Yay! Got A Cardreader And It's Works Great!

[TwoHeadedBoy]

So I finally picked up my GP2X from the post office, did a whole day's work, getting home at around 8pm to try it out. Well, after charging the batteries for an hour. The USB connection didn't work! More waiting! Did another day's work today, went around seven shops in town looking for a card reader before finally getting one from Jessops. Only to find out Craig is giving them away :blink:

But hey! It works! :lol:
Watched an episode of Robot Chicken, fine with no problems, same goes for Ren and Stimpy and some porn. Tried South Park though, and the video was vastly speeded up (the title theme was still being played by the time the kids were up to the second scene). Sure some upgrades'll fix that, so no biggie.

The music player works great, there are at least twice as many preset EQ's as GPH originally said there would be. No complaints at all about the text viewer, but on the picture viewer, is zooming possible? Just wondering.

I got onto the games next. I never had a C64 (my videogaming life started with a Megadrive in 1993), but Commando, Dizzy, R-Type and some strange little game called Pack Man or something are great, perfect for a handheld system.

Quake and the SNES emu are the subjects I probably need some help with. I copied over the emulator and the PNGs for the snes, but when I select it on the GP, it's just a blank screen. Waited for about five minutes and got nothing, so gave up and resorted to the gurus. More or less the same problem with Quake too: a black screen. Any ideas?

Overall though, I'm very happy, the battery problems I was having last night seem to've disappeared now, and I'm very excited about what the future holds

(dreaming of Sonic 3 and Gunstar Heroes)

 

[g4m3r]

but on the picture viewer, is zooming possible

If they don't put one in on a firmware update, someone might make a more advanced viewer

Quake too: a black screen.

Do you have pak0.pak and pak1.pak?

 

[NeoStuey]

So I finally picked up my GP2X from the post office, did a whole day's work, getting home at around 8pm to try it out. Well, after charging the batteries for an hour. The USB connection didn't work! More waiting! Did another day's work today, went around seven shops in town looking for a card reader before finally getting one from Jessops. Only to find out Craig is giving them away :blink:

But hey! It works! :lol:
Watched an episode of Robot Chicken, fine with no problems, same goes for Ren and Stimpy and some porn. Tried South Park though, and the video was vastly speeded up (the title theme was still being played by the time the kids were up to the second scene). Sure some upgrades'll fix that, so no biggie.

The music player works great, there are at least twice as many preset EQ's as GPH originally said there would be. No complaints at all about the text viewer, but on the picture viewer, is zooming possible? Just wondering.

I got onto the games next. I never had a C64 (my videogaming life started with a Megadrive in 1993), but Commando, Dizzy, R-Type and some strange little game called Pack Man or something are great, perfect for a handheld system.

Quake and the SNES emu are the subjects I probably need some help with. I copied over the emulator and the PNGs for the snes, but when I select it on the GP, it's just a blank screen. Waited for about five minutes and got nothing, so gave up and resorted to the gurus. More or less the same problem with Quake too: a black screen. Any ideas?

Overall though, I'm very happy, the battery problems I was having last night seem to've disappeared now, and I'm very excited about what the future holds

(dreaming of Sonic 3 and Gunstar Heroes)

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I'm glad that you have a great start to owning your GP2X.

There are a couple of topics on getting the emulators running follow my link to this post where you will find two more helpful links I posted already. B)


Here ya go and enjoy

 

[NeoStuey]

Quake: a black screen.

Do you have pak0.pak and pak1.pak?

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You don't need pak.0 and pak.1 to run Quake, it will start up, however when you attempt to select a starting hallway it will crash. To overcome this problem you currently need both paks to go any further. Woogal is working on fixing it so you can experience the shareware version pak.0 if you don't have both paks from the retail game. There a few minor bugs and if you follow the link above you will be able to see that there is a topic for bug reporting.

Don't expect too much from the SNES emulator in terms of playability, too slow in most games, but it hasn't been optimised yet but shows real potential at such an early stage. Music already sounds nice and clean. Try the nes emulator in the same pak, runs most games really well although a couple I played had graphical glitches and the occassional stutter, but mainly smooth and fun.


If you get a chance, run the NeoCD emulator, I posted how I got it working on 23.11.05, but couldn't put it as clearly as Empyre did in this post.

The sdl libs are the same ones needed for Snes, Nes and Hexen and once installed aren't needed again so you can skip that first part.

 

[Digitalrat]

Woogal is working on fixing it so you can experience the shareware version pak.0 if you don't have both paks from the retail game.

Well, you can also use the pak-files from the OpenQuartz-project.

http://openquartz.sourceforge.net/
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/openqua...01.zip?download

 

[FFNoir]

^ i think that's an opensource version of Quake 2 not Quake 1... Besides they aren't the main games .pak files...

 

[Prothall]

Think the point of OpenQuartz was being QuakeI files... Though the pak format didn't change between them, so I don't think it'd be that great an issue. Way out of my depth, though.

DigitalRat, have you tested the OpenQuartz paks? Developers have been focusing on the standard paks thus far, getting them fine-tuned before considering additions, which means possible temporary code configurations could work nicely for the standard paks and break everything else. Soooo, confimation on functioning? I for one don't have Quake and have disdain for illegitimate acquisition of legitimate and fairly priced software.