PMP Game King II

lxstoian · #1 (**permalink**) 27th Sep 2007, 12:18 pm

Is there any Firmware update for this player?
It has an 16 bit game emulator Game boy color / Game boy , NES , SNES. And maybe others. I haven't tried yet other 16 bit roms.
Specifications: 320*240 TFT 256k
1 gb
SD card up to 2gb
A 1.3 camera interpolated to 4.9 megapixels
Radio
TTS
3.7 v 750 mAh battery even if they say 1100 mAh on the battery its something else.
USB 1.1
Video format AVI but i suspect its AMV
MP3 with the posibilty to load lyric files
JPEG/BMP/GIF (no animation)

Inside there is an ARM processor and 2 samsung memory chips , one 124mb the other 719. Korean made.
On this page u can find some pictures with a player opened by someone.
http://jonjay.multiply.com/photos/album/9/My_New_Toy

Edit:
And here are more info I found on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_king-II

Hotboxx · #2 (**permalink**) 27th Sep 2007, 2:34 pm

Don't try to do a firmware upgrade, the risk is extremely high that it will kill your player. Even if you could de a succesfull upgrade it will never add extra functions to your player. Enjoy it like you bought it.

lxstoian · #3 (**permalink**) 27th Sep 2007, 2:42 pm

I guess I will stick to the current firmware but I'm still curious about this player because I ahven't seen any info on this site about ARM chipset based players. And the hole ARM thing makes me wanna try to boot linux on it. Is the chipsets architecture similar to that from pdas and smartphones?
Does anybody know it's frequency? And still what firmware does it use? It says it has 1.56 SDK.

lxstoian · #4 (**permalink**) 28th Sep 2007, 1:43 am

And now more info about the mysterious player.
I ran s1fwx but it doesn't detect it.
I ran CheckUDisk and this is what I got:

Name: PMP STAR DANDx UEDISK (USB1.1)

Logic Driver: G:\

VID&PID: Vid_07c4&Pid_0000
Speed: full speed

VendorID: PMP STAR
ProductID: DANDx UEDISK
Product Revision: 0100

Vendor Description:
Product Description:
Serial Number:

So what is this player? It seams to be different from all other players on the site. Does anybody have anything similar?

lattesurf · #5 (**permalink**) 28th Sep 2007, 2:02 am

lxstoian , ARM chipset are usually used by the newer brandname players like Teclast, Meizu, and yours. The common players that most of the users have here are Actions (plays .AMV video) and Rockchip (plays .AVI video).

lxstoian · #6 (**permalink**) 28th Sep 2007, 2:43 am

So is this chipset better? Does it really use AVI?
I want to find out more info about the device. And is there any way to backup my firmware or modify it?
So any other forum users with players with an ARM chipset?
Will screenshots of the player help with the identification of the firmware?

I forgot to specify another function: playing song or movies while reading an e-book or viewing picture.

lattesurf · #7 (**permalink**) 28th Sep 2007, 4:32 am

lxstoian , generally an ARM processor is better than Actions or Rockchip. They are as mentioned commonly found in Teclast, Meizu, and your player. Usually you'll need .AVI format for videos, but do check the sample video and as well the user manual.

I've not seen a firmware extractor for your type of player. But it's normal as there are also none for Teclast & Meizu as well. So without the extraction tool, you cannot backup your firmware.

lxstoian · #8 (**permalink**) 28th Sep 2007, 4:35 am

Thanks for the info. I guess I have to hope it will never crash.