So it seems Waixing/Subor have released a "next generation" Wii knock-off platform that is widely seen across Taobao, continuing from their previous Sunplus SPG293 platform. This time they seem to be running Android with some kind of quad core ARM processor. Models seem to include the
ET-71 with camera,
Wii-like ET-66 and even the
VR Headset (!) ET-79. All of them ship with Wii-style controllers which I think have a proper accelerometer, they certainly look higher quality than the usual knock-off controllers. What's interesting about these is they are actually more powerful than the original Wii, by some margin.
While looking around I found a massive repository of APKs on Waixing's site, at
http://www.waixing.com/apk/. The first thing I looked for was a NES emulator, although I found two (and a load of ROMs in the nes subfolder) at
http://www.waixing.com/apk/gamenet/app/%E6%A8%A1%E6%8B%9F%E5%99%A8/, I don't think these are much more than NESoid so sadly won't support any WXN games. There are also a large number of presumably Waixing-developed motion games around, it's a very slow server as is often the case so I haven't actually fully downloaded any yet.
At the moment the consoles are about $75, if they drop in price at all I'll probably buy one to investigate a bit more. In the mean time depending on how strict they are about controllers and the platform it may be possible to run the APKs on other Android devices or an Android emulator.
EDIT: I found some technical specifications. The ET-71 has a RK3188 quad-core 1.8GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of Flash. Unfortunately there are no detailed specs the VR headset, I think it's pretty new as it's not widely listed and doesn't even appear on Waixing's website.
Looking through that folder of NES ROMs a bit more thoroughly, I don't think there's anything truly undumped but there are one or two more obscure ones, i.e. 外星战士2 ("Alien Warrior 2") by Waixing (
http://www.waixing.com/apk/gamenet/app/%E6%A8%A1%E6%8B%9F%E5%99%A8/nes/%E5%A4%96%E6%98%9F%E6%88%98%E5%A3%AB2.nes).
I suspect there may be more of interest, I'm bulk downloading the folder now the download speed's picked up.[/quote]I was browsing through Waixing's servers and came across a section for karaoke (under the gamenet/dance folder), which I thought was interesting.
Also, I think that may be their backup server.
http://img.waixing.com:8080/AppFiles/ seems to be the official server as it links directly to an Apache Tomcat page and the latest update to it was today.
The studynet PC software was the one updated today if anyone is brave enough to run it on their windows machine.
The APK's for the VR headset look like they are on the official server under apk/ if you are interested.
The server also proves that the ETV-06 (Whichever one that is) runs android as it has its own section
here
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