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I've never run an emulator on the gp2x and am not interested in them myself, but if I were designing a "better gp2x" that I wanted to sell I would pick some realistic and specific set of systems I wanted emulators for, recruit the emulator porter dudes to help figure things out, and build it...

That's what we were just talking about above. The problem is the perspective effect. It can be partially solved by tesselating the cube faces I suppose. Cubes are often used in PC games because the hardware does perspective-correct texture mapping "for free", but I'm trying to scavenge every...

Exactly, that's what I meant by a "geo-sphere" which is what I'd like to switch to. Working out the math for the texture mapping on that is giving me a headache though so I will probably stick with the current scheme until a day when I'm feeling smart.

jbrodack: thanks! quasist: yes, player 1 will use the 'A', 'Y', and 'L' buttons, and player 2 will use 'B', 'X', and 'R'. Player 1 gets the up and left directions on the joystick, and player 2 gets down and right. ruckage: thanks! Ruckman is a very fine piece of work, you can really tell...

Hey Alex! I love the look and gameplay of the games you've been making, keep up the great work! I got a book called "Essential Mathematics for Games" by Van Verth and Biship which seems pretty good. Once you know what to look for, google is handy too.

I was reading Mr. Jabberwocky's delightful thread about his adventures making the game "Fire" and, although I lack his amusing dry wit, I thought "I have to do a thread about making a game too!" One of the projects I was half-heartedly starting to poke at a year ago was a little game where the...

Yes, certainly some games/emulators/cartoons might benefit from the mk2 screen (aside from the very narrow viewing angle). In particular, emulators of old systems that could only display a handful of colors anyway doubtless look more vibrant with the unnaturally high contrast. And I'll admit...

Thanks! Regarding telling a Mk2 in code, it could be that you guys have discussed this recently (I've been away), but I'd think we could make a pretty accurate guess from the serial number string (the date part). For my purposes I want to make it an option in the options section so if a guess...

Hey, cool! A long time ago I was working on the art for a little game I was writing (Jewel Beach) and it looked okay on my Mk I, then I picked up a Mk II and was highly distressed to see how horrid the art looked on the Mk II screen, and I haven't looked at it since. However, I have been...

Thanks for the kind words, everybody!

Hi gp2xers! I used to be an active developer, etc, in the gp2x scene (Vektar, Zooov, NetHack port). About a year ago I got burned out and quit. I was trying to do too many things -- demo competition, review website, tutorial development articles, and so on, and I got sick of it. Recently my...

I don't think the guy himself even knows what he is talking about. He apparently doesn't even know that the gp32 had homebrew before 2005. I wasn't around then but when did GP start giving out the SDK

I think your best bet is to extend the judging application deadline to December 1. I don't see any real reason that you have to have your judges three months before they have to judge anything.

If there is a thread about the program you want to report a bug about, use that thread instead of starting a new one. Be polite and as specific as possible about the problem you'd like to report. Optional but nice: Thank the program author for donating their evenings to producing the program...

I think your key mapping suggestions are fine, as long as they don't conflict with key combinations needed natively for emulators. Obviously just pressing START might have a meaning in an emulator where the START key maps to the emulated system's controller, but in other apps it could be used...

Yeah, to me that just makes the most sense. In my opinion you should normally be able to get to some state where you can choose (given clear instructions like X=EXIT or a scrollable menu or whatever) to exit the program, using a single fairly obvious button. Of the choices available, ABXY...

So for those of us that are dimwits, what could this be about? It can't really be GPH -- they aren't a "big" company (they are barely even a small company), and their product and business model is an extremely straightforward continuation of the old gamepark product/business. Looks like a...

I certainly agree with this; in most cases there shouldn't be an easily-pressed key combination that just dumps you out of the program. A lot of programs can benefit from pressing a key (be it START or something else) that brings up a little menu including "Quit", "Resume", and "Options" if...

Win ston is a brand of moron (i actully typed ciga rette there). Just one of the amusing board quirks I guess.

Now that the deadline for applying to be a judge has passed (it was August 31), how does the judging pool look? Any luck with approaching potential corporate sponsors?