http://www.osnews.com/story/15437/GP2X_It_s_All_Fun_and_Games Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:53:35 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?150751 http://osnews.com/thread?150751 The device is pretty cool, it has a lot of potential thats for sure. But their website is absolutely hideous. http://www.gbax.com A word of advice, dark blue links don't read well on a dark grey background. Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TaterSalad) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150769 http://osnews.com/thread?150769 This console looks to have excellent media playing abilities. You'll need to carry your movies on SD cards though, as internal storage is somewhat limited. I'd love to see something like this with a hard drive so I wouldn't have to worry about every meg of space. Oh well, I could live without one, and with the resulting longer battery life Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MamiyaOtaru) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150775 http://osnews.com/thread?150775 This little nifty device deserves a better website. Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150776 http://osnews.com/thread?150776 Agreed. They certainly should spend some time redesigning. Maybe I'll drop them an email and make some suggestions. And yeah, dark blue links are bad but the dark purple visited links are even worse.

Web design issues asside, this does look like a lot of fun. I think I'm gonna research this a bit more and look into getting one along with the break out box. Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vimh) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150786 http://osnews.com/thread?150786 See my thoughts - http://osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=14769&comment_id=129455

If they've updated the firmware to alleviate those issues then it could be a keeper Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JCooper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150795 http://osnews.com/thread?150795 did you test this on the 1.4 or 2.0 firmware?

2.0 made a lot of stride over 1.4. all the emu's have
had some big updates since may. Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (_df_) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150814 http://osnews.com/thread?150814 Gbax.com is just the website of the main uk distributor. The official website of gamepark holdings, who make the gp2x, is http://www.gp2x.com, which is not all that ugly. Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gsus) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150821 http://osnews.com/thread?150821 It supports usb host, so you can have an external disk attached to it. Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bsantos) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150831 http://osnews.com/thread?150831 That is so cool I really don't see how I can avoid buying one. Does it have mame ported for old roms? Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sphinx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150863 http://osnews.com/thread?150863 This was on 2.0 firmware, unfortunately, in June.

Will be interested to hear how other people get on with it Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JCooper) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150941 http://osnews.com/thread?150941 That is so cool I really don't see how I can avoid buying one. Does it have mame ported for old roms?

Yes, but it's an older version, lik3 .35-ish. Whatever games required sample support in that version need samples here too. But the unfortunate thing is that samples are not supported on the GP2x and the author has insisted (even after much protest) that they will not be added. So, if you don't mind playing Donkey Kong without most of the sound effects, this is right up your alley.

PS - My information is about a month or so old ... who knows if they've added samples by now. Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WorknMan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150948 http://osnews.com/thread?150948 does anyone know if the ebook reader can read pdfs too? i've been looking for a nice little device to dump a bunch of pdfs on so i can read them when i'm on the go. i've been waiting and waiting for an affordable e-ink device but i'm tired of waiting. if this reads pdfs i'd deffinately get it. Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (broken_symlink) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150949 http://osnews.com/thread?150949 Odd. Was any particular reason given for not adding samples? Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ronald Vos) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150975 http://osnews.com/thread?150975 Odd. Was any particular reason given for not adding samples?

Honestly, I don't know. Anyway, if you have other GP2x-related questions, you might find this forum to be of use:

http://www.monroeworld.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=30

I don't own one myself, so I'm not exactly a fountain of information on the product Edited 2006-08-10 01:00 Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WorknMan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150987 http://osnews.com/thread?150987 Can't be any older than my roms. Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sphinx) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?151025 http://osnews.com/thread?151025 Here you can find some more information and videos about the GP2X:

GP2X Introduction (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C22v76vMhY0&NR)
GP2X - System overview of video, audio, and gaming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rka-jZgL9W0)
GP2X Advert (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_NrTS_ut74&search=gp2x)
Gamepark GP2X: English Review of Gameparks Portable Entertainment Player - Image Gallery Inside (http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3708)
GP2X From GamePark Holdings: Retro Heaven (http://bytecellar.com/archives/000076.php) Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cetixx) Comments