I've had a GP2X F200 for quite a while now and most emulators work great (neogeo, megadrive, dos and many others) the only one that I've found to be troublesome is the snes emulator...for the life of me I can't get supermetroid to work perfectly. But saying this my GP2X is two generations below the current canoo so maybe the snes emulation has been perfected... also it must be said that the homebrew games are second to non on all gamepark consoles and my wife plays many hours of supermario world plus a homebrew game called Ghost pix that for some unknown reason she loves lol.
You know, I'd really like to have a Canoo or a Wiz. Those things are pretty cool. They even run Sega CD stuff, and there's a Youtube video of it running Wipeout for PSX.
I would personally go for the canoo because the oled display in the wiz is very fragile and prone to "rotting" over extended play, as far as I can tell oled displays have a biological element to them and because the oled in the wiz isn't the best quality it goes bad after only 6 months. Btw the canoo has a very good led screen with resistive touch.
The problem I have with GP2X is it doesn't have a DPAD. It has some goofy thing instead. It's sad. That's the easiest way to ruin any platform, by having shitty controls. Super Mario RPG uses the SA-1 chip, which requires alot of extra cpu power to emulate.
Thanks for all the input so far, but... ...is my impression as well. SnesTYL on the PSP is quite good actually but there are just some unsupported games that would not need more than an emulator update. Love Quest, for example, hangs at the first enemy encounter which is crucial for the game progress while otherwise running fine. Is it still being updated or are there any other ones that are being worked on? Most people seem to be happy if they can play Super Mario World or, say, Final Fantasy VI and can tolerate frameskipping and speedhacks. It would be nice to see something that lists a number of supported games like its PC counterpart and is at least periodically improved. At this point it seems, it's either wait for some powerful hardware that runs games well even with a non-optimized emulator or...?
Well if you already have a psp and use it for SNES emulation on a portable. Not much else available to you. I mean it's not perfect. But it's not terrible by any means. It will suffice for most games out there.
