Well, in that case try to set get the people who run Sourceforge to set up a GP32 section, and shift all the homebrew development to there...
No, I think it won't quite happen like that, somehow, considering we've already got a similar thing in Empee's project page. I agree that we should expect a lot more than what we have for the GP32, but to be honest, I'm fine to wait for the various things to come out.
Zardoz Jones' emu for snes looks very very nice - and its an old version. I'm told by Don Miguel that the newer version does have sound and save functions, and runs very very well indeed, but isn't quiote ready for release. But almost. So I have high hopes that reasonably shortly a SNES emu will come out, which is the main reason I bought the GP32, along with the one that my previous alternative didn't work any more because it got too cold and the flash memory got corrupted (for those that know, it was an e-merger). Since I bought the GP32 to replace that (for which I paid roughly the same ammount only about a year and a bit earlier) I've quite satisfied with the ability to run GB roms and GG roms at full speed and well emulated. And that storage is cheaper. And that there are prospects of further development in other emus.
There's an awful lot that is very very good for a GP32 - OK, it might not run everything perfectly, but if to get a system that wrote gb games to cartridge, and a gbc (ok, old analogy, but its the one I'm using), it costs around ?30 for the gbc, ?90 for the writer - and an 8MB flash cart. Which breaks at high altitude. To get 128MB, multiply 16 by ?70, and you get the price to get an equivalent on GBC. Now, for GP32, take the price as ?150 (including delivery and customs tax), and add ?41 for a 128MB SMC... we're talking about a GP32 costing ?191, whilst the equivalent for GBC (not GBA, but similar prices there) is ?1150... that's a saving by buying a GP32 of nearly ?1000... then look at the cost of gamegear and games - gamegears are ?30 or so second hand, and the games I usually see for around ?10 each. So say you get a gamegear - that works out at around ?30 these days, and you also save on battery life comared with GG - at least 3x less expensive to run than the original, is the GP32 - and a wonderswan too, at ?50... that's another saving of ?80 at least. And this is **all without breaking any laws by downloading roms** - just to get it so you can run everything together.
So in conclusion, by buying a gp32, you save yourself, in total, something in the region of ?1000 simply as a result of getting all the other systems emulated on it. That's a helluvalot of money. And that's excluding the price of games, because of course, anyone who's running emulators on GP32 owns the original
And SNES emu, and GBA emu are coming... guess what? That will put the savings to EVEN HIGHER. Now who's going to really say that having considered this, the better alternative is to go for the combinations I've talked about? With the GP32, you save on running costs (for GG games at least) - although this might be balanced by the high CPU speed needed gor GBC ones, you save on space - just one system to carry around, not 3 - and you save a huge huge huge ammount of money. And in due course, you also get some amazingly good games from the original people.
Now - having read this - HOW CAN ANYONE say that its better to get a GBA. Yes, at present, its graphically superior. Key words - **at present** - but its also got far fewer extensible abilities, and isn't likely to be able to run GP32 games in the near future. If ever. Whereas GP32 will at some stage be able to run its stuff.
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