Does anyone have a OneStation game system?

[Fallingwater]

Since many of us are addicted to DealExtreme, I imagine there's some of you who have tried one of these. They're basically emulators for old games, and you can find cartridges containing as many as a hundred. I'm quite a fan of many old games and I'd like to have a portable system explicitly made to emulate them, but I'm unsure about the general quality. Does it work as it should? Are the games actually playable?

Also, how is the MD widescreen mini? A post on the forum says it doesn't have nintendo compatibility, which probably means it can't run many games the normal OneStation can. Is this right? What games are better, MD or OneStation?

 

[gorn]

I picked up a couple of them last year. I ended up giving them to my adult kids. They work really well and the games are exactly as you would remember them. Now that you've brought them to my attention again I guess I will have to replace them.

 

[Fallingwater]

I pondered the idea of getting a GP2X, a proper linux-powered portable meant explicitly for emulation, on which you can load Mame roms. But one of those costs €170 or thereabouts, while a OneStation is just €25... the one thing I don't much like about it is that you can't do anything to the games - on mame you can run cheat databases, save and reload at will, and all that...

 

[gorn]

Well, you could always go with the iPhone. There is a mame emulator for it now.

 

[Fallingwater]

No no no. No incredibly overpriced Apple products for me, thanks.

 

[andyw513]

Hate to resurrect this aging thread, but I just received my OneStation this morning in a Camo finish and thought I'd contribute...

Mine came after I ordered it less than a month ago (US Customer) and I've got to say Im really impressed so far. aside from emulators I run on my PC, I'd forgotten about the classic A and B button interface I grew up on.

It's smaller than my phone and has a countless number of games on it. Advertised, it's "999-in-one" without the cartridge, but some are re-hashes of games on the console.

It's a great toy to have, I like it so far.