I've Finally Got My Pandora, But I'm Bored With It... (!)

[lobski]

So far I have:

Tried snes, nes, genesis emulation. Pretty good.

For some reason, after installing the codec pack, videos stutter and cannot play well on mplayer. Even 175MB encodes that play fine on my other portables. What's wrong here?

Anyway, what are some other fun and exciting things to try? It's funny, now that I finally have one, it's been quite anti-climax...

 

[CPUnltd]

did you have any games you liked on GP2X or Wiz? There's always emulating those with GINGE... try any of the Pandora-specific titles? What about web-based games, youtube videos or PSX emulation? Just a few things off the top of my head that should be doable with the PND... haven't gotten mine yet.


Note: WARNING, GEEK MOMENT!!! this is my first (noted) binary post (now at 256)

 

[Blue Protoman]

MAME. No, it's not complex. PM me to find out why.

 

[skeezix]

Theres some decent homebrew ports as well; try wesnoth, and we'll find you a week later

Not to mention using it as a portable computer if you're into that.

Browse dl.openhandhelds, the app 'store', the wiki, to find lots of stuff (not to mention sebt3's webpage full of bits, hopefully linked from the wiki.)

Its like a piece of paper or a new hard disk .. just empty, until used

jeff

 

[lobski]

MAME. No, it's not complex. PM me to find out why.

What about MAME, and what's not complex?

 

[Blue Protoman]

MAME. No, it's not complex. PM me to find out why.

What about MAME, and what's not complex?

If I post why, I'll get suspended. PM me.

 

[lobski]

YGPM

 

[Wolfsclaw]

Play Quake 2 or Descent with nub cruise control.

Play Quake 3 and rage that nub controls still don't work correctly.

Nintendo 64.

Try out the flash plugin.

Chat on facebook via your Pandora.

Check your e-mails and try out big webpages.

 

[PokeParadox]

Play some awesome GP2X, Wiz and Pandora homebrew!

Leave feedback for respective homebrew authors, we like that.

 

[Bosbeetle]

I second wesnoth, its great!

 

[Dunny]

Don't bother with homebrew, Emulation is where it's at.

D.

 

[mvickers03]

So far I have:

Tried snes, nes, genesis emulation. Pretty good.

For some reason, after installing the codec pack, videos stutter and cannot play well on mplayer. Even 175MB encodes that play fine on my other portables. What's wrong here?

Anyway, what are some other fun and exciting things to try? It's funny, now that I finally have one, it's been quite anti-climax...

PSX is coming along very well, all Amiga games I wanted to play are 100% too. I am surprised your bored already, I'm unable to put mine down when I'm at home, or at work too sometimes.

Edit: woops quoted wrong person

 

[Prometheus]

If you own any games for them, and haven't checked them out, the emulators for the various classic computers (such as the C64, Amiga, Atari 8-bit family, and suchlike) are really very good. PSX is great (and in my opinion especially incredible now that notaz has gotten The Misadventures of Tron Bonne, a game which has long been a menace to emulators, working ), GINGE plus Cave Story is also great, there's loads.

Other than that, I can't get my mind to settle on any one thing to list - there's loads. :lol:

 

[MonkeyChops]

I think you should ROT!

 

[Caine]

For some reason, after installing the codec pack, videos stutter and cannot play well on mplayer. Even 175MB encodes that play fine on my other portables. What's wrong here?

Anyway, what are some other fun and exciting things to try? It's funny, now that I finally have one, it's been quite anti-climax...

Regarding the video playback, the DSP cannot be utilized without a kernel upgrade of backport of the DSP bridge. Upgrading the kernel is tricky since newer versions don't play well with the graphics driver and backporting the DSP bridge seems to be hard as well. I have no idea what the particular problems are or when to expect the update, but I hope to see it soon.

For me the two major anti-climaxes are the poor quality of the shoulder buttons and the lack of time to configure my unit and install/download interesting applications for it. So far, I have only a few games and applications on it. I did finish Zelda ROTH, which was pretty decent (though the combat could have been implemented better).

I hope to find some time in the coming weeks to set up a build environment and figure out how to convert software to PNDs.

 

[ahahah]

Anyway, what are some other fun and exciting things to try? It's funny, now that I finally have one, it's been quite anti-climax...

you can paint on your pandora when rabidpoobear (also named LukeVP on http://boards.openpandora.org/ ) will finish his paint homebrew