Xiaoshenyou CY-828
| Xiaoshenyou CY-828 | |
|---|---|
| Type | Handheld |
| Hardware | Unknown handheld hardware |
| Manufacturer | Xiaoshenyou |
| Brand | Xiaoshenyou |
A 188 in 1 console using the high-resolution variant of the unknown handheld hardware, with TV-out functionality and MP3 playback. Sounds quite good on paper.. not so much in reality.
The box and intro screen describe it as having an XS2 dual-core processor - if true, that would point towards the identity of said hardware, but since "XS" also happens to match up with "XiaoShen", i'm going to take that with a pinch of salt for now..
It can be powered with 3x AAAs or a Nokia BL-5C battery, which can be charged via the MiniUSB port (I guess?). Not that I really trust it to safely charge a battery or anything. (UPDATE: Disregarded my own suspicions, tried charging it with my PS Vita USB charger. Killed the charger. For fuck's sake) (UPDATE #2 I'm now not sure if it even charges from that port at all)
Variations
Another version exists, seemingly also called CY-828, which changes up the button layout a bit, replaces the games with a more generic/common set of 699 from the same developer as BL-606 and similar (about one third are repeats, according to a xiaoshenyou rep) and ditches the MP3 player and TV out functionality.
MP3 player
Unusually for this type of handheld, it has an MP3 player built in, which reads MP3s from a MicroSD slot.
I say "an MP3 player built in" rather than "MP3 playback functionality" because it literally seems to be a cheap MP3 player circuit shoved in the case, completely separate from the game portion of the unit. The unit can only power one at a time; the power switch has "Game" and "MP3" positions.
In MP3 mode it doesn't use any of the game buttons (there are three reserved for MP3 control only), doesn't display anything on the screen and can't play music through the internal speaker (normally - see below). Instead, the same port used for TV out in game mode serves as a headphone jack in MP3 mode, and an obnoxious blue LED flashes to indicate playback. Also the sound quality is piss poor.
The MiniUSB port used for charging also allows access to the SD card, which is one nice touch at least - it also identifies the MP3 circuit as a "JIE LI CD002-1".
and not only that, it acts as a USB audio device and takes over sound output from my computer, routing it via the console's headphone port instead? WHAT WHY
AND it mounts a "USB Input device" on top of that.. what is it even doing
okay but if you plug it into a charger it seems to force it into mp3 playback mode regardless of the switch position - if you switch it to "game" at this point it literally will play mp3s through the internal speaker! (while playing games at the same time, with the game audio in the background!) so.. that's another weird quirk of this weird thing
Games
Some of them are okay, some are bad, they all have short loops of mostly irritating music, and a couple are very racist against the Japanese..
Also some are repeats under new names, or with different graphics/starting levels/infinite lives etc
- League of Legends
- X-MEN
- Dare-to-Die
- Big Yellow Duck
- Air War
- Gravity Run
- Iron Man
- Bear Advantue
- Metal Slug
- Hi,Qiang
- SanGuo Tower Defence
- Bear Coming
- Angry of Evil
- Tank vs Plane
- Let Bullet Go
- Popcorn Ninja
- Uitraman vs Alien
- Where Is My Water
- Qiang Advanture
- CrossFire
- Doraemon
- Fishing Joy
- Plants VS Zambie 2
- GangNam Style
- Fruit Ninja
- Raiden
- Variation Bugs
- Mars mission
- Crazy Shoot Pigs
- UnderCity Keeper
- Blooding Iland
- Where is Qiang
- Hunt Submarine
- Doctor Mario
- Crazy Hit Man
- Rochet Stool
- UItramanZero
- Dynamite Snake
- Escape Hell
- Bots N Bubbles
- Find Sword
- Shoot Bottle
- Greedy Penguin
- Packman and Police
- WOW Puzzle
- Ten Drops
- Shape Switcher
- Death Coming
- Space Zuma
- Save Fairy
- Dragon legend
- Ghost Dodge
- Escape
- Raiden Undeath
- DeepSea Fishing
- Pandora
- Run Run Monkey
- BloxorZ
- Falling Can
- Smart Carbi
- Crazy Bird Memory
- Whac-a-Mole
- Thin Ice
- Down 1000
- Bunch Fruit
- Big Fish Eat Small
- Sanguo TD Undeath
- Get Present
- Dynamic Clear
- PL VS Zambi Undeath
- Bean Man
- Frog Cross River
- Cross Switch
- Squirrel Go Home
- Turn Card Memory
- Just that face
- Impossible Mission
- Push Box
- Find Word
- Face Match
- Crackout
- Greedy Snake
- Arrow Shoot Ghost
- Raiden Port
- Arrange Apolo
- Shot Quick
- Blobber
- Tetris
- Pipe Link
- Magic Ball
- Block Memory
- Coin Shooter
- Up Up Up
- Rock Paper Scissors
- TicTacToe
- Take Light Photo
- Magic Diamond
- Find Difference
- Block Find Way
- Four Link Chess
- Explode Tetris
- Dodge
- Four Link
- Clear Same Color
- Where is the Ball
- Balloon shooter
- Bomb Matcher
- TicTacToe
- Frog to Heaven
- Renju
- Nuclear Factory
- Smash Block
- Squash
- Pick Weapon
- Cazzle
- Move Block
- LinkGame QQ
- Little Red Fish
- Shoot Ballon
- Clear Boxes
- Bloxpass
- Clear Lotus
- Move Blocks
- Clear cluster
- Present
- Happy Multiplication
- Shoot Ghost
- LULLY Puzzle
- Diamond Puzzle
- CrossFire Undeath
- Clever Chick
- JiDou Box Puzzle
- Leaf Puzzle
- Sudoku
- Cappucino Puzzle
- OX Horn Chess
- Down Down Down
- Dodge Danger
- Clear Dlock
- Catch GoldFish
- Oh,Banana
- Frog and Leaf
- Ghost Shooting
- Robot VS Bubble
- Unusual Tetris
- Guess the Bomb
- Take Girls Home
- Zuma
- Flying Stool
- Small Map BeanMan
- VR IceHighland
- VR NorthPole
- VR Chess
- VR DoubleInvert
- VR Chess2
- VR Uncrossble
- VR 88Highland
- VR S
- VR Cross
- VR IceForrest
- VR Two BattleField
- VR Puzzle
- VR Where
- VR Glacier
- VR Glacier2
- VR BugHole
- VR Maigic Gate
- VR You and Me
- VR Hard Time
- VR Death Filed
- Dodge Ghost
- Batch the Same
- Fishing
- Blox to Hole
- Happy Invert
- PinBall
- Happy Addition
- Shaped Swicher
- SeaWar
- Seven Color Block
- Raiden Desert
- Clear Bubble
- Clever Diamond
- Anciant Escape
- Pick Apple
- Happy Subtraction
- Link Pet
- GiDo Match
There's also a Chinese version of the menu - I haven't transcribed the names but you can view a video of both languages' game lists here.
Console
this is quite ugly
TV out
This console does have TV out functionality, a relative rarity for this type of handheld. However it isn't activated until the main menu is displayed, so the intro and language select are never output. Also it doesn't mute the speaker (and using the "sound" button to mute/quieten the speaker audio affects the TV-out sound too), so you have to have audio playing through both the console and TV.
As mentioned above, the later 699 in 1 revision removes the TV out functionality. At a guess this is probably because the TV-out must be detected and activated in software, and the 699 in 1 game set doesn't support it.. Or maybe it's different internal hardware entirely, who knows.
