The Gamebox gbx-1001 – a review

It is a linux based device (kinda like a Dingoo) running a dual core 500Mhz CPU and only costs about 48 USD. Almost too good to be true right?

Well not really if you look at the price per game!
I am actually quite impressed with it despite a couple of flaws. The controller is actually quite nice. There’s no way to run other games than the ones installed on it though. Even though the manual sort of hints at Gameboy advance games through some sort of Gameboy Advcance-like cartridge.

There is a MicroSD slot but I have yet to try that out.

Metroid Zero Mission (GBA)
Mario Kart (GBA)
1941 – Counter Attack (CPS1)
Three Wonders (CPS1)
Blue’s Journey (Neo Geo)
Baseball Stars 2 (Neo Geo)
Burning Fight (Neo Geo)
Captain Commando (CPS1)
Carrier Air Wing (CPS1)
Capcom World 2 (CPS1)
Cyber-Lip (Neo Geo)
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (CPS1)
Dynasty Wars (CPS1)
Football Frenzy (Neo Geo)
Final Fight (CPS1)
Forgotten Worlds (CPS1)
Garou: Mark of the Wolves (Neo Geo)
Ghouls’n Ghosts (CPS1)
Goal! Goal! Goal! (Neo Geo)
Knights of the Round (CPS1)
The King of Dragons (CPS1)
The King of Fighters 97(Neo Geo)
The King of Fighters ?(Neo Geo)
Knights of Valour (MAME)
Last Resort (Neo Geo)
Mahjong Kyoretsuden (Neo Geo)
Muscle Bomber Duo – Ultimate Team Battle (CPS1)
Mega Man: The Power Battle (CPS1)
Mercs (CPS1)
Metal Slug 3 (Neo Geo)
Metal Slug 5 (Neo Geo)
Metal Slug X (Neo Geo)
Magic Sword – Heroic Fantasy (CPS1)
Mega Twins (CPS1)
Mutation Nation (Neo Geo)
NAM-1975 (Neo Geo)
Ninja Commando (Neo Geo)
Nemo (CPS1)
Neo Geo Cup ’98: The Road to the Victory (Neo Geo)
Neo Drift Out: New Technology (Neo Geo)
Oriental Legend (MAME)
Pang! 3 (CPS1)
Pleasure Goal (Neo Geo)
Pnickies (CPS1)
Pulstar (Neo Geo)
The Punisher (CPS1)
Quiz and Dragons (CPS1)
Quiz Tonosama no Yabou 2 Zenkoku-ban (CPS1)
Strikers 1945 Plus (Neo Geo)
Samurai Shodown V (Neo Geo)
Street Fighter II – The World Warrior (CPS1)
Street Fighter II – Champion Edition (CPS1)
Street Fighter II Turbo – Hyper Fighting (CPS1)
Lansquenet (Neo Geo)
Saturday Night Slam Masters (CPS1)
Super Sidekicks (Neo Geo)
Super Sidekicks 3: The Next Glory (Neo Geo)
Super Sidekicks 4: The Ultimate 11 (Neo Geo)
Strider (CPS1)
SNK Vs. CAPCOM Super Plus (Neo Geo)
Top Player’s Golf (Neo Geo)
Neo Turf Masters (Neo Geo)
Tecmo World Soccer ’96 (Neo Geo)
U.N. Squadron (CPS1)
Varth – Operation Thunderstorm (CPS1)
Willow (CPS1)
Warriors of Fate (CPS1)
Zed Blade (Neo Geo)

Spanish hackers get gamebox usb mode!!!!

http://www.zonadepruebas.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=11418&forum=8

UPDATE: according to this page:
http://boards.dingoonity.org/other-ga … tems/gamebox-gbx-1001/60 /
What is Load GameBox is not Linux, but Mini. Yes someone has been able to see what “out” for the TxD pin:

RCD = 09AA7B3A

Prepare to Download Mini .

Ingenic Semiconductor Electronics ., Ltd. . Loader Version V1.0
00000080
Jump to 0×80800000

Utopian: What to try “minios.bin” was an excess of confidence (but so do things when nobody knows anything). I saw so enviente … was a Chinese forum not understand anything, but some loose English word referring to the system to boot Ingenic JZ, nor I have.

At the end of the day, the operation is just the kernel boot, and was (for lack of data, there is nothing on the network), one or the other must give equal.

The copy restore the 2GB at the moment I’m not going to do. because I’m not sure that’s good. I can not play or when testing with SD, but I can keep tinkering with NAND.

EDIT:
Every cloud has a silver lining: WHETHER YOU LIVE IN THE MINI …

I read part of the Flash again once they had committed the “mess” to put a “minios.bin” false. I compared each other, and have established beyond doubt that when you put a Mini-SD with a file called “MINIOS.BIN” is updated to address 0×4480000 0×04400000 (512k total). As I made the mistake of putting a file instead of 512k 256k ought to be, the other 256k are not clearly recorded in 0 `s (0xFF).
Therefore, the file system MINI 512k between 0×04400000-0×04480000
Now to see if I curro an upgrade of power (I doubt it possible, that the operational failure, there is nothing to look at the SD, but I always left “to flash” for USB)
Indeed, the “Mini” begins with a list of the files on your hard nand …. interesting …..

(Note: these are only assumptions, not assertions, lest anyone try the same thing and break something because of me. It is simply that matches so well, it seems to be as I have written to a 99% chance)

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The GAMEBOX UNIT GBX-1001

the gamebox unit , usb and sd card on one side , gameboy style cartridge port on other side , usb joystick ports on front and a/v and power at rear

Features on Gamebox Website GBX-1001

ARCADE BOX
● 32Bit Dual-Core Processor（500MHz X 2 ）
● 32Bit 128M SDRAM Memory System
● 2GB-4GB nand flash
● KeyMax technology，faster speed of gamepad response
● Arcade game：mame cps3 igs mvs snes gba md
● 4 Gamepad Supported，update to 4 wireless gamepad supported.

 

I hope there is a cps3 or snes emulator for it