Hi,

Sorry if this has been asked already.

Do you absolutely need an SD card or can you use the internal flash memory for storing apps and stuff ?

if so I think i'd better get one ready for the delivery of my pre-ordered GP2X

Neil.

I think you will find 64mb of internal storage leaves much to be desired. Going for the 1gb card option is very, very, very strongly advised - at least by me. Believe me, a couple of movies will fill that in a second, and so will any reasonable mp3 collection.

You should be able to use the internal flash memory for storing apps and stuff, but I'd get an SD as well anyway, as you never know. Some beta emu's, for example, may always want to store there configs on sd card, whilst others may want to store them in internal flash.

A 256MB SD card is £11.50, 512Mb is £19.99 (inc vat), not exactly expensive....

I would budget for at least a 256Mb SD card with the GP2X purchase or it's not going to be a lot of fun.

I think a lot of apps are going to expect there to be an SD/MMC card in the console rather then cranking up the write rate on the internal flash.

I got more then 1GB SNES roms and that's after a major clean up from about 4GB

I'm sure you could hold a fair few games on the internal memory but as you probably noticed with the 128 meg cards on the old GP32, you do run out of room quiet often.

'If' SNES runs perfect and i hope GBA then you will need a lot of space, SNES roms are 4 meg for some games (Eg Donkey Kong /Diddie Kong), 2 meg for others but on the whole 1 meg. Gameboy Colour games can be about a meg, GBA games are roughly 2-4 meg.

Bit of a waste not getting a huge memory card if you are getting a GP2X.

test

Tales of Phantasia is 6MB.

Complete rom set is 1.6 GB but that is 7zipped, of course.

This is assuming the early SNES emu we get would support that many games right off the bat. Somehow I find that unlikely... I also find it unlikely that someone would need hundreds of NES or even SNES games, as just the good ones should be enough.

Define good, objectively.

Not bad.

exactly!




Ultimately though it's up to the person playing them and not everyone is going to care for every game ever released. I got like 300 SNES games from a friend of mine I'm pretty certain I could loose half of them and never miss a single one.

A complete romset, and you like, bought all of them?
For each emu, I'll take a lot of time going on each review, information, ro- err - site. So I have the best IMO for each console.

Anyway, what will be the max the gp2x accept with sd cards? 4GB, or unlimited, or?

(Movies + homebrew + emulators + music, I want to get atleast 2GB =)

Another question, will the gp2x resize larger movies (like the zod?), I suck at compressing. (I manage to make a 1gb movie of 300MB, with a tutorial.)

@Draken, According to GPH, The GP2x will support 4gig SD cards, Though it may support larger sized cards too.

The GP2x does have the ability to scale movies to the screen size of the GP2x with out manually resizing or re-encoding them.

Trooper

Cheers for the replies,

Luckily one of the catalogues at work has got 1Gb SD cards in it, think i'll have to stick a couple on with the next customers order.

he he . . .

Just thought I check out some prices:
1 gig for £33 but I cant find any 2/4 gig cards...

I love Ebuyer, Im going to go with the 1Gb Viking card from them they are out of stock at the moment but they have kingston for the same price. I have seen 2Gb SD for sale in the UK but they are way overpriced (approx £115 each) might aswell buy two 1Gb cards for the time being in my oppinion.

1Gig is the biggest out there now, Panasonics road map have 2Gig in Q4 this year (Christmas) and 4Gig in Q2 next year.

Some of those probably cannot be legally owned... Well, when did I say that I actually have a complete set?

Actually 2GB SD's have been out for a while now.

In the USA we can buy them for as little as $150 already.

Example: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/se...CMP=OTC-FROOGLE

-incorrect info deleted- 4GB SD's not available yet

Mea Culpa,

Your quite right, 2Gigs are out (read the roadmap wrong, Q4 04 not 05 ) I guess they took a while to hit retail however I am fairly sure 4Gigs are not out, at any price. Well at least we can't source them from Panasonic and there used a lot in the telemetry stuff. That card you linked to was a 4GB CF card, not quite an SD is it .

oops. stupid search I used said it was SD and I didn't check.

Well, OK. No 4GB yet. But they will probably be insanely expensive when they do comeout.

4 GB SD Card

Thanks raven, so I wasn't seeing things afterall!

4GB for $288. Not too bad actually. A year from now it'll probably go well under $200.

going to put emulators, programs, utilities, codecs and games that you can't get tired of (like Tetris, puyo puyo games, PANG!, Pac-Man, A chess game, puzzles, shooters and mind deminding games..., classics that can you would apreciate if you forget your SD card and that can be played any time anywhere and do not demand a long progression like rpgs, basicly) on the 64mb or flash. it won't take all the flash for sure, but i'm keeping some in case of someone find a way to add a part of the flash to work like a RAM-like memory, if the speed and everything else allows it.

Going to buy a 1gb card for everything else.

speaking of SD cards and the like, what is going to be the best set up

1, all your SNES roms and a SNES emu on one card, all your PSX roms and A PSX emu on another etc. (only joking, i see from the other posts that you guys get upset when people talk about PSX emulators, i meant N64 roms and a N64 emu)

2, all your emulators loaded onto the system memory and just the roms on the cards

3, the roms and the emus on the system memory

Which would run faster or would there be no noticable difference?

It would be handier to have all the roms i want together with the emu i need to run them on a card but does the emu have to be in the system memory?

Well, MMC cards might work as well, as most SD-Devices can handle MMCs.
And MMCs are MUCH cheaper than SDs.

I'm going to test that as soon as I have a gp2x

I have a Pocket PC i use for emulation on the go and on the 1 gig card....

Roughtly 300 Spectrum games
50 C64 games
70 GB games
40 GBC games
25 GBA games
70 SNES games
40 Megadrive games
80 NES games
70 SMS games
90 MAME games
50 PC Engine games
40 Colecovision games
40 MSX games

And a fair few other ones.

That all comes to about 750 meg which leaves me 250 meg to put a film onto the PPC as well.

A gig to put all your favourite games and more on is more than enough and will keep you going for ages

It seems that the Gp2X uses mmcsd, which is an mmc interface to sd cards (and thus gets round the sd licensing quite nicely). So will no doub't work with mmc cards as well.

I'll add "likely compability with MMC cards" to the fAQ.

Hmm, but isn't that mmcsd interface much slower than real SD support?

Yes, but by the time it's released, we'll probably have both