GP32 Calling All Arm9 Coders


gizmondoo posted on Oct 18 2005 at 11:59 AM said:
LOL, hopefully I won't dissapear


Hopefully you do. In case you didn't get it, most of us don't give two shits about the gizmondo ;) I don't care if it runs at 2 GHz, it is ugly and has a tiny screen meh.
 
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LOL, hopefully I won't dissapear - 7:59am

Im gone..... - 10:35am

Wow; these boards are rough ;)

I say cut him some slack.. we're good at trashing folks, but we don't want to be an elitest club all the time :)

jeff
 
It was new a long time ago :p

Funny enough they talked about it on the French CableTv Videogame channel , since it looked so bad and ugly and spyware full .

Maybe it was because this TV vhannel is owned by Infogrammes (French Videogames editor) which was very active on N-gage developped games :p (looks like they are always betting on the wrong horses)

Seriously, the Gizmondo is a handheld system with a lot of Raw CPU horsepower, a 3D gfx chip and the smallest screen they could find.Problem is that it's not very Homebrew friendly apparently, that's why this guy ask GP32 ARM coding gurus to help him crack the protection in a way. It's developped by Tiger I think. Isnt that the same Tiger which made those LCD games similar to the Nintendo Gamewatch ?

But now I think we are going very sideways into Offtopic land. :huh:
 
Quite old actually, now... been out, what, at least a year, and I've a suspicion somewhat longer. Its got some pretty cool hardware at its disposal (a 400MHz chip in addition to a 3D accellerator for starters), and iirc has a built in GPS and possibly a phone as well (not sure). Certainly had a feature of being trackable by parents if they wanted to know where their kids were. Also had the option of buying a version that (get this) you had to stop playing every half hour or so so they could show you an advert - although to be fair, that version was a LOT cheaper (and rightly so).

Unfortunately - or fortunately, depending on your point of view - the small screen, horribly hard to break into DRM system made it bad for homebrewing, and the PSP and DS have fairly firmly established themselves as king and queen of the hill for portable commercial 3D stuff.
 
haha. This is some funny shit.

Seriously though, I think the Gizmondo looks sweet as. Its powerful as anything too. Shame about the small screen, yeah. It could have been good if it was open source.

re: Advertising - yeah, they had grand plans for location based advertising via the inbuilt GPS - so that shops that you walk past can flash ads at you. Kooky shit. Pain in the ass if you ask me.
 
lol doh yous git :), yef how to almost time for faggoween pitters :'(.

That's gitted if sayed lazy how to wills never learn unless try tooed then first not have to be lazied doh this most pitted ferld waf.
 
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