Maybe it was for the good that I've been too broke to buy a damn DS in the first place... and if this does fully support NES, Snes, Genesis and PCE, then I guess I'll love getting this one... It'll be really sad if it goes vapour of it doesn't deliver, though. Screen quality and battery life might be issues as well. Still, though, colour me excited. Does it look like it have shoulder buttons? Snes emulation without those might be futile.
Those things look like shoulder buttons to me. I won't lie to anyone, I'd be getting this thing purely for emulation. The movies are a plus, but I doubt I'd ever use it for that. Are the GP32 games any good? I might end up getting some of those...
the gp32 games(the ones commercially avaible) look okay......but like everyone else..its purely for the emulation
well...the system main ploy is too emulate older 2d stuff...and also as a media player.....im sure the we wont see many games pulling off 3d that were directly released by gp...though we will prolly see games like quake and hexen on it eventyally, just not doom 3
If you havent noticed on customer suggestion (I put my forum name, BTW ) , I asked how much it would be and the admin said and I quote, Im defienitely getting one of these.
That's not too great, especially from an emulation point of view -_- It'll be fine for old Sega games (MD, system 16, etc.) as they're 320x224 (so there'll only be slight letterboxing), and Neo-Geo games will have borders around the screen as they're 304x224. Those two are fine - I play them on my PC at 320x240 most the time and it's acceptable. But then comes most other things - NES and SNES games are 256x224 - this will give a crappy square picture, or if resized, a blurry mess (resizing to a res. only slightly bigger like that will suck eggs whatever way they do it). Same goes for a lot of standard res. arcade games - some are 288x224, which will also look kinda shite. And CPS games are 384x224, which could be gack as well. Also, some SNES games use a 512-line high resolution mode - such as the menus in Secret of Mana & Seiken Densetsu 3 - which will be unreadable on such a low resolution screen.
I see a weak GPU, a bad choice OS (should been QNX) and the same old screen from the GP32 (not that bad, its better than the DS ones, but it could be 480X320, or even a VGA one) BTW: "Gaming: CPU which has 2D accelerator enables you enjoy games anytime anywhere. Meet the exclusive GPX2 games along with abundant emulators such as MAME, SNES, Genesis, PC Engine etc" They are goin to be sued to death:smt071 You simply cant say that it will play other consoles games (with or without emus) cuz then you are supporting piracy. Those dumvb koreans should keep the emu shit to themselves and wait to someone like Yoyo to release the emus..........
yea but will that stop us from buying one?....and plus its korea land of the ripp-off...so what did you expect
Ryan: that consoles is called an open source console, just like the first one. Because it was made first for Korea, but it was a smack succes around the world, because of the "opensource" thing to it.
Oh man.... i guess the DS will wait! this system is sleek, sober and beautiful, it doesn't look like that toy looking gp32. What will you be able to emulate correctly with this? Will you be able to play, let's say metal slug on the Neo-geo? Can it handle 3d? What couldn't be emulated on the first gp console? (i'm no GP32 expert, sorry) Do you know if it will come out in stores? In america? I might pick one, if it's not too expensive. it could make a good mp3 player too (the battery life is kinda low though), and a cheap alternative to a PSP for emulators and all (the only thing that apeal me so far, i must admit) Damn, I'm pumped up! (sorry!)
The GP32 was never a "real" opensuource console. It began as a direct competitor for the GBA, but samsung dropt the idea of selling it overseas. Like the local market couldnt provide a great number of games for the console, GP released the SDK (that was a piece of shit) to the public, and becos the machine used SMCs and was pretty cheap, programmers begun to do things with it, and little by little it found its way to the videogame underground, us.
The best news I've seen in a while. Never got around to getting a GP32, glad to see there's a successor comming out. Maybe I'll just have to get this instead of a PSP this Christmas.
The thing that worries me is the "specifications might change" disclaimer on the site. I'm very excited about this thing, but we need to wait until it's out to see what features stay and what features go vapour.
that could also be a great thing, you know? imagine they change the life battery from 14 to 20 or 30 hours?
