SP2 Now This is Just Silly

On sale at my favorite site for crazy gray market game consoles is the Designer 2.4" LCD Portable Handheld Game Console + Media Player (Dark Blue) otherwise known as the SP2. Naturally is looks like an Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP.

According to Deal Extreme...

- Screen: 2.4" color TFT LCD
- Support NES/SFC/GBC/NEO/GEO/GBA games, hundred games built in
- Expansion slots: MicroSD/TF card
- Support movie play: RM/RMVB/AVI
- Support music play: MP3/WMA
- Support photo play: JPG/BMP/GIF
- Support voice recording (Built-in MIC)
- USB port allow connecting to PC for fast data transmission
- Language: Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, English
- Built-in rechargeable battery
- Power adaptor: 2-pin flat plug, input AC 110~240V 50/60Hz 4W, output DC 5.0V
- Package includes:
- 1* game console
- 1* power adaptor
- 1* USB cable
- 1* earphone
- 1* user manual (English)

Get yours today for $73.15 at the link bellow.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.26462

Holy Lawsuit Batman this is Not a GBA SP!

Deal Extreme is currently offering some very dodgy imitation systems. The most fascinating is listed as Designer 3.3" LCD Portable Handheld Game Console with 92 Built-in Games (Smalt) [sic]. For the low price of $57.29 you can be the owner of the system that on paper sounds like another crummy NES clone.

Screen: 3.3" TFT, 160*240, up to 32,000 colors
Built-in 92 games
Expansion Slots Total: 1 game cartridge slot
Power adaptor: 2-pin flat plug, input AC 80~240V 50/60Hz 4W, output DC 5.2V 320mA
Rechargeable battery: Li-ion 3.7~3.8V

Dig a little deeper and you soon discover that it is a GBA clone copying the basic design almost entirely, sans the Nintendo logo but, including GBA Games. The unconfirmed game list has a lot of padding but is reported to include several great games including 3 versions of Pokemon, Advance Wars, Bomberman Story, Double Dragon Advance, Contra Advance Alien Wars, Final Fight One, Mario Cart Advance, Metal Slug Advance, R-Type 3rd Lightning, Mario Advance, Mario Advance 4 and, Tetris World.



The aspect ratio of the screen is reported to be a bit off, the quality of the system to be shoddier then the real thing and, some users have noted slowdown which is unsurprising. I can’t recommend this system to anyone but it looks really cool as a curiosity.

Buy one and find out more info at the link bellow.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.25221

A more in depth review is available at Assembler Games who's YouTube video is included in this post.

http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=354902