Dont forget to mention the systems' only full speed 16bit emulation: The GPengine. http://www.gp32x.com/gpengine/
It blasts the pants off any gba. Games like R-Type, Sidearms and Mr. Heli are displayed at native 320x240 pixels and with 16bit stereo sound. I've shown this to three friends who are also into gaming and they all bought a gp32 immediately. A multiplayer GPengine is in the works, allowing you to play all your favourite shoot-em-ups wirelessly with up to 3 friends.
Mame 0.66 is being ported by rlyeh, as seen on http://elportal2000.metropoliglobal.com/gp32/ . It currently runs pooyan and 1942 well, but without sound yet. So just wait a little and you will be able to play the older coin ops for sure.
An iPAQ doesnt have a decent microswitch joystick and 6 buttons easily in reach. This is in my eyes a must for a decent gaming session. Also some PDAs have problems when you press several buttons at once, they cant recognize "chording".
I have a GP32. It plays scumm games (Day of the tentacle, sam n max), sega master system, gameboy color, c64, c16, msx2 and pcengine games at full speed and full sound. Other emulators (mame, gba, etc) are under way and there are private betas out showing great progress. You also have heretic, wolfenstein3d and doom, full speed but with some minor problems still. I use my GP32 every day and my GBA just collects dust in a corner although I own 11 gba games. I hope that clarifies a lot:)
I got my GP32 from a korean friend who visited home last year. She bought it at an internet shop there. But you can ask Kyoungmo Lee @ Gamepark directly (withmo@gamepark.com), he had an offer for a GP32 incl. 16MB game for 140$ for amateur developers. But I think that offer was valid only until 3/2002:(. Because of that, I would recommend Entware now (~150Euro), http://www.entware.com/eng_shop/shop_game_sw_more. asp
With every purchase you get "mileage" with which you can download games or the movie player. You can find a comparison of different shops here: http://pub61.ezboard.com/fgp32frm9.showMess age?top icID=24.topic
Well, you can get Gameparks' GP32 then. It has 133Mhz, 320x240@16bit, there is a MP3 Player, a DivX3 Player, Smartmedia slot built in, loads of full speed emulators (SMS, NES, Scumm, Sarien, GB, C64, MSX, C16, ZX), load of nearly full speed emulators being worked on (pcengine, genesis, snes) and even Linux ported to it. Some people work on a GBA emulator even, but that will be hard to do 100% right, although the GP32 has an ARM tdmi9, so they try to execute GBA code directly and use the dma to trap hardware calls.
And be reminded that this is a handheld game, it has a microswitch joystick, much better than gba's joypad and way ahead any PDA's unusable directional pad.
Bender: Listen, buddy, I'm in a hurry here. Let's try for a twofer. Hehe.
Suicide Booth: Please select mode of death. Quick and painless or slow and horrible.
Fry: Yeah, I'd like to place a collect call?
Suicide Booth: You have selected slow and horrible.
Bender: Great choice!
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Dont forget to mention the systems' only full speed 16bit emulation: The GPengine. http://www.gp32x.com/gpengine/ It blasts the pants off any gba. Games like R-Type, Sidearms and Mr. Heli are displayed at native 320x240 pixels and with 16bit stereo sound. I've shown this to three friends who are also into gaming and they all bought a gp32 immediately. A multiplayer GPengine is in the works, allowing you to play all your favourite shoot-em-ups wirelessly with up to 3 friends.
Mame 0.66 is being ported by rlyeh, as seen on http://elportal2000.metropoliglobal.com/gp32/ . It currently runs pooyan and 1942 well, but without sound yet. So just wait a little and you will be able to play the older coin ops for sure.
An iPAQ doesnt have a decent microswitch joystick and 6 buttons easily in reach. This is in my eyes a must for a decent gaming session. Also some PDAs have problems when you press several buttons at once, they cant recognize "chording".
I have a GP32. It plays scumm games (Day of the tentacle, sam n max), sega master system, gameboy color, c64, c16, msx2 and pcengine games at full speed and full sound. Other emulators (mame, gba, etc) are under way and there are private betas out showing great progress. You also have heretic, wolfenstein3d and doom, full speed but with some minor problems still. I use my GP32 every day and my GBA just collects dust in a corner although I own 11 gba games. I hope that clarifies a lot :)
I got my GP32 from a korean friend who visited home last year. She bought it at an internet shop there. But you can ask Kyoungmo Lee @ Gamepark directly (withmo@gamepark.com), he had an offer for a GP32 incl. 16MB game for 140$ for amateur developers. But I think that offer was valid only until 3/2002 :(. Because of that, I would recommend Entware now (~150Euro), http://www.entware.com/eng_shop/shop_game_sw_more. asps age?top icID=24.topic
With every purchase you get "mileage" with which you can download games or the movie player. You can find a comparison of different shops here:
http://pub61.ezboard.com/fgp32frm9.showMes
Well, you can get Gameparks' GP32 then. It has 133Mhz, 320x240@16bit, there is a MP3 Player, a DivX3 Player, Smartmedia slot built in, loads of full speed emulators (SMS, NES, Scumm, Sarien, GB, C64, MSX, C16, ZX), load of nearly full speed emulators being worked on (pcengine, genesis, snes) and even Linux ported to it. Some people work on a GBA emulator even, but that will be hard to do 100% right, although the GP32 has an ARM tdmi9, so they try to execute GBA code directly and use the dma to trap hardware calls. And be reminded that this is a handheld game, it has a microswitch joystick, much better than gba's joypad and way ahead any PDA's unusable directional pad.
Bender: Listen, buddy, I'm in a hurry here. Let's try for a twofer. Hehe. Suicide Booth: Please select mode of death. Quick and painless or slow and horrible. Fry: Yeah, I'd like to place a collect call? Suicide Booth: You have selected slow and horrible. Bender: Great choice!