GP2X Gp2x F300

[jsnds99]

Have you ever thought about running ds games or homebrew on your GP2X well you can't as it only has one screen. Well I have an idea.
Have a slide out screen sealed by the sd card slot and battery then when you slide it out it has 2 screens, so you could play ds games. And if you added more power and 2 built in lithium batteries it would be amazing the best hand held ever made. GPH would be even greater than it is.

But it will never happen

 

[quasist]

It smells DS fanboyism.

But attachable screen would be nice for debugging.

 

[Exophase]

Do you think that a second screen is all that is necessary for playing DS games on a GP2X? If you mean accomplishing this via emulation then GP2X is not nearly powerful enough to emulate DS games. As far as DS homebrew goes, why bother? Most of it could be ported to F200 instead.

 

[jsnds99]

how is the gp2x not powerful enough ??

ds specs
CPUs: Two ARM processors, an ARM946E-S main CPU and ARM7TDMI co-processor at clock speeds of 67 MHz and 33 MHz respectively. The ARM946E-S CPU processes 3D rendering and the ARM7TDMI processes 2D rendering for DS games and Game boy Advance gameplay.
RAM: 4 MB of Mobile RAM
Storage: 256 kB of Serial Flash Memory

gp2x specs
CPU: 200MHz ARM920T host processor, 200MHz ARM940T programmable coprocessor
NAND Flash ROM: 64 MB
RAM: SDRAM 64 MB

the gp2x has 60 mb more ram, processors are a lot more powerful than a ds, 256kb of serial flash in a ds vs 64mb nand flash, how can a gp2x not be powerful enough to run ds games, other than it doesn't have a 3d rendering thing.

 

[Exophase]

Learn how emulation works. It's not sufficient to have a CPU which is simply faster, nor is comparing MHz alone a good indication of relative performance (you have to consider bus/memory speeds, cache sizes, amongst other things). The platform emulating the other must be much more powerful. You're also neglecting the sheer amount of hardware that DS has that must be emulated aside from the two CPUs, mainly the video and audio chips. You shouldn't underestimate these, since GP2X is barely strong enough to emulate GBA's video and DS probably needs a good 4x that.

 

[Chip]

Even ignoring the dual display issue, there is no chance at all that the GP2X will ever be able to emulate the DS. The best PC-based DS emulators require multi-gigahertz processors, and they're still far from perfect. The Pandora might have a chance at it with a significantly optimized emulator, but even that is a bit of a long shot.