The Dingoo () is a handheld gaming console that supports music and video playback and open game development. The system features an on-board radio and recording program. It was sold to consumers in three colors: white, black, and pink. It was released in February 2009 and had sold over 1 million units. Other versions of the console include Dingoo A330 and Dingoo A380. Dingoo focused on games and media products, and was located in the

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Hardware

Specifications

A320

* Internal Storage 1/2/4GB flash * Additional Storage MiniSD/SDHC (MicroSD/SDHC with adapter) * Input D-Pad, 2 shoulder, 4 face, Start & Select buttons, Microphone. * Outputs Stereo Speakers, Headphone Jack & TV-out w/ included cable * I/O Mini-USB connector 2.0 * Video Playback RM, MP4,

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AVI Avi is a given name, usually masculine, often a diminutive of Avram (given name), Avram, Avraham, etc. It is sometimes feminine and a diminutive of the Hebrew spelling of Abigail (name), Abigail. People with the given name include: * Avi (author ...

, ASF, MOV, FLV,

MPEG The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an alliance of working groups established jointly by International Organization for Standardization, ISO and International Electrotechnical Commission, IEC that sets standards for media coding, includ ...

* Audio Playback

MP3 MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg. It was designed to greatly reduce the amount ...

, WMA,

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FLAC FLAC (; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software ...

, RA * Radio Digital FM Tuner * Recording Supports

digital recording In digital recording, an audio signal, audio or video signal is converted into a stream of discrete numbers representing the changes over time in air pressure for audio, or Color, chroma and luminance values for video. This number stream is s ...

of voice (MP3 and WMA formats) and FM radio at 8 kHz * Software Support Free official SDKs Available * Dimensions * Weight * Display 320×240 The Dingoo A320 uses a rechargeable

Lithium-ion battery A lithium-ion or Li-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery that uses the reversible intercalation of Li+ ions into electronically conducting solids to store energy. Li-ion batteries are characterized by higher specific energy, energ ...

with 6 to 8 hours of battery life. The battery specs are 3.7V 1700-1800

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(6.29WH).

Function

Games

Original

Original games in two different languages (USA (U) and Chinese (C)) for the Native OS are included: * '' 7 Days - Salvation'' (U) * ''Ali Baba'' (U) * ''Amiba's Candy'' (U) * ''Block Breaker'' (U) * ''Decollation Warrior'' 'God of War Criminal Day''(U) * ''Dingoo Link Em Up'' (U) * ''Dingoo Snake'' (U) * ''Hell Striker II'' 'World Road''(U) * ''Landlord'' (U) * ''Nose Breaker'' (U) * ''Puzzle Bobble'' 'PoPo Bash''(C) * ''Tetris'' (U) * ''Ultimate Drift'' (U) * ''Yi-Chi King Fighter'' (C) * ''Zhao Yun Chuan'' (C)

Homebrew

Homebrew / Public Domain (PD) games for all operation systems (OS) can be added manually:

Native OS

* ''15'' * ''Aothello'' * ''Arcade Volleyball'' * ''Astro Lander'' * ''Biniax 2'' * ''BlueCube4D'' * ''Brickomania'' * ''

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'' * ''Chip World'' * ''Color Lines'' * ''Commander Koon'' 'Commander Keen''* ''Connect Four - Zero Gravity'' * ''Digger'' * ''Dooom'' * ''Game & Watch - Formula 1'' * ''HexaVirus'' * ''Manic Miner'' * ''MineSweeper'' * ''mRPG'' *
Mushroom Roulette
' * ''New RAW'' 'Another World''* ''Quake'' * ''Rubido'' * ''SameGoo'' * ''SomeTris'' * ''Spartak-Chess'' * ''Spear of Destiny'' * ''Spoout'' * ''szSokuban760'' * ''szSudoku760'' 'Sudoku Platinum''* ''TCGS Car'' * ''The Last Mission'' * ''TowerToppler'' 'Nebulus''* ''Vectoroids'' * ''Vorton'' * ''Wolfenstein 3D'' * ''Wubtris'' * ''XRickOO'' 'Rick Dangerous''

Dingux

* ''Duke Nukem 3D''

Emulation

Official

* GBA * NES *

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* CPS-1 * CPS-2 * Mega Drive/Genesis

Community-based

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ColecoVision ColecoVision is a second-generation home video-game console developed by Coleco and launched in North America in August 1982. It was released a year later in Europe by CBS Electronics as the CBS ColecoVision. The console offered a closer expe ...

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Game Boy The is a handheld game console developed by Nintendo, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America later that year and other territories from 1990 onwards. Following the success of the Game & Watch single-ga ...

and

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Game Boy Advance The (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console, manufactured by Nintendo, which was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, and to international markets that June. It was later released in mainland China in 2004, under the name iQue Game Boy Advanc ...

* Genesis / Mega Drive and Mega-CD (Dingux only) * Magnavox Odyssey 2 *

MSX MSX is a standardized home computer architecture, announced by ASCII Corporation on June 16, 1983. It was initially conceived by Microsoft as a product for the Eastern sector, and jointly marketed by Kazuhiko Nishi, the director at ASCII Corpo ...

openMSX Dingux
*

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PlayStation is a video gaming brand owned and produced by Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), a division of Japanese conglomerate Sony. Its flagship products consists of a series of home video game consoles produced under the brand; it also consists ...

(Dingux only) *

Master System The is an 8-bit Third generation of video game consoles, third-generation home video game console manufactured and developed by Sega. It was originally a remodeled export version of the Sega Mark III, the third iteration of the SG-1000 series ...

SG-1000 The is a home video game console manufactured by Sega. It was Sega's first entry into the home video game hardware business. Developed in response to a downturn in arcades starting in 1982, the SG-1000 was created on the advice of Hayao Nak ...

and

Game Gear The is an 8-bit Fourth generation of video game consoles, fourth-generation handheld game console released by Sega on October 6, 1990 in Japan, in April 1991 throughout North America and Europe, and in 1992 in Australia. The Game Gear primarily ...

(in progress, working for most games) *

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and

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(in progress, working for most games) *

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(GP2Xpectrum for Dingux
Unreal Speccy Portable
for native OS)

= Arcade games

= * ''

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'' and ''

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'' * CPS-1 * CPS-2 * ''FinalBurn Alpha'' (Dingux only) * ''

MAME MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to emulate the hardware of arcade games, video game consoles, old computers and other systems in software on modern personal computers and ...

'' MAME for DINGOO
/ref> * '' Mikie'' (Konami arcade game) * ''

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'' and '' Ms. Pac-Man''

Video player

* Video containers:

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, RM,

WMV Windows Media Video (WMV) is a series of video codecs and their corresponding video coding formats developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Windows Media framework. WMV consists of three distinct codecs: the original video compression technolog ...

, FLV,

, MP4, ASF, MOV * Video codecs: WMV1, WMV3, WMV7, WMV8.1, WMV9, MP42, mp4v, DIV3, DiVX5, XViD, MJPG, MPEG1, MPEG2

Audio player

* Audio formats:

, WMA,

WAV Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; pronounced or ) is an audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on personal computers. The format was developed and published for the first time in 1991 ...

, AC3, MOD, S3M, XM * Channels: Stereo * EQ Function

Photo viewer

* Supports

JPG JPEG ( , short for Joint Photographic Experts Group and sometimes retroactively referred to as JPEG 1) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degr ...

, BMP,

GIF The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or , ) is a Raster graphics, bitmap Image file formats, image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released ...

, PNG File Formats

Text reader

* Supports TXT file formats (English and Chinese) * Supports English text to speech * Further functions include bookmarking, auto browsing, font sizing, and it can open while music is playing.

Radio receiver

* FM Radio * Wide frequency range from 76.0 to 108.0 MHz, support manual/auto channel scanning, FM recording and can keep playing while using other application. User can save up to 40 channels.

Audio recording

* Voice and radio recording * Voice recording and supports MP3/WAV formats.

Other

* Supports SWF File Format (only Flash 6) * SD Card virus protection: The system protects itself from viruses by scanning the SD Card. *

USB Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard, developed by USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), for digital data transmission and power delivery between many types of electronics. It specifies the architecture, in particular the physical ...

2.0 Port: Supports

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/ XP/

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as well as

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File browser

* Allows you to browse the files on your Dingoo, such as games, music, videos, photos, and voice recordings

Firmware

Official firmware

*Firmware V1.01 *Firmware V1.02 *Firmware V1.03 *Firmware V1.10 (Added Multi-Language Support) *Firmware V1.11 (Added Korean Language Support) *Firmware V1.20 (Y & B button bug fix and more) *Firmware V1.22

Unofficial firmware

Team Dingoo released the first unofficial firmware with user customizable theming possibilities. The system files were moved from hidden memory to an accessible memory location, allowing users to change the graphical settings. This firmware is updated regularly. *a320-1.03TD-3 *a320-1.03TD-2 *a320-1.03TD-1

μC/OS-II

The native

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of the Dingoo A320 is a variant of μC/uOS-II, a low-cost priority-based pre-emptive real time multitasking operating system

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for

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s, written mainly in the C programming language. It is mainly intended for use in

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s. All official software for the Dingoo A-320 (including its emulators) run on μC/OS-II.

Linux

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kernel was generally released by ''Booboo'' on

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on May 18, 2009. A dual boot installer called "Dingux" was released June 24. This allows for dual booting the original firmware or Linux without the need for connection to a PC. Enthusiasts have successfully run Linux versions of many games, including Prboom engine (''

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'', '' Hexen'', ''

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''),

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(''

Duke Nukem 3D ''Duke Nukem 3D'' is a 1996 first-person shooter, first-person shooter game developed by 3D Realms and published by FormGen for MS-DOS. It is a sequel to the platform games ''Duke Nukem (video game), Duke Nukem'' and ''Duke Nukem II'', published ...

'', ''

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''), '' Quake'', ''Dodgin' Diamonds 1 & 2'', '' Biniax 2'', ''GNU Robbo'', ''Super Transball 2'', ''Defendguin'', ''Waternet'', ''Sdlroids'', ''Spout'', '' Tyrian'', ''

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'', '' Open Liero'', '' REminiscence'', ''Blockrage'', and the OpenBOR game engine. The Dingoo can run

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, SMS Plus, Gmuplayer, FinalBurn Alpha, Gnuboy, GpSP,

, PSX4ALL, Snes9x, PicoDrive, openMSX, GP2Xpectrum, FCEUX and

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Reviews

Dingoo A320 review by Tech Radar

External links

Dingoo Official Website (English)

References

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