So, I recently saw some new 32-bit plug-and-play console from Lexibook at my local Kmart in the Boston area. The games on it looked vaguely interesting, and weren't really anything I'd seen before, and I kind of wondered what they were. I looked it up
on Lexibook's site, and even more curiously, it claimed to run its games from an SD card.
I wasn't quite willing to risk $40 on it, but after seeing this playthrough from YouTube user "SteeScribbles", I'm significantly more curious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO-_9npCk0QYep. It's that one infamous SD-card-based Waixing console-- the one which was the source of all of those encrypted .wxn dumps of VT03 games-- released by a company outside of China! With a user interface that's in...something vaguely resembling English! And a whole bunch of 32-bit Waixing games that I'd never seen in action before, to go along with it.
Incidentally, the same Kmart location also sells Lexibook's
Cyber Arcade Console. Can't find much in the way of video of it, because there's no TV-out port, but what I've seen looks really intriguing-- suffice it to say, there are plenty of 16-bit CubeTac Famicom hacks included. (Eagle-eyed viewers may notice that the promotional image on Lexibook's site is a sprite hack of Chip 'n Dale.)
Oh, and if you don't have a Kmart locally,
they ship these from their web site as well.
...The Mario ripoff at 33 minutes into the video. O_o That is...
wow. Words do not do it justice.
Wow, this is the second plug-and-play console I've seen that had a knockoff of the mid-'00s shareware game Professor Fizzwizzle (the Pocket Dream Console was the first). Chinese bootleggers will seriously rip off
anything.
Oww, the sound emulation on the Famiclone ROMs, shown in the latter half of
the 2nd video, is ear-splittingly terrible. Not that I'm
surprised... >_<