Iain Young

Firmware updates are the norm. (Just look at how many have been released for the psp). The other things just sound like possible slight teething problems with a very small percentage of units. I'm not worried about it...

kernel

And me as there is still no sign of an email confirming shipment

jpor

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True.

Well mine didn't appear until 8:30pm. According to the mail header it was sent out @ 6:36pm. Must have a server sending them out, but the demand on it must be slowing down the sending process.

kernel

Still no email so I guess no new toy tomorrow

Iain Young

Sorry to hear that Pete

kernel

Well the lack of an email does not stop postie from ringing the door bell, it's just arrived Trouble is I ordered a PSU and they have none so I hope it works with sh1te AA rechargeables. Got some on charge now so I can try it.

MrShades

Got mine about 10:30 - a special little Royal Mail van dropped it round, Special Delivery.

Got yours yet Iain?

jpor

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I've got mine.

MrShades

Vektar is really quite impressive.... now for Doom, MAME and a few more emus...

Iain Young

Yep, got mine as well. Just trying to get a working mame romset now

Pete, it works fine on rechargeables (that's what I'm using)...

Iain Young

p.s. what is the white cd for? I stuck mine in the cd drive and it's just a blank cd!!

MrShades

Iain - How's your NTL connection today? Mine is DIRE - like 0.2Mb down and 0.3 up - and I'm on 10Mb....


... and my CD has lots of stuff on it - Quake, Doom, etc. shout if you want to drop round and grab a copy.

Iain Young

NTL are doing a load of maintainence work at the moment. It's been up and down like a yoyo all week (bit of a nightmare when working from home and trying to vpn into work). Still seems to be varying speed etc even now...

My CD is definitely blank. I've tried it in 3 machines to make sure (just in case my drive couldn't read it) and they're all the same. I'll drop cdworld a note, and if I get no joy, I might grab a copy off you

GaryK

Which was of course a complete wind-up to see who would bite

Be interested to get some first hand views when you guys got yours, Iain, you do dev work are you planning to do any of your own stuff for it? Does it have any time/date functionality to do basic PIM functionality?

Gary

MrShades

I'm here all day, playing with this thing - so if you bring a working copy of MAME round - with a compatible ROM set - I'll sort you out with a copy of the CD no problem at all!!!

Enjoy...

Called NTL - Engineer coming round on Monday to attempt to rectify my 45% packet loss and 0.2Mb 'broad'band...

jpor

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It seems you guys are already beating me to it.

jpor

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Did anyone get 2xAA batteries with theirs? Apparrently it's part of the bundle. I seem to be missing them

MrShades

Whoa - MAME working very nicely...

Scramble, Defender, Galaga, etc. etc. work very well, look very nice and are very playable. You can even rotate the screen to play in 'portrait or landscape'.

Now for some Sonic and friends.... and perhaps a "Day of the Tentacle.."

This thing is cool....!

kernel

None here

MrShades

Nah, no AAs with mine. Just slapped my 2800mAh NiMHs in and away we go...

Two CDs (one manual one, and one with gp2x.co.uk 'stuff' on it - games, emus, utils, etc.), one spare/different joystick cap and a USB cable came with mine...

Case seems quite nice as well. Will probably need a screen protector or two shortly - which I also read somewhere shipped with it, but no sign.

Back to Quake...

jpor

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Looks liek I'll send an e-mail off to sales@cdworld.co.uk enquiring about the batteries.

jpor

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Which ROM set are you using for MAME?

Just downloaded an copied over MAMEGP2x version 2.3.

Will ROM set 0.34 work?

MrShades

IIRC they recommend 0.34

I just grabbed a handful of old old MAME roms and slapped 'em in there... most seem to work OK.

jpor

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Cheers. I have the 0.34 ROM set. Just tried Arkanoid, and this works.

Just tried the AMIGA emulator but having no joy with loading stuff up, even though I have the Kickstart ROMS (1.3).

The Megadrive (DRMD) one keeps locking up when scanning for ROMs.

kernel

My ROM set reports itself as 0.70 and is a couple of years old I would have thought. Goodness knows how old 0.34 is!

Only tried Galaga so far but it works a treat. Trouble is the unit is too narrow if you go for the sideways on view which is the one where it looks best.

jpor - have you installed the SDL stuff yet? Was wondering if you may need that for those other emulators? Not sure how a program will fail if it hasn't access to that. MAME is fine without it so far, I've not installed the SDL runtime.

MrShades

Press the two should buttons simultaneously to change the screen...

jpor

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Not yet. Will give it a go.

Just been using the gp2x on the T.V via the T.V cable. Beware if running on batteries. The batteries just got zapped of all power after 10 Minutes (Normal cheapo Akalines).

kernel

Sorry I didn't state my bit very well

It's when the GP2x is rotated 90 degress and the joystick is then bottom left that I prefer the view but struggle with the controls. Not enough console to hold on to for my hands. I did discover after awhile that you can also use the volume as a fire button after playing one game by pressing A which was then at the top of the screen

Hanslow

Mine arrived today too

Still laying our new floor though so it's been shelved until the DIY is complete. Looking like sometime tomorrow now, so that would at least give me a day and a bit on it. Shame that my internet connection has still crapped out so I can't actual get on at all from home. Sitting round my neighbours again on his connection

Iain Young

Initial impressions are that it's a great little machine. The available software (all homebrew at the moment) is still all in alpha / beta, and so can be a little flakey, but I managed to play a load of mame, neogeo (without sound), and Atari ST stuff today.

That's the plan. I'm going to install up a copy of Linux in VMWare so I can start playing with stuff without breaking the gp2x Looking at the sdk stuff, it actually looks quite accessable. Just need some ideas now. Somehow I don't really feel like coding yet another version of pong

I don't think so. When you turn it off it's off, so although you could run a Linux based PIM on it, you'd have to set the date/time every time you turned it on, (or at least it seems so anyway - I may be wrong).