Gpx2 Unvailed!!

[rabbits with hats]

I could hold on to mine gp32 for 10 years and sell it as a super rare console for £500 :lol:

 

[junker]

oh man oh man!!
will get this as soon as it's released!!!!!!!!

hope shipping charges won't be too high to US. >_<

this looks really promising

 

[Jarska333]

They should paint them with those chancing colors, you know, heat affected... There used to be die-cast toy cars like that.

 

[trooper]

Just emailed Gbax for me to be placed on the pre-order list.

Anymore takers ?.

Trooper

 

[rabbits with hats]

July 22nd: GBAX.com crazy sale starts tomorrow on ebay, after that GBAX.com will be re-launching with a cool new facelift and new payment servers (protx), and some very exciting new products

I think I will put my gp32 up on ebay some time this week.

 

[skeezix]

"Interestingly, the Tungsten T5 PDA and Treo 650 smartphone from PalmOne, released in late 2004, use NAND flash to back up the contents of main memory during normal operations. PalmOne names this technique "non-volatile file system" (NVFS). It gives the illusion of a RAM storage pool that does not lose any of its data when power is removed. This PalmOne knowledge base article explains how this technique works on the Treo 650."

information from wikipedia...

Doesn't this mean that NAND Flash Memory in fact can be used as extra RAM?? :blink:

/Shaddac

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NVRAM can't be used as RAM, no. It has limited number of writes (to each cell, though the controller randomly distributes writes around to maximize lifespan), and is slower. Its not heavily used due to price.

On a Palm OS device, it is used as a flopyp disk essentially; they word it like that, since it lets you stick things into it so its not in "runtime RAM" -- so you always have your full RAM available for runtime (boiled down explanation). Historically, since PDAs only had RAM, both storage and runtime was in real RAM.. so older PDAs used up RAM for storage, and the new ones don't. GP32 never used RAM for storage, since it used SMC for it.

jeff

 

[Aaaaaaaa]

Just emailed Gbax for me to be placed on the pre-order list.

Anymore takers ?.

Trooper

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"from : Gbax


The email we recieved is a legally binding contract, the price of the console is : 4.8billion GBP

kind thanks,
Craig "




J/k, i know he'd never do that

 

[junker]

maaaan, that looks beautiful!!!!
best design!!

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thats more like it - positive feedback!!

let's start a thread were it is a crime to moan.

I doubt it would stay moan free for long being around here!!!

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yeah, i don't see why anyone's moaning! it looks great, is more powerful, and should be cheap!
plus there's xvid/divx playback of video files that have a res larger than 320x240, so there's no need to reencode!!

SO gonna get it!

 

[DaveC]

DrMD should run like a dream on this machine, can't wait

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dr md should be able to run with mega cd support too!!! 32x may be a step too far, what do you think reesy?

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What I think is that you are NUTS! It is only around *250 MHZ!* Some GP32s do that NOW. That is not even fast enough for SNES let alone 32X etc.

And graphics chips? useless for emulation. They are good for frame buffers and for stretching (which we wont need) that is it!

Get real, it will just run some stuff we have now a little smoother and that is about it.

 

[Jaw]

i don't have time to read all that.. but the control stick is microswitched ?
the start and select buttons can be used for 6 button megadrive!

 

[trooper]

Just emailed Gbax for me to be placed on the pre-order list.

Anymore takers ?.

Trooper

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"from : Gbax


The email we recieved is a legally binding contract, the price of the console is : 4.8billion GBP

kind thanks,
Craig "




J/k, i know he'd never do that

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Where do i sign.

Trooper

 

[rabbits with hats]

i don't have time to read all that.. but the control stick is microswitched ?
the start and select buttons can be used for 6 button megadrive!

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that would be cool.

 

[Jarska333]

Well, theoretically... But I'm wondering, how... compulsory? pre-ordering actually is? I preorder, and it turns out, after it's launch, that it is infact utter crap... I'm stuck with an order... It seems good, though.

I'm wondering, do they base their MP3, OGG etc. play capability on GP32 homebrew, or does it actually support them trough bios/os?

 

[Magus 86]

If this ends up being cheaper than the GP32 then the price of the GP32 is going to drop quickly. My advise to Ebay sellers would be to sell now while you can still get a good price. Craig selling off his old stock was the warning sign.
Of course that's a tough one to call when we don't know how good this is going to be but newbies will want one of these instead of the now obsolete gp32 so it's worth keeping in mind.
Personally I'd rather not sell my gp but funds are severly lacking at present. I guess it depends on how long we have till this thing is launched.

Would this be able to have PDA functions? It would be great if they could add the back up battery or whatever is needed to have this function as it's something that quite a few people seem to have wanted from the gp32.

The design is pretty good but I'm not loving the colour. I know it's meant to match the gp32's colour scheme but the gold/beige is not a good look. The CG image of the black console is far nicer but maybe they don't want to step on Sony's toes to much and just want to come across as a quirky console?
Oh and they definately need to switch those buttons back to the proper places. The whole point of the upgrade is because we all want better SNES emulation (amongst others) and moving the buttons around although not the end of the world is going to be annoying.

I noticed the logo on the console has a red X. I wonder where they got that idea from.

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The button placement doesn't matter at all as you can configure the buttons however you want in most emulators anyway. If/when I get one of those though, I'm gonna switch the buttons around cuz that's just an eyesore.

 

[trooper]

Well, theoretically... But I'm wondering, how... compulsory? pre-ordering actually is? I preorder, and it turns out, after it's launch, that it is infact utter crap... I'm stuck with an order... It seems good, though.

I'm wondering, do they base their MP3, OGG etc. play capability on GP32 homebrew, or does it actually support them trough bios/os?

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Well the original GP came with a mp3 player built in to the firmware/bios, So it`s probably the same for this system.

Trooper

 

[Jarska333]

What I think is that you are NUTS! It is only around *250 MHZ!* Some GP32s do that NOW. That is not even fast enough for SNES let alone 32X etc.

And graphics chips? useless for emulation. They are good for frame buffers and for stretching (which we wont need) that is it!

Get real, it will just run some stuff we have now a little smoother and that is about it.

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I'm believing it is a multipurpose processor... GPH ain't THAT stupid... :unsure:

 

[SbS Studios]

Pre-ordered as soon as i saw it.

I don't see what all the moaning is about, the 2D Accelerator will take a HUGE load off the primary processor, Like Craig said, don't just judge by the clock speed.

Honestly can't wait for it, and who wants to emulate psx or n64, if i want to play those they're in a box close by (besides, there isn't enough buttons )

 

[Jarska333]

Pre-ordered as soon as i saw it.

I don't see what all the moaning is about, the 2D Accelerator will take a HUGE load off the primary processor, Like Craig said, don't just judge by the clock speed.

Honestly can't wait for it, and who wants to emulate psx or n64, if i want to play those they're in a box close by (besides, there isn't enough buttons )

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But the TV is heavy! And requires a lot of juice... I can't carry it around... :unsure:

 

[Jaw]

you ain't gonna push psx out of that.. forget n64. forget neogeo. to make use of all of the fetures of the hardware it's gonna take one hell of a programmer.

 

[Magellan]

Where were all of you guys when I was selling isurance.