GP32 - Mass Storage


vodkabuddah

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Check this out - I bought one a month ago....

http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/catalog/d...lt.php?cPath=33

It's called a Tripper 2 - basically it's a portable hard-disk (can swap for whatever capacity you want) and comes with USB 2 port to connect to your PC AND has inbuilt Compact Flash Reader

It doesnt stop there though, you can also WRITE to compact flash !!

I gotta a 60Gig disk in mine, use it with SMC to Compact Flash adaptor and got a truly portable hard disk solution. I got all the emulators (SNES, ATARI, GBoy etc) with plenty of moviepark DivX's - all available for downloading to my 128Meg SMC. Not only that, cause I've gotta truly portable disk solution, I'm abale to encode my moviepark files to high quality and can then split the film over 2 or 3 SMCs and watch them with a few clicks.

Where's the catch - none really, only downside of the Tripper that I've found is battery life - lasts around 3 to 4 hours between recharges. Not really a problem, unless you're doing loadsa swapping etc. but lasts plenty long enough to get to a plug socket and recharge.

By the way, those of you with PDAs, Digi cameras etc. that use some form of Smart Media - you can use those aswell with the correct adaptor. I take a lot of photos on my 256Meg Compact Flash - just download them to the Tripper, wipe the flash and away I go again.

So for those of you with an itch for more storage and have several Smart Media enabled devices, this bit of kit works really well and certainly comes in cheaper than buying 17 different cards.

Not quite the same as connecting a hard disk to your GP32 - but probably the next best thing !!! :D

vodkabuddah
 
Ya... this is another one of those times when I think "Why the hell doesn't the GP32 have a normal USB port??" ;)
 
I remeber someone saying "The Gp32 is a USB slave device it can not use another slave device unless it´s converted to a master"

That´s the problem.
 
Yeah, I know about the problems of connecting a Hard Drive to your Gp32 but that wasn't the point of this post - What I'm talking about is the next best thing - you've got a portable Hard Disk with a built in Compact Flash Reader and Writer. In other words, you can store 60Gigs of GP32 data on there, movies etc. etc. and If you want to use them, you simply plug your SMC into the slot and then download from portable drive onto the SMC and then plug your SMC back into the GP32.

OK so you're still limited to capacity of what SMC can hold but you're able to take all your GP32 stuff (movies by the tonne) with you.

Not quite the hard-disk direct connect to the GP32 but gotta be the next best thing ?!?

Vodka
 
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