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  1. scorpio

    Drm Restricted Commercial Games

    "Give me convenience, or give me death." Someone made the point about cartridge systems in the past. I have no problems with that - Take cartridge off shelf, put the cartridge in console, switch on the VCS (or whatever), play the game. No problem. Your game system is static, and your game...
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    Group Game Project

    Like Pinball Dreams/Illusions/Fantasies on the Amiga? They are great games, and the GP2X could totally handle that! The only thing is that the graphics and sound were a major part of those games, so we would really need to have some dedicated talent working on those aspects. Probably the best...
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    New Gp2x Mk2 Review.

    I like the sound of this, looks like I'll be buying a third one!
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    Group Game Project

    Maybe a shortlist of candidates in different genres? Prospective developers can then look at that list and offer their relevant services for each one. Then, whichever entry gets the most comprehensive offers of help gets done first. That way, it would be the contributors that are giving the...
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    Gp2x Or Ds With Homebrew

    If you have the money, I would suggest you get both! The DS has some nice features like the touch screen and 3D acceleration. I don't think you'd be seeing games like Nanostray or Ultimate Spider-Man running quite as fluidly on the GP2X. The GP2X has the advantage that it has Linux as standard...
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    Acc. Sdl? Silly Question

    I'm in the middle of tidying up some code as part of a small tutorial on using the blitter for sprites, and I hope to have something finished for the weekend, so that might help a little bit. The blitter can be used for drawing horizontal and vertical lines, so you will probably find it useful...
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    Hi-fi Mp3

    Personally, I use one of these: http://www.empeg.com/index.html I would have doubts about the constant plugging and unplugging of the GP2X's audio jack, given the things I've read... That said, however, the quality is not bad and would be mostly dependent on the quality you've encoded the...
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    GP2X How To Use Usb Gadget With Xp And Gp2x 2.0.0

    Hi, You might want to have a look at http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/pocketserver.ars, which is where I first saw it, reviewed against a simialr solution. I don't think it's really comparable to the GP2X, as it comes across to me as being more of a black box looking for an application...
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    GP2X Performance Issues With V2 Firmware

    Hi, That's an interesting point, and I'll check it out this evening. It could be to do with the way the menu is launched. I think the binaries launch it using the exec() function, which is probably different enough from the way a shell script starts it. My suspicion is that when the menu is...
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    Vektar Boxed Version

    I agree 100%, and I really hope that my comments don't get misconstrued as being supportive of distributing copies of the game. A community will live or die on how the members support each other, and I would include distributors as part of that community. My point is that human nature being what...
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    Vektar Boxed Version

    Don't worry, I wasn't targeting him, I was just railing against "The Man" in general. It's something that anooys me.
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    Vektar Boxed Version

    Well there's the thing. It's a waste of resources implementing copy protection, as a cracked version will only appear on usenet, and it does nothing to deter the pirates who make a profit from selling copies. If I buy a copy-protected game I'm implicitly accepting the seller's accusation that I...
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    GP2X Performance Issues With V2 Firmware

    When you say "without the launchers" I presume you mean not using the shell scripts and launching the binary executable directly from the menu? If so, the behaviour you're seeing is what I would expect. The problem is when you use the shell scripts that come with a lot of games now. The script...
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    Vektar On The 2.0 Firmware Nand

    I find it completely unplayable with dual sticks. I guess it depends on what you're used to.
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    Vektar Boxed Version

    OK, well I guess I won't be buying it then. Not because I want to copy it and give it to friends, but because I might want to copy it onto the SD card that spends more time in my GP2X, or onto the SD card in my other GP2X. I also feel that it's an issue of trust.
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    Vektar Boxed Version

    I hope not!
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    Vektar On The 2.0 Firmware Nand

    It plays like Asteroids/Space Duel, whereas Geometry Wars and its clones play more like Robotron.
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    GP2X Making Libs.

    I haven't tried it myself yet, but when I was looking into it, one of the links that made the most sense to me was the following: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-...-libraries.html I think this method is geared towards creating '.so' files using the GCC linker. If you want to create...
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    Vektar On The 2.0 Firmware Nand

    Grid Wars is a great game, I wish it ran a bit better at 1920x1200 though. :-( Someone else has another version called Grid Assault at http://members.home.nl/wdw/, although I prefer Grid Wars, myself. Vektar has a similar look, but in some ways I prefer its gameplay over the Geometry Wars 2...
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    Vektar Boxed Version

    Hi, Well, I'm not saying it's too easy, as I've only played it a couple of of times and got up to level 5, but my complaint is that each stage only takes about 20-30 seconds to complete, and it's usually at this stage that the intensity starts to kick in. On the commercial demo however, this is...
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