We're charging the front lines!
Actually, I'm not too 'newbish' as I've been into handhelds for a long time (I'm 35) and have been running emulators and following community development on Pocket PC and PalmOS devices for years.
I'm also a 15 year veteran of the video game industry (I was lead artist on 3DO's High Heat Baseball 2002 PC and have done art for a bunch of SNES and even an old Gameboy mono game).
So enough of that - I have a couple of newb questions, which you can answer or ignore as you choose. I've been lurking these forums for a couple of weeks now, as I geared up for getting the BLU (which has officially left Futura-Online in Spain, according to the DHL website). Even so, forgive my lazy ass as I didn't glean this much from the forums in my cursory perusals:
1). Where's a good place to get native GP32 games in the USA? What are some of the 'must haves' of this library?
2). Is there any common sense on which OS/system is best to set up initially? Windows? Linux?
...I'm also working a trade on a Zodiac1, so I'll be able to post comparisons and reviews. As for my other handhelds and devices, they include: Toshiba e805 PocketPC, Palm Tungsten T|2, NEC Turbo Express, Sega GameGear, Atari Lynx, GBA SP (blue with USB Flash Linker). I used to have a yellow crystal NeoGeo and Nomad with gobs of games, but they were ripped off (sob).
I finally broke down and grabbed the GP32 because despite what seems to be a still-fading corporate publisher scene, the community for this is totally hopping and all the emulators alone look to make the thing well worth it. Plus, the screen looks better than any other handheld available on the BLU (even the Zodiac isn't all that vibrant).
So here I am!
Actually, I'm not too 'newbish' as I've been into handhelds for a long time (I'm 35) and have been running emulators and following community development on Pocket PC and PalmOS devices for years.
I'm also a 15 year veteran of the video game industry (I was lead artist on 3DO's High Heat Baseball 2002 PC and have done art for a bunch of SNES and even an old Gameboy mono game).
So enough of that - I have a couple of newb questions, which you can answer or ignore as you choose. I've been lurking these forums for a couple of weeks now, as I geared up for getting the BLU (which has officially left Futura-Online in Spain, according to the DHL website). Even so, forgive my lazy ass as I didn't glean this much from the forums in my cursory perusals:
1). Where's a good place to get native GP32 games in the USA? What are some of the 'must haves' of this library?
2). Is there any common sense on which OS/system is best to set up initially? Windows? Linux?
...I'm also working a trade on a Zodiac1, so I'll be able to post comparisons and reviews. As for my other handhelds and devices, they include: Toshiba e805 PocketPC, Palm Tungsten T|2, NEC Turbo Express, Sega GameGear, Atari Lynx, GBA SP (blue with USB Flash Linker). I used to have a yellow crystal NeoGeo and Nomad with gobs of games, but they were ripped off (sob).
I finally broke down and grabbed the GP32 because despite what seems to be a still-fading corporate publisher scene, the community for this is totally hopping and all the emulators alone look to make the thing well worth it. Plus, the screen looks better than any other handheld available on the BLU (even the Zodiac isn't all that vibrant).
So here I am!
