Any Regrets About Buying A Gp32

[majick]

I wound up getting one of the earliest "dodgy unit" BLU+ devices, so, yeah, I kind of regret it. One of the main emulators I wanted to take advantage of, OpenSNES9xGP, is still broken with white bars, and so far I haven't had much luck fixing it since the source is so ancient it doesn't even compile with a modern GCC (and since it was apparently originally written on Windows, which causes a bunch of other problems).

DrMD is great, though. Hopefully the next version will fix the white bar during startup, along with adding DAC and some other stuff. I'm looking forward to that.

But generally, my BLU+ has been a lot more work than fun. I've spent hours researching, fixing code, testing, and doing all kinds of work for it, and not very much time at all playing,

 

[bast525]

I regret it... well.. I regret that I waited as long as I did to get one, and hence got in just in time for the "BLU +" problem. Luckily, only a few of the apps I was interested in are still affected by the problem, primarily of which is Doom, which was the #3 reason I bought a GP (yeah yeah I can play V8... but face it, only being able to play Doom1.wad and the buggy sound suck).

I don't know that I would use it, or say I like it better than a GBA SP with flash cart in the heyday of the GBA (which is all but dead now), but I definately have been playing the hell out of the thing lately, even after buying a PSP.

 

[markusdragon]

I don't regret buying my BLU+ in the slightest. I've only ever actually seen the white bar twice, and those were on programs i didn't actually want. Besides, I waited patiently enough to get a GP32, I think i can wait patiently for any software fixes for my BLU+ (i have no programming ability whatsoever).

 

[Esn]

of course not...
I only regret that I sold her...

see you :lol:

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Umm... wait... aren't you the guy who knows the guy in France who's making the GBA emulator? Any news on what he's up to nowadays?

 

[White Demon]

Regrets, yeah I've got a couple....

Like trying to do a GBA Afterbruner mod myself and ending up with dust everywhere....
And getting a Flash cart which I never even really used after the first few weeks...

But I don't regret getting my GP32. I use it almost every day. Can't get enough of it

Now my GBA sits collecting even more dust.

gp32_console forever

 

[Radio]

Regrets? Hell no!

I ordered mine at just the right time. Reesy had released his DrMD emulator and there were plenty of other excellent entries in the GBAX 16 days coding competition that sparked my interest while I was waiting for my console to arrive.
My only regret is that I don't have a job with longer breaks so I can enjoy it more.

 

[kknd_cf]

hmmm, sorry to be offtopic but my nextdoor neighbour went to live in Australia with his family. After being in their highschool for a while he know loves fifty cent and he's a smooth dresser etc...
He keeps saying stuff is "heaps good", is this a popular saying in Australia?

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Nope... but the word "heaps" does get used as illustrated by my post

Different generations always come up with stupid sayings.
When I was at school we had "that is grouse" then "that is mad" then it changed to "that is sick" etc..

On the 50cent thing probably just the group of friends he has fallen in with... what was he into before? Barry Manilow?

back on topic: still no regrets

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more like DragonBall Z and other kids stuff. His first excitement of entering highschool seems to have done it.

 

[Hanz™]

No Regrets here...

But I feel kinda sorry for all of those who ordered and got BLU+'s as it must have been a bit of a letdown.
However I think that will all be sorted out soon.

 

[El_Diablo]

no regrets...(which incidentally sounds like something bad happened but I dont regret it ) my Gp32 is a FLU and I got it at the beginning of last summer...ever since it hasn't gotten as much use as I thought (I'm a little protective of just leaving it lying around in my backpack especially when I'm on tubes and stuff)

But when it does get used, when I'm dossing about in the house, I'm still as pleased as ever that I now have every Nes game I own in the palm of my hand...all 36 of them (I was a charity shop buyer)

(man that was a lot of parenthesis)

 

[catmince]

i do! only because i could have saved the $200 for this year instead of taking as much money out for a Student loan :/

 

[Klown]

well, in my rush to download stuff on christmas day, not knowing what I was doing, I managed to disable my usb's.

Never to work again. Stopping me using my mini-disk player, digital camera etc.

So, I've never been able to add stuff onto it using my computer. I had to send a smc to someone on these forums.

That sucks.

But playing Super punch Out!! on the gp32 is cool.

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You're a fucking idiot.

 

[Blah]

I have no regrets about buying a GP32.

I made this topic before I had one. It was the number of votes that really sealed the deal. I figured that if 80% of people didn't have regrets about it, I'd like it too.