jimid2
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You know what I did yesterday? I played Chew Man Fu and Castlevania Adventure on the bus to and from work. I played Marvel vs. Capcom while sitting in the library waiting for my daughter to finish up some study time with some friends. I threw down against Donkey Kong during lunch in the office, took a nostalgic look at Metal Gear while waiting for supper to cook, and snickered through the carnival opening chapter of Sam and Max while my wife read beside me in bed. I did all this without digging my way to and through the inumerable weighty moving boxes neatly stacked in the improbably small storage space we have under the basement stairs. I didn't have to dig out old systems and find the cables and plug them into the back of one of the bedroom TVs. I didn't have to fight with XP to get an old DOS game running properly, or go back to a box that's buried under four others again for a controller that works! And I didn't have to go out to an arcade (not that there are any left around here) to find a MvC cab... I did all this from a machine I can hold in my hands. Everything I played ran smoothly and looked wonderful, and the sound was good to great all 'round. I got to stretch Castlevania Adventures so I could actually see it! and I didn't need the SNES and the Super Gameboy adapter out to do it!! and pulling off Shurikens and Web-Swings with the GP2X joystick was a lot of fun once I got the feel for it - more like the arcade than a D-pad I think... In short, I had a bloody good lot of gaming fun with this little handheld yesterday, and I wanted to say 'THANKS' to all the EMU developers and the community at large for all the work that's gone into making this machine the joy that it is. I've only owned it three days, and I already feel it's the best handheld I've ever owned. And I've owned them all, excepting the Gizmondo, Wonder Swan and GP32.
I've kind of been lurking around these boards for a while now, humming and hawing about purchasing one of these machines... It took me months to finally decide to take the plunge, though I had read through a fair number of threads with a negative bent regarding various aspects of the GP2X. But now that I own one I only wish that I'd picked it up sooner. I imagine my DS and PSP will be collecting a fair bit of dust over the next couple of months while I enjoy the riches to be mined here.
And for those who think the battery life is "bad", you should have owned an Atari Lynx or NEC TurboExpress. Those things could burn through AAs faster than you could load them back into the power hungry bastidges...
That's it - enough fanbois fawning. I just wanted to record my initial experiences with this great handheld; maybe they'll encourage another classic gamer to pick up this terrific bit of hardware and get involved with the community. 'Cause if they do, I don't think they'll be sorry. I know that I'm not!
Gracias Amigos!
I've kind of been lurking around these boards for a while now, humming and hawing about purchasing one of these machines... It took me months to finally decide to take the plunge, though I had read through a fair number of threads with a negative bent regarding various aspects of the GP2X. But now that I own one I only wish that I'd picked it up sooner. I imagine my DS and PSP will be collecting a fair bit of dust over the next couple of months while I enjoy the riches to be mined here.
And for those who think the battery life is "bad", you should have owned an Atari Lynx or NEC TurboExpress. Those things could burn through AAs faster than you could load them back into the power hungry bastidges...
That's it - enough fanbois fawning. I just wanted to record my initial experiences with this great handheld; maybe they'll encourage another classic gamer to pick up this terrific bit of hardware and get involved with the community. 'Cause if they do, I don't think they'll be sorry. I know that I'm not!
Gracias Amigos!
