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 [real information and subs start at 17 seconds]
 
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 Michael Mrozek and a group of enthusiasts
 
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-ignore the dictatorship of leading commercial console producers
+ignored the dictatorship of leading commercial console producers
 
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-and build their own console:
+and built their own console:
 
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 The Pandora.
 
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 Most people are completely satisfied
 
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 with their iPhones and iPhone games.
 
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 They are OK with being restricted.
 
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 But there is a group of hobbyists
 
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 who like to tinker with the device
 
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 and there is no device for them.
 
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 There is no profit for the big companies in this
 
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 because the quantities are too low,
 
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 but this niche is perfect for us
 
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-and it has not been touched yet.
+and it has not been touched yet
 
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-That means that there is no competition.
+and this means that there is no competition.
 
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 The Pandora has the same power as an iPhone 3GS,
 
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 a small computer based on linux.
 
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 The open source community
 
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 has developed it over years
 
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 and made it ready for the market.
 
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 It's the Ikea principle in the gaming world:
 
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 "I love it even more
 
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 if I build it myself."
 
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 I find this very fascinating
 
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 because you could see how its developed,
 
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 since the developers are no professionals
 
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 like the big companies.
 
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 It was foreseeable that there were going to be problems
 
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 which could have been prevented by professionals,
 
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 but everyone learned during this process,
 
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 not only the developers
 
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 but also the people who watched the process.
 
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 The games are available as a free download
 
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 at the community sites.
 
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 Some of them are homebrew games
 
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 with open source code
 
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 which can be extended by every user.
 
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 An important reason for the popularity
 
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 of the open handheld are classic games.
 
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 With an emulator you are able
 
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 to play games from
 
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 abandoned systems like the C64 or the Amiga.
 
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 In Germany it is allowed to make backups of software
 
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 and that means that it is legal to play, read, and copy
 
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 old cartridges with a device like the Retrode.
 
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 Emulators are culturally important
 
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 because they keep games alive.
 
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 A lot of old games are not available anymore,
 
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 and that means that there is a cultural value
 
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 to emulators.
 
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 This value counts for little
 
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 from a copyright perspective
 
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 but this did not play a role
 
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 for the producers of the first open handheld.
 
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 They came from South Korea,
 
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 a country with a rapid development
 
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 in the electronics department.
 
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 Since 2002 four open consoles have been released.
 
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 The evolution of the early devices
 
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 is a funny part of
 
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 recent game history.
 
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 The reason for these
 
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 coming from Korea
 
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 was a coincidence.
 
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 The Koreans, a company called GamePark, were trying
 
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 to build a competitor to the Gameboy Advance,
 
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 which was the GP32,
 
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 and this device was opened
 
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 by the community
 
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 so now everybody could write games for it.
 
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 Because of this the sale figures went up.
 
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 The users demanded
 
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 more powerful devices
 
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 but GamePark was not interested.
 
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 Because of that
 
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 the Pandora was realized
 
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 by the community itself
 
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 and every step of development
 
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 was documented online.
 
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 You could say
 
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 that the pandora is a very
 
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 democratic product,
 
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 because it offers
 
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 transparency and
 
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 openness for everybody
 
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 In that matter
 
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 it appeals to the same target groups
 
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 as the Piratenparty [German political party].
 
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 The commitment is astonishing,
 
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 over one million Euros
 
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 have been collected
 
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 or investments and
 
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 the games were programmed or ported
 
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 by hobbyist programmers
 
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 out of pure joy for games.
 
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 Here there is so much potential
 
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 and it is very important
 
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 that there exists
 
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 an open source movement
 
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 in the gaming industry.
 
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 It is also a source of ideas;
 
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 if one of the Pixelmacher [this show] viewers
 
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 had an idea for a game
 
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 than it would be very hard for them
 
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 to implement that on
 
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 on a commercial system.
 
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 You would need a developing license,
 
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 you would need the know-how,
 
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 and the manufacturer would need to validate it,
 
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 and small ideas are often
 
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 a good places for innovation,
 
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 The internet proves this again and again:
 
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 A place where people have small ideas
 
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 and this idea is then a worldwide success.
 
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 the patience of the community
 
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 is also astonishing.
 
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 Problems during the production
 
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 have made some people wait over 3 years
 
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 for their device,
 
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 but now mass production
 
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 is starting in Germany
 
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 and up to 1000 units
 
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 can be produced each month.
 
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 It is a great feeling
 
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 when you can say
 
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 that you not only own
 
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 the device for playing -
 
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 well I play with it every day -
 
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 but you can also say that you helped
 
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 to develop the device.
 
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 That is .... well something.
 
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 450 Euro is the price for "pandora's box",
 
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 but what you get for that
 
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 is priceless for open source fans:
 
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 The freedom of developing
 
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 non-commercial games together
 
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 and the feeling of
 
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 being part of a self-sufficient movement.