theoddbot
Certified Guru
Without Lua and the Lau SDL bindings ported to the gp2x (not that it would be hard), it's not really a valid option yet.
yaustar
UK GP32 & GP2X Owner
You want to write an emulator hence C + ASM, he/she wants to develop, in general Python is quicker to learn but not great for speed critical apps.
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Because of what? The machine depedency?
So I can write in the C this way too.
ASM is usefull for some critical parts where perfomance is most important. No sane person would write whole aplications in asm.
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This entire thread is pointless given the original posters “ambitions”. I don’t even know where to start, “porting” Half-Life 2 and Quake 4 AND writing an Xbox 360 emu… Can we just lock this thread?
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ravuya
Member
Read up -- it was a joke.
Python is a fine beginner's language, and more than adequate for the majority of 2D games (using the PyGame port that was kicking around here). Once you get your feet wet enough, you can easily move onto C/C++, but I honestly don't see much of a point to it unless your games are all performance-critical. Even then, you probably have inefficient coding style that you should be working on first.
Make life simple for yourself and start small and simple. There's no reason to leap into C++ too early; I only started with it after a couple years with BASIC and 6502 ASM.
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lol2232
Guest
Ok thanks everyone for the help I was planning on learning python for other reasons than the GP2X but I might learn C also at some point. Again Thanks for the help.