I have the early version with the joystick type thumbpad. Wonderfull system but the early joysticks where bad (the dpad looks much better) and battery life was pretty sad (but the PS has proved that is ok, its still selling, right?). The emulation on that thing is amazing.. Scumm, old Dos games, arcade stuff. Wish i had the dpad, the joystick version is just not good (becuase of the joystick).
You mean you have an original gp2x machine? The joysticks on those machines were only good / intended by the manufacturers for navigating through media player menus. Gamepark made the unwise decision to use it in a device marketed as a games machine as well as a media player. They fouled up both as the original gp2x is not the best media player lacking compatibility with quite a few formats and the joystick is abysmal for gameplay. I ended up modding my gp2x.
The gp2x Wiz is a completely different machine though it sports similar software these titles in fact had to be recompiled as the machine is vastly different. They both have an SD slot, one screen and 4 action buttons and two shoulder buttons and carry the name gp2x but that's about it. The cpu is different, where the original gp2x had two cpu cores hindered by a cumbersome memory bottleneck the gp2x wiz actually has a fully openGL 3d hardware accelerated powerhouse on board and just a single cpu. As the executable format very similar it is possible to compile a single binary that detects on which platform it is running and then only use the routines for that specific platform and some devs have done that. But most do a complete recompile.
Existing gp2x original software won't run unmodified on a gp2x Wiz.
I have the early version with the joystick type thumbpad. Wonderfull system but the early joysticks where bad (the dpad looks much better) and battery life was pretty sad (but the PS has proved that is ok, its still selling, right?). The emulation on that thing is amazing.. Scumm, old Dos games, arcade stuff. Wish i had the dpad, the joystick version is just not good (becuase of the joystick).
You mean you have an original gp2x machine? The joysticks on those machines were only good / intended by the manufacturers for navigating through media player menus. Gamepark made the unwise decision to use it in a device marketed as a games machine as well as a media player. They fouled up both as the original gp2x is not the best media player lacking compatibility with quite a few formats and the joystick is abysmal for gameplay. I ended up modding my gp2x.
The gp2x Wiz is a completely different machine though it sports similar software these titles in fact had to be recompiled as the machine is vastly different. They both have an SD slot, one screen and 4 action buttons and two shoulder buttons and carry the name gp2x but that's about it. The cpu is different, where the original gp2x had two cpu cores hindered by a cumbersome memory bottleneck the gp2x wiz actually has a fully openGL 3d hardware accelerated powerhouse on board and just a single cpu. As the executable format very similar it is possible to compile a single binary that detects on which platform it is running and then only use the routines for that specific platform and some devs have done that. But most do a complete recompile.
Existing gp2x original software won't run unmodified on a gp2x Wiz.
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