new offical firmware

[angrypants]

Hey is the new version if the gp32 firmware floating around yet. I would really like to dowload it and try it out. If its not out yet is there any word on when it might be coming out? I think its awesome that game park is remaking its pc-link and firmware. I could be wrong but I think it might be a sign that they are really getting ready to start promoting this console. I hope I am right about this but seriously think about it would they be going out of their way to improve the software so much if they were not planing somthing big. It might be a sign that the european release of the gp32 is coming near! Anyway once the new firmware comes out I hope mr. spiv can work his magic and create a new version of the multi boot firmware which would include the new offical firmware.

 

[Twimfy]

The firmware isn't around yet unfortunately. You have to ask yourself though, do you really want the GP32 to become recognised and mainstream? I really like the tightly knit community that exists already without a load of mainstream tossers butting in with topics along the lines of;

"GP32 Sux ass! GBA ROX!!!!

Its nice that Gamepark are paying attention and improving it, but it would be even nicer if we were to find out that it was just for us.

 

[angrypants]

Think about it this way, the GP32 scene is pretty nice right now and I have no complaints. Its fairly small and really friendly for the most part and in my mind that is wat really seperates it from alot of other consile scenes. Most of which are flooded with people asking lame questions or just complaining about things and arguing for no real reason. I hope the gp32 scene can stay as friendly as it has been and it would be a shame if anything were to change that. However change is good sometimes and the releasee of the gp32 in other markets or better promotion would surly open a lot more peoples eyes to it. What would come of an increase in popularity would notbe all bad. Game park would probably make more of a profit and have more of a market for people who would buy things like lights and bags and other add ons which would be really nice. As well if the console were to be more popular I would have to say that it would get the attention of more companies that would be willing to produce some really nice comercial games for it which can never be a bad thing. As well and probably the most important is that if this were introduced into other markets other possible coders would be made aware of it and would then start working on some more amazing home brew appas and games. I am not complainig at all here though if nothing were to change at all I would still be very happy because the stuff tat has come out over the few months that I have had my gp32 is mind blowing. So over all it would be nice to see some more attention given to the GP32 but I'll be more than happy either way. The gp32 is really neat compared to the gba becdause it is a constantly evolving game system. People keep pushing it to new levels and everyday gp32 owners have a chance to get more and more out of it.

 

[Cyclops]

LOL "GP32 Sux ass! GBA ROX!!!!

I think we get more poeple saying that the other way round here. New firmware to me showes continuing support for a rare handheld, a handheld I would be happy so see the developers profit from in a big way. After the joy I have had with mine. bring on the new firmware hell open source it , and remember the more they sell the more prorammers brought to the fold.

BTW it would be nice if it did make some roads into the commercial world, getting kids to program games instead of just mindlessly playing other peoples can only be a good thing *shrug* or maybe I just hunger for my BBC(no port of a beeb emulator bah)

 

[Phil]

it'd just be like counter strike

but instead of "gay haxors" and "loser, gay, nOOb"

it'd be "gba roxors and gay gp32 nerds suxors"

oh lord no

 

[unlucky]

no counterstrike insults go as far as calling someone sad because they are a 'noob' and therefore new 2 it, its so pointless
hahahaaha omg ur so newwww

 

[Twimfy]

I never really thought about it in the way that increased awareness would bring accessories and add ons to other markets,so I suppose thats a benefit. I still see it as more of a down side though. Ok so we get alot more coders and emulators and apps but there's a slim possibility of the legal guns rolling in and out of all these hundreds and thousands of new users, how many are going to be coders, and how many are going to be mainstream trash looking to pick a fight and warez at every turn. I guess we'll just have to wait and see but I have to say it brings to me more worry than comfort.

 

[Chip]

I do want a new firmware, and I think enlarging the GP comunity (which I have only recently joined myself) can certainly benifit us all in some ways. But you really don't want it to get too big. Not because of lamerz clogging up the message boards (which would only be annoying), but because it would surely draw the attention of the big game makers whose systems the GP32 emulates. Nintendo is notorious for defending it's copyrights against rom distros, and even emu coders.

Right now, with good emulation only available for much older systems, and GP32 owners in relativly small numbers, nobody much cares what we do. It's not worth the trouble for Nintendo or Capcom or NEC to pay lawters to find out who's "stealing" what. But if there were a couple hundred thousand GP32s out there, and someone got a full-speed GBA emulator working, then you better believe the lawsuits would start to roll in. And since the GBA is still being heavily distributed, they'd have a decent case too.

Now, as long as the emulator coders distributed the emus without any comercial roms of copyrighted bios, they'd be fairly safe from any actual legal action. But I'd image quite a few coders would be disuaded from continuing their emulating projects after recieving an official looking (and very threatening) letter from a billion dollar company like Nintendo.

This is obviously a worst-case scenario. Increased popularity of and support for the GP32 does not necessarily mean immanent doom. But if the game giants feel threatened, it's possible things could get a little sticky.