On 11/24/06, Jesse Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-24-11 at 11:16 -0700, Mark Carlson wrote: > > I don't think I have 10 minutes of nice things to say about it... it's > > only upside is that it runs linux and with minimal hassle, I can write > > programs for it. Thankfully, that's all I wanted it for. Although it > > is still barely usable. The 4 buttons on the right are too small and > > too close together. The directional pad is terrible for most > > applications. There are GPL violations in most of the applications > > released for it, as well as in its firmware. Practically nobody > > releases their source code, even when it is 100% derived from strict > > GPL'd code. The GP2X is almost fun to hack on (it would be really fun > > if people didn't illegally horde their code,) but beyond that, I'd > > say, stay far away! > > Have you tried running any emulators on it such as zsnes, snes9x, or a > Gameboy emulator? I can see it being really useful if you could play a > bunch of older console games on it. > > Jesse
Yes, and I have to say, I was rather disappointed. The snes9x clone worked rather poorly (althogh it has been a few months since I've tried it;) most games were very choppy if they even played at all. And not choppy in a managable way where the time still keeps moving at 1 second per second but the framerate is low, think 1st gen N64 emulator choppy or hit-the-pause-button-at-irregular-intervals-to-make-your-brother-angry choppy. The gameboy emulator worked pretty good, only crashing every once in a while. The gameboy emulator is a direct port of some GPL'd gameboy emulator. The documentation was very poor, so I tried emailing the person who did the port to get the source code (it did win a gp2x contest, after all...) No luck :-(. The real big drawback in the emulation department is the d-pad. It is unbelievably terrible. Maybe this could be addressed with a firmware upgrade, but as it ships, it is reaaaaly bad. The "sweet spots" are way too hard to hit. It feels like an analog stick, but operates like a digital pad. Also, its delay before 'repeating' is too short, so you end up doubling things up, and it can really suck to do any menu options with it. I did manage to get a copy of the source code of a beta version of the better SNES emulator (I forget the name off the top of my head) and I was going to see if I could optimize it somehow, but the released version was already .2 revisions ahead of the only released source code :-(. It could be a really nice unit... but in my experience, it isn't good at most of the things people want it to do. -Mark P.S. It plays mp3s ok, and video playback is alright, if you optimize your videos for it. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
