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Nice article ekianjo, it clearly took a lot of time and effort. The GP2X was incredible, and as usual the best part about it was the community of developers, artists, and enthusiastic users giving lots of feedback. The ports and emulators were impressive and optimized to death, and the original...

sudo opkg install ca-certificates according to past posts here.

How reliable are ReBirth LCD cables? Would it be wise to get a spare when they're available?

Since you already know Python, basic C++ won't be difficult to try. Check out Lazy Foo's SDL tutorials, they cover everything you need for graphics, sound, and input in C. That's how I learned basic game development for the GP2X in 2006, and they're still the best resource I know of. Once you...

I think it is a closed source blob that GPH licensed, but others may know better.

Make sure to keep the 2.1.1 firmware, it's second only to Open2x. Every newer official GPH firmware is slower and takes longer to boot.

It should, I have about 130 on my card and always find cool new things when I spend a few minutes looking around the repo. What I meant is that there are 1337 PNDs spread over many specialized categories, so if you're looking for a certain kind of game or application you don't really need...

I'd remove ratings altogether and just keep comments. The Pandora repo is small enough that you don't need ratings to help people discover software. Large mainstream app stores need ratings because they're inundated by thousands and thousands of applications that do the same thing and there's...

I just played some MasteriesRunners and Buzzy's Bad Day (a throwback to the GP2X days :gp2x) on my Caanoo. I still don't have any games on my phone, when it comes to gaming it's either my PC, Caanoo, or Pandora.

I just had the same unknown filesystem type 'squashfs' problem after updating from 1.60 to 1.61. Also booting from an SD card, with a small boot partition that has autoboot.txt and the kernel, and a larger one with the filesystem. During boot there was a message that said the kernel has been...

I could always find what I wanted much easier in the old GP2X archive than in the Pandora repo, I wonder how all these categories were chosen.

I'm able to put it in suspend mode while it's charging by sliding the power tab to the right and holding it for a second or two.

Thanks for the port, this is a very nice game. I like the art a lot, and the controls map really well to Pandora.

A journaling file system is a must, I use ext4 on a 32GB SanDisk without any issues. I used ext2 before and files occasionally got corrupted when I exited applications with the Pandora button instead of the proper way.

Remember to get a proper-spec wall charger if you decide to use one.   None of the rechargeables I used years ago with my GP2X work anymore either, definitely try a new high-capacity 2500mAh+ set.

Any idea about the future of Pandora batteries? I don't think I'll need a replacement for at least a year or two (I last charged it in mid-March and it still has 50% left, absolutely amazing), I'm just curious.

I think Wolf4SDL has compile-time flags for each variation of the game's data files. Pickle's GP2X port had 5 or so different builds for this reason.

  You should ask the GLBasic developer to support scaling to fullscreen with hardware acceleration. If GLBasic is backed by SDL, this is very easy thanks to Notaz's excellent work. Trap75 runs at 320x240 on Caanoo and gets at most ~90fps, whereas it runs at 400x240 on Pandora and reaches a...

Check out this guide by DJWillis (scroll down to "Original Guide"). Good luck, and remember to use a proper PSU, not batteries.

I don't think there's anything you can do about it, this is an unfixable issue a lot of Wiz OLED screens had sooner or later - search for "pixel plague".