In one of craigixs craziest videos yet; after losing to gravity craig gives us a quite update on the situation of the next Pandora video and reassures us that he’s working hard at it.
(Pandora part starts at 4:54 if you’re in a hurry)
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Craig uploaded a neat video showing off an unrelated Chinese PSP clone and an early cardboard mockup Pandora (starting at ~1:40)
EDIT: Oh yeah, and there’s also an assembled (real) Pandora in there too 
Video after the break.
Some promising news from our favourite Dragon. If you live near DaveC, buy that man a beer!
Hi folks! You’ve been waiting for the weekly report, haven’t you? Well, I’ve been very very busy with various things, so I coldn’t catch up with everything until now. And I’ve got some short but really good news for you:
Dave finished every single step which was on the ToDo-List of the case!
This does mean, that the case moulding could start REALLY soon. We’re currently waiting for a review from the company – and will tell you more about the status as soon as we get some more information!
Oh, on a side note, most parts for the boards have arrived in Dallas (95%). This means that mass production for the full 4000 run can most probably start as soon as we give them a green light (which means: After we tested the 105 boards).
You’ve seen it on Engadget, Crunchgear, Hackaday, and the rest. But what those guys don’t know is that we saw it first on GP32X. Yay us. For those who came in late, the snega2usb is a USB interface for SNES and MegaDrive/Genesis carts, allowing to you run your own games in an emulator (on PC, or Pandora) direct from the cartridge! But packed with science and magic as it is, the one thing it lacks is a good, snappy name. So creator Matthias_H has put the call out for a new moniker, with the best suggestion winning a snega2usb prototype!
If you’d like to enter, visit the snega2usb blog and submit your entry via email. Please do not post your suggestions in the comments below; they will be ruled out instantly. Get2it!
MDave has posted a crackin’ new Zeq2lite gameplay video. The fighting is a little one sided (thanks to him being the only human in the room at the time of filming) but he promises some bona fide two player smashy smashy soon. The Dragonball Z flavoured deathmatcher is in development for PC, Linux, Mac, and Pandora.
A new pair of videos from Pickle, covering 13 glorious minutes of Game Boy and Game Boy Colour action. The videos are entitled “VirtualBoy Advance” but we suspect this should say “VisualBoy Advance” (as in VBA, the popular GB/GBC/GBA emulator). Corrections welcome of course. Keep an eye out for a cameo appearance from Team Pandora, as they help to take down a giant spider. Seriously.
From the Youtube page:
Some gameboy action. Though this is slow emulator I think its very accurate, also shows the pandora power. Some parts will not sound right, at this point I was trying to fast throttle the game to get past parts quicker.
I ran at 600 Mhz, double size with 2xSai Super Duper filtering (something like that
A nice, lengthy post from MW. Thanks to mosschops & emil10001 for the heads up.
Hey there,
This first 100 debate might not be as big of a deal as you might think. It’s likely that the time difference between the first 100 and the next 1000 will only be one week if any delay at all. The first 100 will be going nowhere until the case is done and shipped since we are no longer shipping out bare boards to anyone. They will go through very rigorous testing, over and over again. They will be used to establish the test procedure for the next batches of thousands. It’s even possible that all 4000 will be done testing at the same time the cases show up and they will all start going out immediately after being put together.
I would say 95% of the parts are in Texas this week and the remaining parts (some connectors) should finally ship this week with the taxation stuff better understood. The case molds should be going to production this week as well. Dave was hoping to have it done this past week but it didn’t happen so it seems reasonable to assume an extra week is all he will need.
Just to lend some context to this, Craig floated the idea back in March of sending out the first handful of completed Pandoras to a selection of lucky testers, for a fortnight of real world hammering before the remainder of the batch shipped. The topic has come up again in the last day or so, and is now brought to you in Twitterix form.
How do we decide who gets these first 100 Pandoras.. and how might we organise the feedback? For the sake of software should we go all devs?
Here’s an idea. We’ll start by listing everyone who doesn’t want one of the first ones. That’ll narrow it right down, oh yes. If you have a better idea (and let’s face it, your cat probably does), fire up the keyboard and have at it.
Some time last week, a fellow by the name of Bobbens quietly slipped into the Pandora wiki and added an entry to the Projects Under Development page. The project is NAEV, which (to borrow the remainder of the sentence) is “a 2d action/rpg space game that combines elements from the action, rpg and simulation genres.” There’s no official mention of this one on the forums yet, so it should come as a nice surprise to those who have requested it in the past. If you haven’t heard of NAEV before, here’s the good news: It’s already a well established multi-platform project, which means you can check it on out now.
A curious new photo has appeared in MWeston’s Photobucket album, discovered thanks to the vigilant obsessives over at openXile. Entitled “Analog nub tester with solderless jig setup”, it appears to have all the features you’d expect from a nub testing jig: Dashing green and red rings of death LEDs, a voluptuous black disc just begging to be pushed around, and what we assume is a PANIC button. Try not to get finger smudges on your screen.
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