Official European release date!

[Bobsonsirjonny]

March Next Year!!!

That is too late. It really needs to be released before Christmas. My Girlfriends younger cousins all want one, and are pestering there parents for GP32's under the tree.

Its a great product - a really good product - but they have to market it better. Get it under the tree for Christmas.

Years ago I had a GameGear - I sold it for a Gameboy - why cos the gameboy had a much larger title base. Get the hardware out sooner - get the titles out sooner - and people may be inclined to back this beauty.

The Zodiac looks a lovely bit of kit - (im a massive Tony Hawk skating fan) but at the moment its pricey - in 6 months time this will no longer be the case. Tactics are required here - a gameplan. By waiting till march its almost like they dont want to suceed....

 

[craigix]

The reason releases have slowed down so much is because most things are quite near perfection, certainly with the emulators, there are only 2 more to go before the GP32 reaches its natural conclusion - SNES and Genesis emulation perfection.

Plus we still have YOYO's secret project to look forward to, oh and Heretic if your interested

After that from an emulation point of view is there anything else you could want (CPC hehehe) ...

It would have been really nice to have seen Quake etc. being done commercially but alas its looking unlikely. However ThunderZ's new game port is a rather nice quake clone - check the PC version of it.

The GP32 will definately live on for a long time as a cheap portable emulation system with tons of free software, gamepark would do good to reduce the price a bit mind - its never moved since I first stocked them.

-Craig

www.gbax.com

 

[Shadow of Chaos]

Gp32 wont die, its a cool trend which alot of people seem to love so far ( especially for home made stuff )

you guys obviously dont have any faith in gamepark, i'm grateful when full speed emulation for the Genesis and Snes is finally here. I hope it gets a uk release next year as it will shed more light for brand new games and things anyone would like to do on the system. I wouldnt say its exactly cheap ATM but however it is near enough the same price as GBA SP and is 4 times as powerful, i think they should make a european release

and i support them if they do and hope they do very well in development, as far as i can see they havent gone very far at all and there are only few commercial games released for the unit which are O.K but nothing totally exciting at all, actually the emulators and roms are better than the actual commercial games at the moment.

Lets hope.. i for one definatly do. :blink:

 

[Esn]

Gp32 wont die, its a cool trend which alot of people seem to love so far ( especially for home made stuff )

Nah, it won't die; it'll just go the way of the Amiga.

you guys obviously dont have any faith in gamepark, i'm grateful when full speed emulation for the Genesis and Snes is finally here.

I have some faith in Gamepark; they did a good job of not becoming bankrupt at least. It is Mitsui that I have no faith in. If they don't get this thing out by Christmas, then it's GAME OVER for them.
This is absolutely their LAST CHANCE to make it succeed anywhere outside of Asia. I'm serious!

I hope it gets a uk release next year as it will shed more light for brand new games and things anyone would like to do on the system. I wouldnt say its exactly cheap ATM but however it is near enough the same price as GBA SP and is 4 times as powerful, i think they should make a european release

As other people mentioned, it'll be far too late by that time. March is the absolute worst time that you can choose to release a console; it's far away from just about every major holiday, and people have other things to think about.
A release next year may be OK for you, but for someone like me who's waited more than a freaking year for this thing to come out, it's enough to make me scream.

Seriously, what is Mitsui thinking?
The community will be stretched thin by that time; the momentum will be long gone.

IF they're going to release it at all, of course; once they've realized what a stupid decision they made by postponing the release date, they're going to decide not to release it at all because it'll make no money if released in March.

 

[gp32animefreak]

HOW THE HELL CAN YOU ALL SAY SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!!!!!
Listen up... There are going to be two types of hand helds competing; smooth 2D graphics with amazing looks and style, And choppy 3d graphics with amazing enough fully 3D games!. This is how its going down... next gen gameboy product, and the GP32 for the amazing look and style 2D catagory, And for the full 3D games catagory is the ZODIAC,the PSP, and the really bad 3d of N-gage(i still bought it.....though as I will with the others..). These two catagory's have there own pros and cons.
Remember you cant forget the gp32 is capable of 3D looking 2D games.

 

[Azure]

I'm actually kind of happy. I felt pretty bad when I found out about the european release like a month after I bought mine GP32 because it would have a color case, cheaper price, and be 100% English.

 

[Shadow of Chaos]

Gp32animefreak allow me to correct you, the gp32 does not make 2d games look 3D at all. Because they actually are 3D doom is 3d and not faked unlike mario kart on the snes as far as i can tell.

But as for the official games i believe there are no 3D in fact there are very few and i do mean very few games for it at the moment.


the PSP will be nothing more than a portable playstation IMO or near enough.. the graphics were decent but lets face it, i doubt we'll be able to emulate stuff on it if its not open source.

 

[Dozer]

Gp32animefreak allow me to correct you, the gp32 does not make 2d games look 3D at all. Because they actually are 3D doom is 3d and not faked unlike mario kart on the snes as far as i can tell.

But as for the official games i believe there are no 3D in fact there are very few and i do mean very few games for it at the moment.


the PSP will be nothing more than a portable playstation IMO or near enough.. the graphics were decent but lets face it, i doubt we'll be able to emulate stuff on it if its not open source.

Im pretty sure doom is about as 3d as mario kart. Both are just 2.5 d as non of the sprites have any depth.

 

[jegHegy]

please, guys, don't make it sound like the apocalypse or something. you almost made me cry thinking the community would die just like that.

 

[Bobsonsirjonny]

The community wont die - as someone mentioned earlier - The Amiga Community.

I've been a part of the amiga community since time and memorial. Its been 12 years since the last Amiga Hardware release - yet the community is still there, still hacking hardware and having fun.

Anyway - its been a long time but Amiga.inc have finally gotten their act together and we are in the midst of a brand new OS, and new hardware.

My point - if GamePark ceases to be, we can be like the Amiga Community and get on and do it ourselves.

Its seems funny, its almost like GamePark wanna give up - I mean why?

Makes me think that they are someone's or some companies pet project. Seems a bit funny - you have this awsome console - you would wanna put up a bigger fight than this - but it seems to be handled like its a hobby - like its been built to test the water for something else... Being handled like a hobby is indeed part of its appeal.. but I dunno.

It'll be Amiga all over again - great product stiffled by Commodore's bad marketing.




JUST ADDING THIS HERE - didnt wanna add another post cos it fills the boards up
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It uses Samsung chips right - I mean you would have thought that GamePark could have done a deal with them in which Samsung shows it off as some kind of game console reference platform - showing off samsung technology.

Kinda like the new AmigaOne computer - its runs a PowerPC and the bored has been certified by IBM - and IBM show it off for this reason. Likewise a company called MAI who make its chipset also show it off. Its a mutually beneficial marketing method.

 

[thebluenewt]

Who owns Amiga now?

Everyone who bought it kept going bust...

 

[gp32animefreak]

Halla! repersenten amiga.....sadly I cant believe I can still get it to work, its in really bad shape.

 

[firepika]

Gp32animefreak allow me to correct you, the gp32 does not make 2d games look 3D at all. Because they actually are 3D doom is 3d and not faked unlike mario kart on the snes as far as i can tell.

But as for the official games i believe there are no 3D in fact there are very few and i do mean very few games for it at the moment.


the PSP will be nothing more than a portable playstation IMO or near enough.. the graphics were decent but lets face it, i doubt we'll be able to emulate stuff on it if its not open source.

why do you say you wont be able to emulate stuff on the psp? people make their own software for the gba dont they and that isnt an open source platform. and people make emulators for the ps2 and for the ps1 also. but there are emulators running on them right. so why wouldnt there be any for a powerful machine like the psp? :unsure:

 

[Dozer]

Gp32animefreak allow me to correct you, the gp32 does not make 2d games look 3D at all. Because they actually are 3D doom is 3d and not faked unlike mario kart on the snes as far as i can tell.

But as for the official games i believe there are no 3D in fact there are very few and i do mean very few games for it at the moment.


the PSP will be nothing more than a portable playstation IMO or near enough.. the graphics were decent but lets face it, i doubt we'll be able to emulate stuff on it if its not open source.

why do you say you wont be able to emulate stuff on the psp? people make their own software for the gba dont they and that isnt an open source platform. and people make emulators for the ps2 and for the ps1 also. but there are emulators running on them right. so why wouldnt there be any for a powerful machine like the psp? :unsure:

Yeah, i think that people might be able to get stuff running of the memory cards, which are supposed to be just normal sony memory sticks i think.

 

[Steve-O]

Who owns Amiga now?

Everyone who bought it kept going bust...

I still got the same Amiga 500 which I bought new when they first came out and its still in Excellent Condition.. Everything works on it, its like New.. I also still have the Original Box for it and well over 200 games

 

[EvilDragon]

I think he meant the company owner of tge Amiga, cause I can't imagine that he means everyone who has an Amiga busted

The company behind the AmigaOne is Amiga International Inc.

 

[Magic Knight]

the gp32 will never ever die

if it gets a good launch and software development then great, we get new stuff

if it doesnt, who cares - i bought it to play emulators and it can. mp3s and divx is a nice bonus

the vic-20 is over 20 years old and still gets new software written for it

this gp32 is just too good a piece of kit to fade away

 

[Azure]

Now that I think about it, it does suck more because now we have to wait even longer for English ASR

 

[khephren]

Well, a couple of facts, yes I own an Amiga. And quake 1,2 shoggo, wipeout, all for said machine. It survived way beyond it's lifespan due to it's fans.

You should'nt have bought a GP expecting a euro release and floods of games. If it happens, great, if not you SHOULD have considered getting one because of the great emulators, great scene, great homebrew, great movies +ogg,MP3,Ebooks, Sids,mods etc.

Animefreak- the GP is more caple of 3D than the N-gage. N-gage has a 104mhz ARM9, GP32 has an 133MHZ ARM9. If they can do tomb raider so can we, but higher res.

In fact any game the tapwave does,we could support (with lower texture resolution). The tapwaves extra grunt has to be used to fill that big high res screen with poly's. We have aa smaller screen, so need less power to run the same software. And the tapwave won't be available in the shops-that makes a big difference to sales and development.

The PSP will be twice the price of the GP at least. And it has some heavy duty encryption built into the hardware and the media- so homebrew/emus won't come out until they crack it.

Give the GP chance, Mitsui are in discususions with developers for launch titles, I reckon that is the real reason for the delay.

 

[papapopalung]

i'm thinking the delay is so they can have a professional unit ready-to-go straight out of the box (i.e. no/easier registration (pref none), enough games available to make it worthwhile without the emus etc...), also they *should* deliver us what they've promised for ages - internet support (to compete with n-gage), flash and java, movieplaying and a decent mp3 player built in....

if they do all this, then the wait will have been worth it. here's hoping...