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Geek Culture / GPX2 - Yet another PSP style gaming device...

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Torrey
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I think the reason for all these gaming devices that are similar to the PSP are the capitalist mindset that people want game devices that they can program their own brew and decided to make some extra cash on the idea.

Here's an overview of what this little guy is capable of:

Powerful Dual core CPU
Dual core 'ARM920T, ARM940T' is embedded in GP2X.Enjoy cutting edge music, movies, and games with powerful dual CPU

Entertainment follows you
Replays MPEG 4, XviD, WMV DivX format digital contents up to 720*480 pixels and supports caption.
Watch vivid motion pictures on the high resolution 3.5" 260,000 colors TFT LCD.

Enjoy Games with GP2X now!
CPU which has 2D accelerator enables you enjoy games anytime anywhere. Meet the exclusive GP2X games along with abundant emulators such as MAME, SNES, Genesis, PC Engine etc

Realizes a powerful digital sound, and supports various audio codec
Replays music in MP3, WMA, OGG format on the multi-codec MP3 player.
Listen to 100mw of true high quality sound.

Electronic Album-JPG BMP Support
You can download and view photos taken on a digital camera through your PC. Enlargement, abridgment is available from 320*240 up to 1024*768 and you can rotate Images up to 0¡Æ, 90¡Æ, 180¡Æ, 270¡Æ, Supports JPG, BMP, PCX, GIF files.

Read a text file with GP2X now!
You can read electronic novels and any other text files through the text viewer. Besides you can use enlargement and abridgment function when you read a text file.

Simply upgrade firmware on GP2X website
Enhance your product quality continuously by downloading on the GP2X website.

USB 2.0 high speed
You can get a file of 500Mbps with USB 2.0 which is connected with PC

2AA Batteries
you can watch 320*240(30frame) of video file for approximately 8 hours and listen to mp3 file for approximately 14 hours (LCD off ) continuously with 2AA batteries.

PC Development
Basic development: Linux
Windows: Enabled via Cygwin installation

Open SDK Library
Supports software development library : SDL(Simple Direct Library)
Basic Library
Graphic library (Sound library)
Hardware I/O library

Click here for more information.

Does any of you on these forums buy devices like this to test out? I'd be really curious to know how they actually stand up to the bigger names, and what they claim theirs can do.

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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 11:26
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This has been mentioned by K2 a while ago - I may actually get one too...

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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 11:29
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Yeah, looks like a nice device, esp' if your into retro gaming.


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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 11:35
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Trouble is, it seems the instructions for setting up VS 2005, compiling & transfering to the device seem rather vague...

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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 11:41 Edited at: 7th Dec 2005 11:59
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I own a PSP and a majority of the games I play on it are emulated NES ones. [edit] There is quite a bit of applications and games already ported and out, I found this site in my searches, http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Main_Page. It's only a matter of time before someone gets Bochs on there and runs Windows off of it. I remember seeing Windows 95 being emulated on Pocket PCs a year or two ago.

Quote: "Trouble is, it seems the instructions for setting up VS 2005, compiling & transfering to the device seem rather vague..."


Vague? Hardly, if you look on that wiki I'd say it's pretty simple to get started with VS2005. They've got step by step instructions to get people started. If you think this is still tough, you should take a look at the documentation that microsoft provides for driver development. That stuff is beyond cryptic.

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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 12:04 Edited at: 7th Dec 2005 12:12
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And you've got all that nasty mucking around - even with the handy installer...

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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 12:09
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These are absolutely excellent devices - a friend of mine has one and I fully inted getting one soon, and I have the predecessor the GP32 - Torrey if you like emulating either the gp32 or this would be infinitley preferable to you I use my GP32 for playing NES, SNES Master System, Megadrive, MAME, & certain PC DOS games, and the media handling is far better than the PSP too - the gp32 will literally run any video file at any resolution, and it takes camera memory so is much cheaper to buy replacement media for


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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 12:16
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eBay had one in the USA for $202 right now. Seems a little expensive. If the price was around $100-150 it would be perfect.

Also noticed I have a typo in the thread title...

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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 12:28
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So tempting... I hope to run into one in the mall someday ^_^ Website address says South Korea after all, so it's not unlikely to find an imported one here.

I wonder how they'll port NetHack there...

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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 12:32 Edited at: 7th Dec 2005 12:34
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I'm quick like lightning this morning, USA retailer below.

http://www.gp32z.com/

Links to other countries selling it:

http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Where_to_Buy

This is just an opinion, but it seems like all the hardest of hard core gamers and products come from the UK or Germany.

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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 12:34
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Its tempting - or the local Staples are (or used to), selling a PDA for the same price...

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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 14:19
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These devices rock - they are emulation dreams (and were around well before the PSPee thank-you-very-much!)

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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 14:21
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the gp32 was around years ago yes

But the first batch of gp2x's only came out at the end of october (or certainly available to the uk then, the uk distributors site is the one I use)


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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 18:09 Edited at: 7th Dec 2005 18:49
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do be warned they are currently more like beta devices ATM, the full release for them is next year, the current batches where intended more for the devs and people porting games over than general public use, that said they have a lot of stuff ready for the GP2X right now, they just have some initial problems with build quality atm, they had to recall the whole of the Korean batch due to problems, and some people have found some brands of sd card can`t be read by the device, it eats batterys on some units and some other niggles, but all this is due to be sorted, I am following avidly, I am currently into C++ and looking forwards to running my stuff on a handheld, I reckon that will be cool , as soon as things settle down and I get back into work I`m gonna get one.



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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 19:51 Edited at: 7th Dec 2005 20:08
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Yes, apparently some cant be unbricked if you trash them...

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=14373

http://www.datarealms.com/gp2x/

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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 20:26
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They're brickable without modding the core OS files?

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Posted: 7th Dec 2005 20:49 Edited at: 8th Dec 2005 18:33
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Sounds like it.

More problems are here : http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Current_GP2X_Issues

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