6 years ago
I know at this point the Meta seems to be the best choice. Only $50 bucks more than the classic and is a complete upgrade. I think the Arduboy is $30. You think the Meta is the best choice if you have the money?
NEW 6 years ago
The Arduboy :
pros - small, flat, tough, minimalist, has a beautiful monochrome screen and an active developer community.
cons - monochrome, no sd card - can only load one game - needs another device (a computer or the right phone) to load a different game, subject to arduino chip memory limitations.
The Gamebuino Classic:
pros - nice shape, has sd card, many games, linking capabilities, clone available (Makerbuino).
cons - monochrome, uses old Nokia screen - developer community recently not so active (moved on to Meta?), subject to arduino chip memory limitations
The Gamebuino Meta:
pros - color screen, nice case, sd card, leds, better sound (?), headphone jack, Cortex M0 32 processor with much more flash and ram memory than arduino chip, cool games being developedcons - not available yet, games not available yet.
NEW 6 years ago
"better sound (?)" -> The meta has way better sound and it can play 8 bit wav! (I'm pretty sure Classic wasn't able to do that)
" cons - not available yet, games not available yet." -> Well, that's the most not-problematic con I've ever heard.
NEW 6 years ago
Actually it doesn't! ^^ It has an audio amp, but it's only amplifying signal, not processing anything.
NEW 6 years ago
I stand corrected! I mistook the amp for a full audio chip. That makes it being able to play wav files even more impressive.
NEW 6 years ago
I preferred the Arduboy over the Gamebuino classic cause the screen had a much higher resolution, and the buttons were superior. Especially the dpad.
NEW 6 years ago
Agreed, I guess we improved quite a bit with our new Gamebuino META ;)