malgayne
Still Fresh
So I've just gotten my GP2X Wiz, and I am very excited about this piece of hardware. I've been looking for something like this for a long time. I hit up http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi and I downloaded a bunch of different emulators—OutcaST (Atari ST), Vice (C64), gpSP (GBA), PicoDrive (Genesis), Lemonboy (Game Boy), Gpfce (NES), PSX4WIZ (Playstation), and PocketSNES (SNES). I've gotten pretty much everything running the way it should be, but I'm still having trouble with a number of them, and I've come to humbly beg for assistance. 
gpSP, PocketSNES, and the MAME games that I can run all seem to work fine, but considering how many different pieces of software don't appear to be working—and that all of them seem to have the same problem—I can't help but think that it must be user error. I'm a longtime gamer, but this is the first time I've really messed around with emulators—beyond just downloading whichever one worked and trying to mess with it as little as possible, so the possibilities of the Wiz both delight and intimidate me. Please be gentle.
- I found a tos.rom image for OutcaST, and fired it up. I insert a disk image into the drive just fine, and then hit the X button to "run emu". I get a black screen. The select button brings up the keyboard, but clicking that doesn't seem to do anything either. I can click the "Menu" button to bring the menu back, but even resetting the emulator doesn't seem to change anything. I've tried it with multiple disks, all of which seem to work fine in emulators on my Mac.
- PicoDrive. I run the emulator, load a new ROM, and then...what? The only options are "load rom", "change options", "configure controls", "credits", and "exit". Exit just quits the emulator. I can't figure out how to, you know, PLAY the game. >.<
- MAME runs great, but there are a number of ROMs that seem to work fine on the Mac version of MAME, but just don't appear in the list to choose from. This includes most of my favorite ROMs, it appears.
- Gfpce. Same problem. I run it, get the menu, load a new ROM, and then there's no menu option to actually play the game.
- PSX4WIZ. I load the emulator, go to File Options, click "Load a Game without BIOS", choose a game, and all that happens is a long string of text appears that's wider than the screen, and seems to just be the filename of the disk image.
gpSP, PocketSNES, and the MAME games that I can run all seem to work fine, but considering how many different pieces of software don't appear to be working—and that all of them seem to have the same problem—I can't help but think that it must be user error. I'm a longtime gamer, but this is the first time I've really messed around with emulators—beyond just downloading whichever one worked and trying to mess with it as little as possible, so the possibilities of the Wiz both delight and intimidate me. Please be gentle.