Selling my 1ghz Pandora after all these years


phi6

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I'm done with the thing, there's so many emulation handhelds out there now I can't justify it. I've put it on my UK Ebay account.
Everything still works, hope anyone is interested here?
 
Honestly, to me it is a bloody joke how those new emulation handhelds can barely emulate more systems than what the Pandora could 10 years ago.
They cost way too much if that is factored in and I do not see how those still sell.
 
Honestly, to me it is a bloody joke how those new emulation handhelds can barely emulate more systems than what the Pandora could 10 years ago.
They cost way too much if that is factored in and I do not see how those still sell.
You can't just fall by luck on a device like this, you must actively search for it... not so many people have the will to do so.
 
For the systems I want to emulate, modern handhelds are good enough! I get what you're saying, but I'm starting to get too old for the amount of tinkering required for the Pandora
 
For the systems I want to emulate, modern handhelds are good enough! I get what you're saying, but I'm starting to get too old for the amount of tinkering required for the Pandora
I did not have to tinker at all with the Pandora.
Once set up, the Emulators are rock solid and no tinkering required.

You can't just fall by luck on a device like this, you must actively search for it... not so many people have the will to do so.
I understand that a new customer will most likely get a new device instead of looking for a Pandora.
All I am saying is, that I am quite disappointed by all those retro handhelds, which most of the time can emulate the same or less than the Pandora could.
Most of the time, they even come with way worse battery life. Remember the almost 10 hours of PS1 play time on the Pandora? Good luck trying to get that out of any of the modern ones.
 
It's pretty hard to get your hands on a Pandora these days though, compared to the bunch of cheap Chinese ones. Where the Pandora shines in it's execution those modern ones are pretty cheap and available.
The Steam Deck is a real powerhouse but it's very big, lacks a physical keyboard and the super long battery life (the new OLED model will improve a bit but still).
Like my NeoGeo Pocket Color, the Pandora was usually available if I needed it due to it's long battery life.
 
I did not have to tinker at all with the Pandora.
Once set up, the Emulators are rock solid and no tinkering required.


I understand that a new customer will most likely get a new device instead of looking for a Pandora.
All I am saying is, that I am quite disappointed by all those retro handhelds, which most of the time can emulate the same or less than the Pandora could.
Most of the time, they even come with way worse battery life. Remember the almost 10 hours of PS1 play time on the Pandora? Good luck trying to get that out of any of the modern ones.
I mean, that's not true for everything especially as various ports of game engines and open source software are no longer updated for the Pandora, especially now that the Pyra exists.
For example ScummVM is not at the latest version, and trying to get Pico8 to work was a pain as it involved compiling box86 myself, getting required libraries from another Linux machine and then being stuck with bad performance due to the ancient chipset and GPU on the Pandora.
That's the benefit of more modern handhelds, the software is much more current.
 
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