GenMobile - Portable Mega Drive

[Duddyroar]

Not sure if anyone has paid much attention to this but it's basically a portable Mega Drive - similar to the Nomad - but is produced by a third party manufacturer.

It comes with 20 games built-in (like the Blaze Mega Drive portable) and will accept games from any region.

D-pad isn't fantastic and the sound emulation is sometimes a little off, but for just over ?30 you can't really grumble. Stone Age Gamer have them in stock, but beware of customs charges. I got stung for ?11 on mine.

Here's me goofing around with one:

[Cauterize]

Wow, its actually licensed this one! Ill look into it.
You do like your handheld curiosities dont you Duddy?

[Duddyroar]

That's purely because I hardly get any time on the telly, what with sharing the house with two females and a baby male who is addicted to CBeebies.

Plus, these little handhelds are useful for playing at work

[malletmk2]

nice post.
Is there any motion blur when you move about? I got a nomad and motion blur happens all the time because of the early tech of the screen back then. That portable looks like the screen is very sharp

[Duddyroar]

Nope, no blur to speak of. The quality of the LCD screen is obviously not on par with the likes of the DS or PSP - it has a kind of "speckled" effect - but it's not too bad. Brightness is decent.

At the end of the day this cost £34 (or thereabouts) so it's decent enough for the price.

[chojin]

wow another cool little handheld.... i'm liking this one especially as it accepts all region carts too

[muddy]

That's purely because I hardly get any time on the telly, what with sharing the house with two females and a baby male who is addicted to CBeebies.

Plus, these little handhelds are useful for playing at work

EXACTLY why I got shut of a lot of consoles and got more handhelds.

Nice find mate, I think I might have to investigate!

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

Plus, these little handhelds are useful for playing at work

Hmmm, Artform employee shirking his work....

Doesn't surprise me knowing that place!

[Duddyroar]

Behave, I meant during dinner :P

[KusoGaki]

http://stoneagegamer.com/fc16goportablesnes.aspx

Think i'm more interested in this :O !

[Yakumo]

Is it just me or is the sound on that thing way off. EVERY game you showed apart from Strider seemed to have sound issues. Rolling Thunder was missing a Channel, Super Shinobi 2 sounded out of tune and Magical hat was off key.

Yakumo

[Duddyroar]

The fact that my camera isn't the best at recording probably doesn't help but yeah, the sound is a little off. Not as bad as you might think, though.

[dosucol]

Judging from the reviews of both the retrogen and the genmobile on sega-16 http://www.sega-16.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=9 ,the genmobile seems to be the one to go for !

Just waiting for someone,anyone on our shores to have them in stock, before getting a couple!

[rmoxon]

Is this the same thing? or is it different?

http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/7871839/Sega-Megadrive-Handheld-Console/Product.html

[Duddyroar]

No that doesn't have the cart slot.