game anyway.
Reader Comments (43)
Posted: Dec 4th 2011 1:33PM (Unverified) said
...or you could just use an emulator on your PSP / Android etc.
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Posted: Dec 4th 2011 1:37PM (Unverified) said
@(Unverified)
But that eliminates the cool factor
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But that eliminates the cool factor
Posted: Dec 4th 2011 1:52PM (Unverified) said
@(Unverified)
I have the emu for PSP and most of the popular games have slow down (F-zero, Yoshi's Island). Playing emus on PSP is perfect but unfortunately the PSP emus can not play all games at full speed.
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I have the emu for PSP and most of the popular games have slow down (F-zero, Yoshi's Island). Playing emus on PSP is perfect but unfortunately the PSP emus can not play all games at full speed.
Posted: Dec 4th 2011 2:52PM CaramelZappa said
@(Unverified)
I'd love to see a speedrun of Super Mario World on a touchscreen android phone.
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I'd love to see a speedrun of Super Mario World on a touchscreen android phone.
Posted: Dec 4th 2011 3:03PM Shadowbender said
@Arrowned
Don't you worry, your not alone. Emulating is dismal on my end as well.
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Don't you worry, your not alone. Emulating is dismal on my end as well.
Posted: Dec 4th 2011 3:33PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said
@Arrowned
I have a Motorola Droid 2, and looking forward to getting a Droid 4 once I can upgrade. :)
Phone with keyboard + Game Gripper = Victoly!
http://www.game-gripper.com/Default.asp
Because, yes, touch screen controls are terrible when shoehorned onto games that shouldn't have them.
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I have a Motorola Droid 2, and looking forward to getting a Droid 4 once I can upgrade. :)
Phone with keyboard + Game Gripper = Victoly!
http://www.game-gripper.com/Default.asp
Because, yes, touch screen controls are terrible when shoehorned onto games that shouldn't have them.
Posted: Dec 4th 2011 5:08PM (Unverified) said
@(Unverified) way to go, down vote the guy just cause he was speaking sense, you could either have this bulky old thing and carry around cartridges around (like some strange people who still use portable cd players and a bunch of cds) or you can have a all in one device that play the whole snes library in your hand on flash memory/memory card, i know which one i would choose...
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Posted: Dec 4th 2011 8:06PM TehRichard said
@(Unverified) Surprisingly, the GBA emu on the PSP runs very smoothly. I think I've ran into one or two problems with certain games freezing at specific points, but that was with an extremely old version of the emulator I was using.
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 12:21PM HandsomeBoyGraduate said
@(Unverified)
I don't have/want an Android handset.
I don't want to steal ROMs.
Overall, based on my 2 statements, I can easily just do without.
But otherwise, the alternative?
I love how everyone's answer to something like this is 'hack it, steal it'.
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I don't have/want an Android handset.
I don't want to steal ROMs.
Overall, based on my 2 statements, I can easily just do without.
But otherwise, the alternative?
I love how everyone's answer to something like this is 'hack it, steal it'.
Posted: Dec 5th 2011 12:23PM HandsomeBoyGraduate said
@HandsomeBoyGraduate
Although I am being hypocritical... I do have/run a SNES emulator on my Dreamcast.. But its just not very portable.
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Although I am being hypocritical... I do have/run a SNES emulator on my Dreamcast.. But its just not very portable.
Posted: Dec 4th 2011 1:38PM Shadowbender said
Guys, guys.
...I got the urge. This is something I just need.
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...I got the urge. This is something I just need.
Posted: Dec 4th 2011 1:47PM Dubiousity said
Strollin' down the street while I play Jump n' Shoot Man X sounds like a good ol' time.
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Posted: Dec 4th 2011 5:23PM TheChezDispenser said
@bm111
Why not? Didn't it get a retranslation?
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Why not? Didn't it get a retranslation?
Posted: Dec 4th 2011 2:03PM HobbitGamer said
I would only get it if I still had a copy of EarthBound. I don't see any other game I would play enough to justify it. I've got a 3DS and have only played it 5 times in 4 months. I just don't play handhelds any more.
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Posted: Dec 4th 2011 11:08PM Gordfacekiller said
That's why I love my xperia play. Full console controls on my phone for emulators.
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Posted: Dec 4th 2011 3:47PM (Unverified) said
Haven't thinks like this been around for years? and aren't they all of terrible build quality?
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Posted: Dec 4th 2011 4:17PM Churrotastic said
I've got a Dingoo a380 for these sorts of things (and it emulates pretty well for something that's smaller than a disposable camera) but this does look pretty cool. I don't want to end up having to manage too many handhelds these days, I've still got my Game Boy Micro keeping me busy.
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Posted: Dec 4th 2011 5:18PM maxwell97 said
Though I'm sure it would be fun, I can't imagine I'd use it too much. A 3ds pretty much maxes out the size of device I'll carry around, and the cartridges alone are bigger than that. I would have KILLED for this when I was a kid, though (you know, if it was like a bad person).
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Posted: Dec 4th 2011 5:44PM Undulation said
US only? All my carts are EU so I won't be buying this device.
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 9:40AM Icculus said
Has anybody been able to figure out if this thing has full mapper support yet? I've looked around and found it running StarFox (at the correct 'slower' framerate) and Super Mario RPG which is a good sign, but I'd like to know if this thing will run any US cartridge under the sun. Because if it can, I am picking this thing up and using it until I have a portable device that's powerful enough to run bsnes.
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Posted: Dec 5th 2011 11:40AM sparkster said
Cool stuff right there. Although there's some questions:
1. Why put the controller plugs on the system's face? That way you can't play 2-player games with just one extra controller.
2. Why place START and SELECT that oddly instead of below the screen?
3. Is this a shrinked SNES board in there or a SNES on a chip? (I assume the latter)
Also, if only it was able to play PAL cartridges. I have a huge collection of these but only 14 US ones.
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1. Why put the controller plugs on the system's face? That way you can't play 2-player games with just one extra controller.
2. Why place START and SELECT that oddly instead of below the screen?
3. Is this a shrinked SNES board in there or a SNES on a chip? (I assume the latter)
Also, if only it was able to play PAL cartridges. I have a huge collection of these but only 14 US ones.
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