Comments on: Port your games around with the Gameport

By: Ben Heck’s Gameport: Retro Gaming for the Masses - Technabob

Ben Heck’s Gameport: Retro Gaming for the Masses - Technabob — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:33:48 +0000

[...] thanks to built-in A/V outputs. The current build measures 3.5″ x 5″ x 1″, but Ben thinks the final version will be a little less [...]

By: R.I.P. Gameport « Das Handheldblog

R.I.P. Gameport « Das Handheldblog — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:04:47 +0000

[...] GamePort wurde mit einem interessanten Konzept vorgestellt: Er wollte eine möglichst genaue Emulation alter [...]

By: free roms

free roms — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:57:40 +0000

I want a gp2x for xmas ! :)

By: retrozoid

retrozoid — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:58:03 +0000

soo…

no gameports huh?

By: Chad W Smith

Chad W Smith — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:31:00 +0000

gameport.tv says it’s merged with wanga.tv – which is (as of now – July 31, 2008 – 4:30PM Central) a Drupal “You need to set this website up!” page.

By: Port your games around with the Gameport — Camcorder and CD player review

Port your games around with the Gameport — Camcorder and CD player review — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:59:16 +0000

[...] kind of like a digital camera in reverse. Currently it runs Atari 2600 and Colecovision source: Port your games around with the Gameport, The Official Site of Benjamin J [...]

By: usinoh

usinoh — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:13:34 +0000

What happened to the Gameport website? Is this project dead?

By: GP2X

GP2X — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:28:45 +0000

I can already emulate all those systems and more on my GP2X, giving me handheld C64, Amiga, ST MD/Genesis, Snes, NEO-GEO, MAME, most 8bit consoles and even some 32bit ones to a limited degree; GBA, PSX…

For me its a case of, why bother with this toy?

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:53:58 +0000

Gah, I posted too soon, I missed a forum post that stated the following:

“The final case is inspired by the nintendo game&watch; there is a 4 directions cross on the left, 4 rubber buttons (placed like a d-pad) on the right and two triggers.”

So all the designs shown so far are non-final, and the final device will have the exact number of controls needed for SNES input.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:50:14 +0000

Reading through the forums, they listed the price as $50 direct online, $75 for retail stores. Keep in mind this is the wholesale price, BEFORE markup (they said they’d be willing to give discounts for bulk orders).

For this reason, I think it’s safe to say that when these things are available, they’ll be WAY cheaper than a PSP or GP2X, depending on the markup.

As an interesting note, they also said in the forums that it will be able to handle a SNES, but not a Genesis, because the 68k (the Motorola MC68000 processor in the Genesis) would use up too many gates.

I’m sure there will be restrictions though. The three button issue isn’t so bad, because most SNES games didn’t use all four buttons (often X and Y did the same thing). They probably also won’t be able to simulate many games, because the SNES supported co-processors in the cartridges (the most famous of which is probably the SuperFX, but there were tons of others that weren’t marketed to consumers). I doubt they’d be able to shove any of those into the FPGA too, but who knows.

The post where they say the SNES will be supported is here: http://gameport.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8

They also note that the Genesis might be possible with clever trickery, and since the platform is completely open and anybody can implement new systems, it’s possible that some enterprising designer may implement a Genesis.