Thank goodness I got here before all the vultures did! I'd say go for it - buy an F-200. I have one and I love it. There are no real "problems" with the F-200. When it first came out a handful of emulators did not work correctly on the F-200, but the major ones (MAME and PocketSNES for example) have been updated since then and now work perfectly. You have to realize that many of the complaints on these boards are from people who like to get caught up in negative hype. There's not a whole hell of a lot of people on here who even own the F-200 at this point, so take any negative comments about the system that you read on here with a grain of salt. Yes, the devs on here have a few issues with the F-200 because it's a little harder to program for because of changes in the USB, but if you're mainly getting the F-200 to play games, etc. instead of using it to program, then that won't effect you anyway. I can understand why a person with a perfectly working F-100 wouldn't want to shell out the money for an F-200 because the improvements aren't that dramatic, but you sound like you've had your eye on one anyway, and you are having joystick issues on your MK1, so it sounds like it's time for an upgrade!yoyoyoyoyoyoyo said:
Already ScummVM has received touch screen support (so you can now use touch screen on all those great LucasArts "point and click" adventure games from the early 90's such as Loom and the Monkey Island games), and others are working on other touch screen projects as we speak. The screen on the F-200 is slightly better, the sound is much better (in clarity and volume... in fact you'll probably have to turn the sound down alot, haha), and most F-200 owners can overclock up to 280, so that's pretty good.You can purchase the F-200 online from Play-Asia. They ship to the US. I bought mine from them for $169.99 plus $25.80 shipping (UPS) and it arrived a day and a half after I ordered it! And it's not fair to make a definitive statement like "the D-Pad is awful". That makes it sound like it's faulty in some way. I suppose it's a matter of personal taste, but it's very responsive and works like it should. I actually liked the MK2's joystick, but I like the new D-Pad just as much, but in a slightly different way. It's much easier (to me at least) to perform fighting game special moves with the new D-Pad than the old joystick. And as to the comment that you shouldn't buy a unit when it first comes out, well, with a company like Gamepark Holdings, I seriously doubt that they are going to tweak their units as time goes on, unless it's a whole new update (like how they had the MK1 and then MK2 for the F-100). And besides, there's no guarantee of an F-200 MK2, considering there's been word of GPH working on the F-800 (I wouldn't let THAT influence your decision making though... who knows when - or if! - that unit will be released).yoyoyoyoyoyoyo said:
Yes. I've never had to return anything to them, but on their site it says you can exchange faulty merchandise six months after the purchase date.yoyoyoyoyoyoyo said:
I have a katana and I have used it a lot, but after awhile you just dont feel like using it. Like I would cut things in half, now I only use about once or twice a month. I lost my jostick cap so what I did was take apart a Ps1 controller and took the jostick and took off the rubber. I then drilled a small whole in it and just stuck it on my joystick. It work much better than the one it came with and it cost me nothing. If I were you I would go with the GP2X F-200, because you can use it a lot more.Dark.Warlock said:
