GP2X F-200 or Modded PSP?

[FAT$TACKS]

Well, there is a lot of usefull info here. I had no idea that little handheld jobber was so nifty.

I've got to look into it.

I am really starting to hate you people for constantly showing me cool stuff I want.

No but seriously, I must look into it as the psp did not really please me. It was cool to play my old ps1 games on though.

 

[dark penguin]

Well, I just ordered a GP2X from www.gamersection.ca. I should have it in a few days.

What finally sold me was watching a vid of some guy playing Dodonpachi on it.

 

[subcons]

Well, I just ordered a GP2X from www.gamersection.ca. I should have it in a few days.

What finally sold me was watching a vid of some guy playing Dodonpachi on it.

I've never played a GP2X before, but I can say that Dodonpachi looks awesome tated on the PSP. I've been playing it more than ever now that I have it on there.

Still, the GP2X looks like a great little portable machine. Let us know what you have the chance to spend some time with it.

P.S., Please try out Guwange and ESPrade.

 

[dark penguin]

I've never played a GP2X before, but I can say that Dodonpachi looks awesome tated on the PSP. I've been playing it more than ever now that I have it on there.

Still, the GP2X looks like a great little portable machine. Let us know what you have the chance to spend some time with it.

P.S., Please try out Guwange and ESPrade.

I have played TATE'd stuff on the PSP before...and it works a lot better than a lot of people think. Can't imagine it'll be any worse on the GP2X. My main aim is to have playable MAME etc on the go. I have all the ROMs already, I'll just need to track down the right emus.

And about the battery thing...I can actually see the GP2X being the winner here. When I went to buy a backup PSP battery, I nearly did a double take when I saw the price. With rechargeable AAs, I can bring a bunch with me and I can get them anywhere instead of buying the proprietary Sony stuff.

I will definitely let you guys know what I think of it. My main concern is the build quality...that dpad looks a little sketchy, but then again...the PSP dpad isn't exactly made by Seimitsu.

Cheers,

Mark

 

[evil wasabi]

I have played TATE'd stuff on the PSP before...and it works a lot better than a lot of people think. Can't imagine it'll be any worse on the GP2X. My main aim is to have playable MAME etc on the go. I have all the ROMs already, I'll just need to track down the right emus.

And about the battery thing...I can actually see the GP2X being the winner here. When I went to buy a backup PSP battery, I nearly did a double take when I saw the price. With rechargeable AAs, I can bring a bunch with me and I can get them anywhere instead of buying the proprietary Sony stuff.

I will definitely let you guys know what I think of it. My main concern is the build quality...that dpad looks a little sketchy, but then again...the PSP dpad isn't exactly made by Seimitsu.

Cheers,

Mark

I got my PSP modded last week and I have been loving it. Not too hot with shooters though, but I did play a few on the CPS2 emulator in tate mode. May need to retry it later with a different control scheme, because holding it was awkward.

I really enjoyed playing a few older games on it though. Super Dodge Ball mvs was great stuff. Been playing the NGPC games on it as well. This thing is worth so much more than never ever before.

 

[dark penguin]

I got my PSP modded last week and I have been loving it. Not too hot with shooters though, but I did play a few on the CPS2 emulator in tate mode. May need to retry it later with a different control scheme, because holding it was awkward.

I really enjoyed playing a few older games on it though. Super Dodge Ball mvs was great stuff. Been playing the NGPC games on it as well. This thing is worth so much more than never ever before.

Can't wait to get an MVS emu up and running on the GP2X, but since MAME can handle all the MVS roms, I'm not sure if I'll even need a separate emulator. Hopefully the GP2X Mame can handle them as well. I sold my PSP a while ago as I wasn't using it.

I hear you about TATE being awkward at first...took me a few tries to get the button mapping to work comfortably for me on my PSP. It's all about using the R trigger button as part of the control scheme, like subcons was saying. It actually got to the point where it felt pretty natural. The first game I played like that was Varth on the Capcom Classics comp, but I'd imagine you can map just about any shmup to the PSP, except maybe Otomedius...god knows when we'll see a rom of that one, though.*

*(although the latest GP2X does have the required touch screen, so who knows...)

 

[subcons]

Not too hot with shooters though, but I did play a few on the CPS2 emulator in tate mode. May need to retry it later with a different control scheme, because holding it was awkward.

R = rapid fire
X = single / charge shot
O = bomb

Or alternate X and O, whichever is more comfortable for you. This works very well with every shooter I've played.

 

[Orkie]

Can't wait to get an MVS emu up and running on the GP2X, but since MAME can handle all the MVS roms, I'm not sure if I'll even need a separate emulator. Hopefully the GP2X Mame can handle them as well. I sold my PSP a while ago as I wasn't using it.

I've used a couple of games with the GP2X MAME port and they work well, though you probably would be better off getting GnGeo running for more intensive stuff since it uses the second processor for sound, so I guess is faster than MAME (but both when I last tried about a year ago, worked fine).

 

[SSS]

Is E[MULATOR] the only good TGfx 16 PCE emulator? I downloaded Turbo Grafx 16 (port of HUE 0.7) doesn't work with normal roms, have to download alternates and it crashed during soldier blade.

 

[subcons]

Is E[MULATOR] the only good TGfx 16 PCE emulator? I downloaded Turbo Grafx 16 (port of HUE 0.7) doesn't work with normal roms, have to download alternates and it crashed during soldier blade.

Are you talking about the PSP?

If so, I had the same thing happen last week: crashed while playing Soldier Blade. I've haven't tried e[mulator] (first I've heard of it actually, sounds like a neat emu), but there's another TG16 emu called PCEP. I've been playing with it trying to get some PCE CD games up and running with mixed results (has sound issues with like half the stuff you throw at it), but I know it runs regular TG16 roms even though I haven't used it for that yet. Give it a shot.

 

[dark penguin]

Well, my GP2X came in the mail today. Arg, I don't have an SD card.

I'll have to pick one up sometime over the next couple days...first impressions, though...the dpad is shite. It's like the buttons on a TV remote. Otherwise...the size and weight of the thing are perfect. I guess it'll be fine for platformers and beat em ups, but for shooters and fighters? errrrm. We'll see.

And thumbs-down to the onboard games. Actually, the pacman clone seems pretty cool...but the others are a waste of battery life.

 

[evil wasabi]

Well, my GP2X came in the mail today. Arg, I don't have an SD card.

I'll have to pick one up sometime over the next couple days...first impressions, though...the dpad is shite. It's like the buttons on a TV remote. Otherwise...the size and weight of the thing are perfect. I guess it'll be fine for platformers and beat em ups, but for shooters and fighters? errrrm. We'll see.

And thumbs-down to the onboard games. Actually, the pacman clone seems pretty cool...but the others are a waste of battery life.

Frys was selling 8 gb cards for cheap

I think this is compatible.

http://shop4.frys.com/product/55608...yY8kNCnyQ**.node1?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

 

[dark penguin]

Frys was selling 8 gb cards for cheap

I think this is compatible.

http://shop4.frys.com/product/55608...yY8kNCnyQ**.node1?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

That is a fantastic price, but the ProDuo is the Sony proprietary one. That would need an adaptor to work with the SD card slot.

I'm going to Staples tonight or tomorrow...hopefully I can find an 8gig, but I live in a very small town without much in the way of electronics stores. I know I can get a 4gig, though.

 

[Orkie]

Those d-pad caps you can buy for the PSP and stick down make it a lot better and fit perfectly.
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.7678

 

[dark penguin]

OK, well I found an 8gig card in town and was able to get some emus up and running with little to no problem at all.

FinalBurn Alpha handles the earlier Cave stuff pretty well from what I've played so far. Guwange is fully playable aside from some odd graphics glitches that are probably correctable somehow.(explosions are weird masses of pixels).
I actually find that I'm using Final Burn over MAME4ALL for most of my arcade emulation so far...it handles CPS1 very nicely on the GP2X.

Anyway, thumbsup all around so far, except for the goddam dpad. I'm probably going to order one of those stick-on jobbers that Orkie linked above(thanks for the link, btw).

 

[subcons]

Yeah, Final Burn is going to run certain things better in most cases because it's a specified emulator, where as MAME is an all-encompassing one. It's a real shame that nobody is willing to work on MAME for PSP. There's a pretty sizable list of game from the 90's I'd kill to have on mine.

Pretty cool that stuff like that runs on the little GP2X though. Are you flipping it to play verts, or just playing them yoko?

 

[dark penguin]

Yeah, Final Burn is going to run certain things better in most cases because it's a specified emulator, where as MAME is an all-encompassing one. It's a real shame that nobody is willing to work on MAME for PSP. There's a pretty sizable list of game from the 90's I'd kill to have on mine.

Pretty cool that stuff like that runs on the little GP2X though. Are you flipping it to play verts, or just playing them yoko?

Seems like Final Burn automatically flips the screen orientation, so that's how I've been playing it. The buttons automatically get remapped too...in a pretty sensible configuration. The best part is Final Burn will save separate config files for each game and a global config file...you can choose whether to apply a global or game-specific one when you boot the rom. Really handy for stuff like shmups where timing is everything and clock rates etc need to tweaked to an exact percentage for fidelity to the original.

Do the PSP emus have similar options? I haven't spent much time around CFW PSPs.

The final word here is that anyone who can run an emulator on a PC should have absolutely no difficulty getting the stuff up and running on a GP2X. It's pretty shit simple. I literally had games working within minutes of popping the new SD card in(I'd already downloaded the emus).

 

[subcons]

Do the PSP emus have similar options? I haven't spent much time around CFW PSPs.

The better emus do, yeah. They're pretty thorough when it comes to tweaking settings in case a game doesn't run quite right with default settings. The Neo and CPS emus by NJ are really great. MAME4ALL is total ass however.

 

[dark penguin]

The better emus do, yeah. They're pretty thorough when it comes to tweaking settings in case a game doesn't run quite right with default settings. The Neo and CPS emus by NJ are really great. MAME4ALL is total ass however.

From the time I've spent with MAME4ALL GP2X, it runs everything I've thrown at it so far, with what appears to be full or close to full speed. I should note that I'm using the latest version that pretty much just came out, which was great timing for me having just gotten the GP2X.

Now begins the arduous task of moving all my ROMs over to the SD card and sifting through which ones I want to keep on there and which ones work better with which emu, etc.

This could take a while

 

[subcons]

This could take a while

I've spent more time than I'd care to admit fiddling and organizing everything I'd want to possibly play ranging from NES all the way up to PS1 games for my PSP. As of yesterday, I think I'm officially done (I had a bitch of a time getting Toaplan Shooting Battle for PS1 up and running). I now have ~12 gig of stuff just for emulation, so I have more than enough to play for some time to come--I could really use an 8 gig stick though... 4 gig just isn't enough. Especially when it's so much more convenient to carry UMD games around on your stick as well.

 

[dark penguin]

I've spent more time than I'd care to admit fiddling and organizing everything I'd want to possibly play ranging from NES all the way up to PS1 games for my PSP. As of yesterday, I think I'm officially done (I had a bitch of a time getting Toaplan Shooting Battle for PS1 up and running). I now have ~12 gig of stuff just for emulation, so I have more than enough to play for some time to come--I could really use an 8 gig stick though... 4 gig just isn't enough. Especially when it's so much more convenient to carry UMD games around on your stick as well.

The price on 8gig SD/Pro Duo cards has dropped dramatically in the last few months. I just got my 8gig SDHC card for about $80...I remember when they were several hundred not so long ago.

I saw a 32gig SDHC card somewhere online...WOW.

 

[AppleiDog]

I've spent more time than I'd care to admit fiddling and organizing everything I'd want to possibly play ranging from NES all the way up to PS1 games for my PSP. As of yesterday, I think I'm officially done (I had a bitch of a time getting Toaplan Shooting Battle for PS1 up and running). I now have ~12 gig of stuff just for emulation, so I have more than enough to play for some time to come--I could really use an 8 gig stick though... 4 gig just isn't enough. Especially when it's so much more convenient to carry UMD games around on your stick as well.

this may solve your problem.
http://pspupdates.qj.net/64-GB-mem-storage-in-PSP-possible-via-PhotoFast-card-adapter/pg/49/aid/120881

(And updated info)
http://pspupdates.qj.net/More-PhotoFast-accessory-pictures-and-info-from-Computex-2008-Update-/pg/49/aid/120940

 

[subcons]

Man, that photofast shit looks crazy. I wonder what the price point on that thing will be?

 

[djjimmyjames]

This is what im holding out for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(console)

 

[dark penguin]

This is what im holding out for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(console)

Yea...I've been reading about those as well. That may be my next handheld purchase.

Edit: I'm still wondering how one would TATE that sucker for vert games in a non-awkward way.