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Chuck Osborn at PC Gamer needs us to educate him on the wonders of our favorite handheld...

He has voted the new n-gage as the best handheld for playing first person shooters on...

He does not even mention the gp32 as a contender... the Zodiac gets 2nd place and even the gba is mentioned....

Let's write him some well thought out letters and maybe, just maybe one of us will have a letter to the editor telling America all about the gp32. Let's make the e-mail's contstructive and informative... maybe PC Gamer will actually do an article on our lil friend from Korea...

his e-mail is killingbox@pcgamer.com

Let's all send him info on the gp32 and its fps potential.

some poor people may actually buy an n-gage 2 instead of a gp32 from gbax...!!!!! bleh
 
keep in mind i've never played a first person shooter on the n-gage, but when i see them advertised on tv, they seem very choppy to me, even more choppy than my quake on GP32 running at 156mhz at high res.

There's only what 4 first person shooters for GP32? Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, Rise of the triad? I didn't think the N-Gage had that many, just Red Faction and Ashen. I could be wrong though.

Anyway, the GP32 is by far the best for first person shooters, because of all of the wonderful Doom wads that people have made. Keeps it fresh.
 
Man, both the Zodiac and the Gizmondo got write ups in GamesMaster, but no gp32.

/me tries to remember letter writing from english...
 
Don't tell us... tell Chuck....

And maybe put a transcript of your e-mail to killingbox@pcgamer.com in ithis thread so we can all see what each of us is telling him...
 
i had an n-gage till i stepped on it on accident and the only good games for it were tony hawk and sonic thats kind of a downer since i read about the other games i bought and red faction looked like it was a game boy color game and thats how the controls felt to
 
worldwriter posted on Sep 29 2004 at 08:58 PM said:
Chuck Osborn at PC Gamer needs us to educate him on the wonders of our favorite handheld...

He has voted the new n-gage as the best handheld for playing first person shooters on...

He does not even mention the gp32 as a contender... the Zodiac gets 2nd place and even the gba is mentioned....

Let's write him some well thought out letters and maybe, just maybe one of us will have a letter to the editor telling America all about the gp32. Let's make the e-mail's contstructive and informative... maybe PC Gamer will actually do an article on our lil friend from Korea...

his e-mail is killingbox@pcgamer.com

Let's all send him info on the gp32 and its fps potential.

some poor people may actually buy an n-gage 2 instead of a gp32 from gbax...!!!!! bleh
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Before all of you guys go off half cocked you need to realize something. The GP32 is not sold in the US!! Why would they mention something that for the most part you can't get in the US? All of the other systems you can just walk into a store and buy, you know they are "mainstream". If I were doing an article I wouldn't mention it either, unless I was in Spain, Germany or Korea where you can buy them in stores.
 
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This is the age of online ordering and pcgamer reviews all sorts of products you can only obtain via online ordering... so according to those standards it is available to US residents.
 
yeah, Chuck or "Chulk" as he calls himself is very popular but he would most likely be very interested to know about this lil handheld he may not even know about... might be nice if a few of our guru's put together some well thought out letters to him singing the virtues of the gp32.
 
hmmm .. it actually could be worthwhile.. the reason I brought my gp32 was due to a review in GameTM which also listed gbax as the seller :)
 
Sounds like its settled then... I'll write my letter now and post it here after I send it to him, I think it would be interesting if everyone did the same... that way we could actually keep a tally of the amount and quality of letters we send to him....

In your letters make sure you point out what your gp32 will run, remembering that the focus of the original article was first person shooters... but it would also be interesting to point out all the other things a gp32 can do as well as the huge community following it has... which could be proven by his overstuffed mail box from us...

by the way.. one of the big selling points for the n-gage was the number of commercial devs it has signed on... maybe we should mention the power of open source and home brew as a selling point...
 
Chuck,

I was very interested in the article you wrote on the current state of first person shooters on handhelds. I was also very disapointed to see you did not mention (or perhaps even know about) the Gamepark 32 made by a Korean company by the same name. this little devise is packed with abilities and in fan boy circles a raging debate lingers over whether it or the Tapwave Zodiac is the king of handhelds.

Since your article focused primarily on FPS games that is what I'll try to tell you the most about. This little rig has ports of Quake, Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein. SoD, Heretic and what may not seem like much at first, Doom.

Doom is a topic and a genre onto itself on the gp32, not only do you get the original game but every wad ever made including that wad I know you are a big fan of.. the Aliens wad as well as wads for Golden Eye, Halflife, Western and Twilight Warrior GP.

These games are not commercial releases for the console, they were lovingly created by members of a large but almost unkown community.

Because it is not wasting cpu cycles on an OS like the Zodiac it will actually run most games faster than the Tapwave unit.

This machine shines as an emulation platform, basicly pretend you have a tiny 166MHZ PC in your pocket.
It will emulate the following with more added on a weekly basis, Genesis, Snes,
Nes, Gb/Gbc, Sega Master System, GameGear, NGPC, GBA, PCengine, Commodore 64, WonderSwan, Atari ST, Atari 800.

There is a huge homebrew community centered around creating quaulity games for this unit.

Because it has the largest screen of any handheld, even the DS, it is perfect for watching movies as long as you first convert them to a lower resolution so they will fit on a 128 meg smc card.

Some sites to check out include www.gp32x.de and www.gbax.com

Gbax is of particular interest as they sell a slightly beefier version of the gp32 blu which they guarantee will run 166Mhz software.

The unit is not sold in any American stores but is easily ordered from the UK and Korea.


EDI*** I noticed the spelling errors after it was sent... drat
 
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well it actually is selld in america by some inport shops, also dont forget gp32z.com they are in us i think.
 
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