Hello,

I was wondering if anyone here has one of these devices, and if so, what they thought of it? I'm not entirely sold on the idea but I am intrigued by what it has to offer.

Furthermore, if someone has one if you could provide some information on which PC games are playable on it that would be greatly appreciated.

I have never heard of it - so for those in my position, a few links would be benficial. :)

Sorry about that. The GCW Zero is an open-source gaming handheld that relies on emulation to play tons of classic games. Here is the link:

http://www.gcw-zero.com/

It was a Kickstarter success and is now available for purchase. It would be great to play some classic games on the go, I know they have Descent working on it as well as some other classics. My interest would mainly be for PC classics, but people interested in old console gaming could find many uses for it as well.

Thankyou!

Looks interesting actually.

Looks promising. I'd be curious as well. I'd probably use it more for console play instead of a phone or tablet.

bump. I thought this device would be way more popular amongst this community.

I guess the word hasn't spread far yet. I might have to gift this to myself...the more I think about it, the more I want it! Thanks for bringing this to my attention :D

It does look interesting, but, then again, so did the OUYA.

Open-source projects tend to promise a lot and have loads of potential, but that can only be truly proven when they get into the market. None of the open-source games it has available as of now looks particularly interesting, and my guess is it'll end up being just another device to emulate and illegally play ROMs of old console games -- which most smartphones, the Vita, the DS and the 3DS already manage to do.

I liked the design and the features but, to be honest, I can't see Square-Enix being interested in an agreement with them, in order for owners of the device to play the classic Tomb Raider in a legal way.

There's an active forum about this device there: (GCW Zero section)
http://boards.dingoonity.org/

This would be an amazing portable (for emulation and other homebrews) few years ago, nowadays not so much. With all the different android devices in the market, and many more developers willing to work on that.
Portability and good physical controls are unbeatable in this one, I guess.. but the price is not so attractive. (and still... I would love to have one.. :D)

It should be possible to play the first Tomb Raider under DOSBox, and almost all other DOS games (which generally support 320x200 and/or 320x240 so would fit the resolution of this screen).

Fair point, but I think the fact that this is a portable device distinguishes it from the OUYA (which can't compete with other home consoles).

I'm planning on getting one of these for my birthday but I'm not 100% sold yet.

From what I've read on other sites people are very happy with the device.

Then again, it seems to fall in the same category as the GP2X Wiz, Caanoo, Dingoo, and Pandora, and I can't recall any of them being hugely popular.

The Pandora didn't fail, after Michael Mrozek took over the whole project, everything went fine and all units will be sold soon since some of the parts are out of production but there is still demand and the community is very active and the software very polished (PSX in higher resolution than original fluid on 6 year old hardware, woohoo).

I had a "GP2X Caanoo" and it was quite good but battery life had only about 4h in it and (unlike Pandora) the battery can not be changed easily. The GCW0 is it's spiritual successor but since there are massive production problems, the community for it is really small and it still lacks some important software.

I'd rather get an OpenPandora or wait till its successor (Dragonbox Pyra) is ready but this may take some time, although it's making very fast progress, since Michael knows what he is doing unlike the former Pandora producer Craig Rothwell who is known as kind of a "Sir Scamalot" by now by many.

Since I have my OpenPandora and made an upgrade to the current version, I sold my Caanoo and am very happy with this lovely swiss army knife of hardware and awesome battery life. Since I love DosBox on the go, the physical keyboard is quite important, like in Amiga emulation.
10h with screen, way more without it as an audio player and since the sound chip is a very good and expensive one, the sound is better than any mobile music player on the market and it actually makes sense to load flacs into it, which is no problem since it can run with two 128gb fullSD-cards at once.

Err.. yet another console to.. emulate other consoles and systems?
Mm.. can't you just use the computer for that? O_o7
I mean, is this really needed?

You underestimate the amount (and quality) of homebrew games for those systems and the ability to have a really mobile system and not just some bastard between phone and pda which does nothing really good.