New MAME GP2X 1.3

Installed the new Mame today i just love it some of the best 2d games in the palm of your hand and not conversions the real thing! I have to donate to the guy who programs Mame for the GP2x its definately a worth while cause, if you have a GP2x.

Dead Batteries

Today was a bad day the batteries ran out and i couldn't be bothered to go and get anymore, I need to go buy a battery charger, the gp2x acts oddly when the batteries run out, it just doesn't startup properly and odd lines appear across the screen and then it fades out. I have been going on gp32x forum quite a bit, lots of good information and you can get all the latest news and software on the site too.

PSX Emulation gp2PSX

Today i installed the gp2psx emulator

GP2PSX
This emulator was one of the reasonS i got the machine, i found a few of my disks and made images of Ridge Racer, Raiden Project and Cotton. The gp2psx is still in early development but wow cotton played really well little bit slow but still cant believe its working. Raiden Project just Black screened and same with Ridge Racer i will dump a few more games later see what happens there are a lot of classic titles on the PSX, and being able to play them on the go is marvellous. You can see a list working/ non working games on the wiki site below.

wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/GP2PSX

GP2X Arrived

Hello and welcome to my new blog i will be covering my adventures with this new toy the GP2X from Gamepark.

Below is a pic of the box contents.


The gp2x arrived this morning along with a 1 gig SD card, The unit is quite light compared to the DS and PSP and is comfortable to hold. It's a nice looking machine and the desktop is easy on the eye and nice to use

I was annoyed i had to put the screen protector on myself, its not like the average house has laboratory dust free conditions, and after seeing how much hassle the PSP had with dust under the screen, i was quite worried about making sure no dust was trapped in between, I would suggest getting some dust removing Spray from Maplins. After putting the protective screen on which took me a bit of time, like 30 mins, dust is a nightmare and and it seemed like they wanted to stick on my screen. I started sorting out all the brilliant homebrew emulators and applications.
I quickly downloaded
GP2PSX
MAME GP2X
NeoCDGP2X
MAME Williams

First problem i had was with theUSB, it doesn't get recognised properly in windowsXP on my laptop or desktop it seems to see it, but as an unrecognised device, had to use my SD card reader. The sandisk SD card i used worked fine the firmware was already updated to 1.0.1 which was one less thing to do



MAME
MAME looks very nice with a scanline effect on the screen, i think it gives it a more arcade look and feel to the games, i tried 3 of my favorite games Bubble Bobble, Commando and Ghosts n Goblins the latter 2 played the best, Bubble Bobble was a bit buggy, but not to worry lots of other games to play and tinker with.