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GPH built the GP2X as a media player to suit the Korean market, and according to what ED told me, they just recently began to realize people play games on it during the past few months. :P Even though only ~1/25th of the sales have been in Korea, they've been marketing towards that audience...

Yes, I have that document and I've been through it. It's not terribly useful. Yes, it does give you some information, but an enormous amount of it is inexplicably (or .. expectedly..) left out. As I said, it prefers long feature lists to real thorough explanation. While it is better than...

If you had a brain in that head of yours you might realize there's a difference between thinking the machine is a shitty dev platform and deciding not to pursue a release on it, and 'not being able to get a game running'. I had no trouble getting anything to run. But if I cannot achieve all my...

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Sheesh, first all this talk of 'the community's not slowing down, everyone is waiting for the contest to be over' and now, 'someone will enter!' ... I hope this doesn't turn out as underwhelming as the GPH contest. EDIT: Actually, with the rules that contest had, I'm surprised anyone entered...

Megumi Hayashibara and Ayumi Hamasaki's music is usually based on techno, and very good techno at that. You'd probably also like the Initial D soundtracks (or anything from the Eurobeat label) since they're just a lot of high-quality upbeat Italo-Disco inspired techno. If it doesn't have to be...

If you don't want to have to screw around with it, something else might be a good idea, since most of the games/emulators for the GP2X require a good bit of experimentation to get running properly. The eBook program is easy to use but it's not really very versatile, and last time I used it, it...

It has a gigantic PDF file about it, yes. It's just full of worthless information. Most of it reads like a brochure about why you should buy the MMSP2, not explaining how to use it. Long lists of features in terrible barely-comprehensible English, yet no information on the operation of the...

How many times do I have to say this to penetrate your thick skull? There is barely any documentation surrounding the machine or its constituent SoC, especially the '2D Acceleration' (blitter) and MPEG-4 decoding hardware (as MagicEyes would like to keep this a secret and charge money to develop...

Yes, we really need lower battery life for the (barely any) devices that are even supported in Linux. That's awesome.

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Hey, I said I was done. You guys had to go and drag me back into the conversation, though. Declining to reply, knowing this forum, would invite various responses that kept this thread on the first page for a week or two, with useful mature information such as 'haha we scared off Epicentre, he...

Please have some idea what you're talking about before you flame me. I didn't say there was a problem with the CPU being slow. The ARM920T is in fact very fast. The ARM940T is crippled but we're not talking about that. This emulator doesn't even use it in the slightest. I said the emulator needs...

I wouldn't call the GP2X an accomplishment. It's more an embarassment. This wasn't one person releasing the product, it was a company, albeit a small one. The fact that they couldn't properly execute a design they didn't even have to come up with themselves is downright disgraceful. All they...

Yes, this is standard in PC-style PSUs. The +5VSB (5 Volt Stand By) rail is always active as long as sufficient AC power is applied to the primary. +12v, +5V, +3.3V and the rest are only activated when POWER_ON is grounded on the 20 (or 24)-pin power connector that goes to the motherboard...

I hate going over this again and again :( - When we discussed the specs with him, he described a 2D accelerator unit. What is really present is just a simple blitter. It can do very little besides draw to the screen and provides no real acceleration where it counts (e.g. transferring large...

If it's very high pitched, it's probably some component in the GP2X's PSU hardware (internal). Capacitors can whine, and so can inductor and transformer coils as they vibrate extremely rapidly. If you put your ear near a PC's CPU socket with the fans turned off you can usually hear a faint whine...

Just for the record here, no emulator is perfect (and probably never will be, since of the hardware is actually analog, or not even fully understood or documented) and the ones that get close (for the MegaDrive, KEGA Fusion gets the closest) take very high-end hardware to run. Granted they are...

There was no 'masterminding'; MagicEyes, maker of the GP2X's chipset, gave GPH a platform to test out the chip on. They duplicated the platform bit for bit on a smaller board-- that's why the specifications are largely identical to MagicEyes' platform. This gives it a degree of stability in some...

In regards to your sig-- It's depressing, based on the original info I was given about the hardware, it sounded very well designed. Most of it was lies or half-truths, though. In theory a machine with a snappy 200 Mhz ARM processor, 64MB of RAM and a sizable 320x240 LCD supporting lots of...