Open2x Dr7 For F100 And F200

[peelie]

Sorry if it is a boring question ; but I wondered if F100's start supporting SDHC cards after installing the Open2x ?

yes though you don't need open2x if you just need sdhc support, notaz had a patch which was posted in the forums (for firmware 2.11)

 

[jasio]

I'd try reformatting the card.

I'll give it a try tonight. Thanks.

I reformatted the card but it made no difference. I re-partitioned and re-formatted and it is still not recognised.

I'll keep using the smaller card but it's a shame the 8GB card is not recognised anymore.

J

 

[jbrodack]

abuse hasn't been working for me on the latest open2x. not sure why and haven't seen anyone else mention problems

 

[Manjuu]

abuse hasn't been working for me on the latest open2x. not sure why and haven't seen anyone else mention problems

Works fine on mine. (It takes a while to load.)

 

[jbrodack]

thanks manjuu you're right it does take kinda a while I thought it was hanging but after trying it again it does load.

great game and glad i now realize it does work.

the gp2x touchscreen version is probably the coolest way to play the game and definitely best portable version.

 

[senquack]

thanks manjuu you're right it does take kinda a while I thought it was hanging but after trying it again it does load.

great game and glad i now realize it does work.

the gp2x touchscreen version is probably the coolest way to play the game and definitely best portable version.

Thanks I'll always remember the pain in the butt getting Abuse working was.. But these comments make it worth it! I also think playing Abuse with touchscreen is easier than a mouse. Same for M-HT's XCOM with touchscreen.

 

[kevcal]

Have just installed open2x DR7 on my F100 and am well impressed by it.
Admittedly I was on FW 2.1.0 still, so getting gmenu2x and SDHC support thrown in was great.

Main problem I now have is (the problem I have always had with gp2x software) that I struggle to know what buttons do in each application :blink: - any consistency?

A few questions:

Can I disable pressing X from asking me to unmount the SD card? I keep hitting it by accident.

Can I change the default volume on gmu? It always starts very loud despite changing the 'Global Volume' in gmenu2x (the number next to the speaker remains at 67, despite what I set global volume to...)
The default volume seems very loud when starting the music player/anything.

Is there some sort of standard button choice/action that I'm missing ..
Even different screens of (say) the music player seem to be inconsistent??
ie -
One screen
B Play Item
Y Remove Item
A Change Play Mode

On another screen:
B Add File
Y Add Dir
A Play File

Seems illogical to me.. :huh: or is it just me ?

 

[Illuminerdi]

So I followed the instructions but I seem to have a problem:

First, I never get the prompt to press a button. My F200 displays the upgrading firmware screen, then jumps right to the Open2x white/orange logo. This is where the big problem comes in.

It hangs on the "Loading Userspace" portion. Just sits there doing nothing.

Then, when rebooting, it now tries to load Open2x as the firmware, and dies on "mount fs". I've tried the firmware upgrade about 4 times now to no avail.

I'm using the f200 DR7 on my f200 gp2x, with a 2gb SD card formatted to FAT32. I've tried 2 SD card readers with no luck.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Manjuu]

as GMenu2X won't save this change and would revert back to 67 when it reloads.

You can however just use the new volume scalers to affect the global volume. Use the Vol+/- to change between modes, and the settings are located in the Open2X settings.

(I find that having two separate volume settings to be redundant and makes things more complicated.)

There are other quirks and bugs in this version of GMenu2X, but as these are in Ryo's domain, I haven't mentioned them.

So I followed the instructions but I seem to have a problem:

First, I never get the prompt to press a button. My F200 displays the upgrading firmware screen, then jumps right to the Open2x white/orange logo. This is where the big problem comes in.

It hangs on the "Loading Userspace" portion. Just sits there doing nothing.

Then, when rebooting, it now tries to load Open2x as the firmware, and dies on "mount fs". I've tried the firmware upgrade about 4 times now to no avail.

I'm using the f200 DR7 on my f200 gp2x, with a 2gb SD card formatted to FAT32. I've tried 2 SD card readers with no luck.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Try re-downloading the file, it might be incomplete. The MD5 hash should be bbc5c6ec81fbf117289def9d9f6e12e0.

It could also be the archive software you use to extract the content; it might be ignoring some folders or files.

 

[PokeParadox]

as GMenu2X won't save this change and would revert back to 67 when it reloads.

You can however just use the new volume scalers to affect the global volume. Use the Vol+/- to change between modes, and the settings are located in the Open2X settings.

(I find that having two separate volume settings to be redundant and makes things more complicated."]

There are other quirks and bugs in this version of GMenu2X, but as these are in Ryo's domain, I haven't mentioned them.[/quote]

So I followed the instructions but I seem to have a problem:

First, I never get the prompt to press a button. My F200 displays the upgrading firmware screen, then jumps right to the Open2x white/orange logo. This is where the big problem comes in.

It hangs on the "Loading Userspace" portion. Just sits there doing nothing.

Then, when rebooting, it now tries to load Open2x as the firmware, and dies on "mount fs". I've tried the firmware upgrade about 4 times now to no avail.

I'm using the f200 DR7 on my f200 gp2x, with a 2gb SD card formatted to FAT32. I've tried 2 SD card readers with no luck.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Try re-downloading the file, it might be incomplete. The MD5 hash should be bbc5c6ec81fbf117289def9d9f6e12e0.

It could also be the archive software you use to extract the content; it might be ignoring some folders or files.

It's very very likely it's the extraction software ignoring empty folders.
Fileroller on Ubuntu does this... I didn't have any joy until I extracted with 7-Zip on XP. Alternative would be to manually create all the ignored empty folders I guess.

 

[Orkie]

There are other quirks and bugs in this version of GMenu2X, but as these are in Ryo's domain, I haven't mentioned them.

Please feel free to, we also do a fair amount of work on GMenu2x.

 

[kevcal]

as GMenu2X won't save this change and would revert back to 67 when it reloads.

You can however just use the new volume scalers to affect the global volume. Use the Vol+/- to change between modes, and the settings are located in the Open2X settings.

(I find that having two separate volume settings to be redundant and makes things more complicated.)

There are other quirks and bugs in this version of GMenu2X, but as these are in Ryo's domain, I haven't mentioned them.
Thanks very much, will find that setting and see what happens

 

[MaxSteiner]

Installed this version, and I'm loving it Thanks to all the Devs!
The Controlpad deamon is a godsend, and almost gets the GP2x doing what I want it to do

The only problem I seem to have encountered with it is several of the emulators refuse to run via TV out for some reason...
FBA2x I get a white screen which just hangs there (But it works absolutly fine through the cradle on the GP2X screen), Squidgesnes I get a blue screen (Once again works fine through the small screen).
Infact, the only emulator I have got working through the big screen so far is Picodrive (also fixed a bizzare fault which started when I installed DR6 which seemed to assign random directions to up and down on the romlist page)..
GNGEO gets up to the main screen but seems to have stopped loading games...

Alot of the stuff which did work was coming up squeezed into half a screen, but I got that sorted once I'd searched for GPE's in the explorer and turned off a few of the pal tweaks. I'm hoping that if I keep instaling various emulators, I'll eventually get them working (At a loss as to why certain things refuse to work via TV out though...)

Just out of interest, and for my own mental well being, I was wondering what emulators/version no's. people have got working through the tv out?

 

[Illuminerdi]

Try re-downloading the file, it might be incomplete. The MD5 hash should be bbc5c6ec81fbf117289def9d9f6e12e0.

It could also be the archive software you use to extract the content; it might be ignoring some folders or files.

Thanks much for the suggestion, I'll give that a try when I get home tonight - I should have thought of that. I used WinRAR to extract (as I trust WinRAR pretty well, it's normally my file extraction swiss army knife), but it wouldn't be the first time I've run into weird extraction issues with it when doing less-popular formats (TAR, 7Z, etc).

I didn't actually run the MD5 hash, as I've always seen them as being a bit pointless unless you had reason the question the security or validity of a file (possible virus, bad download, etc), but it can't hurt to check - I'm lazy when it comes to MD5 hashing, I'll admit.

 

[senquack]

Just out of interest, and for my own mental well being, I was wondering what emulators/version no's. people have got working through the tv out?

Some of these are known problems I can do nothing about. FBA2X, Rage2X (Gngeo front-end), or a version of Gngeo that uses Selector will all fail if Tv-out is enabled. This is almost certainly because of bugs in their code and they are not open-source so noone can diagnose the problem but the author. I've already tried to contact the authors (Juanvnc and Jycet I believe) but had little luck and am very busy with travel and moving these days. You or someone else can help out by trying to contact them.

SquidgeSnes should work OK, if I recall correctly. Can't test right now but I recall having problems with many emulators and got every last one of them working except the ones mentioned above. It took a LOT of work, it almost made me crazy after a week of coding 16 hours a day soley on Tv-out. You must give the daemon about 4 seconds to kick-in the settings initially so you must at least wait that long for the TV image to appear. There are numerous options for the TV daemon as you already know. In the readme.txt there are detailed tips given but I don't think any of them are necessary for SquidgeSnes. If it gives you further problems, I know for a fact that PocketSnes works (as do many other emulators, many more than you are suggesting work with Tvout.)

For Gngeo, you can find a workaround for Rage2x given in the Open2X readme.txt.

 

[senquack]

Thanks!

Can I disable pressing X from asking me to unmount the SD card? I keep hitting it by accident.

Nope, but if you are having problems remembering the GMenu2X buttons, you can hit A to get a list of all the assigned buttons.

The default volume seems very loud when starting the music player/anything.

Is there some sort of standard button choice/action that I'm missing ..
Even different screens of (say) the music player seem to be inconsistent??
ie -
One screen
B Play Item
Y Remove Item
A Change Play Mode

On another screen:
B Add File
Y Add Dir
A Play File

Seems illogical to me.. :huh: or is it just me ?

GMU was developed completely separately from Open2X itself. It is a nice music player once you get used to it. One thing that might help you is to look at the readme.txt for it, or maybe just look directly in the configuration file for the input assignments. You might just download GMU from the archive, extract it, and look at the files that way. Or, just download another music player and install it on an SD and use that instead.

 

[MaxSteiner]

Didn't mean to imply that lots don't work, just that the only one I regurlarly use which did was picodrive through tvout (I ony really use 4 emulators though lol).

Thanks for the info, I'll concentrate on the ones which definatly work, maybe try expanding my horizons a little bit too, I know theres more to life than the same old consoles I'm thinking a couple of fresh installs on a brand new SD card might help as well

 

[kevcal]

GMU was developed completely separately from Open2X itself. It is a nice music player once you get used to it. One thing that might help you is to look at the readme.txt for it, or maybe just look directly in the configuration file for the input assignments. You might just download GMU from the archive, extract it, and look at the files that way. Or, just download another music player and install it on an SD and use that instead.
Thanks - it is a nice player - guess I'm just struggling with so much new stuff so quickly - must be my age
Thanks again for this release from the open2x team, o/s seems very stable, quick to startup and once I get used the gmenu2x I think I'll be much happier B)
Given more time I'd like to help out with this, but my work (funnily enough I do a bit of linux o/s 'hacking' for software I do) and home life severely limits my spare time :huh:

 

[Illuminerdi]

It's very very likely it's the extraction software ignoring empty folders.
Fileroller on Ubuntu does this... I didn't have any joy until I extracted with 7-Zip on XP. Alternative would be to manually create all the ignored empty folders I guess.

Indeed you were correct sir! 7-Zip for Windows did the trick - thanks to everyone who suggested I try a different extractor to fix this. I've now got Open2x loaded.

Very nice work Senor Quack - it's leaps and bounds better than the default GP2X FW already.

However I do still have a persistent problem that I've never been able to solve, and had hoped Open2x might solve - my touchscreen. I've used the calibrator (about 10 times) in Open2x, but for some reason it always reads my touchscreen input as wrong on the right hand side of my touch screen. The best way to describe it is it reads like my input is to the left of where I put my stylus, but this increases the further to the right I go. So when I touch and drag on the far right 1/2" of my touch screen, it reads as if I'm touching the screen about 1/2" to the left of where I'm touching. Could this be a bug with the calibrator due to unknown hardware revisions (thanks GPH!)

I would (and still do) suspect the touch screen hardware of being faulty, but in the calibration utility of the stock GPH firmware, it gives me a mouse pointer that tracks my stylus perfectly. Has anyone else run into this sort of weirdness? I was getting this same issue in the GPH firmware (in homebrews, ScummVM) after applying Notaz's touchscreen hack, but again, the touchscreen worked fine in the GPH touchscreen calibrator. Is it possible I have some sort of super late hardware revision (I purchased my GP2X around April of 2008) that has a new bug?

 

[Manjuu]

Here are the quirks or bugs I notice in the Open2X version of GMenu2X:

- The "Global Volume" setting is useless (like I mentioned in my previous post). You can probably just omit this (and leave the individual volume as is) as it's already redundant with the scalers. (Why is the default individual volume 67?)

- The touchscreen areas of the sections are messed up and misaligned toward the right (i.e. touching a section either results in nothing or jumping to another section). The touchscreen areas for the links, virtual keyboard, and the rest are correct.

- The "Save last selection" setting does not work; it doesn't remember the position when power-cycled, but defaults back to the 1st link of the 1st section. However, it does temporarily remember the position regardless of whether this setting is enabled or not, when quiting back to GMenu2X.

- The Start button while in the virtual keyboard results in cancelling the input, instead of an OK; you need to select the OK key in the virtual keyboard to save the changes. It gets frustrating when changes are not saved due to instinctively pressing Start to confirm the input.

- This is more of a suggestion, but can a cycle down button for changing the character sets be added in the virtual keyboard? It requires too much button press to switch back to the lowercase set, after cycling up to the uppercase set.

- The link's icon doesn't get reloaded when quiting back to the built-in selector. (e.g. when using RACE! with the built-in selector, after quiting RACE!, the RACE! icon is not reloaded in the selector screen.)


Not related to GMenu2X:

- Certain functions in Filer2X and MP2X (and possibly other programs) look for the "nand" folder in /mnt/, but it is missing, which would result in the program to crash or freeze.