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[hackgrid]

Mh thats Commander Keen 4, you cant play it on the GP2x..(or slowly with dosbox)

 

[Magnulus]

Yeah, I was just picking things off the web to have something to put in there. I think I saw a Keen shot in the other ad, so I put a random Keen shot on my version. If you have something else I could put that is actually playable, feel free to post it.

 

[telegramguy]

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with it, and all the additional functionality consistently being unlocked e.g. PDA functions via Qtopia, Internet functionality via connecting to a USB wifi adapter, or using it like an ARM9 computer via a breakout board or self-made adapters.

Internet access via a USB wifi adapter? Like BOCHS for the gp2x, I keep running into articles / posts like this that it works but everyone seems to be quoting what they've read somewhere else.

Has anyone actually got their gp2x to browse the net through any traditional tcp/ip tool? (never mind a even a browser like lynx). If someone has done it, I'd like to see a video of it.

As for BOCHs for the gp2x, I'm convinced only the author has gotten it to work.

I'm not sure a GP2X ad will convince a lot of GP2X users to get one. ^_^

I agree. The VAST majority of folks that will buy a gp2x tend to already have a gba, ds, psp, or pda where they have seen or would like to do emulation. For me, I got a gp2x after being dissappointed with the emulation scene on the ds compared with the PSP. Also, the DS's hardware just doesn't measure up.

With the gp2x costing less than a PSP, and you don't have to fsck with the firmware, it was clear choice to hop over to the gp2x. if the gp2x wasn't out, i probably would have gotten a gp32. i'm interested in how the xgp emulation scene is going to pan out.

 

[jmetal88]

The VAST majority of folks that will buy a gp2x tend to already have a gba, ds, psp, or pda where they have seen or would like to do emulation.

Not me! I started emulation on a PC. I was about 10 or 11 or so, and I wanted to play the game Pokemon, for Gameboy, but I didn't have a Gameboy and my parents refused to buy me one. So I got online and did a search, found out all about emulators. I then downloaded a Gameboy emulator (I first used no$gb then switched to rew) and a few Pokemon roms. A few years later, my parents finally got me a Gameboy with Pokemon Silver. I sold it soon though, and eventually bought a GP32, so I could emulate games on-the-go, and that was the first portable device I had that was capable of emulation. I never owned a GBA, DS, PSP, or PDA, nor have I ever played or emulated on one. Now I have my GP2X, and it's even better!

 

[Goity]

The VAST majority of folks that will buy a gp2x tend to already have a gba, ds, psp, or pda where they have seen or would like to do emulation.

Not me! I started emulation on a PC. I was about 10 or 11 or so, and I wanted to play the game Pokemon, for Gameboy, but I didn't have a Gameboy and my parents refused to buy me one. So I got online and did a search, found out all about emulators. I then downloaded a Gameboy emulator (I first used no$gb then switched to rew) and a few Pokemon roms. A few years later, my parents finally got me a Gameboy with Pokemon Silver. I sold it soon though, and eventually bought a GP32, so I could emulate games on-the-go, and that was the first portable device I had that was capable of emulation. I never owned a GBA, DS, PSP, or PDA, nor have I ever played or emulated on one. Now I have my GP2X, and it's even better!

Basically some story for me, but I was 8. I wanted to play pokémon red, but I was too poor to get a gameboy. A friends brother told me what to search for online, so I did. Then I got a gameboy. Then I got a GBA. Then I got a gp32. etc.

 

[Crazy Goat]

My emulation started with the GBA. I was like, 12, and the GBA came out - I didn't have money, so I emulated it... and had some fun.

(My parents bought be a Gameboy Color, so I was always within contact with Pokemon throughout my younger years)

 

[Magnulus]

I've been playing games for 20 years now (since I was four and "hacked" my way onto my brother's C64 when he was out) and I didn't even know that emulation was possible on anything but PCs, Xboxes and PS2s until I came here. I was like "What? A homebrew/ emu scene on the GBA? Who neglected to tell ME?!"

I started with emulation through Mame, back in the day when there was one site with ALL the games supported! There were, like... At LEAST 200 games! ... Almost.

EDIT: Aaahhhh. The days when you could do an altavista or AskJeeves search for Warez and get a bunch of sites with no ads and links that worked. Those were the good old days. My pirating days stopped when I had to, like, download stuff in order to download stuff. And then you got viruses if you weren't careful! And then a week's worth of downloading a file called Gozilla_DivX_FULL_MOVIE!!!.zip landed you with a collection of videos of women giving oral sex to giant sea turtles or something.
I'm a law-abiding man now. The criminal internet turned evil and scary.