Dingoo A320 and the Mac

The Dingoo A320 is a neat little device for emulating game systems, but there a few gotchas when using the A320 with a Mac.

1. The A320 will disconnect from the USB port after a few minutes.

This is very frustrating when trying to transfer large files. The solution is to either not use the Dingoo to transfer files via USB to internal memory. Or, just use the SD card for files. Remember you have a 5 minute timer running to transfer files before it craps out. This is not an issue on a PC.

 2. Ejecting the A320 will crash it.

If you use the standard Mac software eject button to dismount the unit, it will freeze up and have to be hard reset. If you just yank out the USB cord, it will update and unmount just fine, but the Mac will give you a warning about disc corruption etc etc. So one way or the other, there will be some kind of error when it comes to unmounting the A320.

 3. Formatting the miniSD card to install Dingux will not work on a Mac.

You will not get any errors, or anything out of the ordinary, but it won't work. The boot sector for Dingux is corrupted in this process. You need to format the SD card on a real PC. Using VMware or Parallels won't work either. I don't have Boot Camp installed, so I wasn't able to test that. Avoid many hours of frustration and format the card on a PC.