Gp2x

paul4990 · Post by **paul4990** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:58 am

so im getting the gp2x Power Pack and batteries for xmas

what good sortware do you reccomend and can you post any gripes about the system?

thx
paul.

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:03 pm

Well, as for gripes, the digital stick is a royal pain to use, and the system can do little more game-wise then emulate games we've all been emulating on our PC's for ten years. Furthermore, most batteries do not offer very much play time before needing a recharge, or replacement. I got maybe 3 or 4 hours on average, without overclocking, playing Gen and Snes emulators. I guess it depends on the person, but I realized real quick that I was barely touching the 2x, which is why I sold it in favor of a DS.

I've had experience with GBO, GBC, GBA / SP, PSP, GP2X, and DS. The only ones I found worth owning were the GBO, GBC, GBA, and DS. If you are used to playing some high-quality, professional production games, than the GP2x probably isn't for you.

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:07 pm

Well, for cool stuff, the PSX emulator is coming along nicely, and will hopefully have a public release soon to dink around with.

CTFan

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:30 pm

Well the GPSP ( gba emu ) was just released for the 2x and is supposed to be nice already. The stick seems to be more trouble on the MK1 s but if you just orderd your gonna get a mk2 and those are nice. I have had two complaints except the controls on Duke Nukem for 2x and only getting about 6 hours of life for me.

Post by **Triton** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:51 pm

hes right about the stick in the mk1s the bias (bigger contact points) were in the diagonal directions in the mk2s it was changed to an ordinal bias (or was it vice versa, cant remember)so its easier to use than the old ones plus the new caps are much better than the old ones, there are emulators for just about every single pre PSX system it has some great homebrew games and a few commercial games coming that look awesome! batterylife is usualy 4-6 hours depending on what you use it for with 2500mah AAs

grahf · Post by **grahf** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 2:01 pm

I actually did a d-pad mod in my gp2x, but to be honest it didnt need it. I was happy with the stick (and i think the stick actually works WAAAAY better for NeoGeo fighters than dpads). The only reason i did the dpad mod was... well just because i like to tinker with electronics.

If there are any Descent fans on here, there is a super sweet interpreter thats being released an December 24th. There are already videos of it, and it brought back a lot of memories for me.

Mageslayer · Post by **Mageslayer** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:03 am

From what I've heard about the GP2X, it doesn't do much that the PSP doesn't, and tge psp has better commercial games (which you can get for free as well). I have a psp and am quite happy with it, though I've never owned a GP2X.

paul4990 · Post by **paul4990** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:44 pm

psp = Devhooking to death, loading another exploit, downgrading, expensive media etc

paul4990 · Post by **paul4990** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:50 pm

Dows the Gp2x support MP converted using FFMPEG

Post by **Triton** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:46 pm

doesnt do mpeg formats stock but you can dowload ffmpeg for the gp2x from the archive

Mageslayer · Post by **Mageslayer** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:58 pm

paul4990 wrote:psp = Devhooking to death, loading another exploit, downgrading, expensive media etc

Actually there's a modified 2.71 Firmware out there that lets you load ISO's straight from the game menu and more emulators are able to run in 2.71 each day. As for the espensive media.... Well I can't argue with that. However a 4 gig memstick holds on average 9 games for me.

ATOMICMAN · Post by **ATOMICMAN** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:41 am

i just bought a gp2x so my n64 portable will have to wait for a lil bit =(

uses a regular sd card not the micro sd correct?

paul4990 · Post by **paul4990** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:10 am

any type of sd card with an adaptor

paul4990 · Post by **paul4990** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:58 pm

so hows the psone emulator, would it run playable on a 270mhz gp2x?

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 3:10 pm

considers what you consider playable its extremely slow at the moment and itll probably be at least a year before its running at playable speeds search it on youtube ive seen a few videos of it on there