The Future Of The Gp2x


leaperk

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I thought it might be interesting to think of where the GP2x is going to be at in about a year.

Do you think we are going to see in no particular order

-wireless SD card support?

-PSX emulation that will be close to the PSP when Sony starts selling old PSOne games?

-Full Speed SNES emulation?

please any other thoughts you might have about the future
 
Not really sure what you mean with wireless SD cards...

Anyway, what I'm more concerned about, really, is homebrew.
At the moment, the homebrew SCENE is interesting, but the catalogue of finished homebrew games that are fun to play isn't very extensive. But hey, the machine hasn't really been "out" for very long, and it seems like a lot of people are catching on to it. If one person can spread interest to TWO people and so on, we'll have a big, nice community by the end of the year. I think that in time, it could even happen that several forums regarding the GP2X will appear. Personally, this board is already getting a bit big for someone like me, but I keep to a few specific sub-forums, so I'm okay.
If you look at the Talent Thread (linked in my sig) you can see a lot of people already working on some interesting stuff, and I think that within the next six months or so, we'll start to see the fruits of their labours. Once we have a good heap of great, polished homebrew titles for the Gippex, I think that a great deal of potential buyers that wouldn't buy it NOW will be more likely to get the machine, and then they will trigger THEIR friends, etc etc.

I also see a few commercial games being released, something I'm also looking forward to. Thing about freeware is that it'll always seems sort of "out there" for the teeming throngs of normal people. Some commercial titles with a professional-looking website for purchasing said titles is all-important if we want to get as many people playing this thing as possible. I also think that a website somewhat like the file archive but less unwieldy and big (imagine yourself being the average Joe looking for games for this neat new GPwhatsit) for the new people.

Those are just my two farthings.
 
I would love to see a bob that used a Lithum battery or something that could be attached to the back of the gp2x. The gp2x is light enough the extra weight wouldn't bother me, it would be nice to have wireless intergrated into it. Someone might do this in a year but I don't know.

Full speed snes seems very possible in a year though I don't know if it will be able to do all the transparent layers(I think thats the one that has the special processor for it on the psp, let me know if I'm crazy) because I recall someone in a thread saying that it worked good on a psp because it has a seperate processor for that kind of thing. The gp2x doesn't so it may be tricky.

full speed psx... I think you'll see more games going faster but I wouldn't hold my breath on that by the end of the year anyways. If it is done I'll shit myself and hug the developers. :D

I would like to see a better video player interface by the end of the year, this may be done in the new firmware update that is suppose to be comming out by the end of the month. I just want subs :p . I am wanting to work on a player that will do it, but it probably won't work as I suck.
 
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