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Monday, August 8, 2011

Dingoo A320 Mods

Portable get a proper home in an arcade controller

posted Aug 7th 2011 4:01pm by Mike Szczys
filed under: handhelds hacks

[Luke] wanted an arcade-style controller that he could use for some gaming at home. He decided to use a portable game emulator as a base and then added his own joystick and buttons along with a custom case.

The donor hardware is a Dingo A320. It’s a nice little handheld with a 2.8″ screen, and plenty of potential to emulate games like Donkey Kong seen above, or to play homebrew. It’s even been the target of some RAM upgrades we looked in on in the past. The best part for [Luke's] project is that it includes a video out port.

In the clip after the break you can see that [Luke] now has a compact controller with a huge arcade joystick, four buttons on the top surface, and the rest of the controls all around the edges of the enclosure. The video out option is selected in the menu system, so he preserved the original LCD for use during configuration.

tagged: a320, arcade, dingo, emulator, handheld, Joystick
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Dingoo Arcade Plug'n Play MOD

Video Link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_LXGtnWSkQ&feature=player_embedded

Dingoo Mod – to the EXTREEEM!

For no really good reason, I had to mod a Dingoo A320 with a memory upgrade. The 320 has 32MB of RAM, but the A330 has 64MB of RAM. IMHO the A320 has more going for it, fewer glitches, than the 330. But the 330 has more memory…

So you can see how I’d already be vaguely thinking about it. Then over on Dingoonity, a user named flaming_goat asked if it would be possible. Well you know there’s no turning back after that…

I read up on the chips in the 330, and the chips in the 320. I checked my 320 to see how it was wired. It looked feasible. None of my tests said it would fail, so the only way to know for sure was to try it.

DigiKey had the chips I wanted and they were only about $12.50 for a pair of them. No turning back now…

Dingoo A320

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Dingoo A320


Manufacturer	Dingoo Digital Technology Company Ltd.^[1]
Type	Handheld game console
CPU	Ingenic JZ4732(or JZ4740) @ 336MHz (underclocked from 400MHz) (MIPS architecture)
Website	dingoo.hk

The Dingoo A320 is a gaming handheld that supports music and video playback and open game development. The system features an on-board radio and recording program. It is available in two colors—white and black—with a third color, pink, announced for future release. It was released in February 2009.^[2]

Dingoo focuses on games and digital products, and is located in the Futian District, Shenzhen.^[1]

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[edit] Hardware

A black Dingoo.

[edit] Specifications

CPU Ingenic JZ4732 @ 336 MHz, underclocked from 360 MHz (clocks up to 433 MHz) (MIPS architecture)
RAM 32MB @ 112 MHz (Underclocked from 133 or 166 dependent on unit)
Internal Storage 1/2/4GB flash
Additional Storage MiniSD/SDHC (MicroSD/SDHC with adapter)
Input D-Pad, 2 shoulder, 4 face, Start & Select buttons, Mic.
Outputs Stereo Speakers, Headphone Jack & TV-out w/ included cable
I/O USB 2.0
Display 2.8" LCD, 320x240 resolution, 65.5K colors
Battery 3.7V 1700-1800 mAH (6.29WH) Li-Ion, approx. 7 hours run time
Video Playback RM, MP4, 3GP, AVI, ASF, MOV, FLV, MPEG
Audio Playback MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, RA
Radio Digital FM Tuner
Recording Supports digital recording of voice (MP3 and WMA formats) and FM radio at 8KHz
Software Support Free official and unofficial SDKs Available
Dimensions 125 × 55.5 × 14mm) / (4.92in x 2.17in x 0.59in)
Weight 3.8 oz (110g)^[3]

[edit] Function

[edit] Games

3D,Game Boy Advance, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo and more.

[edit] Original

Some original games are Chinese and English; others are Chinese only.

7 Days salvation
Ultimate Drift
Dream Drift
Dingoo Snake
Amiba's Candy
Hell Striker
Decollation Warrior

[edit] Homebrew

Rubido
MineSweeper
AstroLander
SameGoo
Formula1
Rick Dangerous (port)
Duke Nukem 3D (Dingux port)

[edit] Emulation

[edit] Official

[edit] Community-based

Atari 800 8-bit computers
Atari 2600 (Dingux only)
Atari 5200
Atari 7800
Atari Lynx
ColecoVision
Commodore 64
Commodore Amiga
Magnavox Odyssey 2
MSX (openMSX Dingux)
Neo Geo
Neo Geo Pocket
Nintendo Game Boy and GameBoy Color
Nintendo Game Boy Advance
PC Engine
PlayStation (Dingux only)
Sega Genesis/Mega Drive/Mega-CD (Dingux only)
Sega Master System and Sega Game Gear (in progress, working for most games)
WonderSwan and WonderSwan Color (in progress, working for most games)
ZX Spectrum (GP2Xpectrum for Dingux, Unreal Speccy Portable for native OS)

[edit] Arcade games

Centipede and Millipede
CPS-1
CPS-2
FinalBurn Alpha (Dingux only)
MAME ^[4]
Mikie (Konami arcade game)
Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man

[edit] Video player

Video containers: RMVB, RM, AVI, WMV, FLV, MPEG, MP4, ASF, MOV
Video codecs: WMV1, WMV3, WMV7, WMV8.1, WMV9, MP42, mp4v, DIV3, DiVX5, XViD, MJPG, MPEG1, MPEG2
LCD resolution: 320×240

[edit] Audio player

Audio formats: MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, WAV, AC3, MOD, S3M, XM
Channels: Stereo
EQ Function

[edit] Photo viewer

Supports JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG File Formats

[edit] Text reader

Supports TXT file formats (English and Chinese)
Support English text to speech
Further functions include bookmarking, auto browsing, font sizing, and it can open while music is playing.^[3]

[edit] Radio receiver

FM Radio
Wide channel range from 76.0–108.0 MHz, support manual/auto channel scanning, FM recording and can keep playing while using other application. User can save up to 40 channels.^[3]

[edit] Audio recording

Voice and radio recording
Voice recording and supports MP3/WAV formats.^[3]

[edit] Other

Supports SWF File Format (only Flash 6)
U-disk virus protection: Built-in anti-virus software protection, to keep the system at its best performance.
USB 2.0 Transmission Interface: Windows 2000/XP/Vista and Mac OS X support^[3]

[edit] File browser

allows you to find files on your Dingoo (games, music, videos, photos, voice recordings)^[3]

[edit] Firmware

A Dingoo running an alpha version of a Linux port

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] µC/OS-II

The native operating system of the Dingoo A320 is µC/OS-II,^[5] a low-cost priority-based pre-emptive real time multitasking operating system kernel for microprocessors, written mainly in the C programming language. It is mainly intended for use in embedded systems. All official software for the Dingoo A320 (including its emulators) run on µC/OS-II.

[edit] Linux

A Linux kernel was generally released by Booboo on Google Code 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 (Doom, Hexen, Heretic), Build engine (Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior), Quake, Dodgin' Diamonds 1 & 2, Biniax 2, GNU Robbo, Super Transball 2, Defendguin, Waternet, Sdlroids, Spout, Tyrian, Rise of the Triad, Open Liero, REminiscence, Blockrage, and the OpenBOR game engine.

The Dingoo can run emulators: ScummVM, SMS Plus, Gmuplayer, FinalBurn Alpha, Gnuboy, GpSP, MAME, PSX4ALL, Snes9x, PicoDrive, openMSX, GP2Xpectrum, and FCEUX.

[edit] See also

Similar portable Linux-based gaming devices:
- GP32
- GP2X
- GP2X Wiz
- GP2X Caanoo
- Pandora (console)
- Gemei X760+
Mi2 console
List of Linux-based, handheld gaming devices

[edit] Reviews

[edit] External links

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Shenzhen Dingoo Technology Co., Ltd.
^ Skooter blog
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g http://www.dingoo.cn/en_index.asp
^ MAME for DINGOO
^ "OpenHandhelds.org development forums". http://forum.openhandhelds.org/viewforum.php?f=35. Retrieved 2009-07-15.

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Dingoo A320 RAM upgrade

posted Jun 10th 2010 11:30am by Mike Szczys
filed under: handhelds hacks

[Stephanie] beefed up the hardware on her Dingoo A320. She enjoyed the features that the A320 handheld gaming system offered, but wanted the 64mb of RAM available in its bigger brother, the A330. A comparison of the two led her to believe a swap might be possible and after sourcing a pair of replacement chips for $12.50 she took the plunge. Once the solder had cooled it was just a matter of flashing some different firmware to take advantage of the upgrade.

[Thanks Juan via Dingoonity]

tagged: a320, a330, dingoo, ram
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I like these Mods, even though I had no idea what a Dingoo was until I read these articles!:) I just like it when People or I, Hack Stuff!:)

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