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The GP2X
Grizzly_Addams
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Recently there was a thread here about Acer and there wacky Open PC Settop box. Later in that thread someone posted saying that would be a good idea if it was handheld, and not on top of your TV most likely only feet away from your PC. So was brought up the GP2X.
I had a GP32 a few years ago. Used it for homebrew and its other obvious implications. I sold it to someone I knew on IRC. I liked it alot. It was fun to play with and did what it was capable of pretty well.
I did not know about the GP2X until that thread I mentioned. I looked into it, read about it on the GP2X wiki, watched a couple vids. It's very enticing. Especially since the new model released last November has a revamped D-Pad and added touch screen.
What I'm looking for here is if anyone has any first hand experience. Is it worth the ~$170 price tag? Where is the best, most reliable place to shop for one of these if I decide?
I had a GP32 a few years ago. Used it for homebrew and its other obvious implications. I sold it to someone I knew on IRC. I liked it alot. It was fun to play with and did what it was capable of pretty well.
I did not know about the GP2X until that thread I mentioned. I looked into it, read about it on the GP2X wiki, watched a couple vids. It's very enticing. Especially since the new model released last November has a revamped D-Pad and added touch screen.
What I'm looking for here is if anyone has any first hand experience. Is it worth the ~$170 price tag? Where is the best, most reliable place to shop for one of these if I decide?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_%28console%29
http://pandora.bluwiki.org/
Overall, I'm pretty satisfied. It's a great concept, and a great little handheld. It could have better controls and battery life, but it's still damn good.
On the other hand, I picked mine up before the PSP had tv-out. It was actually a replacement when I upgraded to 2.0(waaay back when that stopped all homebrew cold). So, you might find a haxxored PSP to be a better bet. Plus, the Pandora is coming out in a few months, so you might want to wait.
On the other hand, the Pandora won't be as mature as the GP2X for a longass time. So just do the old tech-on-its-way-out method; ask yourself what would happen if all support died the day after you got it, and choose based off of that.
Goddamnit that's tempting. But A) I'd have to wait, which I hate doing.
I could get a GP2X now, use whats available for it (even if support slows or stops) and then trade up when the Pandora is proven.
I was totally afraid of that and am tired of wasting money. I'm not going to waste my money.
Well, I owned a GP32 and used it constantly until the LCD screen broke. I think the question you need to ask for these systems is simply - How much emulating do you do? Don't assume your habits will change when you get a new toy, but if you're into retrogaming the GP32 (and by extension the GP2X) are a godsend.
If the Pandora is anywhere near as big as the Asus EEE, it has no real reason to exist. Not at the price they're talking about, anyway.
The Pandora is about the size of a Nintendo DS Phat. TINY even for a UMPC. It also has gaming specific controls for appeal++
It's also expected to have a battery life of ~10 hours for normal use and.... drum roll please.... ~100 hours in uber power saving mode, e.g. when playing MP3s
And we all know how trustworthy those estimations usually are.
You must be joking, because every little detail on the things form and shape are lifted directly from the DS Lite...
The shape, the indicator lights, the hinge, the "front panel" plugs... It's a sheer clone.
The thing is gonna be bigger than a ds lite, too, at least as wide as a PSP, according to the size of its LCD.
I dunno, it may be awesome (I still don't know what it is supposed to do, exactly, besides things we cannot mention and homebrew), but it looks like one of those extremely cheap chinese knock offs of real consoles and videogame systems.
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