Korean company GamePark Holdings have finally released the GP2x Wiz portable games console, the successor to the popular, but abruptly end-of-life'd, GP2x. What makes these portable devices special is that they run Linux, and are more or less aimed at the enthusiast and homebrew markets.
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Member since:2006-09-21
I've mucked around with both the GP2X and the NDS with a flash cart. The homebrew scene for the NDS is definitely the healthier of the two, so it is much more appealing from the perspective of digging up ready to run software. (The reason for a healthier NDS homebrew scene should be obvious: more people have an NDS and flash cart than own a GP2X.)
However, I think the GP2X is a much better system to develop for. At least for the novice. While you may need to reverse engineer stuff to do anything really interesting on the GP2X, at least you have a set of well documented libraries to start off with. Most of those libraries are also familiar if you've mucked around with programming under Linux. For the NDS, it seems as though every library is unique to the platform and every developer is depending upon reverse engineered documentation.
That, and the spectre of everything you do on the NDS is illegal. Even though I think the stuff that I do with the NDS flashcart ought to be legal (i.e. playing homebrew games and using homebrew apps).
Member since:2006-05-29
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2006-05-30
I don't want an DS or PSP where i have to hack around with the firmware to get the things running that i want to run.
-- Hi there. I'd like to introduce you to the Acekard 2 Nintendo DS flash cart.
http://www.iso420.org/nds/acekard2/index.htm
-- I understand "not wanting to hack around with firmware" (read: PSP), but if you're wanting to play homebrew or emulate old games (including SNES, many of which play at full speed) -- A Nintendo DS lite + flash card doesn't get any easier, and is pretty cheap. Especially if you already have a NDS and a MicroSD card laying around.
Admittedly it's not Linux-based (though a friend of mine HAS run Linux on his NDS with a memory expansion card), but it's still pretty neat.