Pixelation
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Conzeit on May 28, 2006, 07:30:28 pm
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http://gp2x.us/
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Yup. It's more like a handheld designed to be game-programmed for. It's nice, but the thing about it is, developers want to make games for the masses and therefore want to develop for the real PSP or DS or GBA. Hehe.
I would still pick the PC over secondclass handhelds. Mobile phones on the other hand are interesting but doh.. not easy.
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when mobile phones have a controls system that isnt clumbsey, ill look into the games begin made for them. a for the knock-off PSP, One question i have after reading the lists is, can it play PSP games or not? Can it run GBA games? Can it run anything made in the last 6 years? If not, then what is the point?
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well, I just thought it was something worth noting, someone might feel like trying out the thing.
it is linux based.
http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showforum=41 official forum
http://info.alllinuxcd.com/ a deeper look into it
http://forums.metacritic.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/657108/m/4330005504 where I found out about it
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when mobile phones have a controls system that isnt clumbsey, ill look into the games begin made for them. a for the knock-off PSP, One question i have after reading the lists is, can it play PSP games or not? Can it run GBA games? Can it run anything made in the last 6 years? If not, then what is the point?
Check the review out at maxconsole for information regarding that.
http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=7486
Looks sweet, things that disappoint me are the low brightness screen and the joystick control, and maybe the cheapness/casing of the device. Screen doesn't look that nice in the screenshots.
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One question i have after reading the lists is, can it play PSP games or not? Can it run GBA games? Can it run anything made in the last 6 years? If not, then what is the point?
I think it's not meant to be a clone of PSP, it was just the title of this topic. It is basically another handheld but only made for 'hacking'.
As a developer I would rather buy a cheap GBA and a GBA flashcartridge than to develop for that system. But as a gamer, that thing does run a lot of emulators including MAME so games like.. yeah uh,.. many (old 2D) games run on it.
And what do you mean by 6 years? I don't think the PSP and DS will last more than 3 years from now.
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when mobile phones have a controls system that isnt clumbsey, ill look into the games begin made for them. a for the knock-off PSP, One question i have after reading the lists is, can it play PSP games or not? Can it run GBA games? Can it run anything made in the last 6 years? If not, then what is the point?
probably much like the psp, the best thing for it is playing snes games ;)
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Im excited about the PSX emulators, maybe when those get to point where they work properly ill look into it more. Id love to have FFT, Vandal Hearts, and Megaman Legends in the palm of my hands
Too bad theres nothing about a GBA emulator (yet?), that would be great.
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i think I recall playing tekken advance on a psp ages ago.. was really slow and I think there was no sound though
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I've got one of these on order - can't wait to get cracking on my iso-strategy game for it. :)
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I've got one of these on order - can't wait to get cracking on my iso-strategy game for it. :)
A bit off-topic, but would you like to collaborate on that? Ive been waiting for a chance to make on with a team thats actually interested
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Sure, although it depends if it's to your taste. The graphics are gonna' be pretty tiny due to the 320x240 screen and the need to show a decent amount of the map on it (I figure that each diamond of floor would be 32x16 pixels, with walls being approx 32-48 pixels high per slice), so a character would need to fit wholly into that - ie, be about 24-28 pixels wide by 32-40 pixels high. Also it'll be mostly monsters rather than humanoids as it's about wizards conjuring creatures and using them to kill other wizards. If you wanna' talk about it in detail say so and I'll PM you.