gp32

[sephiroth111]

http://www.gp32.com/
looks cool, i was reading the gamepark website (read: glossing over the page to see a few english words that i know) and i was thinking about getting one. now i already have a gba, so its not going to act as a replacment (its not gonna leave my eyesight with the current prices for the FLU) for my gba, so thats not a factor.

but i was wondering what you guys think, good buy? or bad idea?
(one other thing, how hard are they to program?)

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[World_Demise]

I've been wanting one for months. I like the fact that it can emulate older systems, play mp3's and movies, use ebook readers and picture viewers and so on.

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[Narvick]

The GP32 homebrew scene is pretty active. There's way more emulation and homebrew related stuff for GP32 than GBA. Many people prefer it. But then again, the GP32 has no English games...

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[World_Demise]

I wonder if there's any work on translating some of the better GP32 games. I've seen the entire game library for the GP32 on someone's IRC fserv, so obviously people do have GP32 roms, I wonder if anyone has worked on hacking them yet.

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[sephiroth111]

> I wonder if there's any work on translating some of the
> better GP32 games. I've seen the entire game library for the
> GP32 on someone's IRC fserv, so obviously people do have
> GP32 roms, I wonder if anyone has worked on hacking them
> yet.

i think its due to GeePee32 not being complete (no sound?) once it is complete i think the scene will be even more active, because its easier to dev when you dont have to link up to your pc every time you want to test something new (especially a sound core). though for translations, there are some available for some games (via the companies). which games however i dont know, but my guess would to check places like the GP website or places you can purchace it

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[icenine0]

I had one for about 4 months, then it completely toasted itself --- assumedly because I flashed a custom BIOS onto it. The flashing and the toasting occurred many weeks apart, so who knows.

Anyway, it was a really cool little machine, but here are some things to consider:

1. It uses the dying SmartMedia card format for storage. AFAIK, capacities above 128MB per card will probably not be produced. However, you can get the available varieties for pretty cheap nowadays.

2. No US support. Everything is Korea!

3. The homebrew scene's been slowing down a bit lately as quite a few devs jumped ship to the Zodiac (http://www.tapwave.com).

4. The default BIOS is really annoying, as you have to go through a splash screen and navigate through two menus to get to your custom games.

5. SNES emulation is currently not (and probably will never be) full speed with sound. Only simpler titles will run at a playable FPS with sound.

6. Mine blew up. Caveat emptor.

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[JCE3000GT]

The Zodiac look sweet...it's got an extra 8MB video memory. Maybe this means better emulation for older systems like Genesis/SNES etc?

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