First Gp2x's Have Arrived
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Squidge posted on Sep 21 2005 at 07:00 AM said:
Does the GP2X support this? And will games use this or will it be like GP32 where it was locked to your CPU ID.
That is better if it is locked to your SD card, unless of course the SD gets lost or fried, or you upgrade to a larger size SD.
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x68000
Mega GP Mania
if youre sd card gets lost or fried, you will be in no worse a position than if you lost or damaged a dvd or cartridge.DaveC posted on Sep 21 2005 at 03:14 PM said:
Locking the drm to the card would be ideal all round IMO
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OrR
Corporate games suck.
Locking to SD can mean two things:
-Selling game on SD card. Would be like a cartridge. Problem: Those things tend to get lost and you have to carry a hundred of them around.
-Selling game online with lock to a specific SD card ID. Never thought about this before... I don't think it's a good idea, though. SDs get lost easier than the big GP2X and if you want to switch to a bigger card you always have to carry around the old one for the other games.
I aggree that games should ideally be sold without DRM. However, the danger of piracy is difficult to calculate.
-Selling game on SD card. Would be like a cartridge. Problem: Those things tend to get lost and you have to carry a hundred of them around.
-Selling game online with lock to a specific SD card ID. Never thought about this before... I don't think it's a good idea, though. SDs get lost easier than the big GP2X and if you want to switch to a bigger card you always have to carry around the old one for the other games.
I aggree that games should ideally be sold without DRM. However, the danger of piracy is difficult to calculate.
Digital Awakening
Member
About selling games on cards. What's the smalest and cheapest SD card out there? Of course selling games on SD cards means you can get a lot cheaper then the average customer. I wonder how large games could get though, with serious developers even 8bit BMPs and mid quality sounds do stack up if you make a large game.
You won't be carying around that many of them. First you will only buy a few since there's a lot for free and then you won't bring your old games around since you don't play them anymore. I'm sure there are some kind of carying cases for myltiple SD cards.
You won't be carying around that many of them. First you will only buy a few since there's a lot for free and then you won't bring your old games around since you don't play them anymore. I'm sure there are some kind of carying cases for myltiple SD cards.
OrR
Corporate games suck.
If you sell a game for 30$ you could probably use cards up to 64 MB.
I like to have all my games on one card, though. Swapping cards sucks.
I like to have all my games on one card, though. Swapping cards sucks.
Alpha2
Heroic Autobot
You can get a 256 SD card from Newegg.com for as little as $20.
Esn
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Yeah, DRM to a specific card seems like the best idea - I hope it's supported. For those complaining "what if I switch to a bigger card?", well, it's exactly the same as any PSP/DS game - if you want to play the game, you bring the extra card with you. It's not like SD-Cards are actually big - it would be REALLY easy to carry an extra one with you.
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Magus 86
Guest
What exactly does SD stand for anyway? I've been trying to search for SD cards to see exactly what they look like(and to price them, of course), but I keep coming across different types of cards made by SanDisk. If one of the cards I found is an SD card, and I'm not mistaken, then the DS uses SD cards... but I have no way of confirming it.
http://www.sdcard.org/ Secure digital check out the sdio 
Winterkid
Active Member
The WIFI SDIO looks really appealing to me, honestly...
Might wanna look into that one.
Although all I can afford to start with is a 512meg SD card.
Might wanna look into that one.
Although all I can afford to start with is a 512meg SD card.
Vimacs
Don't be evil!
actualy it looks like we dont thave true sd support in linux but only mmc mode, that means no sdio (and only 25mbps max speed instand of 100mbps, smc haves about 6.5 mbps), however usb host seems to be very possible, i think is actualy the better choice than sdio couse of the better driver support for usb devices.
Squidge
Certified Guru
It supports SD cards, but runs them in MMC compatibility mode. That's what Vimacs is trying to say.
Jarska333
What do you want?
Do MMC's work, then? Just incase one stumbles on a good deal...
Squidge
Certified Guru
Even at MMC speeds, it's not exactly slow, and the added benefit of the ultra fast card is not going to make much difference really, unless you start loading up 64mb roms.
Julius
Well-Known Member
That is pure speculation at this point, as far as I know. The reason for this mmc compatibility mode is that true SD support costs licence fees, which makes it pretty unlikely that GPH will use this out of the box.
That doesn't prevent some 'dirty hackers' to enable the SD support later on though, since the hardware supports it. It just might not be very easy to do.
That doesn't prevent some 'dirty hackers' to enable the SD support later on though, since the hardware supports it. It just might not be very easy to do.
