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Gamepark GP2X F-200 DivX/Xvid-Playing Handheld With Emulator Now Available
Posted by Jason Chen at 6:00 AM on October 30, 2007
The crazy GP2X F-200 Gamepark handheld is available today for $169 on Play-Asia. What's so special about this handheld? For one, it's running Linux and can play back DivX, XVid and MPEG4 at 30FPS, or TV-Out your movies that are encoded at 720x480. For two, it supports emulation, which means you can load your old ROMs on there and play NES/SNES and other retro games you download for free off the internet. So in essence, you could be playing Super Mario 3 and watching that Fred Savage movie about Super Mario 3 on the same device! Did we mention that it was only $169? [Play Asia via DCEmu]
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icura
Posted October 30, 2007 10:57 AM
I have a GP2X F100 and it works perfect for all games without the special chip. Plus the SNES resolution looks a lot better on the GP2X LCD rather than the PSP blur.
I sold my PSP for a GP2X a long time ago and founjd emulation support as well as homebrew games to be a lot better. Commercial games on the PSP are still better. ;)
Nintenboy01
Posted 5:31 PM 29/10/07
@fuzzycuffs: It's usually just the games with special co-processor chips that tend to run slowly or with glitches, like Star Fox, Dirt Trax FX, Yoshi's Island and Mario RPG. Chrono Trigger is known to be taxing too.
Nintenboy01
fuzzycuffs
Posted 5:06 PM 29/10/07
The SNES emulation on the previous GP were pretty crappy, actually. I'm pretty surprised at something with as much power as it does really never caught on with developers. Either that, or it's not as powerful as it claims to be.
Some of us *cough cough* have SNES emulators running on our PSPs, and those emulators run pretty good so far (I'd say 95% speed on some games, 100% on others). IIRC, the GP has a slower processor, but dual cores. I'm thinking a lot of devs were just taking previous SNES9x code and trying to do a port without much optimization.
I've always been interested in the device, but if I already have a PSP I don't see a reason to get one.
fuzzycuffs
novacthall
Posted 4:32 PM 29/10/07
@formicae: Sorry, I cannot access that page at work. The NetNanny is fairly strict. ='(
novacthall
formicae
Posted 4:30 PM 29/10/07
@novacthall: Wow, did you even try reading the Play Asia link? All your questions except the last two are answered there. You know, in the product information pages.
formicae
novacthall
Posted 4:25 PM 29/10/07
Looks great, Jason. I have some questions for you.
1) What sort of memory capacity does the device have built-in?
2) Is the memory expandable? SD? Mini-SD? micro-SD? MS?
3) Does the device link to a computer by USB, Firewire, both, or neither?
4) Is there an MP3 player on board?
5) As far as games go, does it play the older GamePark games?
6) For this unit, what kind of games are on the horizon? I have heard nothing about this device, but seem to recall reading that the first GamePark had a pretty good developer following, with Final Fantasy making an appearance, at least.
novacthall