The Dingoo (full name Dingoo A-320) 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 is available to consumers in three colors: white, black, and pink. It was released in February 2009 and has since sold over 1 million units.
Other versions of the console include Dingoo A330 and Dingoo A380.
Dingoo focuses on games and media products, and is located in the Futian District, Shenzhen.
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 Mini-USB connector 2.0
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 8 kHz
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)
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 / Public Domain (PD) games for all operation systems (OS) can be added manually:
15
Aothello
Arcade Volleyball
Astro Lander
Biniax 2
BlueCube4D
Brickomania
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 3-D
Wubtris
XRickOO [Rick Dangerous]
Duke Nukem 3D
GBA
NES
Neo Geo
SNES
CPS-1
CPS-2
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Atari 800 8-bit computers
Atari 2600
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 Game Boy Color
Nintendo Game Boy Advance
PC Engine
PlayStation (Dingux only)
Sega Genesis/Mega Drive/Mega-CD (Dingux only)
Sega Master System, SG-1000 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)
Arcade games
Centipede and Millipede
CPS-1
CPS-2
FinalBurn Alpha (Dingux only)
MAME
Mikie (Konami arcade game)
Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man
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
Audio formats: MP3, WMA, APE, FLAC, WAV, AC3, MOD, S3M, XM
Channels: Stereo
EQ Function
Supports JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG File Formats
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.
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.
Voice and radio recording
Voice recording and supports MP3/WAV formats.
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
allows you to find files on your Dingoo (games, music, videos, photos, voice recordings)
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
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
The native operating system of the Dingoo A-320 is a variant of µC/uOS-II, 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 A-320 (including its emulators) run on µC/OS-II.
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, FCEUX and VICE.
Dingoo A320 review by Tech Radar
